Mitch Horowitz | Talking America's Contribution to Magic

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mitch Horowitz joins us this week to talk

Practical spirituality
The Burned Over District, spiritualism
The original formulation of the Law of Attraction
The accidental ritual nature of the founding of America
The magical roots of women’s suffrage, black civil rights and other progressive movements
Donald Trump’s school of sorcery (you heard me!)
Building your own New Thought library.

And a whole lot more.

Show Notes

Mitch's books
Mitch's website
Mitch on Twitter
Mitch's recent article: The Minister who taught Donald Trump to 'Think Positive'

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.
0:10.0	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.
0:13.0	Today on Roon Soup.
0:17.0	Today on Roon Soup we welcome historian, publisher, speaker and author Mitch Horowitz.
0:28.0	Mitch is the author of Acult America, The Secret History of how Mysticism shaped our nation and more recently one
0:34.3	simple idea how positive thinking reshaped modern life. Mitch thank you for your time
0:39.2	Thank you glad to be here. Lovely.
0:43.0	I know a little bit of this from your first book, but the traditional question is,
0:47.2	Mitch, were you a weird kid?
0:49.6	Oh, I was a very weird kid, absolutely.
0:52.3	I loved monster movies wegee boards astrology
0:55.8	Carlos castaneda I was taken in by all of that stuff and in a way growing up in the 1970s in New York City was kind of a wild time.
1:06.2	There were all these robed gurus on television and we would rush home from school to watch
1:12.2	dark shadows and twilight Zone reruns and
1:15.9	my sister was bringing home books on Flying Sossers in Bigfoot and Carlos Castaneda from
1:21.4	her school book club.
1:23.7	I remember one time overhearing her on the phone with a friend
1:26.3	wondering whether Ringo's star had shaped his head
1:29.4	in solidarity with Charles Manson.
1:31.2	There was all this weirdness in the air and I totally took to it.
1:36.4	My friends may have been interested in it in passing but I was interested in it with a total
1:41.0	passion and I suppose that remained with me into adulthood.
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