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Please help us reach our fundraising goal for the auditorium repair and upgrades!
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Donate here: givebutter.com/prsrestroomsfundraiser Thank you for your support!!! PRS is making major repairs and renovations to its mid-century era Auditorium restrooms, the first major upgrade since they were installed in the late 1950s and we're reaching out to you for help! SUPPORT THE PRS RESTROOMS UPGRADE FUNDRAISER! We'll be replacing the floor tiles, installing new sinks and lighting fix...
100,000 Songs of Realization: The Miraculous Life of Milarepa with Carlyle Coash
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Stories of enlightenment are many, but perhaps one of the most celebrated is of the life of master teacher Milarepa. His story is one of overcoming impossible odds to capture the most rare of achievements - awakening. At the heart of this accomplishment is a body of work embodied in Dohas, or songs of realization. Our talk will explore the incredible life of Milarepa, through his story and thes...
The Transmutation Oracle Deck available now at the PRS Bookstore!
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PRS is thrilled to announce that it’s publishing a brand new oracle deck, its first new oracle / tarot release since the legendary Knapp-Hall Tarot Deck of 1929 which PRS re-released last year in a special limited edition. “The Transmutation Oracle Deck: A Metaphysical Guide to Navigating Reality” is a stunning new 25-card deck with accompanying illustrated booklet of essays on the cards, creat...
Burton Kopelow: Myth in the Making with John Bucher, artist David Orr, and curator Nancy Blumstein
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The exhibition Myth in the Making: Burton Kopelow provides a succinct, retrospective view of Kopelow’s life as an artist, revealing a man deeply tuned to universal spiritual archetypes, Theosophy, Jung, Campbell, Tibetan thangka paintings, and Zen. Kopelow’s painting career spanned six decades of exploration, expression and invention. His bold use of color, evocative imagery and personal mythol...
‘The 12 Steps. Symbols, Myths and Archetypes of Recovery’ Author Panel
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About the book: Drawing on art, literature, and scientific research, scholar and therapist Kikan Massara delves into the Twelve Steps-the widely used and respected program of recovery. Developed in the early 20th century to address alcoholism, the Twelve Step program was later found to be an effective tool in aiding recovery for all types of addictions and compulsive behaviors. Now for the very...
PRS presents Seekers' Salon on KCHUNG
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​PRS presents a new collaboration with local radio station KCHUNG: SEEKERS' SALON Second Wednesdays of every month, from 11am to 1pm, broadcasting live from The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, we’ll be bringing you various guests, stories, audio clips, and music related to the history and current programming of PRS! You can tune in on 1630 AM or listen anywhere at kchungradio.org or prs.org/audio!
The Museum of Scent: A Book Talk by Mandy Aftel Hosted by Eliza Swann and Syd Buffman
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This talk celebrates Mandy Aftel's new book The Museum of Scent, inspired by The Aftel Archive of Curious Scents -the first museum of fragrance in the United States, featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Goop. Aftel will share pictures from this abundantly illustrated volume, which delves into the natural and cultural history of scent, rich with fascinating stories and lore. She will talk ...
Creating A Treasure Map for the Aries New Moon with Tracy Abbott Cook
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When was the last time you focused on your goals? Did you scribble something on a note pad in January? Maybe you constructed a vision board but had zero success? Or maybe in the chaos of trying to get by each day, you haven’t even focused on goals. Got it. Here’s a secret; if you’ve had no success with previous goals, neither you nor your desires were wrong, it was just the timing. The Aries Ne...
'The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps' Artist Presentation
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Edgar Fabián Frías' Solo Exhibition "The Museum Of Multidimensional Mutant Maps" PRS proudly presents "The Museum of Multidimensional Mutant Maps," a solo exhibition featuring bold new works by interdisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías. On view January 13 through February 24, 2024, this exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive museum experience reexamining maps through the lens of ...
Portals & Pláticas: The Art of Curanderismo in the New Earth
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This Zoom event explores the intersection of identity & practice, the synergy between art & healing, and navigating the business aspect of their practices within the context of capitalism. They will also discuss how their practices address global needs. Attendees can access unique services and products related to these themes of this event. Don't miss this enriching experience. Edgar Fabián Frí...
