Monday, November 16, 2026, 3:00 AM - 6:00 AM · The Philosophical Research Society, Los Feliz, Los Angeles
Illustrated lecture by Uma Sanasaryan tracing the Goddess Kali's presence in Hollywood through cinema, pop culture, and archival research. The talk covers devotional sculpture and tantric ritual at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, founded in Hollywood in 1930. Ticketed.
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.