Reaffirmed Mystical Quotes by Mitch Horowitz

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

“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

Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.

— Mitch Horowitz

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

— Mitch Horowitz

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

— Mitch Horowitz

I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

— Mitch Horowitz

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

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

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

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

“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

“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