If you truly venture down the path of studying the “occult” you’ll quickly realize that a lot of our modern science, psychology, chemistry, medicine, and much more are intricately intertwined with “witchcraft” and “Magick”. Notice the difference of spelling. Yet when the rationalist movement beset the sciences, they made way with all of the rituals and mysticism. Rather, an embrace of logic and reason was preferred and while this did help get us to where we are now – it seems that a fundamental part of ‘self’ was abandoned in the pursuit of knowledge.