LA Weekly Interview with Bishop Stephan Hoeller from 1999
[Good stuff. -Thomas]
Spirituality L.A.
To Know God
A post–New Age dialogue with Dr. Stephan Hoeller
by Brendan Mullen
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I first encountered Hoeller after a disastrous attempt at romance, when a stranger said she thought I needed professional counseling. I was led not to a therapist, but to a teacher-mystic who laid out the skinny on various ancient spiritual thoughts and practices, some of which form the basis of modern psychology, despite their rejection by some schools of scientific academia. For $5 a week, well within my meager mental-health budget, Hoeller’s lectures ran down the Occult, Jung, Gnosticism, esoterica, dream analysis, modern and ancient alchemy, kabbalah, the tarot and various aspects of theosophy. There were no chants, no name changes, no white robes, no cutting off of repressive friends, as Hoeller simply handed out clues and road maps on where to go. This is how he helped me, blubbering wreck that I was.
So it is after 10 years that I sit with Hoeller, swigging tea and talking about the best and worst of contemporary spirituality.
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