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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
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Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board,"Occult America" briskly sweeps from the nation's earliest days of mystical and esoteric movements to the birth of the New Age era, tracing the many people and episodes that continue to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
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An Enthralling History of the People, Ideas, and Practices that Shaped Today's Occult
In his most sweeping historical work, occult scholar and widely known voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz presents a lively, intellectually serious historical exploration of modern occultism, from astrology and alchemy to the dawn of Theosophy and modern witchcraft, and the spiritual revolutions that followed. In this erudite, vibrant, and full-circle history,...
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In Happy Warriors, iconic voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz provides an enthralling literary survey of the lives and ideas of the most remarkable figures in positive-mind spirituality, opening a fresh window on the history and practice of New Thought.
Writing with drama, erudition, and practical, hands-on ideas, Mitch reconsiders popular icons including Napoleon Hill, Neville Goddard, Wallace D. Wattles, Emile Coué, Joseph Murphy, Florence...
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Many of us embark on the spiritual search seeking relief from depression and anxiety.
In this revealing and deeply meaningful book, Mitch makes a frank and responsible survey of how the spiritual path can aid or impede you in this journey.
As Mitch reveals from his many years as a writer, publisher, and seeker, the spiritual culture does not always respond wisely to the needs of people seeking emotional health. Nor can spiritual progress and...
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In an age when "success by all means" is too often the norm, Mitch Horowitz sets the record straight by highlighting how to develop your personal power with honor, nobility, poise, and effectiveness.
Through a series of powerful yet simple techniques, Horowitz outlines how you can pursue your highest material, career, and financial aims with dignity. Discover how to combine power with principle and success with self-respect.
The book includes these...
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Finding your Definite Chief Aim is the closest thing life grants you to a magic elixir. This book guides you to unearth your core, passionately-felt aim, unlocking energies and abilities you never knew existed within you. In a grounded and serious manner, Mitch reveals why this is so and, most importantly, shows exactly how to find your individual purpose. Once discovered, your aim will mean everything to you. Harness your limitless abilities and...
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Maybe you're familiar with Napoleon Hill's legendary success program, Think and Grow Rich, but never read the book. Or, maybe, you've read the book and still feel as though you have questions that need answers.
In this short, penetrating work, Mitch Horowitz demonstrates exactly how this program and its techniques can serve as agents for radical improvement and seismic change in your life.
As a chronicler of metaphysical experience, Mitch explores...
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The People Who Doubted You Are In for the Shock of Their Lives
Mitch Horowitz, "a cross between Aleister Crowley and Alan Watts" (Duncan Trussell), delivers this generation's most literate and liberating self-help book in The Miracle Habits. Mitch shows how to foster a life of revolutionary self-direction through thirteen "Miracle Habits"-radical but workable commitments that allow you to "Spend for Power" (Habit 8), "Get Away from Cruel People"...
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You Will Never Doubt Yourself Again
PEN Award-winning historian and popular New Thought voice Mitch Horowitz teaches how to harness and maximize the tools of The Magic of Believing, one of the most effective works of mind-power ever written. In Mitch's five lessons you will experience Claude M. Bristol's The Magic of Believing in a whole new way-and you will also experience, as though for the first time and for all time, the extraordinary powers within...
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GAIN A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE CORE PRINCIPLE THAT "MIND IS THE BUILDER" UPDATED AND EXPANDED
In this electrifying and practical book, PEN Award-winning historian and popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz explores the inner meaning of Edgar Cayce's positive-mind principles, and how to use them in your life. Mitch combines history and hands-on instruction to open a new window on power of thought, the ways that current science...
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A KEY TO THE MYSTERIES
No other book in history has done more to clarify the Esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions of the world than Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Now, historian Mitch Horowitz provides the first companion work to Hall's opus. The Secret Teachings of All Ages helps twenty=first-century readers enter and experience (or re-experience) Hall's hallowed pages and also clarifies and expands on some of the book's...
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Power Without Apologies
"I believe that the last thing the mature seeker needs in literature or talks today are chin-stroking ideas or 'insights.' The seeker requires power. Power-not force-to see through self-expressive wishes. Force dissipates and dies with its user. True power is generative: it creates and builds."
With this trenchant introduction, scholar of esotericism Mitch Horowitz presents some of the most important and practical works,...
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Discover Your Subconscious Power! Historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz shines a new light on Joseph Murphy's landmark, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, showing how to maximize Murphy's methods, reverse setbacks, and remove mental blocks. He demonstrates how current insights from mind-body medicine and quantum theory show you how to strengthen Murphy's techniques. In this powerful Master Class:
• Mitch reveals posthumous letters...
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You Are More Than You've Been Taught to Believe
In A Class in Miracles, acclaimed voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz considers the dramatic steps forward in our understanding of the causative powers of thought-and what this means for you.
Mitch looks at some of the most extraordinary-even miraculous-recent developments in mind-body medicine, psychical research, and placebo studies and the lessons they hold for each of us. He does so with...
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