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The Higherside Chats

Mitch Horowitz | Mind Magic, Esoteric Suppression, & The Materialist Blockade

The Higherside Chats

Greg Carlwood

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, News, News Commentary

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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About Today's Guest:

Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult.
​Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition.



Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea; The Miracle Club; Daydream Believer; Uncertain Places; and the forthcoming Modern Occultism.
He has discussed alternative spirituality on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, NPR’s All Things Considered, CNN, Vox/Netflix’s Explained, VICE News, Kesha and the Creepies, and seasons I and II of AMC Shudder’s Cursed Films, an official selection of SXSW.
Mitch hosted, cowrote, and produced a feature documentary about the occult classic The Kybalion directed by Emmy-nominee Ronni Thomas and shot on location in Egypt. In 2022, the movie premiered as the #3 top documentary on iTunes.
Mitch has written on everything from the

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How THC?

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THC.

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Will we be?

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Coral wooden company.

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This is the way higher side chatters do and what we do from sunny San Diego.

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I'm Greg Carlwood and is there any more persistent deception than the overarching idea subtly woven throughout reality that as individuals we are essentially powerless?

1:24.0

That to live outside of the cookie cutter, cradle to grave, cog in the wheel, company man, life path is so risky and success so unlikely that we might as well just play it safe?

1:34.0

Get your education, accept your middle management position, pay your mortgage, eat your slop, consume your nightly news and never bother to take the reins of your life because it could all just come crashing down.

1:46.0

We're told our mindsets make little difference in the matter first universe yet I mountain of evidence from ESP studies and the power of prayer to a legacy of magical ritual and esoteric techniques.

1:57.0

Show us that what happens in our minds and where we direct our focus might actually be some of the most important things to get right if we want our situations to improve.

2:06.0

So the big system becomes an operation and belief management education becomes pre-approved fact regurgitation news becomes aggressively fear based and culture is reduced to a sneaky siren coaxing our mental ships to crash against the rocks of distraction depression and disappointment.

2:23.0

But when I read the work of today's guest Mitch Horowitz, I am reminded of the research that says there is real power and positive thought that there's real value and clearly defining an aiming at one's goals and that spiritual forces are not only real, they're most likely the most important tools we've been neglecting.

2:40.0

For the uninitiated Mitch is an author and lecturer focused on areas like alternative spirituality, outsider history and the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency back into the human condition.

2:53.0

He has written on everything from the occult influences on Ronald Reagan to the checkered career of professional skeptic James Randy for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Times, Salon, Big Think, Politico, Boeing Boeing and a wide range of zines and scholarly journals.

3:09.0

His books include occult America, White House, Seionses, Weegee, Circles, Masons and the Secret Mystic History of our Nation.

3:16.0

One simple idea, how the lessons of positive thinking can transform your life.

3:20.0

The Miracle Club, how thoughts become reality and has recently released collection of essays and articles on the occult and outsider experiences, uncertain places, just to name a few.

3:31.0

A guest who's been requested many times around here, the new thought thinker, Captain of the Miracle Club and occult author extraordinaire Mitch, welcome to the higher side.

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