Dark Star Rising, Gary Lachman
Dark Star Rising, Gary Lachman
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Dark Star Rising
Magick and Power in the Age of Trump

Author: Gary Lachman

Narrator: Jason Culp

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2018

Synopsis

Within the concentric circles of Trump's regime lies an unseen culture of occultists, power-seekers, and mind-magicians whose influence is on the rise. In this unparalleled account, historian Gary Lachman examines the influence of occult and esoteric philosophy on the unexpected rise of the alt-right.Did positive thinking and mental science help put Donald Trump in the White House? And are there any other hidden powers of the mind and thought at work in today's world politics? In Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, historian and cultural critic Gary Lachman takes a close look at the various magical and esoteric ideas that are impacting political events across the globe. From New Thought and Chaos Magick to the far-right esotericism of Julius Evola and the Traditionalists, Lachman follows a trail of mystic clues that involve, among others, Norman Vincent Peale, domineering gurus and demagogues, Ayn Rand, Pepe the Frog, Rene Schwaller de Lubicz, synarchy, the Alt-Right, meme magic, and Vladimir Putin and his postmodern Rasputin. Come take a drop down the rabbit hole of occult politics in the twenty-first century and find out the post-truths and alternative facts surrounding the 45th President of the United States with one of the leading writers on esotericism and its influence on modern culture.

About Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman is the author of many books on consciousness, culture, and the Western esoteric tradition, including The Secret Teachers of the Western World; Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson; Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work; In Search of P. D. Ouspensky; A Secret History of Consciousness; Politics and the Occult; and The Quest for Hermes Trismegistus. He writes for several journals in the US and UK and lectures on his work in the US, UK, and Europe. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and he has appeared in several radio and television documentaries. He is assistant professor in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. A founding member of the rock group Blondie, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. He can be reached at GaryLachman.co.uk

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on May 31, 2018

Having become a fan of Gary Lachman’s work a few years ago, I’ve known that he’s had Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump in the works for some time. The time between his announcement of the project and his report that he’d sent the manuscript to the publisher was some months ago,......more

Goodreads review by Victor on July 20, 2018

A longtime fan of the subjects Gary Lachman writes about and of his way of writing about those chosen topics (the occult, imagination, mysticism) and people (Steiner, Jung. Crowley), I jumped to buy and inhale Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump on first noticing its availability.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on July 12, 2018

DARK STAR RISING offers useful background info on Steve Bannon and some of Putin's puppet masters, but it goes vague when it attacks postmodernism, chaos magick and other occult and philosophical ideas that Lachman dislikes and thinks have had a negative social influence. Lachman builds straw men, s......more

Goodreads review by Liam on June 20, 2018

The Trump phenomenon since he got elected appears to be a "singularity" . That is an event after which nothing is ever the same. Completely changing the rules of engagement in American domestic and foreign relations. Probably changing them for the whole world. What is behind the phenomenon though? H......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 04, 2020

Whether you believe in Magic or the occult, lots of other people do. They think they can dabble with mysterious forces and turn thinking into being. The president is one such person, a proponent of “positive thinking.” His alt-right followers swear that their meme magick made the Trump presidency a......more

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