[TV Shows] [Course] Secrets of the Occult - Richard B. Spence

[Kepler]

I started watching this last week after finding it on Kanopy. I'm only a few episodes in but it has given a good trivial introduction on its topics so far.

Episodes:
1. What Is the Occult?
2. Fauns, Fairies, and Djinn
3. The Christmas Tree and Other Rituals
4. Practical Magic: Love, Money, and Health
5. Alchemy, Astrology, and Divination
6. Talking with the Dead
7. The Occult Ancient World
8. Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies
9. Religious Faith and the Occult
10. Mysterious Places
11. Crime and the Occult
12. UFOs and the Occult
13. The Occult Russian Revolution
14. Hitler, Nazism, and the Occult
15. The Occult Soviet Union
16. Satanism and the Occult
17. The Occult Renaissance and Reformation
18. Witchcraft and the Occult
19. The Occult Enlightenment
20. American Occultism
21. The Occult’s 19th-Century Revival
22. Aleister Crowley’s Occult Life
23. Popular Occulture
24. The Techno-Occult


It was released in 2022. And a subject that seems to be missing from the course is the very recent and ongoing popular fascination with PGM and demons started in the last few years. The topic could be covered in one of the later episodes.
Overall this show seems good for beginners to give a general overview. It's encyclopedic like Man, Myth and Magic.

Available for five tickets for 7 days on Kanopy with additional materials. It's going to take at least 10 tickets for me to get through all these.