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garylachman8
Aug 115 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...
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garylachman8
Apr 112 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...
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garylachman8
Jan 215 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...
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garylachman8
Nov 6, 202316 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...
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garylachman8
Oct 5, 202311 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...
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garylachman8
Sep 13, 202313 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...
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garylachman8
Jun 8, 202316 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...
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garylachman8
Apr 15, 202314 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...
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garylachman8
Feb 3, 202315 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...
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garylachman8
Sep 16, 202213 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...
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