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Do thoughts shape reality? PEN Award-winning historian and popular voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz explores the proposition that thoughts are causative—and reveals wholly new dimensions of the history and meaning of an idea that can reshape our conceptions of ourselves. Mitch considers the question of mind metaphysics from its ancient expressions in Hermeticism up through popular spiritual methods and the challenges of today’s scientific frontiers. He delivers a radical and persuasive new understanding of the extra-physical dimensions of thought.
"Mitch is solid gold." —David Lynch, filmmaker, creator of Twin Peaks
Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. He is among the few occult writers whose work touches the bases of academic scholarship, national journalism, and subculture cred. Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, and a PEN Award-winning historian whose books include Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club. The Washington Post says Mitch “treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today’s raised-voice discussions.” He has discussed alternative spirituality across the national media and is collaborating with Emmy-nominated director Ronni Thomas on a feature documentary about the occult classic The Kybalion, shot on location in Egypt. Mitch received the Walden Award for Interfaith/Intercultural Understanding. The Chinese government has censored his work. Learn more.
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