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

garylachman8
Jul 123 min read


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

garylachman8
Jun 718 min read


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

garylachman8
Feb 16 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


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


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


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...

garylachman8
Nov 6, 202316 min read


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...

garylachman8
Oct 5, 202311 min read


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...

garylachman8
Sep 13, 202313 min read


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...

garylachman8
Jun 8, 202316 min read


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...

garylachman8
Apr 15, 202314 min read


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...

garylachman8
Feb 3, 202315 min read


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...

garylachman8
Sep 16, 202213 min read
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