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What is Hypnagogia?
What is hypnagogia? Let me sleep on it.

garylachman8
Jun 718 min read
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The Strange Death of James Webb
On the afternoon of May 9,1980, after two years of a deep, paralyzing depression and at least one psychotic episode, the brilliant Scots...

garylachman8
May 113 min read
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The Occult World of Fernando Pessoa
Who was Fernando Pessoa? Oddly enough, the last person to answer that question was Pessoa himself.

garylachman8
Apr 112 min read
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Dion Fortune, Psychic Warrior
May the light be with you.

garylachman8
Mar 115 min read
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Polish Vampires from Space!
Not all vampires are from Transylvania.

garylachman8
Feb 16 min read
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Touched By The Presence in 2025
Dateline London: Exclusive. New memoir, new map and much more.

garylachman8
Jan 110 min read
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Julius Evola: Mussolini's Mystic
“ It is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing up everything.”

garylachman8
Dec 1, 202418 min read
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Dark Stars Rise Again
Dark Stars Rise Again

garylachman8
Nov 6, 20248 min read
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Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold
Who was Rudolf Steiner? That's a good question.

garylachman8
Nov 1, 202418 min read
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Homunculi, Golems, and Artificial Life
Artificial life is nothing new.

garylachman8
Oct 1, 202411 min read
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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....

garylachman8
Sep 1, 202413 min read
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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...

garylachman8
Aug 1, 202415 min read
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The Horror at Clinton Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
What eldritch terror awaited the new tenant at 169 Clinton Street?

garylachman8
Jul 1, 202415 min read
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Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way
This is the Introduction to my new book, Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way.

garylachman8
Jun 1, 202416 min read
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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...

garylachman8
May 1, 202411 min read
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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...

garylachman8
Apr 1, 202412 min read
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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...

garylachman8
Mar 1, 202415 min read
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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...

garylachman8
Feb 1, 202416 min read
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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...

garylachman8
Jan 2, 202415 min read
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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,...

garylachman8
Dec 4, 202315 min read
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