It has been quite a year. Under such conditions, we are forced to see what it is that is most meaningful to us, what uplifts us, what connects us, and what vitalizes us. What Manly P. Hall referred to as the "conceptions, ideals, and principles" that bring thought into action, and sustain us through practical application in times of trouble. The truths we have learned from experience.
While these times are difficult, it has been inspiring to see PRS continue to be a sanctuary and a haven for thinkers, artists, and seekers. We have all found a home here, a place to forge and strengthen community and to find support. That we can offer this service is a gift unto itself.
PRS has miraculously survived for more than 90 years due to each and everyone of you and your continued support. Thank you for becoming members, thank you for attending screenings, workshops, lectures and art openings and for spreading the word about our events. Thank you for donating, for shopping in our bookstore and ordering from our website. Thank you for signing up for online talks and courses, so the community of PRS can take root outside of Los Angeles.
We labor to save a vital space where thought and expression are free to flourish. We do not take this for granted and are honored to be part of a community that continues to labor in love despite all that seems built to destroy such endeavors. This is something very worthy of preservation.
Our goal this year is $40,000! If we're able to get to $20,000, our donations will be doubled thanks to a matching grant from an anonymous donor! We also have special gifts for all our campaign supporters!
Additionally, The Philosophical Research Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization so your donation minus the gift value is tax deductible!
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We are extremely grateful for whatever you're able to contribute!
ANY AMOUNT DONATION
Receive a free ticket to one 7th House screening!
$50 DONATION
Receive a 6-month Astral Membership!
Unlock PRS’s ever-growing archive of talks, panels, articles, and more—with new content added every week! Just launched in the summer of 2025!
$110 DONATION
Receive a gift certificate for The Integratron's Signature Experience (2 Public Sound Bath Spaces)!
SOLD OUT!!!
This is an unforgettable sound experience for those who seek deep relaxation, rejuvenation, and introspection. All Sound Baths are 60-minute sonic healing sessions that consist of:
You will be resting comfortably in the deeply resonant, multi-wave sound chamber while a sequence of quartz crystal singing bowls are played. Each bowl is keyed to the energy centers or chakras of the body, where sound is nutrition for the nervous system. The results are waves of peace, heightened awareness, and relaxation of the mind and body.
www.integratron.com/sound-bath
- a brief introduction to the Integratron and its history and sound qualities
- 35-40 minutes of 22 quartz crystal singing bowls played live
- the balance of the hour to integrate the sound and relax in the sound chamber to ambient music
You will be resting comfortably in the deeply resonant, multi-wave sound chamber while a sequence of quartz crystal singing bowls are played. Each bowl is keyed to the energy centers or chakras of the body, where sound is nutrition for the nervous system. The results are waves of peace, heightened awareness, and relaxation of the mind and body.
www.integratron.com/sound-bath
$120 DONATION
Receive a Tarot Reading with Melinda Lee Holm (45 minutes online)!
Tarot is the perfect tool to help you learn about and navigate this wild world.
How does it work? You bring questions, l help rephrase them into a line of inquiry appropriate for the cards, then I shuffle and lay out the cards in a spread and I read to you what they say to me. You are in good hands. I’ve been doing this for over thirty years. I am very fluent in tarot. You will always leave our readings with something you can do to move forward. I do this to give you the power to change your life. Because I know you can.
Melinda Lee Holm is an author and tarot scholar with over thirty years of experience in the magickal arts. She is the author of Your Tarot Guide, Tarot of Tales, Your Magickal Year, and Elemental Power Tarot, as well as the co-author of Divine Your Dinner. Her writing has appeared in Air/Light Magazine, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, SheKnows.com, HelloGiggles.com, and Stylist UK. Her sixth book, Language of Tarot, is due out in fall 2026 from Red Wheel/Weiser Books.
Melinda has read tarot for people all over the world including GZA of Wu Tang Clan and Buddhist leader Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Khyentse Norbu). She holds a MFA in creative writing and a BA in Art History. Melinda has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, WWD, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Hollywood Reporter. She hails from Minnesota and lives in Los Angeles.
@melindaleeholm
melindaleeholm.com
Special thanks to Melinda Lee Holm
How does it work? You bring questions, l help rephrase them into a line of inquiry appropriate for the cards, then I shuffle and lay out the cards in a spread and I read to you what they say to me. You are in good hands. I’ve been doing this for over thirty years. I am very fluent in tarot. You will always leave our readings with something you can do to move forward. I do this to give you the power to change your life. Because I know you can.
