Gary Lachman is the author of over twenty books about the history of esotericism and its influence on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. His newest book is Maurice Nicoll: The Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way.

Here he weaves a fascinating tapistry involving the ferment in the early twentieth century, including the emergence of depth psychology and a burgeoning esoteric culture including theosophy, anthroposophy, ritual magick, and – particularly – the Fourth Way movement of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. Maurice Nicoll was in the center of this world.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:53 The Fourth Way

00:18:13 Maurice Nicoll and depth psychology

00:28:36 Fourth Way paradoxes

00:44:12 Fusion of psychology and esotericism

00:57:38 Gurdjieff movements

01:06:56 Maurice Nicoll’s significance

01:16:46 Conclusion

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(Recorded on June 6, 2024)

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