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The individual responsible for opening my way to magic was a flamboyant gay biker artist with a dangerous fancy for the Hell’s Angels and a serious interest in the notorious Aleister Crowley. An excerpt from my new book, Touched By The Presence: From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult, out this autumn.

On the afternoon of May 9,1980, after two years of a deep, paralyzing depression and at least one psychotic episode, the brilliant Scots...

Who was Fernando Pessoa? Oddly enough, the last person to answer that question was Pessoa himself.

May the light be with you.

“ It is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing up everything.”

Who was Rudolf Steiner? That's a good question.

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...

This is the Introduction to my new book, Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way.

The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one...

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...

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

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...