Blog | Gary Lachman

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Dec 118 min read

Julius Evola: Mussolini's Mystic

“ It is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing up everything.”

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Nov 68 min read

Dark Stars Rise Again

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Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold

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Nov 118 min read

Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold

Who was Rudolf Steiner? That's a good question.

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Oct 111 min read

Homunculi, Golems, and Artificial Life

Artificial life is nothing new.

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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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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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The Horror at Clinton Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Brooklyn

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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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Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way

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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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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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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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As Above, So Below? Are Cosmic Forces at Work on Earth?

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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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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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If Consciousness is Evolving, Why Aren't Things Getter Better?

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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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The Outsider and Others: Lovecraft, Wilson and Phenomenological Science Fiction

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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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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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Will I Survive? Some Thoughts on the After Life

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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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Abraham Maslow and the Farther Reaches of Human Nature

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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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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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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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The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century

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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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