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Oct 9, 2024 | 
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An adolescent Frederick encounters “conjuror,” “root man,” and “old adviser” Sandy Jenkins in 1834. From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1893.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
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A female Paleolithic figurine (aka “Venus of Willendorf”) of oolitic limestone tinted with red ochre, found in Willendorf, Austria. (Wikimedia Commons)Is primeval spirituality what seekers are really after? Mitch Horowitz·Follow9 min read·--In a world of excess and complexity, an experience of pure search and primal appeal may be exactly what you are looking for.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
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What’s real in life is what works. In that vein, this article supplies three methods in magick and personal development that require no belief in the metaphysical. What’s more, these tools function as accelerants: by which I mean practices that prove immediately workable and effective amid the storms of life. I define magick — which I spell in early modern English to distinguish it from stagecraft — as causative ritual.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
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I had the privilege of knowing Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004) a few years before his death. It is only now, twenty years after his passing, that I am coming to realize the value of his personal teaching, which involved saying very simple things or telling small parables, which resonate - in my case, sometimes much later. This year, marking the twentieth-anniversary of Pir Vilayat's death, I will share a few.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
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My earliest forays into New Thought, which began in earnest during my late-twenties, were grounded in the compelling if audacious notion that thoughts, when imbued with emotion, shape reality. This idealist principle found its most eloquent expression in the work of mystic Neville Goddard (1905-1972), who posited that our assumptions, even those initially devoid of truth, out-picture into physicality.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
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Printed in the Winter 2023 issue of Quest magazine. Citation: Horowitz, Mitch, "The Parapsychology Revolution: The Extraordinary Progress of the “Elusive Science" Quest 111:1, pg 18-27
By Mitch Horowitz
I believe that our culture is poised for an epochal change in how we understand and accept the core findings of parapsychology—that is, acceptance of the empiricism of the extraphysical. Rejectionism tends to harden on the brink of seismic change, and we are seeing pockets of that as well.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
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Is money-making linked to thought causation - or is that guileless fantasy? I am reproducing gratis chapter two of my 2018 book The Miracle Club for my take on the question. My philosophical hero is Neville Goddard, an English, Barbados-born New Thought teacher, who wrote under his first name. He heard the following words in the midst of a personal vision: "Down with the blue bloods!" To Neville, who died in 1972, privilege did not belong to the rich but to the truly imaginative.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
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By Mitch Horowitz Horatio Greenough's "Enthroned Washington" (1840) gazed on by schoolchildren 1899. (Wikimedia Commons) Are you sure you want to lead? Leadership is an elusive concept. Nearly everyone is certain that he or she would like the mantle of leadership - whether at home, at work, in competitive events, or all three - but we rarely think through the implications. One of the first questions any aspiring leader must ask is: Who do I seek to lead and why?
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
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By Mitch Horowitz Considering All Quiet on the Western Front Near its CentenaryIn his classic of esoteric exploration, In Search of the Miraculous, Russian mathematician and spiritual seeker P.D. Ouspensky (1878-1947) recalled witnessing piles of freshly made crutches driven down a Moscow street toward the Russian front during World War I:I had seen two enormous lorries...loaded to the...
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
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By Mitch Horowitz Manly P. Hall's Vision of AmericaIt can be argued that myth matters more than history. Myth captures the folds and failures, ideals and setbacks, that shape history. Events come and go; human nature is constant. It is largely, but not wholly, in that vein that I approach the historical writings of Manly P. Hall: as a combination of myth and event. And, ultimately, as a...
