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The Miracle Month: 30 Days to a Revolution in Your Life
"One of the only people I know who pulls off punk rock and self-help simultaneously."--Conner Habib Power is what naturally results when everything needless and self-defeating is stripped out of your life. Are you prepared to dedicate 30 days to throwing off whatever conceals the greater self you have always suspected you are? If you're unsure do not even begin this book.
In The Miracle Month, Mitch Horowitz, "a cross between Aleister Crowley and Alan Watts" (Duncan Trussell), provides a 30-day, self-enforced academy that disrupts, upends, and overthrows every social and self-imposed barrier to your innate power.
"This book," Mitch writes, "is for people who would prefer nearly any alternative than to slide back into the anxiety, self-limitations, and half-in, half-out existence that they have known until now. Does that sound extreme? It is not. It is an open door to change."
Mitch helps you "Understand Power" (Day 9), "Give Up One Thing That Causes You Pain" (Day 13), realize "You Are Not Someone Else's Decision" (Day 27), and confront the "Do You Enjoy Suffering?" (Day 26).
In 30 realizable, graspable steps you will reverse years of peer-enforced conformity and self-negation to become who you--rightly--sense you are.
"Horowitz comes across as the real he is an authentic 'adept mind' and he knows his stuff."--Boing Boing
"Convincing...takes us far from naive doctrines."--Paris Match
"Mitch is solid gold."--David Lynch
In The Miracle Month, Mitch Horowitz, "a cross between Aleister Crowley and Alan Watts" (Duncan Trussell), provides a 30-day, self-enforced academy that disrupts, upends, and overthrows every social and self-imposed barrier to your innate power.
"This book," Mitch writes, "is for people who would prefer nearly any alternative than to slide back into the anxiety, self-limitations, and half-in, half-out existence that they have known until now. Does that sound extreme? It is not. It is an open door to change."
Mitch helps you "Understand Power" (Day 9), "Give Up One Thing That Causes You Pain" (Day 13), realize "You Are Not Someone Else's Decision" (Day 27), and confront the "Do You Enjoy Suffering?" (Day 26).
In 30 realizable, graspable steps you will reverse years of peer-enforced conformity and self-negation to become who you--rightly--sense you are.
"Horowitz comes across as the real he is an authentic 'adept mind' and he knows his stuff."--Boing Boing
"Convincing...takes us far from naive doctrines."--Paris Match
"Mitch is solid gold."--David Lynch
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 26, 2021
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About the author
Mitch Horowitz
260 books230 followersMITCH HOROWITZ is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin and the author OCCULT AMERICA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW MYSTICISM SHAPED OUR NATION (Bantam, Sept '09), which has been called "a fascinating book" by Ken Burns and "extraordinary" by Deepak Chopra. Visit him online at www.MitchHorowitz.com
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June 20, 2021
"If you want to revolutionize your life, get a bike and ride it everywhere! Have a physical disability that prevents you from riding a bike? Get a super expensive modified one! Have bad knees? But a super expensive electric one! Next, develop a clothing style that is unique to you! Throw out all your clothes and spend a bunch of money on a new wardrobe that confirms to this new style entirely!" Actual advice from this book. I'm not even kidding.
The author comes off as extremely privileged, with very little awareness for how other people live. This is not a book for people suffering from actual depression, anxiety or dissatisfaction with their lives. This is a book for rich bros that want to be bro-ier.
The author comes off as extremely privileged, with very little awareness for how other people live. This is not a book for people suffering from actual depression, anxiety or dissatisfaction with their lives. This is a book for rich bros that want to be bro-ier.
August 27, 2023
"Author and therapist Piero Ferrucci told me a story from the life of British novelist and spiritual adventurer Aldous Huxley. Huxley had experimented with myriad tools of self-development, from psychedelics to projects of utopian living to various forms of Eastern spirituality...Toward the end of Huxley's life, the spiritual journeyer got asked by a reporter to name, among all the techniques he had explored, the best means for personal development. Huxley replied: 'Just try being a little kinder.' "
August 3, 2021
Life-changing. Mitch keeps it real while applying ancient wisdom to guide you along a one-month journey into the dark forest of your self. I came out triumphant and transformed. Each day is a new challenge to strip away something that is not you and uncover your truth. It's an easy read and every day I was eager to see what came next.
April 14, 2021
I view this program as an extraction manual for the individual's deep-seated and falsified conditions. Before reading this book I never knew what better control I could have in regards to my own ethical power. I passionately believe there's a special dynamic that threads these pages into bringing a healthy hurt to one's psyche. It's conjured abilities in my life to accept rather than deny what has kept me anchored in my own discontentment. The perspectives within abled me to prioritize the conduct of my path differently and calculate what important aspects I've been neglecting. In my first run through I experienced a tsunami in one of my closest relationships, but as the flood waters receded it revealed unknown availabilities that helped me advance in my search with said relationship. Working through these difficulties and towards my aims, I have attained essential steps I would've never factored in without this. Not only has this book lured in new understandings but my observations of my experience scribbled in a notebook, parallel to my reading it, has led me to fresh paths in not only my everyday life but especially in my focused aims. Even through my stumbles along the 30 days of this program I believe that the reader, the seeker, the individual, will see that simply persisting in all that this book contains can break down their efforts of destruction down to the smallest detail and widen their eyes to one's personal miracles, big or small. I'm very grateful to Mitch, for he has proven to me even further that "day by day, in every way," ONE CAN BECOME "better and better."
December 1, 2025
Four concerns with this book: insufficient transformation of source material. It’s sloppy work. The author can do better. And he was editor of a big new age label at Penguin, so he knows what well developed work looks like.
