Events

Practical Magick: An online talk with Mitch Horowitz
Sunday, April 6, 5 p.m. ET
Ticket price: $15 (online only)
Recording of the Zoom will be available for 2 weeks after the live event.
Please email events@prs.org or phone
323-663-2167 with any questions.

In this live online talk, popular voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz explores the history and efficacy of magick from our primeval past to our current era. Drawing on his new book Practical Magick, Mitch probes whether magick—or causative ritual—can be dramatically simplified. Given our warranted understanding of extra-physicality in the early twenty-first century, Mitch reasons that we may be able to strip away layers of ceremony, memorization, rite, ritual, pageantry, and complexity to reduce magick, quite possibly, to the well-crafted and passionately felt wish itself.
Mitch provides hands-on exercises to help participants hone their sense of personal power and extra-physical agency—with an eye toward satisfying urgently felt needs and wishes. From primeval history to quantum computing, Mitch argues that magick is part of our human heritage, past and present, and shows how to use it as such. As always, he leaves ample time for exchange and questions.

Nehru and Theosophy: Spiritual Principles of a Formative Statesman
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23-27 July 2025: 12th World Congress
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), India’s first prime minister, is notable for navigating currents of the nation’s diffuse religious constituencies. In this talk, historian Mitch Horowitz explores how the impact of Theosophy helped shape Nehru’s capacity as one of the most effective statesmen and diplomats of the twentieth century, from the leader’s adolescent mentorship to Irish Theosophist Ferdinand T. Brooks to collaborations with Annie Besant during the independence movement to his close friendship with Jiddu Krishnamurti while in office—and, of course, Nehru’s discipleship to Mahatma Gandhi who credited Madame H.P. Blavatsky with igniting his philosophy of universalism. Here is a stirring reevaluation of a state-maker and his earliest spiritual and intellectual influences.
Visit worldcongress.ts-adyar.org for more information.