Blavatsky, Pop Culture, Film, Superheroes & Superheroines, Science-Fiction

I once accidentally did a post on the 1st Dr. Strange movie on the week of its opening and inadvertently got a lot more traffic. Then I kept updating it as I went along until it expanded into the multiverse, so to speak. Moreover, more books on the subject of spirituality and pop culture kept appearing, so it's kind of an area that I've been tracking somewhat as it's been growing. Below is simply a section of the Doctor Strange post that has broken away to do its own thing...

 

Sherlock Holmes & the Adventure of Theosophy: Spiritual Underpinnings of the Science of Deduction 

Arup K. Chatterjee  Jan 2023 Journal of Religion & Popular Culture 35(1)

importance of Blavatsky in quasi-spiritual modes of knowing in Holmesian methods https://researchgate.net/publication/366977902_Sherlock_Holmes_and_the_Adventure_of_Theosophy_Spiritual_Underpinnings_of_the_Science_of_Deduction

 

How Writers On LSD Changed Marvel Comics Forever 

In the 1970s, a forgotten generation of comic book writers took the medium from schlocky superheroes to artful considerations of consciousness, identity, and selfhood. Their secret? Tapping into the counterculture.

Jonathan Russell Clark May 18, 2023

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43918564/70s-marvel-comics-lsd/

 

good - ground-breaking? quantum leap?

Roukema, Aren (2020) Early science fiction and occultism. [Thesis] (Unpublished) https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/45820/1/Roukema%20%E2%80%94%20Early%20SF%20and%20Occultism%E2%80%94Final.pdf

The study of Theosophical influences on pop culture is quite a growing field, pioneered by:

The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Pop Culture - edited by B. J. Oropeza - 2005

https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Gospel_According_to_Superheroes.html?id=d9B-9ll_YPIC&redir_esc=y 

 

Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes, 2007 - Chris Knowles

https://books.google.ca/books?id=93Mv-1R5yskC&source=gbs_navlinks_s 

 

Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction Superhero Comics and the Panormal, Jeffrey Kripal, 2011:
Google Books

 

Pseudoscience and Science Fiction, Andrew May, 2016 :
https://books.google.ca/books?id=2O0QDQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions
 

The Assimilation of Yogic Religions Through Pop Culture

Editor, Paul G. Hackett, 2017  

Google Books 

 

Movie Magick: The Occult in Film, 2018

https://books.google.ca/books?id=sfx0DwAAQBAJ&dq=Doctor+Strange+film+Blavatsky+Theosophy&source=gbs_navlinks_s

 

Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity - Zack Kruse, 2021

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_cQEAAAQBAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions 

 

Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination

BRILL, 2021

https://books.google.ca/books?id=NLJFEAAAQBAJ&dq=Blavatsky+review+of+Mr.+Isaacs+francis+marion+crawford&source=gbs_navlinks_s 

 

Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Michael D. Nichols McFarland, 2021 208 pages

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Religion_and_Myth_in_the_Marvel_Cinemati.html?id=6BTBzQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

 

A New Gnosis

Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology

Editor: David M. Odorisio 2023

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-20127-1 

 

Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside

Eliot Borenstein  2023

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769368/marvel-comics-in-the-1970s/#bookTabs=1