the City Library of Prague have recently published a series of lectures on Alternative Spirituality (or New Age) by Dr. Zuzana Kostićová and i think it's very interesting and cool. i've always been interested in this recent phenomenon of people starting to believe heavily in souls, and spirituality, and later in the series, Dr. Zuzana talks about Millenialism and Conspiracies.
the lectures are in Czech and i'm assuming most of Cohost people here are Anglophones, as such, i've decided to transcribe and translate the lectures into English (which is also a good exercise for my czech learning!) which you can find in this google document. it's unfinished, as i've just begun transcribing it and it's like, 1 am, lol, but i'll try to update it and eventually translate the entire 5 hours of the series.
i hope you enjoy it if you're also interested in spirituality from an academic point of view!
a pro čechů tady, držte tady odkaz na playlist na Youtube s lekcami od Zuzany.
oh, also, if you know Czech and willing to work on this project with me, i'll be more than happy! you can also help me with editing, just hit my Dms
i am ~18 minutes into the first one-hour lecture. There's already around 2.5k words. After transcribing the lecture, I'll probably heavily edit it because there are A LOT OF words that you can just skip. But I'll also leave the (somewhat?) original text for anyone to read.
The first lecture is about the history of Western Esotericism and Alternative Spirituality.