EPISODE #41
ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITY, ESP & THE POWER OF A WISH WITH MITCH HOROWITZ

ABOUT THIS EPISODE:

My guest in this episode is Mitch Horowitz, a PEN Award-winning historian considered an expert of alternative spirituality, he’s also known widely as the voice of esoteric ideas. Mitch and I first met when a few years ago I was producing a TV series called Open Minds. Mitch was a guest on the show and at the time he was coming on to discuss his book Occult America. Since then he’s written at least 20 more books! And has two news ones coming out this year - Day Dream Believer out this July, and Uncertain Places available in October. We chat about those books plus…Mitches film The Kybalion, which breaks down the 7 Hermetic principals. 

This episode is a thought-provoking discussion of the spiritual, the occult, the magical, and the extra-sensory world with mentions of many, many people from Neville Goddard, a continued influence on Mitch as well as Émile Coué and, of all people, The Amazing Randi.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

  • Kybalion and the seven Hermetic principals.

  • Where did the Hermetic tradition and experience evolve from (Greek and Egyptian traditions). I ask Mitch why the Indus Valley, an almost equally ancient civilization and the Vedic tradition are not considered a part of the Hermetic tradition.

  • How Mitches journey through his interests as a Seeker lead him to become a wisdom school educator of transformation and manifestation.

  • Who is Neville Goddard and how/why does Mitch continue to be influenced by him? And we chat about Neville’s interesting childhood influences growing up in Barbados.

  • Mitch shares insights from his two new books: Dream Believer out in July and, Uncertain Places, available in October 2022.

  • Mitch shares his own personal practice with influences from Émile Coué, the French mind theorist. 

  • And we rant about The Amazing Randi (James Randi), the stage magician and skeptic of the paranormal and ESP, and the content of the book The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne.

  • Plus so much more! 

TOPICS & PEOPLE MENTIONED:

  • Kybalion, top 10 Apple TV.

  • The occultist Anna Kingsford.

  • Swami Vivekananda.

  • Neville’s connection to Obeya - Caribbean Mysticism, Rustafarisianism, Etheopianianism and Marcus Garvey and Arnold Josiah Ford.

  • Mitches book about Neville - Magician of the Beautiful: An Introduction to Neville Goddard.

  • Émile Coué - French mind theorist

REFERENCES/LINKS:

Personal Website: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/books

Film: https://www.instagram.com/kybalionfilm/

https://www.kybalionfilm.com

ABOUT MITCH:

Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning historian and author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; The Miracle Club; The Miracle Habits. And so many more. He is widely known as a voice of esoteric ideas with bylines in The New York Times, Time, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal. Through his research and books he illuminates and explains the relevance of alternative spirituality to comtemporary life. His work is censored in China.