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
Esoteric Traditions
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
Sufism
Fana and Baqa
On the annihilation of the self in God, the subsistence that follows, and the Sufi psychology of what survives ego-dissolution
Sufism
The Wine That Was Never Grapes
On Rumi, the reed flute of separation, and the Masnavi as a complete curriculum in the experience of divine longing
Kabbalah
The Tree in the West
On Christian Kabbalah, the Golden Dawn's adaptation of the Tree of Life, and how Kabbalah became the spine of Western ceremonial magic
Kabbalah
The Golem and the Power of the Name
On the Golem of Prague, the theology of divine names as creative force, the shadow the tradition encoded in clay, and what the oldest artificial intelligence story in Western esotericism accurately predicted
Kabbalah
Luria and the Shattered Vessels
On Isaac Luria, Tzimtzum, the catastrophe of the shattering, and Tikkun Olam as the cosmic purpose of human existence
Kabbalah
The Tree
On the Kabbalistic Tree of Life as a map of consciousness, the four worlds, and the paths between the Sefirot as the grammar of transformation
Kabbalah
The Bahir and the Zohar
On the emergence of classical Kabbalah, Moses de Leon's masterwork, and the Sefirot as the inner life of God
Kabbalah
The Book That Thinks God
On the Sefer Yetzirah, Hebrew letters as the substance of creation, and the radical claim that language is not about reality but constitutes it