I’m looking forward to this book … One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life by Mitch Horowitz.
I’ve posted about Horowitz before. He’s the author of the excellent Occult America: White House Séances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation.
In his new book, due out in January, Horowitz explores the history of the positive thinking movement in America, and its one simple, yet incredibly powerful idea that ‘thoughts are causative’.
With its roots in America’s mystical and occult sub-cultures of the mid-19th Century, this idea, and the movement it spawned, have influenced American life and culture far more than most people might realize.
Take a look at the video below to hear Horowitz talk about his book, and the importance of that one simple idea.