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garylachman8
Nov 118 min read
Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold
Who was Rudolf Steiner? That's a good question.
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garylachman8
Oct 111 min read
Homunculi, Golems, and Artificial Life
Artificial life is nothing new.
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garylachman8
Sep 113 min read
Have We Been Here Before?
Belief in reincarnation is one of the oldest and most durable of human traits, so old and persistent in fact, that the psychologist C. G....
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garylachman8
Aug 115 min read
The Evolution of Consciousness
One of the themes I write about in many of my books is the evolution of consciousness. Although the idea of an evolution of consciousness...
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garylachman8
Jul 115 min read
The Horror at Clinton Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
What eldritch terror awaited the new tenant at 169 Clinton Street?
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garylachman8
Jun 116 min read
Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way
This is the Introduction to my new book, Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way.
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garylachman8
May 111 min read
Ancient Wisdom or Perennial Philosophy?
The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one...
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garylachman8
Apr 112 min read
Jean Gebser: Leaping Into the Unknown
The German-born cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Yet aside from...
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garylachman8
Mar 115 min read
As Above, So Below? Are Cosmic Forces at Work on Earth?
When we think of wars, revolutions, populist uprisings, outbreaks of mass hysteria and other sudden social and political eruptions – even...
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garylachman8
Feb 116 min read
The Observer Observed
In a book I wrote some years ago – A Secret History of Consciousness – a reader can find this statement: “We can characterize the advance...
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garylachman8
Jan 215 min read
If Consciousness is Evolving, Why Aren't Things Getter Better?
When people ask me what I write about I have a few standard replies, depending on the circumstances and the person asking. But one answer...
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garylachman8
Dec 4, 202315 min read
The Outsider and Others: Lovecraft, Wilson and Phenomenological Science Fiction
(Tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Colin Wilson, who passed away on December 5, 2013. I'm posting this article,...
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garylachman8
Nov 6, 202316 min read
Meditations on Valentin Tomberg
The twentieth century esoteric philosopher Valentin Tomberg was born in 1900 in St. Petersburg to a Russian father and an Estonian...
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garylachman8
Oct 5, 202311 min read
Will I Survive? Some Thoughts on the After Life
What happens when we die? Human beings have asked this question probably more than any other, with “Does God exist?” and “What is the...
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garylachman8
Sep 13, 202313 min read
Abraham Maslow and the Farther Reaches of Human Nature
Sometime in the 1940s, the behavioural psychologist Abraham Maslow had what then seemed a radically new idea. He decided to study healthy...
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garylachman8
Aug 5, 202315 min read
Nicholas Roerich: Seeker of Shambhala
Visitors to New York City’s Upper West Side may wonder about a peculiar cornerstone that adorns a twenty-four story skyscraper at 310...
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garylachman8
Jul 4, 202316 min read
I Dream the Future - And So Do You
Some years ago I discovered a remarkable fact: I dream the future, or at least some of my future experience turns up ahead of time in my...
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garylachman8
Jun 8, 202316 min read
The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century
In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four year old British existentialist Colin Wilson made his first attempt at analysing a...
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garylachman8
May 19, 202315 min read
H. G. Wells and the Open Conspiracy
In 1946, H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and other classics of science fiction,...
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