Please welcome Prof. Carole Cusack who has been working and teaching in the field of religious studies at the University of Sydney for more than 40 years. Carole is not only well-known and highly respected in the world of academia but also among practicing occultists despite of not being a practitioner herself. She has been involved in teaching undergraduate courses since 1984 and her work covers many different topics of religion, esotericism and spirituality. she is not interested in opinions but in arguments supported with references from reliable evidential sources. In this episode of the show we’ll be talking quite a lot about the strange relationship between academia and esotericism and how there’s a turf war between secular studies and especially Christian theology.