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What if the New Agers Were Right All Along?
Read More →: What if the New Agers Were Right All Along?I believe that some of us dedicated to experimental spirituality and mind metaphysics must attempt to theorise the mechanics and delivery systems behind what we experience and observe. There exist, of…
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Is There a Connection Between Quantum Physics & Positive Thinking?
Read More →: Is There a Connection Between Quantum Physics & Positive Thinking?For the last several years a thickening stream of New Age books and documentaries have, to the chagrin of critics, attempted to use quantum theory to “prove” that the mind…
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Mysterious Beasts & Natural Wonders: Toward a New Understanding of Bigfoot, Flying Saucers, Fairies & other Inconvenient Realities
Read More →: Mysterious Beasts & Natural Wonders: Toward a New Understanding of Bigfoot, Flying Saucers, Fairies & other Inconvenient RealitiesSeveral years ago a critic wrote about me, “Horowitz is an okay historian, but the guy believes in leprechauns for chrissakes.”That is true – I plead guilty. In this paper,…
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Hermes Resurrected: Does Hermetic Literature Hold Any Meaning for Today’s Seekers?
Read More →: Hermes Resurrected: Does Hermetic Literature Hold Any Meaning for Today’s Seekers?This article was published in New Dawn 165 (Nov-Dec 2017) I sometimes suspect that we deploy the word ‘Hermetic’ – a term for late ancient Greek-Egyptian mystical texts attributed to…
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“Nothing is Impossible”: Rediscovering The Kybalion
Read More →: “Nothing is Impossible”: Rediscovering The KybalionAnd with the wish the energy was born…– Corpus Hermeticum, book I I once regarded The Kybalion as little more than a novelty of early twentieth-century occultism. I considered the…
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The Black Arts after Fifty Years
Read More →: The Black Arts after Fifty YearsThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Cavendish’s classic study of the occult, The Black Arts. The year of Cavendish’s book – 1967 – could be seen as a banner…
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What Do You Mean The Occult? A Brief Introduction
Read More →: What Do You Mean The Occult? A Brief IntroductionMITCH HOROWITZ was raised in a world of Bigfoot stories, UFO sightings, and Carlos Castaneda books. He grew determined to find the truth behind it all – and today is…
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Edgar Cayce: Ordinary Man, Extraordinary Messenger
Read More →: Edgar Cayce: Ordinary Man, Extraordinary MessengerThe year 1910 marked a turning point in Western spirituality. It saw the deaths of some of the most luminous religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, including psychologist-seeker William James;…
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Secret Teachings Reborn: The Mysterious Life of Manly P. Hall
Read More →: Secret Teachings Reborn: The Mysterious Life of Manly P. HallThis article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of spiritual teachers and impresarios dealing in “secret wisdom.” Their…











