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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garylachman8
- Nov 6
- 16 min
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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garylachman8
- Oct 5
- 11 min
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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garylachman8
- Sep 13
- 13 min
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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garylachman8
- Aug 5
- 15 min
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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garylachman8
- Jul 4
- 16 min
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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garylachman8
- Jun 8
- 16 min
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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garylachman8
- May 19
- 15 min
H. G. Wells and the Open Conspiracy
In 1946, H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and other classics of science fiction,...
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garylachman8
- Apr 15
- 14 min
Was Freud Afraid of the Occult?
Was Freud afraid of the occult? That the father of psychoanalysis took a no-nonsense, scientific approach to the mysteries of the human...
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garylachman8
- Mar 7
- 14 min
A War Of All Against All?
In 1906 Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures to an audience of mostly Russian and German listeners in the Parisian suburb of Passy....
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garylachman8
- Feb 3
- 15 min
Superhuman, Transhuman, or Fully Human?
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...
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garylachman8
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Amor Fati, Turn Off Your Mind, Literary Suicides, and Maurice Nicoll
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...
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garylachman8
- Dec 29, 2022
- 14 min
Ernst Jünger: The Anarch at Large
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...
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garylachman8
- Oct 25, 2022
- 37 min
Trickle Down Metaphysics: From Nietzsche to Trump
Sometime in late 1887 or early 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche – unread, unwell, and practically unknown at the time– had an...
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garylachman8
- Sep 16, 2022
- 13 min
Sex and Imagination: An Essay in Sexistentialism
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...
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garylachman8
- Aug 31, 2022
- 11 min
Return of the Dark Side
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...
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garylachman8
- Aug 28, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to the new website for Gary Lachman
It's odd writing about yourself in the third person, but the fierce competition for attention these days demands one make things as easy...
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