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However the rise of this teenage-focused, New Age, pop-culture Wicca has been highly criticised by
traditionalists, many of whom refuse to accept it as Wicca, instead using terms like wicca-lite, meaning not
having the real strength of the real thing. The historians Brooks Alexander and Jeffrey Russell commented
that pop-culture witchcraft is sufficiently vague in structure and content to qualify more as a lifestyle than
a religion. The rise of the internet also had an effect on Wicca. Previously, solitary Wiccans around the
world had little way of communicating amongst one another, however, the internet allowed them to do so,
and websites such as Witchvox.com were set up. Brooks Alexander commented that this was a form of
minority empowerment. [12] Many may think there‘s not much significance to the occult in the
aforementioned films and programmes, or even less so in obvious children‘s films such as Harry Potter‘s,
Bewitched, The Wizard of Oz or Walt Disney‘s Mickey Mouse in Fantasia etc. and these few examples are
rather a lame in comparison, but I simply don‘t have the room to list the hundreds of others that also fit the
bill, yet in a sense what these harmless Hollywood block buster films do, is normalise and introduce the
practice of witchcraft, sorcery, spells, divination other forms of magic into the lives of susceptible children.
Trying to find out the names of famous people, celebrities or politicians, and other likewise
personalities, whose lives are always under public scrutiny, and whom perhaps may consult an astrologer,
medium or faith-healer for means of knowing the future, contacting the dead, or perhaps seeking help for a
serious illness such as cancer.
Then I would be surprised if you were too successful in uncovering or discovering the true identities of
those who were or are using such services, and believe in such things in the first place. This is because in
the 21st century, astrology and supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation and psychic ability are still seen
by many as taboo and being questionable, though it is arguable that these kind of views and attitudes are
being challenged and changing, accepting the occult as just another way of life, in fact I‘ll go one step
further, and say it‘s in fact becoming the norm. Most celebrities, politicians etc. have no problem stating
their religious and political beliefs in interviews and press etc., yet many of them still avoid saying they
believe in anything mystical such as astrology and the supernatural for fear of being condemned or even
ridiculed by their fans or the public in general. However, there are some ―celebs‖ that believe in astrology
and do not let any fan backlash stop them from letting their beliefs be known and especially in the USA.
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Celebrity astrologer Maria Shaw has been in the national spotlight many times. She appeared on the
Rupert Murdoch‘s Fox network‘s reality show Mr. Personality, and also on the Fox Morning News, where
she has given astrological readings. But, one of her most notable appearances was on The Anna Nicole
Smith Show as Anna‘s personal relationship advisor. Anna Nicole had also stated in interviews that she
believed in ghosts. She told the Daily News that when she lived in an apartment in Texas, ―...long before
she became a star, a ghost would visit her at night to have sex with her‖. [13] These kinds of beliefs and
illusions are text book accounts of an ―altered person‖ who perhaps has also been hypnotised and
brainwashed into believing these thoughts are real, whilst suffering from years of sexual abuse in the
process.
Anne Nicole Smith was born and raised in that most suspect of states Texas, apart from Pennsylvania,
which looking into its history looks like that‘s where the power and control of the US, all stems from. She
dropped out of high school and was married at the age of 17. Her highly publicised second marriage to oil
business executive and business tycoon J. Howard Marshall, 63 years her senior and resulted in speculation
that she married the old codger for his money, - I wonder where they got that idea! Following his death,
she began a lengthy legal battle over a share of his estate. She died at age 39, from what I term; Marilyn
Monroe syndrome - apparently as a result of an overdose of prescription drugs. [14]
One time First Lady Nancy Reagan came under fire in the 1980s for using a personal astrologer, when
her husband, a 33rd degree Mason; Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States and
whilst many conservative Christians who supported him and got him elected. But, those same supporters
were very troubled when it was learned that his wife Nancy used astrologer Joan Quigley to help plan not
only her activities, but those of the president as well.
And this is one of the major reason as to why many a Freemason, and especially those of the high
degree‘s and whose lives are constantly in the public eye, most fear revealing the truth and the extent of
their own occult beliefs, and particularly more so if whilst in their day job they normally masquerade as
either being a devout Christian, Muslim or Jew etc. knowing full well most of their admirers or followers
would freak-out if they found out the truth about them.