In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four year old British existentialist Colin Wilson made his first attempt at analysing a...

In 1946, H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and other classics of science fiction,...

Was Freud afraid of the occult? That the father of psychoanalysis took a no-nonsense, scientific approach to the mysteries of the human...

In 1906 Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures to an audience of mostly Russian and German listeners in the Parisian suburb of Passy....

A question that will become more and more dominant as the century goes on is the question of what it means to be human. We are already...

First off, let me say thank you and happy new year to the many people who have subscribed to my new website. I appreciate your interest...

Ernst Jünger isn’t a name on many English speakers’ lips, although in his home country of Germany he is recognised as one of that...

Sometime in late 1887 or early 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche – unread, unwell, and practically unknown at the time– had an...

In a book I’ve recently finished, a biography of "the forgotten teacher of the Fourth Way," Maurice Nicoll, now with the editors, sex has...

It’s a truism of psychoanalysis and other forms of depth psychology that, although we would very much like it to, the repressed does not...

It's odd writing about yourself in the third person, but the fierce competition for attention these days demands one make things as easy...