If you take Emerson’s Compensation, Success, Fate and Power; Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a bit of Talmud, and some William James and don’t substantially transform those ideas into a new work, organisation, and meaning, then you’re just taking their ideas.
The fresh content is 3 ideas. 1. Write a pledge to think positively and read it every day. 2. Affirm on waking and sleeping and steadfastly days to reprogram. 3. Act as if.
It loses track after day 7 when it departs from the above geniuses. The book drifts along from then on. He refers to a scholarly essay on mind in another book which is excellent, so he can do better. Day 24 is about how he didn’t get paid on time by a New Age Publisher. Day 26 is a long quote from another of his own books. Day 27 is to read metaphysical literature with an open mind. Day 29 has a testimonial and seems to say that he is writing a set of blog posts that this book consists of an unedited form of.
The afterword is just a long quote from a man in 1931 who tried the 30 day positive thinking fast and he felt happy, right, and superior, and could make others so too. He concludes with a long quote from another of his own books.
He clearly has read the primary sources but has not transformed them into something new, and has not thought through how to structure his book into a coherent and escalating pattern of ideas, and, frankly, it seems from the text to be a set of loosely related blog posts.
If you take Emerson’s Compensation, Success, Fate and Power; Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a bit of Talmud, and some William James and don’t substantially transform those ideas into a new work, organisation, and meaning, then you’re just taking their ideas.
The fresh content is 3 ideas. 1. Write a pledge to think positively and read it every day. 2. Affirm on waking and sleeping and steadfastly days to reprogram. 3. Act as if.
It loses track after day 7 when it departs from the above geniuses. The book drifts along from then on. He refers to a scholarly essay on mind in another book which is excellent, so he can do better. Day 24 is about how he didn’t get paid on time by a New Age Publisher. Day 26 is a long quote from another of his own books. Day 27 is to read metaphysical literature with an open mind. Day 29 has a testimonial and seems to say that he is writing a set of blog posts that this book consists of an unedited form of.
The afterword is just a long quote from a man in 1931 who tried the 30 day positive thinking fast and he felt happy, right, and superior, and could make others so too. He concludes with a long quote from another of his own books.
He clearly has read the primary sources but has not transformed them into something new, and has not thought through how to structure his book into a coherent and escalating pattern of ideas, and, frankly, it seems from the text to be a set of loosely related blog posts.
November 7, 2023
Wow maybe I should have researched the author a little before reading this, but it was recommended to me so I gave it a shot blind and it did not hit as I had thought it might. Mr. Horowitz calls himself an occult author and that would have been a sign that this was not the book for me if I had known it going into it.
He may have some fair insights sprinkled throughout the book that can help some people, not all but some. But there is some much drivel in-between that I could not stand it. I can't remember all the words but at multiple points in the book Mr Horowitz says a word and then gives what he says is the definition of the word (it's true meaning) and in the real world his definition is flatly false. Webster's dictionary would say so and society would say so.
For that annoyance and for many other (probably better) reasons I can't in good conscience recommend this book to anyone.
He may have some fair insights sprinkled throughout the book that can help some people, not all but some. But there is some much drivel in-between that I could not stand it. I can't remember all the words but at multiple points in the book Mr Horowitz says a word and then gives what he says is the definition of the word (it's true meaning) and in the real world his definition is flatly false. Webster's dictionary would say so and society would say so.
For that annoyance and for many other (probably better) reasons I can't in good conscience recommend this book to anyone.
September 18, 2022
A must-read and will be a book I reread annually
I’ve read several self-help books that give advice, some of which is obvious, some not so. They rarely make permanent changes in the individual. This book does. By the very format of “one concept and change per day,” I had the opportunity to really change and memorize the concepts.
In truth, I did not complete this book in 30 days. It took me 47 days, because some of the concepts took a few days to sink in and some required events or circumstances that did not occur that day. Because of that, I willed myself to wait until I could try each one before moving on to the next. It made all the difference.
I will be reading this book every year. It’s that good. Thank you Mitch, for writing this.
I’ve read several self-help books that give advice, some of which is obvious, some not so. They rarely make permanent changes in the individual. This book does. By the very format of “one concept and change per day,” I had the opportunity to really change and memorize the concepts.
In truth, I did not complete this book in 30 days. It took me 47 days, because some of the concepts took a few days to sink in and some required events or circumstances that did not occur that day. Because of that, I willed myself to wait until I could try each one before moving on to the next. It made all the difference.
I will be reading this book every year. It’s that good. Thank you Mitch, for writing this.
May 10, 2023
You know what from all the big pop psychology books I've read that have maybe 0-1 nuggets of useful wisdom in there. There are like 3 things in here that I really needed to hear. And one that I already knew but just needed an older man to tell me straight 😆 I actually feel a better person for reading this book.
January 9, 2022
some helpful things
Actually, more than just “some”—there’s quite a lot here. In all honesty I bought this because I stumbled upon Mitch somehow and thought he was such a hunk that I wanted to just spend some time with his writing. Glad I did!
Actually, more than just “some”—there’s quite a lot here. In all honesty I bought this because I stumbled upon Mitch somehow and thought he was such a hunk that I wanted to just spend some time with his writing. Glad I did!
October 20, 2022
A way to kickstart change
I absolutely loved this one. Horowitz has a knack for reaching into you and challenging you initiate change and examination. I couldn’t recommend this one enough
I absolutely loved this one. Horowitz has a knack for reaching into you and challenging you initiate change and examination. I couldn’t recommend this one enough
July 21, 2023
Pretty good 30 day course. Mitch certainly gives food for thought.
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