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Right now, you can get access to TWO OCCULT LECTURES by me for just $10.00! Yeah, I said it!
OCCULT PHILOSOPHIES: RUDOLF STEINER & THE WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITION
and
BANISHING THE WORLD: POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY & THE OCCULT
Both recordings offer tons of content, meditative exercises, follow-up Q&A sessions, and more. Descriptions of each below! Registration was originally a minimum of $15.00 EACH ($30.00 total ) – but you get 30 days of access to BOTH lectures for just $10.00. Magick!
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OCCULT PHILOSOPHIES
“There is not one truth, but a coincidence of all truths.” – Rudolf Steiner
You’ve probably heard Rudolf Steiner’s name, or about his efforts – including Waldorf schools, biodynamic agriculture, Weleda, Camp Hill communities, and more.
Maybe you know him as a Da Vinci-esque polymath who contributed to philosophy, mathematics, biology, architecture, and more. Or you’ve heard that he’s the inspiration for Marvel comics’ Dr. Strange; Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; Saul Bellow’s fiction; or the work of the literary group the Inklings, which includes J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis.
But getting into Steiner and his work (called anthroposophy) can be daunting, to say the least. With thousands of lectures and dozens of books filled with esoteric terms and philosophical gestures that would make a postmodernist blush, it’s difficult to find a way into his vast body of work.
This lecture will give you multiple doorways into Steiner’s work, as well as a glimpse of the Western occult tradition, through one of its most developed branches.
Together, we’ll go through some key aspects of Steiner’s work, engage in some anthroposophical exercises, and create a pathway for you to go further in your study. It’ll be fun, deep, complex, weird, respectful, and irreverant all at once.
BANISHING THE WORLD
Like the two snakes that twine around Hermes’s staff, the occult and postmodern philosophy embrace the same deep revelation:
The world is not as it seems.
But while the occult has been pushed out of serious academic study, postmodern philosophy remains much-discussed and influential. Of course, philosophy’s roots are in the occult: initiates in classical cultures discussing the meanings and substances of the universe. Then, as religion rose to new heights of power, philosophy rebelled against the magical, supernatural, and mystical. Now, after the distractions of the modern era, philosophers – as much as they may deny it – have once again found themselves at the altar with the occultists, the witches, and the mystics.
The postmodern philosophers are in many ways the mystics and maguses of our time. They speak in strange languages, presenting uncanny riddles, and exiling the old world by revealing the new. They’re renaming the gods, influencing cultures, changing medicine and science, and more.
With writer, radical thinker, and activist Conner Habib you’ll explore:
– How the theories of postmodern thinkers like Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Michael Taussig, Michel Serres, and more, overlap with occult ideologies and practices.
– Why it’s all so complicated, anyway, and how using the occult to approach postmodern philosophy and vice versa can make both easier to understand.
– How to use both occult and postmodern ideas to re-envision the world you live in.
– How occult ideas have found their way into academia, science, and activism through the conduit of postmodernism.
Conner will guide you through the complex ideas of the occult and postmodern philosophy in plain, easy-to-understand language in this live, online course. It’s for the beginner and the adept alike.
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