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Podcast: Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture
Episode: RU224: MITCH HOROWITZ ON MODERN OCCULTISM, UNCERTAIN PLACES & STRANGE NEW WORLDS
Description: Rendering Unconscious episode 224.
Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch’s reporting has called attention to the worldwide crisis of violence against accused witches. He is widely credited with returning the term “New Age” to respectable use and is among the few occult writers whose work touches the bases of academic scholarship, national journalism, and subculture cred. Mitch is a writer-i...