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Escape From L.A.
Thirty years ago I boarded a jet at LAX enroute to my new life as a writer in London. Was it destiny?

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5 days ago9 min read


The Vision of W. B. Yeats
Has Yeats' rough beast made its way to Bethlehem?

garylachman8
Dec 1, 202514 min read


Touched By The Presence - The Film
You haven't read the book - but now you can see the movie!

garylachman8
Nov 1, 20255 min read


Magician, Guru, Demagogue?
Nobody listens to Casssandras.

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Oct 1, 20259 min read


Next Stop: The Harmonic Convergence
In August 1987, I found myself in one of the safest spots on the planet during an event of cosmic importance.

garylachman8
Sep 1, 202516 min read


The Beast on the Bowery
The individual responsible for opening my way to magic was a flamboyant gay biker artist with a dangerous fancy for the Hell’s Angels and a serious interest in the notorious Aleister Crowley. An excerpt from my new book, Touched By The Presence: From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult, out this autumn.

garylachman8
Aug 1, 202512 min read


Colin Wilson's Double Brain
How do we get from one brain to the other?

garylachman8
Jul 1, 202523 min read


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

garylachman8
Jun 7, 202518 min read


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 1, 202513 min read


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

garylachman8
Apr 1, 202512 min read


Dion Fortune, Psychic Warrior
May the light be with you.

garylachman8
Mar 1, 202515 min read


Polish Vampires from Space!
Not all vampires are from Transylvania.

garylachman8
Feb 1, 20256 min read


Touched By The Presence in 2025
Dateline London: Exclusive. New memoir, new map and much more.

garylachman8
Jan 1, 202510 min read


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


Dark Stars Rise Again
Dark Stars Rise Again

garylachman8
Nov 6, 20248 min read


Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold
Who was Rudolf Steiner? That's a good question.

garylachman8
Nov 1, 202418 min read


Homunculi, Golems, and Artificial Life
Artificial life is nothing new.

garylachman8
Oct 1, 202411 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....

garylachman8
Sep 1, 202413 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...

garylachman8
Aug 1, 202415 min read


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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