THE MIND MAGNET
The Mind Magnet is a collection of essays exploring the authors, books, movements, and ideas that continue to shape the hidden currents of culture, consciousness, and human thought. Drawing from rare books, historical sources, and the library itself, these writings seek to illuminate forgotten perspectives, connect unexpected threads, and continue conversations that span generations.
Charles Brodie Patterson and the Making of New Thought
Charles Brodie Patterson was one of early New Thought’s most important organizers, publishers, editors, and system-builders. From Mind and The Library of Health to a remarkable sequence of books on...
Austin Osman Spare and the Art of Sigils: Zos Kia, Desire, and the ...
Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) was a London artist and occult writer whose sigil method, automatic drawing, and Zos Kia philosophy reshaped twentieth-century magic. His later reputation in chaos magic can...
Itzhak Bentov Between Invention and Speculation: Stalking the Wild ...
Itzhak Bentov combined a genuine career in invention and medical-device engineering with a highly speculative 1977 model of meditation, bodily oscillation, cosmology, and consciousness. His later reputation shows how engineering...
Paramahansa Yogananda in America: Kriya Yoga, Self-Realization, and...
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) arrived in Boston in 1920 and built one of the most influential Indian religious movements in modern America, teaching Kriya Yoga, meditation, self-realization, and a universalizing interpretation...
Dion Fortune and Occult Psychology: Psychic Self-Defence, Qabalah, ...
Dion Fortune (1890–1946) brought psychology, ceremonial magic, Qabalah, Christian mysticism, and psychic self-defence into one of the twentieth century’s most influential systems of Western esotericism.
Carl Jung at the Border of Psychology and Esotericism
Carl Jung (1875–1961) developed analytical psychology through ideas including archetypes, the collective unconscious, individuation, and synchronicity. His sustained engagement with myth, religion, alchemy, astrology, and Wolfgang Pauli placed him at...
