Who was the First American Occultist?

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  • @TheEsotericaChannel
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    • @TrenchantEdges
      @TrenchantEdges หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dr Sledge, could you give us the full name of the paper you mention around 32:12 ?

    • @phantomggg
      @phantomggg 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Any update on the planned episode with MaGee on Hegel and the Hermetic tradition?

  • @hayleyxyelyah
    @hayleyxyelyah หลายเดือนก่อน +133

    I love your channel so much: it brings together my siblings and I who were born into an evangelical Christian cult-like church and taught that all other religions, denominations, schools of thought, etc. are evil and wrong. We now love exploring all things religion/occult/magick and sharing in our knowledge. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.

    • @encompass6857
      @encompass6857 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      So liberating to be able to think for oneself ! Good for you!

    • @tzaphkielmelekiyah1518
      @tzaphkielmelekiyah1518 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@hayleyxyelyah I was xjw same story… I advise listening to the Lord of Spirits Podcast, they have an understanding of wisdom in other cultures and consummation of union with God in Christ

    • @wahnetab5755
      @wahnetab5755 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tzaphkielmelekiyah1518 Hey, always glad to see other xjws! I wonder how many of us are subscribed to Dr. Sledge and the rest of religion-tube?

    • @ShannonWare
      @ShannonWare หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@hayleyxyelyah same!

    • @chuckyfire8439
      @chuckyfire8439 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Erie Connecticut? Virginia'$ the devil state..or is it Pennsylvania?

  • @matheusarruda3504
    @matheusarruda3504 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    Would love to hear about the occult in South America, or at least in Mexico, which seems to have a super rich esoteric culture.

    • @SalomeTheGreat
      @SalomeTheGreat หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Peru also have a rich esoteric culture ❤️

    • @joshwarrior9491
      @joshwarrior9491 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Even locally in North America, there's a lot of interesting esoteric cultural practices found in pre-historic native tribes, like the burning of the bones to release the "free spirit" or the mass burial rituals to unite different tribes to each other, and the different levels the soul can travel to and from, and animal transformations. If you're interested, look into the Scioto-Hopewell and Adina cultures. With a lot of South American tribes and cultures, it goes more in depth into specific rituals, herbs, and celestial events (alignments), but if you study a lot of these native cultures, from north America to south America, you will start to see similarities in some of their cosmology. Some very good reading on this can be found on "ln Search of the ldeology of the Adena-Hopewell Climax" by Robert L. Hall

    • @justkiddin84
      @justkiddin84 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I wonder if the artists, like Remedios Varo, who was interested in alchemy, had any effect on this as well.

    • @ulises6442
      @ulises6442 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Mexico's first post revolutionary (and democratically elected) president was a practicioner of spiritism! we need an episode about this!

    • @justkiddin84
      @justkiddin84 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ Well, I’m sure he wasn’t the only one-and Haiti has those on a list 10 feet long, too. Interesting idea!

  • @andrewhenrystudio
    @andrewhenrystudio หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Would love a video on the alchemical roots of chemistry. Where does chemistry start and alchemy end?

    • @michaelchapman7779
      @michaelchapman7779 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      This would make for a great video!

    • @chuckyfire8439
      @chuckyfire8439 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Some where in Europe there was a KLAN of witches poisoning people for political powers.🤔 Wasn't that a star symbol 🤷‍♂️

    • @chuckyfire8439
      @chuckyfire8439 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      More like the 10 plagues of alchemy ⚕️ wasn't Heavy metal poisoning one of the pharaohs favorite?

  • @Valohir666
    @Valohir666 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This is personally fascinating for me because my colonial ancestor, Governor John Webster, personally knew Winthrop Jr. It is because the Winthrop correspondences were so well kept that several mysteries of my ancestors comings and goings along with his family were preserved. It never occurred to me when researching my CT ancestors to also link it to my interests in the occult. Thank you Dr. Sledge for this video.

  • @AtunSheiFilms
    @AtunSheiFilms หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Great video, Justin! I think early modern Hermeticism and Puritanism, while seemingly so ideologically opposed, were comparable in their utopian and apocalyptic ambitions because they both came out of the earth-shattering zeitgeist of the transition from feudalism to capitalism - as colonialism created the first truly global market, there was a palpable sense of the old order dying and a new world rising to take its place. Both radical Protestantism and alchemy had individualistic ideas of understanding nature and the divine through direct personal observation rather than (as you said) ancient authorities like Aristotle or ecclesiastic authorities like the Catholic Church (or even the Anglican Church...). Can't wait to hear more about colonial American alchemists in future episodes!

