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Jim Harold welcomes Politics and the Occult author Gary Lachman to Paranormal Podcast!
Gary talks about the connections between the halls of power and the “other world” which pre-date the typical discussions about the Founding Fathers–a fascinating discussion of how occult thought has permeated politics!Listen to the interview FREE!
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It is unusual for a book on the occult to be not only brilliant and serious but also highly readable; Lachman has done it with ease and grace!
—Colin Wilson, author of The Occult and Mysteries
Gary Lachman is the author of several books on counterculture and alternative thought. His books include Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius; A Secret History of Consciousness; In Search of P.D. Ouspensky; A Dark Muse; Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Thought; The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters; and his most recent release Politics and the Occult. As Gary Valentine he was a founding member of the rock group Blondie, played guitar with Iggy Pop, and fronted his own groups the Know and Fire Escape. New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation is an account of his years on the New York and Los Angeles underground music scenes in the 1970s and 80s, and in 2006 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is a regular contributor to Fortean Times, Independent on Sunday, Strange Attractor, What is Enlightenment and other journals in the US and UK. A frequent lecturer, Lachman has appeared in several UK television documentaries and has broadcast for the BBC. He lives in London.
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Politics and the Occult:The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen, by occult writer and Blondie founding member and former bassist Gary Lachman, is this month’s latest review on the reflective, witty blog A Robot, I Am Not.
“When mos
t think occult politics, they think the overblown claims of Nazi Occultism and the Thule Society…Lachman debunks these fantastical claims by laying down the actual (and much less colorful) history of the Thule society…Lachman closes the book with some of his own thoughts on “illuminated politics” in the current years. His concerns about American Fascism are not overblown or misplaced. When the majority of a country is expecting a rapture or deliverance from above, its desires could be easily manipulated by overzealous demagogues…When a society is desperate it may look to any alternative that combines religion with political solutions.”
–JRITCH, A Robot I Am Not
Gary Lachman’s excerpt Dark Sides: The Jung Case argues the Nazi’s fervent belief in myth rather than the occult. Lachman explores C.G. Jung, like Hitler, as a great believer in the almost magical power of myth. Jung, whose complex political opinions are far too muddled to be labeled as simply fascist, is often charged with a certain nebulous nazi-ness.
In the end, Lachman classifies Jung as “one of the “good guys” who said “bad things.” “
Xochi (sōchē) Adamé