Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
In his characteristic participant/observer fashion, Horowitz narrates his own encounters with the gods. He has “an attachment to the history of Rome,” and “a series of propitious events” has led him to “venture a prayer to Minerva” as a “figure of deific exploration and possibility”: (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
Mitch Horowitz
Daydream Believer: Unlocking the Ultimate Power of Your Mind
G&D Media, 2022
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
To trifle with such ideas, rather than fall to your knees and sustain them as lifelong questions, is to toy with destruction. — Mitch Horowitz, Daydream Believer (more…)
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Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard’s Final Lectures, edited and introduced by Mitch Horowitz
New York: G&D Media, 2022
Carter phoned Neville the next morning and said, “Neville you are Judas.” The teacher immediately agreed. “Judas,” he replied, “betrayed the Messianic secrets.” (more…)
Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard
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This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far our grand total is $179,160.94. That puts us at 59% of our goal. Thanks so much to all our donors for their support. Complete information on how you can help appears below. But first, a few inspirational words from James J. O’Meara.
Greg Johnson
Many of you Constant Readers of my many essays on Neville and New Thought have no doubt wondered, “Well, if it’s all in your mind, why don’t you just think about what you want. For example, that $300,000 you need.” (more…)
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Mr. Reagan is not going to make it to the year 1987, I can tell you that much. Now you mark that down.
— Brother Stair, 1987
We don’t reckon time the same way, do we, Clarice?
— Silence of the Lambs
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Mitch Horowitz
The Power of Sex Transmutation: How to Use the Most Radical Idea from Think and Grow Rich
New York: G & D Media, 2019
“The whole movement of the world tends and leads towards copulation. It is a substance infused through everything; it is the centre—towards which all things turn.”–Montaigne[1] (more…)
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Infinite Potential: The Greatest Works of Neville Goddard
Introduced and edited by Mitch Horowitz
New York: St. Martin’s, 2019
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — T. E. Lawrence[1] (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
In my previous essay on Stirner, I suggested that the modern online community, or the Internet itself, would be an excellent example of a “Union of Egoists.” And here we meet with Neville again; for although, like Stirner, his career was on a downslope at his death – for reasons we will soon examine – (more…)
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1. Camille Paglia, Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education (New York: Pantheon, 2018).
Paglia is self-recommending, of course. I was a bit let down, as the subtitle seemed to promise a career-wide retrospective, while this is more like a reunion tour, with emphasis on more recent works. The key essays are a vast survey, “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s,” a liberal education in itself; (more…)
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Mitch Horowitz
The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2018
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. . . . When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church.”[1]
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Neville (Goddard)
Five Lessons: A Master Class (1948)
Reissued with a bonus chapter by Mitch Horowitz
New York: Tarcher/Perigree, 2018
This is going to be a very practical Course. Therefore, I hope that everyone in this class has a very clear picture of what he desires, for I am convinced that you can realize your desires by the technique you will receive here this week in these five lessons.[1] (more…)
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Neville (Goddard)
At Your Command: The First Classic Work by the Visionary Mystic Neville
New York: Snellgrove Publications, 1939; Tarcher Cornerstone Editions, 2016 (includes Mitch Horowitz’s essay on Neville’s life and work, “Neville Goddard: A Cosmic Philosopher”)
“Can a man decree a thing and have it come to pass? Most assuredly he can!” — Neville Goddard, At Your Command (more…)