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This is why I do what I do. There’s nothing like working alongside the painters I admire most.

It feels like the re-beginning of something I’d put aside for a while. Somewhere along the way, I lost a little of my own identity, putting my own needs aside.

But now, that child inside me is happy again. He trusts me. He feels safe.

And maybe that’s what finding yourself again really means — coming home to the parts of you that have been waiting patiently to be seen, heard, and nurtured.

Life moves in serendipity. Sometimes, just when you need it most, it leads you back to yourself.

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On $6.99 special @amazonkindle
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Cover art by @johnnewsomstudio
Video by @joshhyde666

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@allelementsmg headlined by @realkillahpriest

cc @f0xg0ddess @b_obrochta

#Nerulers #4thChamber #TheeFourthFugee #Wutangclan #KillahPriest

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@allelementsmg fest was one for the books!!!! Love to my OG @realkillahpriest for the opportunity. My first time seeing him live the energy was so magical. Hip hop was in the building fasho

s/o to @60second_assassin @trifecta718 @rekshiphop @remedywu and all the other legends that pulled up.

Royal Priesthood Wu second gen vibez👑👐🏾🐝

#KillahPriest #Brooklyn #TheWutangclan #Killahbees #4thChamber

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Friends, please join me this Saturday, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET, for a special online talk with the @philosophical_research_society on my latest book, ESOTERIKA.

We will consider the themes of primeval spirituality, the metaphysics of a wish, the power of relationship and timing, with ample space for questions and exchange.

Tix at link in bio, in stories, or at PRS.org.

cover art by the great @johnnewsomstudio

see you then!

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Friends, many have asked, and I’ve heard the call: I am happy to report that signed copies of ESOTERIKA are now available by mail.

Each book is hand personalized and includes a BONUS CHROME PIN. Total cost in the U.S. is $55. Total outside the U.S. is $90.

To add signed copies of Practical Magick, Modern Occultism, or The Sixth Sense, please include an additional $35 per book.

Venmo: Mitch-Horowitz-2
PayPal: Mitch.horowitz.nyc@gmail.com
When paying, please be sure to include your mailing address and name for personalization.

Each one is signed, packed, and shipped by me with PMA. x

Cover art by @johnnewsomstudio
Pin designed by @joshhyde666

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Friends, I am delighted to report that I am delivering an online talk on Saturday, August 1, for @philosophical_research_society on the themes and practices of ESOTERIKA.

Tix linked in bio / stories. Or visit PRS.org

Cover art by @johnnewsomstudio

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Exchanging last night with @realkillahpriest @johnnewsomstudio @a.d.r.o.s.s @knowledgebornallah357 @thehuehefneronhigh

The internet isn't broken. It is stolen. This is where it is taken back. x

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I am happy to present my full talk for the launch of Esoterika delivered on Summer Solstice, June 21, 2026, at the performance space @tveyenyc in NYC, including comments by fine artist @johnnewsomstudio and audience Q&A. -M- x

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I wrote Esoterika because I believe that a certain rot has settled into our culture of search, therapeutically and spiritually.

There exists a habitual thinking that touches all of us, that gets inside us, through recitation of ideas that grow intensely familiar by dint of repetition.

Very often these ideas reflect decisions made by someone else. They have gotten enshrined in what we consider wisdom literature or traditions.

We sometimes encounter these things in translations of translations of translations, very often in a different form than the original language. Very often the originals themselves are lost.

This is so with the Hermetic literature, for example. It’s difficult to believe, but we actually possess no original manuscripts or scrolls of the original Corpus Hermeticum, not only dated to Alexandria in late antiquity but also dated to the Renaissance, which, in terms of the time scale of human history, was five minutes ago. We are unable to even compare our Latin and English editions to the Byzantine Greek originals from the Renaissance.

Across centuries and sometimes millennia, the wisdom literature that reaches us is not only subject to continual re-translation but also insertion of ideas that whoever was translating the material at the time felt inclined toward, maybe sympathizing with one system or outlook or religion, and inserting word choices that may not reflect original intent.

What I have attempted in Esoterika, as much as a twenty-first century person is able, is to locate fragments of primeval traditions and try to find some sense of what our ancient ancestors were working with in their earliest search for truth. To try to find certain unconditioned ideas, or at least something close to them.

As much as I am capable, I try to translate some of these unconditioned ideas, ideas that have been couched and to some extent preserved within esoteric tradition . . .

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