Sufism
I Am the Truth
On Al-Hallaj, the Martyr of Islamic Mysticism, and What the Institution Cannot Forgive
Esoteric Traditions
Sacred Geometry
A Love Letter to the Pine Cone: On the Most Stubborn Symbol in Human History
On how the pine cone encodes mathematical order in nature, and why this stubborn fact resists every meaning we try to assign it
Western Occult Revival
Western Initiatory Orders: Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn, and the Invisible College
On the invisible brotherhoods that may never have existed, the synthesis that transformed European thought, and how initiatory orders transmit knowledge across centuries
The Suppressed Gnosis
The Nag Hammadi Library
On the Buried Jars, the Burned Books, and the Tradition That Survived Its Own Destruction
Buddhism
The Original Teaching
On the Four Noble Truths and the Path That Leads Through Suffering
McKenna
True Hallucinations
On the Experiment at La Chorrera, the genesis of the Timewave from a psychedelic revelation in the Amazon, and what McKenna understood himself to have discovered in February 1971
American Seers
The Poughkeepsie Seer
On Andrew Jackson Davis, the first systematic American visionary, who mapped the spirit world before Spiritualism existed and whose cosmology anticipated everything that came after
Earth Traditions
The Green Man
On the foliate head, the dying and rising vegetation deity, and the masculine face of earth mysticism that Christianity could not fully absorb
Christian Mysticism
The Dark Night
On St. John of the Cross, the two darknesses that precede illumination, and the most psychologically precise account of spiritual crisis in the Western tradition
Shamanism
The Technical Ecstatic
On shamanism as a technology of consciousness, the structure of the shamanic call, and why this oldest of spiritual practices refuses to be dismissed as primitive superstition
The Grail Tradition
The Wasteland and the Question
On the Wasteland as a crisis of consciousness where vital meaning has drained from inherited forms, and how innocence alone can ask the questions that restore wholeness
Poets and Prophets
The Doors of Perception
On Blake's Influence from Huxley to Morrison, the Specific Claim That Runs Through All of It, and Why It Matters