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Absolutely ditto

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      To the Pilgrims, wouldn't *_Squanto”_* have been an alchemist, planting fish with crops?

    • @mattgilbert7347
      @mattgilbert7347 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I very nearly commented "Atun-Shei films has some excellent content on Puritanism and it's influence on the emerging modern, Capitalist world" then noticed who posted the comment 😂
      I'm pretty blind so it wouldn't be the first time 😂

  • @zbraal
    @zbraal หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    It would be amazing to hear more about alchemy in early America. Also love the idea of an alchemy lab “tour.” 🕯️⚗️🧪Another great video. Thank you!

    • @mirandagoldstine8548
      @mirandagoldstine8548 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I would also love to learn more about alchemy in early America.

  • @LordRoku-
    @LordRoku- หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    glad to have you back Dr. Sledge

  • @afull375
    @afull375 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Welcome back Dr. Sledge! I’m happy you took time off for yourself and your health and I’m excited to enjoy your content again.

  • @meinbherpieg4723
    @meinbherpieg4723 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This one is a special joy, as I sit my home, in CT, looking at the woods out my window, imagining the hidden and fascinating history of this state. Thank you Dr. Sledge.

    • @robertgerrity878
      @robertgerrity878 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Go read up on Dr. Gershom Bulkeley

  • @someguy6535
    @someguy6535 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    An early American Alchemy lab tour would be awesome!!! Thank you again for all of your hard work, Dr. Sledge. We appreciate you so much! I hope you got all the R and R you needed on your break!

  • @Sk8Bettty
    @Sk8Bettty วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Most of my ancestors lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony. And settlements in MA called Hampton & Newbury. Mine were admonished in Ipswich for gardening on a Sunday in 1645

  • @Loeffellux
    @Loeffellux หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Just now I was thinking "wait, did I miss an upload by Esoterica?" only to see that the last video was 3 weeks old. And now 20 minutes ago you uploaded a new video. I guess I'm trying to say that I totally manifested this one so y'all are free to thank me.

    • @justkiddin84
      @justkiddin84 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂

    • @JonathanBjornson
      @JonathanBjornson หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you.

    • @SAOS451316
      @SAOS451316 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Doctor Sledge took November off of content creating as a well-deserved break. :) Thanks for summoning him back lol.

  • @amanemisa5751
    @amanemisa5751 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My daughter and I love watching/listening in to your videos. Thank you for all that you do !

  • @braddaulton3976
    @braddaulton3976 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I knew nothing about this! Awesome video

  • @uranussmasher
    @uranussmasher หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    became a fan yesterday, immensely hooked on your work

    • @Bruce-itsbruce
      @Bruce-itsbruce หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The pop culture references are a constantly delightful bonus. I didn't expect to see a still from Natural Born Killers in a video on Yahwe, for instance.

  • @unicornucopiaclear
    @unicornucopiaclear หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great to have you back. I hope your break was restful and productive in the way of relaxation.

  • @Bildgesmythe
    @Bildgesmythe หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is wonderful, I've missed you!

  • @SobekLOTFC
    @SobekLOTFC หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Keep up the exceptional work, Dr Sledge 👏⚒️
    I hope you had a great thanksgiving 🦃

  • @beautyandintrigue
    @beautyandintrigue หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As someone who grew up and still lives in the Colonial New London area, I'm not surprised we are the original hub! I can hear neighbors comment in curiosity as they walk past Winthrop's home, smelling the smells and hearing him mutter in his garden about what he needs from the next incoming ships.

    • @Medichio
      @Medichio หลายเดือนก่อน

      New london born and raised here!

    • @beautyandintrigue
      @beautyandintrigue 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @Medichio That's epic! I didn't expect it, but should have guessed I would find another SECT person who also watches this channel

  • @erickoraganie8705
    @erickoraganie8705 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thanks!

  • @strider04
    @strider04 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    this is so cool to learn since Winthrop the younger is an ancestor of mine

  • @thekraken48
    @thekraken48 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Welcome Back !!! 😊

  • @FreemanPresson
    @FreemanPresson หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I didn't know what to expect, so I was brightly pleased with this juicy episode.

