What is hypnagogia? Let me sleep on it.

On the afternoon of May 9,1980, after two years of a deep, paralyzing depression and at least one psychotic episode, the brilliant Scots...

Who was Fernando Pessoa? Oddly enough, the last person to answer that question was Pessoa himself.

May the light be with you.

Not all vampires are from Transylvania.

Dateline London: Exclusive. New memoir, new map and much more.

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

Dark Stars Rise Again

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

Artificial life is nothing new.

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....

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...

What eldritch terror awaited the new tenant at 169 Clinton Street?

This is the Introduction to my new book, Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way.

The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one...

The German-born cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Yet aside from...

When we think of wars, revolutions, populist uprisings, outbreaks of mass hysteria and other sudden social and political eruptions – even...

In a book I wrote some years ago – A Secret History of Consciousness – a reader can find this statement: “We can characterize the advance...

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...

(Tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Colin Wilson, who passed away on December 5, 2013. I'm posting this article,...