Reagan and the Occult

How a president echoed the writings of occult scholar Manly P. Hall

Mitch Horowitz
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

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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