Melinda Lee Holm is an author and tarot scholar with over thirty years of experience in the magickal arts. She is the author of Your Tarot Guide, Tarot of Tales, Your Magickal Year, and Elemental Power Tarot, as well as the co-author of Divine Your Dinner. Her writing has appeared in Air/Light Magazine, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, SheKnows.com, HelloGiggles.com, and Stylist UK. Her sixth book, Language of Tarot, is due out in fall 2026 from Red Wheel/Weiser Books.
Melinda has read tarot for people all over the world including GZA of Wu Tang Clan and Buddhist leader Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (Khyentse Norbu). She holds a MFA in creative writing and a BA in Art History. Melinda has been featured in Vogue, InStyle, WWD, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Hollywood Reporter. She hails from Minnesota and lives in Los Angeles.
@melindaleeholm
melindaleeholm.com
Special thanks to Melinda Lee Holm
$125 DONATION
Receive a Tarot Reading with James Jude Tarot (60 minutes online)!
James offers interactive Tarot sessions to help you understand your path, define and clarify your goals, clear blocked energy, and begin to manifest your objectives.
JAMES JUDE of James Jude Tarot is a clairsentient/clairaudient Tarot reader whose empathic insight enables him to connect with the cards and with his clients in a sincere and meaningful way. His approach to Tarot is a hybrid of scholarship, intuition, and spiritual connectedness.
He is an in-house reader at TarotArts in South Pasadena where he also serves as event programmer, moderator, workshop facilitator and teacher. James is also a regular reader and has hosted workshops at The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Feliz.
In 2025, James founded the Los Angeles Festival of Tarot, which brought Tarot luminaries from around the globe together at PRS and TarotArts for a weekend celebrating the divinatory arts through presentations, workshops, mixers, readings and an exhibition of rare decks and original Tarot art.
@jamesjudetarot
@festivaloftarot
Special thanks to James Jude
JAMES JUDE of James Jude Tarot is a clairsentient/clairaudient Tarot reader whose empathic insight enables him to connect with the cards and with his clients in a sincere and meaningful way. His approach to Tarot is a hybrid of scholarship, intuition, and spiritual connectedness.
He is an in-house reader at TarotArts in South Pasadena where he also serves as event programmer, moderator, workshop facilitator and teacher. James is also a regular reader and has hosted workshops at The Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Feliz.
In 2025, James founded the Los Angeles Festival of Tarot, which brought Tarot luminaries from around the globe together at PRS and TarotArts for a weekend celebrating the divinatory arts through presentations, workshops, mixers, readings and an exhibition of rare decks and original Tarot art.
@jamesjudetarot
@festivaloftarot
Special thanks to James Jude
$150 DONATION
Receive a Book Bundle from GRI (Getty Research Institute) Publications!
SOLD OUT!!!
Book Bundle includes:
*pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included
*Available for pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included.
Donated by GRI Publications with special thanks to Chelsea Anderson & the PRS Advisory Board
- Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House
- The Scores Project: Essays on Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry and Dance, 1950-1975
- Exiled in LA: The Untold Story of Leopold Fischer's Domestic Architecture
*pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included
*Available for pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included.
Donated by GRI Publications with special thanks to Chelsea Anderson & the PRS Advisory Board
$175 DONATION
Receive an Online Love Limpia with Reina Prado!
A Love Limpia is Reina Prado's signature offering. It is an energetic clearing of the heart space designed to reconnect you with your heart's whispers and transform old wounds with compassion. Using ancestral techniques, Reina guides you through a profound limpia to help you trust your heart (yollotl) and rejuvenate your soul space (Teyolia). Together, you’ll co-create a vision of love that supports your journey toward self-realization and deeper connections. Session is 30 minutes and scheduled remotely.
www.healingqueen.abmp.com
Special thanks to Reina Prado
www.healingqueen.abmp.com
Special thanks to Reina Prado
$200 DONATION
Receive a Virtual Clairvoyant Tarot Reading by Sophia Knapp!
Dive deep into a 30 minute tarot reading over Zoom!
Sophia Knapp is a celebrated intuitive, musician, and healer. As a clairvoyant, Tarot reader, Astrologer, and teacher, she brings a grounded yet inspiring — and often humorous — approach to the psychic arts.
