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Not to be confused with Mitchell Hurwitz.
| Mitch Horowitz | |
|---|---|
| Horowitz speaking in Kansas City, Missouri in 2019 | |
| Born | November 23, 1965 (age 57) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and editor |
| Website | mitchhorowitz.com |
Mitch Horowitz (born November 23, 1965) is an American writer in occult and esoteric themes. He is the former editor-in-chief of TarcherPerigee.[1] A frequent writer and speaker on religion and metaphysics in print and on television, radio, and online, Horowitz’s writing has appeared in The New York Times,[2] The Washington Post,[3] The Wall Street Journal,[4] Time,[5] and CNN.com,[6] and he has appeared on NPR,[7] CBS News,[8] NBC News,[9] and Vice News.[10] In 2022, Ferdinando Buscema noted that “Horowitz is among the most articulate and respected voices in the contemporary occulture scene.”[11]
Works and scholarship
Horowitz is the author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation (Bantam, 2009/2010). The book received the 2010 PEN Oakland/ Josephine Miles Award.[12]
Horowitz hosted, co-wrote, and produced the 2022 documentary The Kybalion, directed by Ronni Thomas and shot on location in Egypt.[13][14] He also appeared on seasons I and II of Shudder’s Cursed Films on AMC+, a selection of SXSW 2020.[15][16]
Horowitz plays a newscaster in the forthcoming Paramount feature film My Animal, directed by Jacqueline Castel, a selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.[17]
Horowitz’s writing has appeared in Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies,[18] Parabola,[19] Esopus,[20] Fortean Times,[21] and with the Religion News Service.[22]
Horowitz has called attention to the worldwide problem of violence against accused witches, helping draw notice to the human rights element of the issue.[23]
In 2009, Horowitz was on the faculty of the urban holistic learning center, the New York City Open Center,[24] for its annual Esoteric Quest.[25] He presented lectures at the Open Center entitled The Psychic Highway: New York’s ‘Burned-Over District’ and the Growth of Alternative Spirituality in America[26] and Made in America: The Hidden History of ‘Positive Thinking’.[27]
At Tarcher/Penguin, Horowitz published titles in world religion, esoterica, and the metaphysical,[28] as well as works in philosophy, social thought and politics, including Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by director David Lynch,[29] 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck and Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. He has published a number of works by religious scholar[1] Jacob Needleman, including The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders and the What is God?[30]