Buddhism
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
On the Bardo Thodol, Death as Initiation, and the Light You Will Not Recognize
Esoteric Traditions
American Seers
The Secret Teachings
On Manly P. Hall, the encyclopedia he wrote at twenty-seven, and the Los Angeles institution that has quietly preserved the Western esoteric tradition for a century
Perennial Philosophy
The Forgotten Leibniz
On the philosopher who coined 'perennial philosophy,' saw God in the calculus, and has been remembered for everything except his most important insight
Shamanism
The Wound That Opens
On shamanic initiation, the sickness that precedes the calling, the death-and-rebirth structure of authentic spiritual authority, and why the healer must first be broken
Hermeticism
Bruno and the Art of Forgetting Yourself
On Giordano Bruno, the Art of Memory as Hermetic psychotechnology, the infinite universe, and the Inquisition's bonfire
The Grail Tradition
The Cathars and the Hidden Church
On the Cathars' challenge to Christianity's compromise with power, matter, and violence, and why their destruction left fundamental questions about spirit unanswered
McKenna
Food of the Gods
On the Stoned Ape Hypothesis, the Human-Plant Relationship, and the Pharmacological Dimension of Human Becoming
Earth Traditions
The Hive as Mystery
On Bees as Souls, Honey as Ambrosia, and the Sacred Architecture of the Superorganism
Christian Mysticism
The Interior Castle
On Teresa of Avila, the Mansions of the Soul, and the Marriage at the Center
The Suppressed Gnosis
The Living Gnostics
On Manichaeism, the Cathars, and the Thread That Runs Through the Burning
Buddhism
The Bodhisattva Vow
On Mahayana Ethics, Collective Liberation, and the One Who Stays
American Seers
The Imaginal Act
On Neville Goddard, the Barbadian mystic who taught that the human imagination is God, and whose radical reading of scripture as psychology anticipated depth therapy by decades