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Revealing the diverse streams that run through America’s metaphysical landscape, Pontiac offers an encyclopedic examination of occult teachers, esotericists, and spiritual collectives almost no one has heard of, but who were profoundly influential.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
A Heritage We Didn’t Know We Had
1 Ingredients for the Melting Pot
2 A Map of the Tour
3 When East Meets West
4 American Metaphysical Christianity
5 Turtle Island
6 Thomas Harriot: America’s First “Evil” Genius
7 The Pagan Pilgrim
8 The Intelligencers and the Fifth Moon of Jupiter
9 The Red Harlot
10 The Uncivil War
11 The Platonist on the Sunset Strip
12 Secrets of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
13 Willy Reichel’s Psychic Adventure Tour
14 Pagan Christianity of the Early Twentieth Century
15 Scandalous Psychic Adventures of the Roaring Twenties
16 American Metaphysical Religion in the Twentieth Century
17 Prayer Wheel for the Bodhi Tree Bookstore
18 American Metaphysical Religion in the Early Twenty-First Century
APPENDIX
Esoteric Architecture of Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Ronnie Pontiac worked as Manly P. Hall’s research assistant, screener, and designated substitute lecturer for seven years. He has produced award-winning documentaries and has written for
Invisible College Magazine,
Newtopia, Metapsychosis,
Occult of Personality, and the original
Reality Sandwich. He lives in Los Angeles.
Summary
Revealing the diverse streams that run through America’s metaphysical landscape, Pontiac offers an encyclopedic examination of occult teachers, esotericists, and spiritual collectives almost no one has heard of, but who were profoundly influential.
