, why was the occult such a big thing in the late 60's-

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Because a lot of new age religions were becoming popular. They may have not eventually occult but simply something nonchristianic so they were placed under that label.

>1950's era of post-war success started to mutate
>hippies spawned in
It was the smelly hippies
they knew the secret mind expansion techniques

Crowley finally getting his generation of young people to look more into the occult

humanity needed to take away their mind from brutal, soulless, magicless two world wars.

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CIA could not use universities and private research companies for MKULTRA mind control experiments anymore so they started using cults. Jonestown was a notable one where they killed all the subjects.

Rockstars getting into the "occult" after tripping on acid. I mean, it was the fucking 60's and 70's

Those two decades had access to cheap college libraries old books and book stores full of affordable books on nearly every subject many of them grew up with the old stories of high adventure gnomes ferries and such there were still covens operating and recruiting people intererted would then put it in art work there are more reasons but those ones were a big factor hand made art was still very popular music was still hand made the occult symbols and made up ones were easily copied some of which were like little languages so the initiated and not used them