Occult Science

My grandmother’s mom lived in rural Mississippi just outside of Greenwood where some of her ancestors of Choctaw and African descent spent their lives in forced servitude.  Roxanne, my grandmother’s mom was never a slave; she was the family’s first born emancipated.  As such, she was afforded the opportunity to have input on her future education and after taking a liking to a mid-wife, learning the trade, Roxanne delivered her first baby at sixteen year old.  Not only did she win trust and respect from everyone in her community for her skills as a mid-wife, she was soon respected as a healer. 

She learned what herbs and roots are needed to make medicines to stop pain, break fevers and treat burns.  By the time she was twenty one, she was regularly called upon to tend the young and elderly until one day she was labeled as a witch by a doctor who came to treat a young boy and saw, to his surprise, the boy healed and active.

In those days and in those places, a medical doctor came to his patients with no intentions to visit blacks, natives, or poor whites unless he was already enroute to treat a worthy middle class or wealthy patient.  Having no emergency room treatments available, those unfortunate souls needed to care for themselves.  As such, it is easy to imagine that doctor’s disappointment and surprise when he saw that his services to the boy were no longer needed.  He examined the boy and told his parents that Roxanne used “Black Magic” to heal their son.  They knew little if anything about Voodoo, so everything that was unexplained was labeled as such.  For Roxanne, the accusation not only caused her to lose the trust of her black neighbors – good Christian folk – but she was also ostracized like Hester Prynne. 

I use her sad story to explain many things, one of which the misunderstanding that limits our ability to learn and improve as human beings.  I have come to discover that throughout history, various forms of knowledge – beneficial knowledge – has been censored, forbidden and misrepresented to our disadvantage. Occult science is, without doubt one of the best examples. 

Over time, many falsely accused lives were unjustly taken. The famous Salem Witch Hunts is a gory example.  There are few conversations presenting the possibility that occult science is not evil or anti-Christian.  As we all know, Christianity has waged wars against all sciences, not just the occult.  History shows that science and literacy have always been huge threats to the “True Faith.” Considering this, I grow curious to know if the war against the occult had alternate intentions. Was the Church protecting humanity or taking from it?     

When I reflect on the history of literacy and study the devastating impact that the printing press had on the Catholic Church, I cannot help but to suspect an element of foul-play by the church in its self-preservation efforts.  What need would we have for the church if occult science provided a way for humanity to have a direct link to the Supreme and His angels?  What if the occult science provided insights to the use of human ability that is dwarfed by the educational and religious dogma looming over us?

It seems that the patrons of the occult sciences have answers to these questions.  In addition, these patrons claim that the science is not a simple monolithic study, but a multileveled disciplined, one that includes biology, chemistry and physics.  Occult science supporters claim that their studies, while including traditional science, are consistent with the Puranas, Vedas, Book of the Dead, and other such ancient writings.  It accepts the concept of indestructible matter and that all mater is energy having force and principles of polarity ruling over them.  It supports the concept of fractals as supported in Sacred Geometry and indirectly mentioned in biblical and Apocrypha text.   

Whereas traditional science relies on the Scientific Method as a means to qualify facts, occult science differs in that its patrons believe that eyes and ears without an understanding of heart and intangible forces of energy is inefficient.  Let’s take the example of the way planetary energy affects us.  Modern science cannot, using the scientific method, explain how a sunny day affects the masses in an emotional or psychological way, but we know that it does.  Occult science relies on the understanding and agreement that the energy released by the sun influences the energy that we receive and release in a cyclical way.  Traditional science cannot call this fact, but our experiences tell us otherwise. 

What is troublesome for me, when it comes to trusting science, is that results are often manipulated to fit a desired result.  If we consider how often this happens, it becomes impossible us to know what science proves or doesn’t prove.  Take for example the global warming issue.  According to the promoted findings, the world is warming, and most of the lay people, like me, would believe as much until we, by chance, come across the mountain of evidence that contrast the global warming “facts.”  If we go down that rabbit-hole, we’ll learned a few interesting things; most of which, is that the data and the way data is gathered is not accurate or consistent and is often more suggestive than fact.  Not to bore the reader with details, but the data on earth temperatures cover a span of less than 140 years.  It was agreed by most researchers that 1998 the earth’s temperature rose 1.12 degrees above the average.  It was then believed that 2005 was higher, but there are other reports that show 2005 temperature was only 1.04 degrees higher than the average. Many hidden reports conclude that the earth’s temperature is not consistently rising.   

What is more shocking is that our political leaders are well invested in the dissemination of “factual” scientific information and influencing the results of scientific study.  As reported in U.K. Daily Mail, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compiled results of a global warming study that revealed a 2007 report concluding that the earth’s average temperature had not risen in 15 years. 

With all of this, one is left in limbo, not knowing what to believe.  Whereas we cannot trust the information that is passed on to us in forms of general knowledge, we are pickled in that we have to head to the reported findings that influence our health and daily lives.  When it comes to the occult science, ironically, there is a similar reliance on the same collection of data and conclusions.  The only difference is that in occult science is a provision that allows us to experience and experiment first hand and individually.  Natural Science or Occult … take your pick.   

Visit me: www.mendjinnandangels.com