Having guided thousands of individuals through private sessions and events, Sophia has worked with renowned companies like Netflix, Meta, Soho House, Hulu, Pinterest, and Bustle. Known for her memorable readings, she blends cosmic intuition with a deep respect for her clients' free will, empowering them to actively seek out transformative and enriching experiences. Her artistic background enhances her communication, allowing her to channel guidance that is both poetic and deeply meaningful.
Special thanks to Sophia Knapp
Sophia Knapp is a celebrated intuitive, musician, and healer. As a clairvoyant, Tarot reader, Astrologer, and teacher, she brings a grounded yet inspiring — and often humorous — approach to the psychic arts.
Having guided thousands of individuals through private sessions and events, Sophia has worked with renowned companies like Netflix, Meta, Soho House, Hulu, Pinterest, and Bustle. Known for her memorable readings, she blends cosmic intuition with a deep respect for her clients' free will, empowering them to actively seek out transformative and enriching experiences. Her artistic background enhances her communication, allowing her to channel guidance that is both poetic and deeply meaningful.
Special thanks to Sophia Knapp
$225 DONATION
Enjoy a 1hr Private Online Sacred Dance Session with Banafsheh Sayyad!
Banafsheh teaches conscious embodiment to all. Utilizing techniques from Dance of Oneness®, Banafsheh creates a personalized program of movement, healing, and spiritual guidance. The focus is on supporting you to embody yourself more fully, and create coherence between your heart, mind and soul in your body temple. Read more about Banafsheh’s tailored Private Sessions.
Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally recognized Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, teacher, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. With a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from UCLA and a Masters in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through dance.
Read more: www.danceofoneness.org
Special thanks to Maryam and Banafsheh Sayyad
Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally recognized Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, teacher, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. With a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from UCLA and a Masters in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through dance.
Read more: www.danceofoneness.org
Special thanks to Maryam and Banafsheh Sayyad
$250 DONATION
Get an Astrology Transits of the Year Reading + Treasure Map Consultation with Tracy Abbott Cook!
Television writer/producer and astrologist, Tracy Abbott Cook will run and review your astrology chart along with a year’s worth of upcoming astrological transits specific to you. Her down-to earth communication, combined with her television writing career in late night comedy has made Tracy a popular choice amongst her friends and colleagues for astrology information. Whether the recipient understands astrology or not, Tracy’s ability to break down planetary aspects is perfect for the novice or professional.
PERK OPTION ONE
ONE two-hour reading, including your natal report and a year of transits. Tracy will review major transits and review your North Node. The North Node is the point in the birth chart which represents your path, purpose and destiny this lifetime
PERK OPTION TWO
A ONE-hour reading combined with a ONE- hour personal tutorial to create your 2025 Aries New Moon Treasure Map. As someone who has created vision boards for more than 25 years, Tracy will help you create a board to reflect the year you want to manifest
**A Treasure Map is a creative visual of your manifestation intentions. This visual is created during the Aries new Moon; which is most potent new moon of the lunar year. You will collage, paint, write, draw, create a board of your intentions. With Tracy’s guidance you can focus the first few months of 2025 on your natal chart and transits. Then in April, Tracy will help the recipient create the best map to manifest the year they desire.
Special thanks to Ann Slichter
PERK OPTION ONE
ONE two-hour reading, including your natal report and a year of transits. Tracy will review major transits and review your North Node. The North Node is the point in the birth chart which represents your path, purpose and destiny this lifetime
PERK OPTION TWO
A ONE-hour reading combined with a ONE- hour personal tutorial to create your 2025 Aries New Moon Treasure Map. As someone who has created vision boards for more than 25 years, Tracy will help you create a board to reflect the year you want to manifest
**A Treasure Map is a creative visual of your manifestation intentions. This visual is created during the Aries new Moon; which is most potent new moon of the lunar year. You will collage, paint, write, draw, create a board of your intentions. With Tracy’s guidance you can focus the first few months of 2025 on your natal chart and transits. Then in April, Tracy will help the recipient create the best map to manifest the year they desire.
Special thanks to Ann Slichter
$275 DONATION
Receive 2 Online Master Classes at The Radif Retreat Institute of Classical Persian Music taught by Fared Shafinury!
The Radif Retreat Institute is an online school of classical Persian music, teaching and fostering community through group and private lessons with Fared Shafinury.
Born on the coast of Texas, Fared's music spans cultures and traditions rooted in ancient repertoires – he has studied under masters in Iran such as Ostads Shaari, Lotfi, and Zolghadar – while possessing innovation and originality that set him apart from his contemporaries.
Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally recognized Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, teacher, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. With a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from UCLA and a Masters in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through dance. Read more: www.danceofoneness.org
Special thanks to Maryam Sayyad
Born on the coast of Texas, Fared's music spans cultures and traditions rooted in ancient repertoires – he has studied under masters in Iran such as Ostads Shaari, Lotfi, and Zolghadar – while possessing innovation and originality that set him apart from his contemporaries.
Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally recognized Iranian sacred dancer, choreographer, teacher, activist, and founder of Dance of Oneness®. With a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and Choreography from UCLA and a Masters in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through dance. Read more: www.danceofoneness.org
Special thanks to Maryam Sayyad
$300 DONATION
Receive a Psychic & Numerology Reading from Neil and Kristin Baker!
Receive an accurate, in-depth, psychic reading revealing hidden patterns with exceptional clarity from world-renowned psychic and metaphysical theorist, Neil Baker, along with his partner and wife, psychic and spiritual teacher, Kristin Baker. Working jointly, their readings are grounded in integrity, responsibility and a lifetime of mastery.
Together, they will review your cosmic number architecture, accompanied by a purely psychic narrative, with a unified precision and resonance that has become their signature. Recipient will enjoy an hour and a half reading either over the phone or in person (if you’re located in Long Beach).
Neil Baker has conducted over 300,000 personal readings spanning his 50+ year career as a psychic. Neil and Kristin Baker have conducted more than 10,000 joint personal psychic readings, illuminating life-path codes, karmic cycles, relationship sequencing, psychological patterning, and the deeper spiritual structures shaping individual destiny. For more than 13 years they have co-hosted a weekly podcast where they give live personal readings for callers, discuss matters of the spirit, the soul, the astral realm, numerology and much more.
Special thanks to Ann Slichter
Together, they will review your cosmic number architecture, accompanied by a purely psychic narrative, with a unified precision and resonance that has become their signature. Recipient will enjoy an hour and a half reading either over the phone or in person (if you’re located in Long Beach).
Neil Baker has conducted over 300,000 personal readings spanning his 50+ year career as a psychic. Neil and Kristin Baker have conducted more than 10,000 joint personal psychic readings, illuminating life-path codes, karmic cycles, relationship sequencing, psychological patterning, and the deeper spiritual structures shaping individual destiny. For more than 13 years they have co-hosted a weekly podcast where they give live personal readings for callers, discuss matters of the spirit, the soul, the astral realm, numerology and much more.
Special thanks to Ann Slichter
$325 DONATION
Receive the TASCHEN Library of Esoterica Package plus Library of Esoterica Tote Bag!
Donate $325 and receive this amazing Library of Esoterica package including:
The Library of Esoterica explores how centuries of artists have given form to mysticism, translating the arcane and the obscure into enduring, visionary works of art. Each subject is showcased through both modern and archival imagery culled from private collectors, libraries, and museums around the globe. The result forms an inclusive visual history, a study of our primal pull to dream and nightmare, and the creative ways we strive to connect to the divine.
*Available for pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included.
Donated by Jessica Hundley & Nic Taylor The Library of Esoterica, and TASCHEN
- 6 Books from the beautiful LOE TASCHEN Series (Tarot, Astrology, Witchcraft, Plant Magick, Sacred Sites & Spirit Worlds)
- Special edition poster The Hand of the Mysteries designed by Nic Taylor
- LOE tote bag!
The Library of Esoterica explores how centuries of artists have given form to mysticism, translating the arcane and the obscure into enduring, visionary works of art. Each subject is showcased through both modern and archival imagery culled from private collectors, libraries, and museums around the globe. The result forms an inclusive visual history, a study of our primal pull to dream and nightmare, and the creative ways we strive to connect to the divine.
*Available for pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included.
Donated by Jessica Hundley & Nic Taylor The Library of Esoterica, and TASCHEN
$500 DONATION
Receive the Metaphysician Tara Sutphen Exclusive Package!
EACH PACKAGE INCLUDES YOUR CHOICE OF TWO OF THE FOLLOWING:
Tara Sutphen brings practical and effective guidance to our lives through a kaleidoscope of sources. From the mystical to the scientific, Tara reaches out for divine inspiration in the exact way that each of us need in any given moment. Whatever has us stuck, is shrouded or veiled, or whatever is blocking our success and expansion, Tara uncovers and empowers us to follow our highest path forward. If patterns or limitations have left you thinking, "There must be more," you are right. And this "more" is the wisdom Tara brings you.
