The Yoga of Money

Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. CT 
May 6 – 27 (4 classes)

 

A Four-Part Online Class with Mitch Horowitz

First 20 registrants receive the special early bird rate. Act fast!

Money is perhaps the most confounding issue on the spiritual path. Seekers must come to terms with it. But how do commerce and currency fit into the search for truth?

In this four-part exploration, scholar of esotericism Mitch Horowitz explores how the spiritual and ethical traditions, from antiquity to modernity, have sought—sometimes uneasily—to reach a philosophy of meaningful, sound, and effective treatment of material exchange.

As Mitch considers, money is neither secondary nor primary to the search—such polarities often divide and confuse seekers. Rather, money is a vital exchange that must be approached with key principles resonant within esoteric philosophy, both East and West.

Participants will encounter a full gamut of questions and considerations, including grounded evaluation of prosperity movements and methods, enduring controversies, ethical practices, and neglected historical and esoteric insights.

Ample time will be reserved each week for Q&A and exchange. Each weekly class will be supplemented with key terms and readings.

See below for the full course syllabus.

TS members: $100 • Nonmembers: $120 • First 20 early bird spots: $90

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Registrants will receive on-demand access to recording(s) that can be viewed for four weeks following the conclusion of the program. Late registrants will receive recording links to all missed sessions. 

Syllabus

  1. Ageless Insights 
         We will explore core attitudes toward currency and commerce from our earliest surviving traditions, including the I Ching, Confucianism, Taoism, Hermeticism, Platonism, the Abrahamic faiths, and the Vedas.
  2. Money and the Path
    Modern spiritual movements and thinkers have fitfully yet meaningfully framed issues of money. We will explore the distinct outlooks of Gurdjieff, Krishnamurti, Emerson, Steiner, Blavatsky, and others.
  3. Money and Contemporary Spiritual Practice
    Money remains the most divisive issue in today’s search. Movements such as New Thought and Word of Faith—popularized, respectively, as manifesting and prosperity gospel—often centralize money. Figures as varied as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Osho, Edgar Cayce, and Vernon Howard offer sharply diverging outlooks. Why is money so fraught on today’s path?
  4. Toward a Yoga of Money
    5. Mitch proposes a yoga of money, uniting myriad esoteric insights on commerce. Money, properly understood, is as much an expression of the search as any other facet of life, and perhaps more so since it is the universal medium of human transaction. Money is not a duality but part of a whole practice. 

 

“Mitch Horowitz achieves the impossible. He provides a crystal-clear look at topics that are drenched in the murkiest of ambiguities yet continue to fascinate every living soul.” 

—Dean Radin Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences

“I admire Mitch Horowitz enormously. He has struggled virtually single-handedly to get the American intelligentsia to give occult and esoteric currents the serious attention they deserve.”   

—Richard Smoley

“He throws new light on the hidden subtext of accepted dogma.”  —Jacques Vallée

 

Mitch HorowitzMitch Horowitz is one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. A PEN Award-winning historian, Mitch’s books include Occult America; The Miracle Club; Modern Occultism; Daydream Believer; and Practical Magick. He has written on occult topics for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Time, among others, and maintains a popular Substack newsletter, Mystery Achievement. Mitch appears on many television shows, including as host of Discovery / HBO Max’s Alien Encounters. He plays himself in AMC-Shudder’s V/H/S/Beyond, a Critics’ Choice Award nominee for best movie made for television. Mitch hosted, wrote, and produced the documentary The Kybalion, shot on location in Egypt and premiering as the #3 doc on iTunes. Mitch is a former vice-president and division editor-in-chief at Penguin Random House, where he published the work of David Lynch, Jacques Vallée, and Manly P. Hall.

Program Format

This is a live, interactive online program that will also be recorded. Registrants will receive on-demand access to recording(s) that can be viewed for four weeks following the conclusion of the program.

Join online via ​a Zoom link that will be emailed upon your registration. Please download Zoom for free at zoom.us/download and test your connection at zoom.us/test. For further information, check out www.theosophical.org/FAQ or email webinars@theosophical.org.

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