Audiobook of Uncertain Places.

Is Occultism “the Metaphysic of Dunces?”

An occultist confronts modernity

Mitch Horowitz
13 min readOct 12, 2022

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The following is the introduction to the author’s Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult and Outsider Experiences (Inner Traditions, Nov 8, 2022).

To write on metaphysical themes is to live in a state of constant uncertainty. Or at least it ought to be that way. The simple fact is: we do not know the foundations of…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China