  • @justkiddin84
    @justkiddin84 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was killer! Really interesting! Thank you, Dr S!😊

  • @casualmaille1749
    @casualmaille1749 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you!❤ (from CT)

  • @michaelshelton5488
    @michaelshelton5488 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Another fascinating video Dr. Sledge! 👏🤘 I look forward every Friday to another new video from you. I loved your class on Agrippa and I can't wait to watch your next class.

  • @jbaquinones
    @jbaquinones 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great episode Sir. Thank you

  • @theeccentrictripper3863
    @theeccentrictripper3863 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent video, great to you have back Doc, hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

  • @pilgrimm23
    @pilgrimm23 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dr Sledge well done! I have read of John Winthrop and had a suspicion but you confirmed it. I have read much of the Puritans and early works of New England pioneers. I was not aware of Winthrop's scholarship or his collection of books; even John Dee? Wow. Fascinating history. My Compliments sir.

  • @killdrakey
    @killdrakey 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This has breathed a new life into the history of America for me. Thank you.

  • @MorpheusMoon
    @MorpheusMoon หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank you for another great video Dr. S!

  • @davidmckayii752
    @davidmckayii752 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great episode!

    • @chuckyfire8439
      @chuckyfire8439 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes sir 👍 this channel is almost like reading a good book

  • @ryanconners3048
    @ryanconners3048 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm so excited to watch this video right now, actually the best thing I could imagine coming across rn

  • @saulemaroussault6343
    @saulemaroussault6343 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fantastic topic and brilliant execution. You manage to be both precise and easy to follow, as always.

  • @kennyhagan5781
    @kennyhagan5781 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Strangely enough, I have often wondered about this very subject, because I am a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, and such books figured in some of his best stories.
    I just had to subscribe.....this is the good stuff.

  • @ginavonbergen876
    @ginavonbergen876 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thank you very much for your work! every single episode is a new door opening (at least one).

  • @mizukarate
    @mizukarate หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You have a good sense of humor Dr.S . Dry but funny.🙂👍

  • @scottmiller2591
    @scottmiller2591 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was thinking this listening to the earlier part of the video - a video on Colonial alchemy would be interesting. Looking forward to it! I wonder if HP Lovecraft had any of these volumes in his grandfather's library ...

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He had a copy of Mathers but that's it

    • @scottmiller2591
      @scottmiller2591 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheEsotericaChannel Interesting! I was thinking maybe Charles Ward etc., might have been influenced by Grandpa's library, but it sounds like it was mostly HPL haunting the Brown libraries.

  • @WELIS000
    @WELIS000 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely intrigued as to what a colonial alchemical lab would look like in 17th century. Thank you so much for all you do.

  • @jscire__872
    @jscire__872 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is such an outstanding channel. Fascinating topics. I just started watching this one but it occurred to me that it would be extremely interesting to hear him speak about the way religious beliefs were apparently being combined to folk magic traditions in Joseph Smith’s own personal creative scriptures and ideas that of course eventually resulted in the modern LDS/mormon church

  • @pocketfuloducks1062
    @pocketfuloducks1062 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you very much for sharing this work!

  • @MicKnap-f8c
    @MicKnap-f8c 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm English and I have learned so much and are so much in control of things I never realised how much I am nle to do.
    I am strong and full of wisdom and knowledge

  • @traviswadezinn
    @traviswadezinn 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Engaging and informative -thank you

  • @jesseglass5674
    @jesseglass5674 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent, as always.

  • @H-yf7mw
    @H-yf7mw หลายเดือนก่อน

    An excellent episode, Justin! Thanks very much!

  • @mstewart728
    @mstewart728 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So love you and your work!

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the Nine Riders reference!

  • @eddieromanov
    @eddieromanov 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I’d love to see more of this. Especially something on the weird and wild occult history of Pennsylvania. I happen to be descended from those weird and wild German Pietists and let me tell you something: I learned a thing or two at my Granny’s knee that I found out real quick weren’t considered kosher amongst the Christians I found myself among in the South when I went to Bible College.
    My favorite, albeit apocryphal, incident involved the one any only witch trial that William Penn personally presided over. When he asked for evidence against the poor woman they hauled before him, the people offered a witness who testified that she was seen flying around on a broom. Penn said, “I know of no law against that,” and dismissed the case.

