Reagan and the Occult
How a president echoed the writings of occult scholar Manly P. Hall
5 min readOct 15, 2022
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I have written several times about President Ronald Reagan’s interest in the occult, in particular his integration of writings by scholar of esotericism Manly P. Hall into his speeches. There is evidence that the two met, which I explore in my essay “Occult American” in Uncertain Places. Here is my earliest piece…