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2026-10-12T15:24:37-06:00

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A Weekend With Father Seán ÓLaoire

Last updated on: October 12, 2026 at 3:24 pm By Alexander Koritz

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I recently spent several days with Father Seán ÓLaoire and a small group of his students at his home in the mountains above Healdsburg, California. I’d followed his work for years, but this was the first time I’d spent real time with him in person. Father Seán is tall and thin, with long gray hair and a long gray beard. He could pass for Merlin, or Gandalf. He lives off the grid. His house sits on the crest of a... Read more

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2026-10-02T14:32:50-06:00

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My Michigan Relics Story – Part 2

Last updated on: October 2, 2026 at 2:32 pm By Alexander Koritz

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Two Visits to Michigan In 2015, I went to the Michigan History Museum with documentary filmmaker Ryan Fisher. The staff welcomed us and let us view and photograph the artifacts. The archaeologists I met were professional and generous with their time, even though they clearly didn’t buy the relics as authentic. Their courtesy didn’t touch the deeper frustration underneath. For me, these objects held the possibility of forgotten connections across history. For the museum, they were leftovers from a famous... Read more

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2026-06-26T11:08:16-06:00

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The Problem with Faith

Last updated on: June 26, 2026 at 11:08 am By Alexander Koritz

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The Problem with Faith If you asked most religious people to name the highest spiritual virtue, many would answer with a single word: faith. It is praised from pulpits, woven throughout sacred texts and treated as the foundation of the spiritual life. In many ways, that is exactly what faith is. It gives us the courage to take the first step before we know where the path leads. It persuades us to pray before we’ve received an answer, to meditate... Read more

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2026-04-29T15:34:39-06:00

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Yeats vs. Crowley: Poetry, Magick and Desire

Last updated on: April 29, 2026 at 3:34 pm By Alexander Koritz

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Some rivalries make sense when you look back on them. Others feel destined. The conflict between Aleister Crowley and W. B. Yeats falls into that second category. It wasn’t just a disagreement over personality or ideas. There was more behind it—a real divide over what the unseen world was, and what you were supposed to do with it once you touched it. A divide that may have felt at home in the worlds of The Lord of the Rings or... Read more

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2026-03-12T15:51:18-06:00

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Was James the Just Jesus’ True Successor?

Last updated on: March 12, 2026 at 3:51 pm By Alexander Koritz

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After Jesus died, his followers faced an uncomfortable question: who was supposed to lead next? Religious movements rarely survive on inspiration alone. Eventually someone has to step forward—someone to guide the community, settle disagreements, and carry the spirit of the founder into the future. One of the earliest Christian texts, the Gospel of Thomas, captures this tension in a way that later tradition rarely acknowledged. When the disciples asked Jesus, “We know you will leave us—who will lead us then?”... Read more

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2026-02-24T18:55:03-07:00

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Archetypes or God? The Spiritual Cost of Jungian Thinking

Last updated on: February 24, 2026 at 6:55 pm By Alexander Koritz

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Carl Jung gave modern spirituality a powerful gift. He offered a language that made myth intelligible again, that allowed symbols to speak to a generation increasingly allergic to dogma. Archetypes, the collective unconscious, the heroic journey—these ideas rescued religious imagery from the scrap heap of superstition and placed it inside the mind, the psyche–where it could be studied, respected, and even revered. But something subtle happened along the way. In translating God into an archetype, we may have saved meaning... Read more

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2025-12-19T11:49:57-07:00

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Café Central: A Quiet Stage for the Crossroads of History

Last updated on: December 19, 2025 at 11:49 am By Alexander Koritz

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Since the late 19th century, Café Central has occupied a corner of Vienna’s Palais Ferstel, tucked along Herrengasse. Its arched ceilings and marble columns speak to a past that’s both elegant and layered. These days, it’s mostly filled with tourists, but once upon a time, it hosted minds that would shape—and shake—the world. Writers like Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud passed through its doors. So did spiritual thinkers like Rudolf Steiner. And, more darkly, it was also a gathering... Read more

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2025-12-19T11:54:00-07:00

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Did the Nazis Kill Rudolf Steiner? Exploring the Conspiracy

Last updated on: December 19, 2025 at 11:54 am By Alexander Koritz

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As I’ve continued to study Rudolf Steiner’s life and work, one question keeps resurfacing in discussions among his followers and students of spiritual history: the unusual circumstances around his death. Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was one of the most influential spiritual figures of the early 20th century. A philosopher, educator, and mystic, he inspired movements as varied as Waldorf education, biodynamic farming, and the spiritual practice known as anthroposophy. His ideas reached beyond the intellectual, aiming to uncover deeper layers of... Read more

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2025-05-23T13:14:11-06:00

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The Cosmic Dance of the Divine Feminine and Masculine

Last updated on: May 23, 2025 at 1:14 pm By Alexander Koritz

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In the landscape of global mystical traditions, one encounters a recurring motif: the interplay between an eternal masculine principle of light or consciousness and a feminine force of wisdom, creativity, and manifestation. In Christian esotericism, this dance unfolds between the Christ Logos and the Divine Sophia. In Hindu metaphysics, it is the dynamic interplay between Purusha (Spirit) and Shakti (Power). Though their languages differ, both traditions articulate a vision of divine reality in which the masculine and feminine are not... Read more

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2025-03-18T07:17:46-06:00

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A Sacred Exchange: Bringing Spirituality Back To Our Food

Last updated on: March 18, 2025 at 7:17 am By Alexander Koritz

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I grew up in a home where praying over food was second nature, religious even. Every meal began with bowed heads, hands folded, and a simple prayer of gratitude. It was a ritual as familiar as passing the salt, I literally cannot think of a time for my family to not pray and bless the food. But if I’m being honest, it was just that—a ritual. And a somewhat mechanical, mindless one at that. I didn’t yet understand that food... Read more

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