New from KOCH Vision and the team behind

Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons and Secrets of Mary Magdalene

DAN BURSTEIN’S

SECRETS OF THE OCCULT

This illuminating DVD – tapping into the present day phenomena

of New Age beliefs – will materialize in stores March 13, 2007

Port Washington, NY (December 19, 2006) – This Spring, KOCH Vision will release Secrets of the Occult, an illuminating DVD from Hidden Treasures Productions, exploring the controversial and often overlooked link between Magic and Science. Suggested retail price will be $19.98 with street date set at March 13.

“In ancient times there was no separate study known as science, it was the magicians and the alchemists who were doing science. Since the birth of what we call “modern science”, science and the occult have sort of parted paths,” said Dan Burstein, best-selling author and Secrets of the Occult expert. Today however the old relationship between Science and the Occult is experiencing a new surge of popularity in holistic philosophy and New Age beliefs. “Serious physicists are contemplating time travel and parallel universes. We’re going to get some very big breakthroughs through science, but some of them may come from science looking at what some might call the occult,” adds Burstein.

Contained within the single disc release of Secrets of the Occult are two one-hour programs – The Magicians and The Scientists – which examine the world of the occult from the ancient magicians who practiced it to the cutting edge scientists of today who are attempting to explain its mysterious claims. The release of this spellbinding documentary comes at a perfect time in light of the huge public interest conjured up around occultism. "Interest in the Occult is imbedded in today's pop culture," states Dan Gurlitz, Vice President of KOCH Entertainment. "You can see it best in the incredible success of films and novels touching upon the varying subjects, be it in the Harry Potter stories where magic is in the forefront or the Dan Brown novels Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code where early science is formulating under incredible pressure. The merging of 'magic' and contemporary science is blurring the lines between old and new. Secrets of the Occult investigates this transformation, presenting compelling fuel for thought and discussion."

Advances by innovators such as Galileo, Einstein, and Freud are scientific in nature… yet these brilliant thinkers were using Occult-like methods to arrive at their discoveries. “Don’t forget, Sir Isaac Newton, the “father of modern science” in many people’s eyes, is also considered the “last of the great magicians.” He was fascinated with alchemy and the occult and spent much of his life trying to develop a scientific understanding of occult beliefs,” continued Dan Burstein. This sort of special knowledge is what the Secrets of... series is committed to uncovering. The previous two documentaries in the series, Secrets of Mary Magdalene and Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons, also explore the blurry crossroads between spirituality, religion, and science.

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