This Month: Friday, February 24 @ 3 PM PST
Christopher McIntosh
Author and Historian
"Occult Russia"
Dr. Christopher McIntosh was born in England in 1943 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford and German at London University, later returning to Oxford to take a doctorate in history with a dissertation on the Rosicrucian revival in the context of the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. After working in London in journalism and publishing he spent four years in New York as an information officer with the United Nations Development Program, then moved to Germany to work for UNESCO. In parallel, he has pursued a career as a writer and researcher specializing in esoteric traditions as well as nature-oriented belief systems. He has lectured widely and was on the faculty of the distance M.A. program in Western Esotericism at the University of Exeter, England, now sadly discontinued. He is married to the scholar of religion Dr. Donate Pahnke-McIntosh. Their home is in Lower Saxony, North Germany.
Upcoming: Friday, March 3 @ 3 PM PST
Normandi Ellis
Author and Mystic
"The Ancient Traditions of the Angels"
Normandi Ellis is a Spiritualist minister, astrologer, and certified clairvoyant medium through the Indiana Association of Spiritualists. Her 14 published books include the spiritual classic, Awakening Osiris, translations from the hieroglyphs found in the Book of the Dead. She offers clairvoyant circles, metaphysical classes and private consultations (phone or in person). She is a founding partner of Two Ladies Travel Co.
In her latest book, due out in April 2023, Ellis looks at the angelic dimensions of spiritual traditions around the world from the ancient past to present day, showing how angels are beings of light consciousness. She explores angels from Judeo-Christian and Islamic faiths, Hinduism and Buddhism, the beliefs of ancient Egypt, Yezidism, and Zoroastrianism as well as contemporary angelic encounters, including her own.