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Mitch Horowitz

About the Author

Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, a lecturer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and the The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Follow him @MitchHorowitz.

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Mitch Horowitz

What Do You Mean The Occult? A Brief Introduction

By Mitch Horowitz

MITCH HOROWITZ was raised in a world of Bigfoot stories, UFO sightings, and Carlos Castaneda books. He grew determined to find the truth behind it all – and today is a PEN Award-winning historian and the author of Occult America […]

Edgar Cayce: Ordinary Man, Extraordinary Messenger

By Mitch Horowitz

From New Dawn 150 (May-June 2015) The year 1910 marked a turning point in Western spirituality. It saw the deaths of some of the most luminous religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, including psychologist-seeker William James; popular medium Andrew Jackson […]

Secret Teachings Reborn: The Mysterious Life of Manly P. Hall

By Mitch Horowitz

This article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of spiritual teachers and impresarios dealing in “secret wisdom.” Their ranks included hacks and frauds – as well as more […]