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Friends,

The scientific method is a pathway to induce an altered state of consciousness.

It’s one in which – at least ideally – affinity and antipathy are both noted then set aside in a tension of observation and expectation. Then there’s a traveling in and out of the observation state: people engaged in scientific inquiry try to bring back questions which will help them develop some sense, some hypothesis, of what they might have encountered in that state. Then they create a ritual, an experiment, to enter into observation awareness again.

This fluctuation of consciousness brings new discoveries, and communications with the forces that form the material world itself. 

Is it any wonder that scientists have often found themselves in the company of mystics, theologians, occultists and esotericists? 

On this episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, I talk with esoteric author and scholar MARK BOOTH (AKA Jonathan Black), whose excellent new book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: HOW ANCIENT WISDOM MADE THE WORLD, traces the occult influences found in modern science, especially the science of physics.

Mark’s book is not just an outline of confluences.

In other words, it’s not one of many books already available which seem to validate spiritual wisdom with modern science. Instead, it is something more singular and more needed for our time. It shows how esoteric ideas and thinkers, seers and magicians, intersected with scientists as they developed the theories that live in our own scientific worldviews.

Mark is also the author of one of the best introductions to real esoteric perspectives, The Secret History of the World , as well as The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our Worldand the ebook, The Secret History of Dante: Unearthing the Real-Life Mysteries of the Inferno.

Mark has been a dream guest for me since I started this show over eight years ago. Although we spoke a few times in the intervening years, I’m so excited that we finally got to talk in this capacity, for the podcast.

But we weren’t alone! In a perfect example of spiritual entanglement, when Mark brought up the physicist Wolfgang Pauli – famed for the so-called Pauli effect or shorting out technology wherever he went – our recoding crashed completely, and we had to restart the call. 

Luckily, it’s still all intact for you!
CH