Thursday, September 17, 2026, 2:00 AM - 5:00 AM · The Philosophical Research Society, Los Feliz, Los Angeles
Scholar Maryam Sayyad, Ph.D. leads an in-person and online lecture on jinn across myth and film, tracing wish-granting spirits from A Thousand and One Nights to Aladdin, A Dark Song, and Twin Peaks.
A quietly mystical Los Feliz compound that feels like you accidentally wandered onto the set of a 1930s occult noir. There’s a library packed with esoteric texts, a courtyard that begs for whispered conversations, and a steady calendar of lectures that swing from genuinely mind-expanding to delightfully unhinged. Come for a talk on alchemy or Jung, stay because the energy is strange in a soothing way. It’s cerebral, eerie, and deeply LA in the most charming sense.