esoteric

Western esotericism, also called esotericism and esoterism, is a scholarly term for a wide range of loosely related unconventional ideas and movements which have developed within <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_society" class="mw-redirect" title="Western society">Western society</a>. They are largely distinct from both orthodox <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian" title="Judeo-Christian">Judeo-Christian religion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalism</a>. A trans-disciplinary field, esotericism has pervaded various forms of Western philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, art, literature, and music, continuing to affect intellectual ideas and popular culture.