Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Habib, a podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures and presenting complex, spiritual, philosophical, and political ideas in an engaging and accessible way.

Friends, happy New Year, welcome to 2022.

And this year, I am starting with a series of episodes on how to live.

How to live in 2022.

I mean, did you have a hard time with it in 2021?

I did.

And a really difficult time, but it was also extremely rewarding.

And I wish I had had even more tools at my disposal than I usually do.

That's why for the next few episodes we'll be talking about how to live from various angles.

This first episode features my friend, the occult scholar and writer Mitch Horowitz,

talking about how to live using the seven hermetic principles.

What does that mean?

Well, the seven hermetic principles are from a book called the Caballion,

which was published in 1908, and it expresses cosmic laws that were really influential on new thought,

new age, occultism, and just actually culture in general in the way that they echoed out.

Mitch has done tons of scholarly work on this book, including writing a study guide for the

Kabbalian and a forthcoming movie called The Kabbalian, which will actually be released a week

from the date this episode is released. We'll be going through those principles one by one

and talking about how they apply to our lives.

And of course, this is against everyone with Connor Habib. So if you're new here,

you might be, you know, interested in where the philosophical sort of wackiness goes to.

And if you have been listening to the show for a long time, it won't surprise

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