Occult Practice and Radical Politics in Los Angeles

How the Free Press fused esoteric thought and activism to ignite a cultural revolution

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I was sick over Christmas, and when not watching old episodes of Cops on YouTube, I spent some time reading through back issues of the Los Angeles Free Press. The “Freep,” as it was known, was one of the…