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Friends,
We are always in a time of chaos and violence. But when we notice it, when we see it, when it’s bubble over into ethnic cleansing or wars or murders; when it seems to us that our governments and institutions are only supporting the chaos and violence, our inner state can shift to the sense that we have no directive power.
At the same time, these schisms between human beings and their structures can stir up the opportunities that only near-schizoid agitation can reveal. We see that there have always been many pathways available to us, that we were stuck, that we can be there for each other and dissolve obstruction. We can even redeem evil and turn it into the willing service of good.
It is with this sense of possibility that I turn to the occult and esotericism for direction. It’s also why the occult so often finds its resurgence in these schism times. Not merely because people feel out of control or are trying to explain things, but because of the occult’s underlying principle that we have the ability to direct our futures. It isn’t just institutions in power that steer the course, but rather each of us and our connections to the spiritual landscape of our imaginations and the way engaging with our inner world gives us access to the entirety of of our world.
To cast a broad net and also to talk some of the particulars, I asked Mitch Horowitz back on the show. Mitch is a scholar, speaker, and the author of many books; but his most recent, Modern Occultism: History, Theory, and Practice, is the most important for the purposes of this episode. In it, Mitch presents a picture of rebels, thinkers, metaphysicians and phenomenologists who have influenced the world and who, taken together, illustrate a completely different direction in thinking, feeling, and action.
It is a direction that offers a radical alternative to the chaos we are in now.
I’m so happy to share this episode with you.
FURTHER READING
A beautiful book about what culture could be if it embraced real esotericism is Peter Selg’s The Culture of Selflessness: Rudolf Steiner, the Fifth Gospel, and the Time of Extremes. It details the deaths of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, who resisted the Nazis.
MORE ON MITCH
Mitch has been on the show many times, most recently on AEWCH 200 (part 3) talking with me and Dean Spade about how to mediate political organizing with the new age and new thought movements; and before that on AEWCH 175. Here’s Mitch’s website, And I still absolutely love his first book, Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation. If you want to contribute to Mitch’s efforts directly, here’s his patreon.
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