Venerina-Occult has 3 separate meanings as follows:

1] To hide from site.

2] Not revealed or a secret.

3] Influence of supernatural agencies.

Pick your flavor! LOL Tom :o)

PS-Too deep for me   :o)

Very scary, Very Sexy!

Hi Venerina

I would use another word for it. The Occult brings up visions of
past movies that present it as Satanism or worship of devils.
Witchcraft as in black magic and evil influences is also associated
in the US with this word "occult"

I have been a student of Mystiicism for a few decades. I would
like to call it "The Mysteries". I understand the way you mean
it and I will say that there are many unseen and unknown
things exiisting for which the mainstream public is not
aware, and niether do they believe in anyhting which
they cannot see.

We see the effects of the wind, but we do not see the moving
air. So we see the effects of the invisible, yet do not believe
the power that brings these things about.

I for one have "seen" and am aware of many more things
because I have learned them and I also can sense them
when I do not see.

For instance, in Particle Physics and String theory, matter
can dissappear from one place and simultaniously appear
in another. In M-Theory, there are multiple dimension
universes existing as  the skin of an union in the same
space as ours, but out of frequency with us and as so
are invisible to us.

There are creatures and insects that move so quickly that
they are not seen by the human eye, and so are not
yet discovered only in certain video footage and
pictures, and not yet catalogued by Biology.

There are laws of the universe as yet undiscovered
by modern physics and as so they do not exist in the
minds of scientists.

So for my view of the "Occult" as you mean it. There are
beings, powers and principalities which exist outside
of our "reality". Because people are not believing they
exist, they can not see them, so they call it "Occult"
or "Mystery". Everything that exists is not always
benevolent, that is the beings do not always wish us
well or even care that we exist at all.

It is easy for a person who does not have knowledge of
the mysteries to get confused about it. They have within
thier reach little or no proof and very few writings to
teach them of the actualities outside of thie world
they know by the senses.

Robert

Thank you for this subject, Venerina
I would like to present this link for
those interested in proof of UFO
sightings which I found interesting:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ufo

I would appreciate contrary points of view.

Robert

Hi Venerina,

Boy......between Tom, Nick and Robert, this word portrays many many meanings. 

I think that Tom has a great approach based on choice........and Robert rings words of wisdom based on his statement " Everything that exists is not always
benevolent.........."

So, to sum it up, it means "Buyer Beware????!!!!"  It's all about choices   :-)

So...........back to my fish kettle!  Fine kettle that got stirred up here.

Bless you,  Jill