American Metaphysics in the 19th Century with Ronnie Pontiac

Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. Here he explains why 19th Century America was a fountain of innovative metaphysical traditions, many of lasting influence. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:46 The Civil War 00:14:32 Transcendentalists 00:16:37 William James 00:25:24 Victoria Woodhull 00:33:19 Religious amalgamation 00:42:57 Platonism 00:54:22 Madame Blavatsky 01:05:47 Spiritual communes 01:09:34 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on June 13, 2023) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to    • InPresence 0253: How to Get the Most From ...   For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin.... Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine. To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected]. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see   / 1953031791426543   To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order American Metaphysical Religion by Ronnie Pontiac, click here: https://amzn.to/3BtjFkd. (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y