The most extreme interpretation of this “positive” occultist/New Age current of the ME comes from John Lamb Lash, the neo-Gnostic author known for his writings on mythology and ancient Gnosticism.[^38] In early 2017, Lash created a YouTube …———. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Hirstein, William. Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT …
John Lamb Lash
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John Lamb Lash is a neo-Gnostic author and mythologist who has applied esoteric and New Age interpretive frameworks to phenomena like the Mandela Effect, treating mass misremembering as spiritually significant rather than neurological. The course readings cite him as an exemplar of how occultist hermeneutics colonize discussions of collective memory and perception, illustrating the boundary between alternative epistemology and what might be understood as conspiratorial thinking. His work appears here primarily as a case study in how New Age mysticism intersects with internet culture and the democratization of counterfactual knowledge claims.
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