The PRS 2023 End-of-Year Giving Campaign
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It's the last week of December which means it's your final chance to donate to our End of the Year Giving Campaign and support PRS's cultural programming and upgrades to its historic facility! In addition to our endless gratitude, we have some amazing perks to offer our wonderful donors! Visit secure.givelively.org/donate/philosophical-research-society-inc/support-prs-s-artistic-programming-and...
OCCULT AMERICA: Looking Back and Looking Forward - A Presentation by Mitch Horowitz
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In celebration of his new audio narration of his classic OCCULT AMERICA, popular voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz returns to PRS to consider the impact of occultism in America’s past, present, and future. What developments have transpired since Mitch’s book-which originated at PRS-first appeared in 2009 and how can we newly understand the seismic impact of occult philosophy on our lives a...
A Message from Mitch Horowitz!
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It is always an honor and delight to host iconic occult author, lecturer, and long-time friend of PRS, Mitch Horowitz! He's been an amazing supporter to The Philosophical Research Society and he thinks you should be too! Our End of Year fundraising campaign will be ending December 31st and every penny counts towards securing funding for our building upgrades and uniquely eclectic programming fo...
A Message from Rob Zabrecky!
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Here at PRS, we are honored to host so many amazing creatives like LA creative icon and acclaimed magician Rob Zabrecky! In these challenging times, when censorship and suppression of voices outside the mainstream is on the rise, the value of cultural organizations and libraries, and what they bring to their communities, is more important than ever. For this year’s End of the Year Giving Campai...
The PRS Giving Tuesday/End of Year Fundraising Campaign!
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The PRS Giving Tuesday/End of Year Fundraising Campaign!
“The Spiritual Essence of Politics” Seminar with Mark Mawrence
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“The Spiritual Essence of Politics” Seminar with Mark Mawrence
MODERN OCCULTISM with Mitch Horowitz
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MODERN OCCULTISM with Mitch Horowitz
Art of Darkness: Artist Chet Zar and Author Mitch Horowitz In Conversation
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Art of Darkness: Artist Chet Zar and Author Mitch Horowitz In Conversation
The Wisdom in Every Step: The Heart Sutra and its Map of Awakening - Lecture by Carlyle Coash
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The Wisdom in Every Step: The Heart Sutra and its Map of Awakening - Lecture by Carlyle Coash
FEEDING THE UNSEEN, panel discussion
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FEEDING THE UNSEEN, panel discussion
American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen with author Larry Lytle
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American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen with author Larry Lytle
Marjorie Cameron, Burt Shonberg, and Bohemian Los Angeles, a conversation with author Spencer Kansa
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Marjorie Cameron, Burt Shonberg, and Bohemian Los Angeles, a conversation with author Spencer Kansa
Shiva: The Symbolism Present Within His Image, a talk with Kamini Natarajan
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Shiva: The Symbolism Present Within His Image, a talk with Kamini Natarajan
CURATORS' TALK: Rocks in our Heads with Heidi Gustafson and Devon Deimler
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CURATORS' TALK: Rocks in our Heads with Heidi Gustafson and Devon Deimler
Myth, Math & Magic: Buckminster Fuller's Legacy & Hall's Hermetic Wisdom with artist Benjamin Lowder
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Myth, Math & Magic: Buckminster Fuller's Legacy & Hall's Hermetic Wisdom with artist Benjamin Lowder
"The Story Behind Manly P. Hall's 'The Secret Teachings of All Ages'"
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"The Story Behind Manly P. Hall's 'The Secret Teachings of All Ages'"
Artist ANDRII STRAKHOV in Conversation on 'GRACES' with gallerist Giovanni Giusti and Dennis Bartok
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Artist ANDRII STRAKHOV in Conversation on 'GRACES' with gallerist Giovanni Giusti and Dennis Bartok
Artist ANDRII STRAKHOV on his solo exhibition 'Graces' at PRS
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Artist ANDRII STRAKHOV on his solo exhibition 'Graces' at PRS
'The Secret Teachings of All Ages' TASCHEN Book Launch and Panel Discussion
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'The Secret Teachings of All Ages' TASCHEN Book Launch and Panel Discussion