  • @elvoaxt
    @elvoaxt หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dr Sludge you are really always an inspiration, I studied philosophy for 7 years and I wish you were one of my professors back then. Thank you for always pointing out misogyny and combining as well so many different aspects like biography as well as historical circumstances to your education. esoterica community world wide

  • @ronjinks8932
    @ronjinks8932 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of the more fascinating episodes that I have seen, and I've seen a few ...

  • @thyhandrevolve
    @thyhandrevolve 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Whenever it is that I should cross paths with this Doctor Sledge... Best believe, there is a (tasteful) forehead kiss in store - from me to he. 😊 What a treasure this man is!

  • @thiagof414
    @thiagof414 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes, please. Thank you!

  • @robertolizarragajimenez7653
    @robertolizarragajimenez7653 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excelent Chanel!!

  • @jamieellohengee2667
    @jamieellohengee2667 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm going to join the chorus of "I missed you" comments. I love learning something new every day!

  • @angelica133
    @angelica133 หลายเดือนก่อน

    awesome video, awesome content as always! Dr J you're the OG for real :)

  • @NotMyGumDropButtons.444
    @NotMyGumDropButtons.444 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would love to see you and Mitch Horowitz do a joint on American esotericism

  • @1superloki
    @1superloki หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It was John Winthrop who put the Kah-botch on the prosecution on Elizabeth Garlick (1657) of East Hampton Long Island for witchcraft. Correct me if I am wrong , but in those time it was not easy to get off on a charge of witchcraft in those times.

  • @starstarswag666
    @starstarswag666 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really love these videos. I want a video about you on how you started getting into all this and at what age you started and school you went to and your background!

  • @halomorphic
    @halomorphic หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    🧿Odd timing, I was just reading about John Winthrop the Younger of Connecticut the other day. After discussing how American government has been involved in occulted knowledge from our founding fathers. 🧿Timely, & interesting. Thanks! 👍
    The argument, was that a Senator was watching the happenings of youtube tarot land. Posited, was here, to shut it down. My response, is that, that is actually not going to happen.🧿

    • @chuckyfire8439
      @chuckyfire8439 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ain't that the truth.one day a book of codices will be shared with ⚠️ labels of invaders.

  • @shadbridges6893
    @shadbridges6893 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for making connecticut interesting again! Haha. Now I've got stuff to check out next time I'm visiting family and bored out of my mind.

  • @robertgerrity878
    @robertgerrity878 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You called out GERSHOM B!!!! One of my Concord guys. Several of his books at Hartford Medical Library with partial receipts for "glass" from England. Got to handle them. Brother Peter, too.

  • @viamediabeauty
    @viamediabeauty 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A video on colonial alchemy would be SO amazing! Or any occult practices in early America (that didn’t involve Salem).

  • @mrl9418
    @mrl9418 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for using "raises the question" instead of the incorrect popular alternative. I now believe in people a little bit more.

  • @mandys1505
    @mandys1505 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Winthrop jr... wow this is all so crazay!! i have been learning about german revolutionaries who were super into hegel.... but, this?! 😮

  • @redmoondesignbeth9119
    @redmoondesignbeth9119 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Interesting. My ancestors, Thomas and Mary Barnes arrived in Ct from Barking, England about 1630. By 1662 Mary was accused of being a witch for having opinions and was hanged.

  • @helenaconstantine
    @helenaconstantine 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A very helpful video. I've wondered what Poe could have meant by "many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." I always figured there would have been no copies of books of ceremonial magic or even Hermetica available in North America in Poe's lifetime, but evidently not.

  • @SerrotBelac
    @SerrotBelac 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1:01 see this is why i like it, the initiation of thought which just a idea of thought

  • @renaissancetheology
    @renaissancetheology 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It would be fascinating to explore the divergences between Winthrop’s (and Comenius’s) conceptions of transforming nature for “the relief of the man’s estate” and Bacon’s views.

  • @BrenBears
    @BrenBears หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Time to come back to Newport amigo, lots to chat about…

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'd love to get back that way. Hope you're well!

  • @JamesHoovestal
    @JamesHoovestal หลายเดือนก่อน

    Glad to see that you are back, Dr Sledge. Early American occultism is a much neglected subset of an already ignored subject. If you aren't careful, there will be a library named for you with black suburbans parked just across the street.😊

  • @sethjazz7262
    @sethjazz7262 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    ***Tribute for the great algorithm

  • @Hierophage
    @Hierophage หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! To dream of a Paracelsan commune in Connecticut! Any chance we'll get one on Johannes Kelpius and the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness?

  • @hellogornto
    @hellogornto 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Still learning TkS

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you.

