What is New Age Spirituality? To understand the movement, we need to explore four historical streams that combined in the 1960s and 70s: Western Esotericism, New Thought, the 60s Counterculture, and ...

The course will focus on modern forms of Western esotericism from 18th century Freemasonry to esoteric New Religious Movements such as the modern Witchcraft movement (Wicca), Satanism and the New Age ...

The Wathena Masonic Lodge will have its annual Pancake Day on Saturday, Feb. 1. The event will be from 7 to 11 a.m. at the ...

(2008) “The Yoga of Sex: Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in the Ordo Templi Orientis” In Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism, eds. Wouter J. Hanegraaff & ...

Barbara Joan Evett, 91, of San Augustine County, was born April 4, 1933, and died Jan. 25, 2025. Funeral: 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, at Cross Roads Christian ...

Freemasonry has a reputation for its clandestine traditions, but Nicollet Lodge 54’s newly elected leader Derrick Fountain has big plans to bring the 160-year-old fraternal organization into the ...

“Every Mason belongs to a Blue Lodge,” he said, adding the special charity of the New Castle lodge is the Children’s Dyslexia Center of Western Pennsylvania, which also is housed inside The ...

One of the GREATEST family men of all time was called home to join his sons in the house of the Lord. Paul H. Starkey, aged 88 years, of Columbia Cross Roads, passed away peacefully at his home Friday ...

Laurel: Dr. James P. Bradley, a Johnstown native, will join the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame April 12 in Pittsburgh. A 1971 graduate of Bishop McCort Catholic High ...