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  • @suzannesmith6706
    @suzannesmith6706 Před 3 dny

    Very beautiful and honorable presentation. Thank you. SMS

  • @stedehans3851
    @stedehans3851 Před měsícem

    Before fake news? Its been unfake only intermittently and mostly by accident always

  • @grahamkerr2803
    @grahamkerr2803 Před měsícem

    The Ghost dance movement was brought about by the desperation of the Lakota people who saw their culture disappearing ❤❤.

  • @grahamkerr2803
    @grahamkerr2803 Před měsícem

    Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Crow King, Gall etc were great Lakota leaders, Red Cloud was a sellout who had a big part in the murder of Crazy Horse ❤❤.

  • @pattayaesl7128
    @pattayaesl7128 Před měsícem

    God is Red is one of the best books I ever read

  • @dagforster7627
    @dagforster7627 Před 2 měsíci

    Awesome. Best talk I’ve heard in months and I watch a lot of talks. Thank you. Shared. Subscribed.

  • @DriveByShouting
    @DriveByShouting Před 3 měsíci

    I was taught all Tribes were peace loving, nonviolent and didn’t believe in taking land, violence or massacres. What one Tribe did to another Tribe is exactly what the US Federal Government did to the Natives. Little Bighorn for example was stolen Crow land, and is Crow land again. The Tribes were warring over land for Hundreds of years before any European took a breath here. I always found that ironic.

  • @cathleensibley1679
    @cathleensibley1679 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you and well done! This lecture will help me craft a discussion/questions for my book club at Los Angeles County’s Stoneview Nature Center later in April. Such a rich novel with so many meaty talking points! Brava!

  • @travishughes6851
    @travishughes6851 Před 4 měsíci

    I find it strange that no one addresses the FACT that during the time period when Europeans were committing Genocide on the North American Continent upon Indigenous peoples, no one knows what to call the Europeans. Across the board we call them “whites” which is to create a disconnect from our OWN ancestral lineages as Europeans who came to North America and committed Genocide. They weren’t Americans and they weren’t Europeans but they were effectively “whites”. That’s systemic racism at its most functional.

  • @SURAJ-jh8ye
    @SURAJ-jh8ye Před 6 měsíci

    Fake info

  • @milenakalea
    @milenakalea Před 6 měsíci

    Thank you! Fantastic speaker

  • @Poeticheretic26
    @Poeticheretic26 Před 7 měsíci

    Great talk about the inimitable Place.

  • @CobinRain
    @CobinRain Před 7 měsíci

    I really appreciated this fine talk about Joan Didion’s work, delivered with warmth and …something else. Thanks

  • @MW-eg4gu
    @MW-eg4gu Před 8 měsíci

    I loved Billy Graham, as I love all people, or in my worst moments I should. But, deep in Billy's Bible-thumping mind, he was an anti-intellectual country boy. He appealed to small-town America. Fine, salt of the earth people. But in my 75 years, a whole lot of salt of the earth people got mean and nasty if they could get you alone, out of your element. I never should have given in to the arm-twisting and bullying of my parents, brother, other relations, or so-called friends, about my bookishness. I'm not exactly a coward but I could have stood up to them more. I have hardly any friends, and to risk rejection even more by my fellow intellectuals (I do not consider myself very intelligent.) I will end with this - I voted for Trump but consider myself a Monarchist. I am not at home in the United States, and no, I'm not leaving. And something even my fellow intellectuals will look askance at - I became a Traditionalist Catholic. I apologize to no one.

