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The Esoteric Archive of Rochester is leaving Instagram
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…
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A New Home for the EAR
The Esoteric Archive of Rochester came to be in 2022. Its mission was twofold: 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…