What We Lost When We Lost Jacob Needleman
Remembering a philosopher of esotericism
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.