Not all vampires are from Transylvania.

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...

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

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...

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...

In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four year old British existentialist Colin Wilson made his first attempt at analysing a...

Was Freud afraid of the occult? That the father of psychoanalysis took a no-nonsense, scientific approach to the mysteries of the 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...

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...