Certaines conceptions de l'occultisme le réduisent à n'être qu'une expression déviante et séparée du consensus culturel con ventionnel. Cette perception des choses a l'inconvénient de rendre particulièrement difficile la compréhension de la raison pour laquelle certaines personnes en viennent à adopter une vision occultiste du réel. Elle encourage aussi les sociologues à ne consi dérer ces personnes que comme des cas marginaux, expressifs d'un handicap socio-culturel.
Pour rectifier cette conception, il est indispensable de com mencer par reconnaitre que ni la culture instituée ni l'occultisme ne constituent des systèmes culturels unitaires et que des zones d'interpénétration existent entre eux. En identifiant ce fait et en percevant que, par de multiples aspects, tant la culture populaire que la culture des élites opèrent des emprunts d l'occultisme, il peut être entrevu comment l'occultisme perdure et comment les individus peuvent entrer en contact avec ses enseignements.
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