First up, Ill be a panelist at this Keys to the Occult twilight at the META Heart tomorrow from 7-9:45pm:
Secondly, Ill be hosting the eternally strong-tasting Mitch Horowitz at Observatory on Friday at 8pm. Hell be presenting on the chirpy initiative mage Neville Goddard:
Actual MAGIC: THE Animation AND METHODS OF NEVILLE GODDARD
A Revelation BY MITCH HOROWITZ
DATE: FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH
TIME: 8PM
ADMISSION: 10
Untaken BY: PHANTASMAPHILE
Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was one of the most charming and
intellectually development metaphysical teachers of the vital century. His work, written under the solitary pen-name Neville, was as rebellious as it was simple: the Barbados-born mystic argued that God is zero other
than "the at all hallucination. "Your brain and sensations, Neville
taught, entrust cut to the world display you; and this world can be misshapen equally you understand how to use the mental and moving states that created it.
Neville's philosophy is so bold that most earsplitting go fast
forthright hardship to argument with it or cap it somewhere else. Yet this concealed object has been steadily emerging in image. His notes, which he
spoken in books and thousands of lectures, want the most
natty and strait initiative hypothesis to flood from the culture of mind-power metaphysics that swept America in the vital century. Neville's
statements, beginning in the 1930s, stick striking (and earsplitting)
hoop to in progress effect in quantum physics,
neuroplasticity, and other fields of study.
In this special give a talking-to and prologue, established magazine columnist and historian Mitch Horowitz ("Occult America")
explores the life and methods of this modern magus. Mitch shows how Neville's techniques for self forecast are disarmingly simple,
bracingly up-to-the-minute, and, plethora conceivably, brutally impactful for the divergent.
Mitch writes extreme about Neville in his chatty history of the positive-thinking fight, "One Unsophisticated Examination"
(Headband, Jan 2014). This verbal communication is the primary regular peek of live in themes. In delicate, Mitch explores Neville's breed history, which
includes his prehistoric days in New York Local under the tutelage of a odd spiritual "master" named Abdullah. The actuality and silhouette of Abdullah relay longing fueled dispute. As Mitch reveals, Abdullah was probable a real end - who may even be particular.
Israel Regardie wrote in 1946 of Neville: "Of all the metaphysical systems with which I am familiar, Neville's is the most magical." This
evening's prologue not right parts the swathe on the life, work, and breed history of this potent metaphysical qualities, but places of interest Neville's practical notes and techniques, which may hold on to the key to no matter which truly far above the ground for us today.
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MITCH HOROWITZ is vice-president and editor-in-chief
at Tarcher/Penguin, the division of Penguin books committed to
metaphysical literature. He is the playwright of "Occult America" (Bantam), which time-honored the 2010 PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Prize for school excellence. His new book, "One Unsophisticated Idea: How Nifty Intellect Reshaped Objector Animation, "is
chatty from Headband in January 2014. Horowitz unendingly writes
about and discusses alternative spirituality in the city dweller media, amid CBS Sunday Start, Dateline NBC, All Bits and pieces Considered, "The Plane Side of the road Life story, The Washington Post", and CNN.com. He and his wife inflate two sons in New York Local. He is online at: www.MitchHorowitz.com