  • @PenclickProds
    @PenclickProds หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Townsend collaboration incoming!?

  • @gabrielgarza2294
    @gabrielgarza2294 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Reminds me a little bit of “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”

  • @meidson12
    @meidson12 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Unrelated, but how do we know when you're going live? Since there's no schedule, insta, etc

    • @alanaalpert4990
      @alanaalpert4990 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Patreon!

    • @meidson12
      @meidson12 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @alanaalpert4990 i don't have money. i signed the free tier but even regular updates are blocked :/ i hope i get notifications for lives

  • @IAMLiamwalker4444
    @IAMLiamwalker4444 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My Favorite Occultist is Paul Foster Case. His Book of Tokens, Tarot Meditations is one of the Deepest most beautiful pieces of mystical literature I’ve found so far.

    • @IAMLiamwalker4444
      @IAMLiamwalker4444 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I Love Dion Fortune and her Jazz too😁

  • @Medichio
    @Medichio หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im related to john Winthrop jr, he founded and was the 1st mayor of my hometown around 1640

  • @mirandagoldstine8548
    @mirandagoldstine8548 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As a person who spent 18 years in Connecticut and discovered Wicca while living in Connecticut finding out one of the early governors of Connecticut was deeply involved in esoteric and occult philosophy is pretty fascinating. But then again Connecticut does have its fair share of colorful characters.

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh! accidentally erased my comment that was practically an essay!
    Recreate: Hermes Sledge Justinus Esotericus! John Winthrop the Younger! The imagery of Rosicrucianism reminds me of your introduction of excellent Ritman Library! So the Seal of Dee is tilted at first I thought askew as the top point of the pentagram doesn't align with the outer heptagram until I realized it's likely flipped upside down where both stars align giving it the appearance of LHP leanings!
    Lost my thoughts. Dissipated not transmuted, for now. There's so much to unpack and threads to ponder that I can't help but be lost in thought as the episode continues and then we're with a new character and discussion! I love the adventuring nature of the episode that challenges my assumption that I love open worlds without railroads and yet here I am adrift without articulating thoughts afterward. I need to pony up and watch early so I'm not lost in thought on Fridays. I can't just up and go oh that was great and leave it at that!
    It seems the Connecticut Colony and the Alchemical Republic under the governorship of John Winthrop founded the American university higher education framework of centers of learning?
    What was his motivation for stopping witch-hunting besides the violent state-sanctioned criminality of it all? Does the unbelievable self-pardoning "pardons' of victims today detract from the efforts by John Winthrop? So, for that time period, the definition of pact-making was not because of criminality stemming from purported practice of pact-making but of the accusation of pact-making itself so let's commit sanctioned murder and torture and then later on pardon those victims who might've not actually made pacts while , in reality, it was we who murdered and tortured and falsely accused. It wouldn't be so egregious if it weren't for the modern day "pardonings" of those victims under current law and current understanding of the difference between spirit of the law and letter of the law and of unjust laws. Madness indeed to this day without vindication. Vindication and not the implication of a just accusation that leads to unjust state sanctioned murder without due process through modern lens and sensibility! But we'll pardon you after your death for having murdered you is what they're telling the victims.
    Will absolutely read Winthrop's America from watching Esoterica! More attainable than Thomas More! The biography or colonial history of John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut Colony, would be a magnificent novel as written by Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke, if you will, with screenplay by Michael Chabon, edited by Neal Stephenson, and produced by Alan Moore.

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wait, I thought George Washington died from asphyxiation from his throat closing because of an infection stemming from his wooden teeth? Spoilers: I am somehow not surprised that the foremost Puritan Governor and Paracelsian medic would be the one to put a stop to Witch Hunts! What an epic revisited episode! Winthrop inspires me! This episode is the one I didn't even know to expect! It's not Esoterica for nothing! Who knew that Alchemy would play such a meaningful role in Colonial America in such a critical moment!

  • @DocAdamPhD
    @DocAdamPhD หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The people (read: me) need a Paschal Beverly Randolph video essay.

    • @TrenchantEdges
      @TrenchantEdges หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DocAdamPhD you are not alone.

  • @kaarlimakela3413
    @kaarlimakela3413 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Egad, that was fun!