Special Thanks to Tara Sutphen & Ann Slichter
- 1 Hour Psychic Reading
- 1 Hour Hypnotherapy Session
- 1.5 Hour Past Life Regression Session
- 1.5 Hour Horse Therapy Session
- 1 Hour Eastern/Western Astrology Reading
- 1 Hour Automatic Writing Session
Tara Sutphen brings practical and effective guidance to our lives through a kaleidoscope of sources. From the mystical to the scientific, Tara reaches out for divine inspiration in the exact way that each of us need in any given moment. Whatever has us stuck, is shrouded or veiled, or whatever is blocking our success and expansion, Tara uncovers and empowers us to follow our highest path forward. If patterns or limitations have left you thinking, "There must be more," you are right. And this "more" is the wisdom Tara brings you.
Special Thanks to Tara Sutphen & Ann Slichter
$550 DONATION
Receive the TASCHEN Edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages!
Embracing an expansive range of occult teachings, this vast encyclopedia unveils the arcane myths and mysteries of thousands of years of human civilization. First published in 1928, Manly Palmer Hall’s magnum opus has been meticulously reproduced in its original size in collaboration with his archives at the Philosophical Research Society.
Hardcover with fold-outs in slipcase, 13.2 x 18.7 in, 356 pages, with companion book, 9.4 x 7.4 in, 256 pages, both with leatherette-bound spine and gold foil embossing; 4 prints in a portfolio, each 13.2 x 18.7 in, total weight 28.60 lb
*Available for pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included.
Donated by Jessica Hundley & Nic Taylor The Library of Esoterica, and TASCHEN
Hardcover with fold-outs in slipcase, 13.2 x 18.7 in, 356 pages, with companion book, 9.4 x 7.4 in, 256 pages, both with leatherette-bound spine and gold foil embossing; 4 prints in a portfolio, each 13.2 x 18.7 in, total weight 28.60 lb
*Available for pick up only or additional fee for shipping will be included.
Donated by Jessica Hundley & Nic Taylor The Library of Esoterica, and TASCHEN
$600 DONATION
Get a Magic Castle Tour with Zabrecky!
SOLD OUT!!!
Step beyond the velvet rope for a private, up-to-four-guest tour of the legendary Magic Castle, personally led by the incomparable Zabrecky. A fixture at 7001 Franklin Avenue for nearly three decades, Zabrecky is more than a 27-year member of the exclusive magicians’ enclave; he’s one of its defining spirits. A seven-time award-winner celebrated for his singular performances and illuminating lectures, he knows every secret stairway, storied showroom, and whispered bit of lore that has drifted through the club since its former life as the Lane Mansion, built in 1908.
Expect an evening steeped in old-Hollywood glamour and mischievous enchantment. A true insider’s experience at one of the city’s most iconic institutions.
Door charges included; parking, drinks, and dining are left to your discretion.
Dates subject to availability. To be redeemed in Springtime!
Special thanks to Rob Zabrecky
Expect an evening steeped in old-Hollywood glamour and mischievous enchantment. A true insider’s experience at one of the city’s most iconic institutions.
Door charges included; parking, drinks, and dining are left to your discretion.
Dates subject to availability. To be redeemed in Springtime!
Special thanks to Rob Zabrecky
$750 DONATION
Receive a 7th House Movie Pass!
Calling all cinephiles! You'll receive two tickets for all 7th House screenings at The Philosophical Research Society for 1 whole year!
$1000 DONATION
Receive an Online Class Pass!
This pass is a perfect gift for supporters of The Philosophical Research Society who aren't able to attend our events in person! Receive free attendance to all PRS Online Classes PLUS Online Events for 1 year!
THE PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY IS A LOS ANGELES-BASED, 501(c)(3), NONPROFIT CULTURAL INSTITUTION FOUNDED IN 1934 AS A REPOSITORY OF MULTICULTURAL WISDOM SOURCES AND A CENTER OF LEARNING WITH A UNIQUE LIBRARY CONTAINING OVER 30,000 RARE VOLUMES. ITS HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDINGS ARE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND PRESENT SEMINARS, CLASSES AND CONCERTS ON MYTHOLOGY, THE HUMANITIES AND METAPHYSICS.
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