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,...

The twentieth century esoteric philosopher Valentin Tomberg was born in 1900 in St. Petersburg to a Russian father and an Estonian...

What happens when we die? Human beings have asked this question probably more than any other, with “Does God exist?” and “What is the...

Sometime in the 1940s, the behavioural psychologist Abraham Maslow had what then seemed a radically new idea. He decided to study healthy...

Visitors to New York City’s Upper West Side may wonder about a peculiar cornerstone that adorns a twenty-four story skyscraper at 310...

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...

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...