  • @thomasrolfe2306
    @thomasrolfe2306 Před 9 měsíci

    "...and the white line in the pavement leaped ahead of us like a burning fuse." -Fante

    • @frizzyrascal1493
      @frizzyrascal1493 Před 2 měsíci

      I marveled about this very line yesterday, reading "Ask the Dust". This is probably how people in the regency era felt when they read Jane Austen.

  • @cinamincinamin
    @cinamincinamin Před 10 měsíci

    This is such a great lecture! Thank you

  • @AndyRhodes1
    @AndyRhodes1 Před rokem

    This was a very helpful lecture. Thanks!

  • @Jambudwipvasi
    @Jambudwipvasi Před rokem

    Completely Incorrect lecture. Being a hindu I can say that the professor gets it completely wrong in every sense.

  • @nilanjanaghosh3432
    @nilanjanaghosh3432 Před rokem

    Love your lectures sir.

  • @scioarete7987
    @scioarete7987 Před rokem

    17:30 yes!

  • @peggyharris3815
    @peggyharris3815 Před rokem

    Fascinating and fun presentation! Leaves me wanting more.

  • @lmvath211
    @lmvath211 Před rokem

    I wish I could watch all the lectures and pod casts I like as voice over narration with much more full scream of the chosen images. The answers are in the ART not so much the words that follow

  • @mega.therion3008
    @mega.therion3008 Před rokem

    Holy moly can this person be any more excited

  • @brielvin
    @brielvin Před rokem

    I planned on falling asleep not staying awake till 230 but here i am. I really appreciate the sincererity and respect that first got my attention and in the end love the dedication and commitment to learning . Cante kin ogna ma wani yelo , wopila tanka mitakuye oyasin I think the thing I felt the most was black elk speaks being the doorway or gate that opened . Huge respect and interest to learn more myself and for so many. We are not alone. These ways are alive.

  • @rinsimon5467
    @rinsimon5467 Před rokem

    Yes, our sexuality is very weird 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jjgfssfgbggn
    @jjgfssfgbggn Před 2 lety

    ❤️

  • @hasanabueideh8825
    @hasanabueideh8825 Před 2 lety

    Thank you A part from very small errors in history, not being a scholar of Islam as you said, this is one of the best presentations, I have listened to, since long time.

  • @vikrant113
    @vikrant113 Před 2 lety

    no hindu story is contradictoty to each other ,come to india and read our non western books

  • @jerryeldini1849
    @jerryeldini1849 Před 2 lety

    is that a buddhist alter on the wall?

  • @JannerJones
    @JannerJones Před 2 lety

    Incredible ❤️🙏🏼

  • @LoveVanillaRose
    @LoveVanillaRose Před 2 lety

    It’s very scary that you think Hilary was the right choice.

  • @Queenie-the-genie
    @Queenie-the-genie Před 2 lety

    I stumbled upon Black Elks Speaks at the Luguna Beach Library in the 70’s. I was so deeply impressed with it. The book changed my life. 💛

  • @uzemaza
    @uzemaza Před 2 lety

    Very well done!

  • @JamalFuckinKilla
    @JamalFuckinKilla Před 2 lety

    Another thing too is, when cats my age ask what tribe I am, (a point of contention for me because I usually retort, what is your ancestry? Scandinavian? Swedish? Deutsche? Italian? Irish? Etc, and they never know). Anyway, I say I'm Blackfoot, Amskapii Piikuni, The Real People, and I'm met with oh, that's cool. This is my Gen. But when old white people ask, I tell them, they get a look of disgust and hate. I spit a few lines, kitkitamahtsinopowa, amd I absolutely love it, because they know amd get upset, I had one old lady actually say, "No! That's not true!" Hahaha

