People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Fawn Brodie observed that Westerners traditionally “demanded personality rather than diplomas from the men who called them to God.” Metaphysical teachers journeying from the… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious.… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
“One of the ironies of twenty-first-century politics is how the nationalistic, anti-immigration activists of the Tea Party often extol Reagan as their hero. However… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
“the data emerging from the quantum physics field suggests some vital, not-yet-understood verity about how the mind interplays with the surrounding world.” — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
