Hermeticism
Alchemy: The Royal Art and the Gold That Cannot Be Spent
On the alchemical tradition as a complete map of psychological transformation, encoded in the language of metallurgy, where the gold sought was always the perfected self
Esoteric Traditions
The Suppressed Gnosis
The Gospel of Thomas
On the Living Jesus, the 114 Sayings, and the Kingdom That Is Already Spread Upon the Earth
Buddhism
The Empty Throne
On Nagarjuna, the Middle Way, and the Two Truths That Dissolve the Floor
McKenna
The Machine Elves
On McKenna's phenomenology of the DMT state, the self-transforming machine elves of hyperspace, and what the consistency of the encounter across subjects suggests about the nature of the Other
American Seers
The Rappings
On the Fox Sisters, the birth of American Spiritualism, and what the most controversial religious movement of the nineteenth century was actually asking
Perennial Philosophy
The Man Who Read Everything
On René Guénon, the French metaphysician who diagnosed modernity as a spiritual catastrophe and proposed the traditional metaphysics of the East as the only adequate response
Earth Traditions
The Wheel and the Year
On the eight-fold sacred calendar, the initiatory structure hidden in the seasonal cycle, and what it means to let time be teachers
Christian Mysticism
The Monk at the Border
On Thomas Merton, the contemplative as cultural critic, and the life that demonstrated what happens when Christian mysticism meets the twentieth century without flinching
Shamanism
The Three Worlds
On the shamanic cosmology of upper, middle, and lower worlds — the geography of non-ordinary reality, its consistent features across cultures, and what the map is actually mapping
The Grail Tradition
The Troubadours and Courtly Love
On how the troubadours made romantic love into a spiritual path, and why the obstacle to desire was the point
Hermeticism
Iamblichus and Theurgy: Working With the Gods
On the split between intellectual contemplation and ritual action, why the soul requires divine participation to ascend, and how Iamblichus rebuilt Neoplatonism to make theurgy foundational to Western esotericism
Christian Mysticism
The Spark of the Soul
On Meister Eckhart, the Grunt of the Soul, and the Ground Where God and Human Being Are One