  • @JamalFuckinKilla
    @JamalFuckinKilla Před 2 lety

    I was just thinking, "who's air is this?" "It's nobody's." "So you're saying is, it's mine." Ha! I was watching Shang-Chi with my boy and noticed so many symbols and memes in the flick I was just stunned. There's a part where there's this monster that beckons strong people to set it free by offering up a false fantasy of what that string person wants, so it can use them to get free. The monster was dragon, an americanized dragon with wings and equipped with soul suckers that all the people were defenseless against, except by using the monsters own weapons against it, the dragon scale, is how they protected themselves. Eventually, the tribe won with their Asian dragon, no wings, fluid, able to live in water, land and air and protects its people. What I saw was a war between cultures and the defeat of American society. The americanized dragon was a symbol of America and the soul sucking of unreal people, only to be defeated when the Asian culture came together and used America's soul sucking tactics against itself along with the backbone of the asiatic cultures. Then I thought, do we have a dragon or anything similar? Well, we see the world in space and place and in secular fashion, so idk, but it would be nice to see hollywood make a flick about Real People overcoming the unreal ones via making them honor their treaties, or atleast pay us back rent and for our resources that were stolen. They supposed to give it back if it's stolen. 10 fold! I am man out of place, stripped of his traditions and language, expected to make brilliant moves in a foreign world I was never a part of.

  • @antonevelone1439
    @antonevelone1439 Před 2 lety

    You are totally missing the narrative of Black Elk's intention concerning the spiritual message he wishes to convey and make it available to the public. Stop and think for a second, Why is it Blk Elk would rather have a non-Indian record and rewrite his message? The bottom line to the whole episode is what is the implication? I can not speak for Christianity, or the Bible either, but what I can say as an American Indian raised by parents who are spiritually inclined and able to distinguish between spirituality and Christianity. Both are of the same essence. During those days in history, Blk. Elk surely must have known that Christianity wasn't being shared accurately or truthfully with him and his people. I am also positive and sure he knew his people are not going to be able to carry it on...

  • @luketracey3269
    @luketracey3269 Před 2 lety

    At a glance it looks like the altered headbust of king richard . Visibly see where the statue was chopped at removing the nose and chin

  • @sawyerpoet
    @sawyerpoet Před 2 lety

    RIP, brilliant aloof dear.

  • @Blonde111
    @Blonde111 Před 2 lety

    RIP Joan…. Back w your family🙏

  • @jules3765
    @jules3765 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for confirming that Blavatsky received her inspiration from Lucifer. Such Blasphemy. Repent all you Heiden sun worshipper the hour is coming to an end very soon.

  • @TravisLee33
    @TravisLee33 Před 2 lety

    Yes

  • @TRACELHENTZ
    @TRACELHENTZ Před 2 lety

    You explain very well. Mari Jo Moore and I dedicated a book to Vine: Unravelling the Spreading Cloth of Time

  • @abrooksize
    @abrooksize Před 2 lety

    The wonderful thing is, for all the derision she feels, as I do too, having grown up in New York and lived in LA 22 years before I left, for all the derision I now read her LA work as my form of nostalgia

  • @apollo5008
    @apollo5008 Před 2 lety

    like

  • @Figueiredoartconservation

    Wonderful information, THANK YOU SO MUCH, for this beautiful explanation.🙂

  • @Queenie-the-genie
    @Queenie-the-genie Před 2 lety

    I just love this guy. I am listening to him every day lately and it always rings so true. Thank you Mr. Horowitz and thank you for bringing ethics into it. The eightfold noble path is entirely true and as long as we act from that place, we’re good.

  • @Queenie-the-genie
    @Queenie-the-genie Před 2 lety

    Maybe your kids thought that Vernon should leave people alone? Just joking but he did not seem to be following his own advice, yelling like that at everyone. I think I’ll satisfy my curiosity just enjoying you telling us about it Mitch. Thank you 💛☺️

  • @rubyquail
    @rubyquail Před 2 lety

    Love allowing guest to speak thank you!

  • @kitpleydell-pearce8417

    An interesting issue here is the relationship to Krishnamurti, Leadbeater and Besant

  • @annieandkathbitches
    @annieandkathbitches Před 2 lety

    Love the Black Lodge Zoom background! What a rich discussion. Thanks for uploading.