  • @unclvinny
    @unclvinny หลายเดือนก่อน

    I never get tired of sharing this quote from Walker Percy's The Moviegoer w/r/r the Rosicrucians: "How does he see himself? When he succeeds in seeing himself, it is as a remarkable sort of fellow, a man who keeps himself well-informed in science and politics. This is why I am always uneasy when I talk to him. I hate it when his vision of himself dissolves and he sees himself as neither, neither old retainer nor expert in current events. Then his eyes get muddy and his face runs together behind his mustache. Last Christmas I went looking for him in his rooms over the garage. He wasn’t there but on his bed lay a well-thumbed volume put out by the Rosicrucians called How to Harness Your Secret Powers. The poor bastard."

  • @sonofsophia
    @sonofsophia หลายเดือนก่อน

    How bout an episode on the Shakers?

  • @Pathos312
    @Pathos312 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It stands to reason that at least from the mysteries perspective, that was brought during the 1892 Worlds Fair, where there was an international section of the attraction that featured... dens, prostitutes, tarots and all that "gypsy" stuff as one would have called it back then. They DID object to it but the attraction remained. Before that the 3 sisters and their spirit boards (Ouija) drew a lot of attraction in America as this had been after the Civil War and many were desperate to speak to lost relatives. Obviously there are more specific things, like the "witchhunt" was looking for secularist / masons or rather occultists. They attacked the wives to lure the males out... this is confessed in the book "Scarlet Book of Free Masonry: Containing a Thrilling and Authentic Account of the Imprisonment, Torture, and Martyrdom of Free Masons and Knights Templars, for the Past Six Hundred Years".

  • @panninggazz5244
    @panninggazz5244 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you. My peoples are from Pennsylvania from way back...I am a Californian (parents met after WWII. here..). but..me thinks that I was not taught some of these things....thank you.

  • @robertgerrity878
    @robertgerrity878 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've always adnired JWjr the 1st & last Renaissance man in America, the Big Thinker, etc and now a Touch of Sulpher? Oh my. Back to the show!

  • @guerrillastrange
    @guerrillastrange 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    hell yeah brother

  • @robertolizarragajimenez7653
    @robertolizarragajimenez7653 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very nice and interesting your dissertation about alchemy in North America. I don't know if in New Spain there was an analogous phenomenon. The masonic lodges played an important role in our Independence from the Spanish empire. In freemasonry there is an important set of ideas and symbols which are related with alchemy. Either from freemasonry or from somewhere else It should be interesting to know at least in general terms if there was any kind of esoteric thought (part of the mexican indigenous thought concerning the occult survived) related to alchemy and Kabala ( in New Spain there was an important jewish sefardic community till XVII Century)

  • @betsywestbrook7169
    @betsywestbrook7169 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Are you going to do an episode on Edgar Casey?

  • @WhichDoctor1
    @WhichDoctor1 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Am i having just the most extreme case of déjà vu, or is this a reupload? Because I distinctly remember already having listened to this several months ago

  • @dsharpness
    @dsharpness หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pequod-Melville...made me look...oh!...The Apple Tree Table!...😮

  • @AxeMan808
    @AxeMan808 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I have a question about the artifacts behind you: what are the three ... looks like cornucopiae which could perhaps nest Russian Doll style?

  • @denzen2896
    @denzen2896 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wonder what your thoughts are on evocations invocations.

  • @ruthbennett7563
    @ruthbennett7563 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s a childish thought, however, I feel it’s beyond important to always ask oneself, “Gold? (With the “Fixed Givin’s”) one has to ask what “Gold” really is.”
    “Keep on rockin’ in the free world…”

  • @charleshartley9597
    @charleshartley9597 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Fascinating stuff as always Dr. Sledge!
    I wonder how much of this work was known by "The Madman of New England" (aka Lovecraft) himself and if any of this work was an influence on his writings, i.e. diabolism, witchcraft, patrons (whoops, my D&D influence is showing!) of dark forces in colonial New England.
    Also, curious if you've seen anything about a podcast and RPG called "Old Gods of Appalachia" that gets into similar territory as Lovecraft's view of the back country of NE.
    Anyway, cheers!

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I did an episode on HP and the occult. The answer? Not much

    • @charleshartley9597
      @charleshartley9597 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @TheEsotericaChannel Ah drat, well I'm sure I've seen that episode too, and simply forgot. Perhaps not terribly surprising, I'm not sure HPL was really much of a researcher, stronger influences from other writers at the time and his own personal "demons". Thanks for the reply!

  • @locutorest
    @locutorest หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did John Dee attend the Mass during his later life?