What We Lost When We Lost Jacob Needleman

Remembering a philosopher of esotericism

Mitch Horowitz
6 min readDec 3, 2022

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Philosopher and author Jacob Needleman died at age 88 on November 28, 2022. With his passing, our culture lost not only a distinguished and widely published scholar of religions, but one of the few writers of our age who proved capable of communicating the nature of inner experience.

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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