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Our Instagram account will be deleted on Friday January 24, 2025.

In protest of the sweeping policy changes that Meta announced on January 7, 2025, allowing for the widespread use of hate speech against queer people, the EAR will permanently move away from this platform.

Mark Zuckerberg claims that this change is intended to promote and protect “free speech.” To the contrary, allowing hate speech to freely proliferate on your platform will only hinder the use of social media apps as the de facto town square.

The Esoteric Archive of Rochester came to be in 2022. Its mission was twofold:

1. Create a graphical interface to deal with my massive collection of occult-themed PDFs, and,
2. To further investigate the esoteric roots of Rochester, NY and the so-called Burned Over District of New York state.

Like many seekers, I had accumulated hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of PDFs, mostly scans of books published in the late 1800s and very early 1900s (all in the public domain now). These files, with typically useless file names, were all stored in my Google Drive, and it was impossible to find anything I might be looking for.