Sacred Geometry
The Buddhabrot
On the meditating figure at the heart of iterative mathematics, and what the Mandelbrot set discloses about the geometry of consciousness
The Cartographer
Western Occult Revival
The Grand Architect
On the Demiurge in Masonic dress, the 1723 regularization that stripped the Gnostic substrate, and why this school is the recovery project the tradition has been reaching for ever since
Tantra
The Western Transmission
On Aleister Crowley, the OTO, the sexual magic tradition, and what happened when Tantra's most dangerous practices met the Western occult imagination
Tantra
The Diamond Vehicle
On Vajrayana Buddhism, deity yoga, the two stages of practice, and the Tibetan tradition of awakening through transformation rather than renunciation
Tantra
Recognition Philosophy
On Kashmir Shaivism, Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka, the Pratyabhijna or recognition philosophy, and the non-dual Shaiva account of what is already the case
Tantra
The Serpent and the Spine
On kundalini, the chakra system, the physiology of awakening, and what happens when the dormant energy at the base of the spine begins to move
Tantra
The Goddess Wakes
On the Shakta traditions, the Devi Mahatmya, and the goddess as the ultimate reality rather than the divine consort
Tantra
Against the Grain
On what Tantra actually is, the Vamachara and the five makaras, and transgression as a technology of liberation rather than license
Sufism
The Transmission West
On Gurdjieff's Sufi sources, Idries Shah's radical critique, and what survived and what was lost when Sufism crossed into Western esotericism
Sufism
The Orders
On the Sufi tariqa system, the silsila of transmission, the sheikh-mureed relationship, and what it means to receive a living tradition
Sufism
The Stations and the States
On the maqamat and ahwal, the structure of the Sufi path, and the precise cartography of interior transformation
Sufism
Ibn Arabi and the Imaginal World
On the greatest systematic mystic of Islam, the Unity of Being, and the doctrine that the cosmos is God's imagination of itself