Perennial Philosophy
The Mystic's Agreement
On the convergent testimony of direct experience across the traditions — what the contemplatives actually report, and why the similarities are not accidental
Esoteric Traditions
Shamanism
The Plant Teachers
On the role of entheogenic plants in shamanic practice — ayahuasca, peyote, mushrooms, and the question of what, exactly, is being encountered in the visionary state
Hermeticism
Ficino and the Florentine Miracle
On Marsilio Ficino, the Platonic Academy at Careggi, and the recovery of philosophy as a technology for soul-transformation
The Grail Tradition
The Grail as Living Symbol
On the Grail as inexhaustible symbol that resists fixed meaning, and why its survival depends on our willingness to encounter rather than interpret
McKenna
McKenna Now
On the Bard's Legacy, the Psychedelic Renaissance, and What the Voice at the Edge of the Map Has to Offer the Current Moment
Earth Traditions
The Initiated Witch
On the craft as a lineaged practice and the archetype it carries
Christian Mysticism
The Dark Night of the Soul
On John of the Cross, the Purification That Feels Like Abandonment, and the Love That Works in Darkness
Buddhism
The Greater Vehicle
On the Theravada–Mahayana–Vajrayana arc, and why the Buddhist tradition’s schisms moved in the opposite direction from the Protestant ones — elaborating the symbolic and the embodied rather than stripping them
The Suppressed Gnosis
The Cathar Fire
On the medieval resurgence of Gnostic Christianity in Languedoc, the Albigensian Crusade, and what it means when an institution must kill a tradition to remain the only one
Shamanism
Core Shamanism and Its Discontents
On Michael Harner's distillation of universal shamanic technique, the controversy around detaching method from culture, and the genuine question of whether shamanism can be transplanted without its soil
Hermeticism
Pico and the Dignity of Everything
On Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Oration on the Dignity of Man, and the synthesis that the Church condemned
American Seers
The Man in the Chair
On Edgar Cayce — the Sunday school teacher from Kentucky who accurately diagnosed illnesses from hundreds of miles away while unconscious, left 14,306 transcribed readings in an archive in Virginia Beach, and accidentally became the most documented case of trance-state information retrieval in the h