He discusses the impact of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. He explains the origin of the American liberal and conservative traditions in the war of pamphlets between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke. Over time, both liberal and conservative positions tend to reverse. Many examples are provided. He explains the influence of native American culture [...]

Stephen A. Diamond, PhD, is an American clinical and forensic psychologist, a former pupil and protégé of Dr. Rollo May, and notable author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil and Creativity. His work focuses on the psychological topics of anger, violence, evil, mental illness, and the daimonic.

Sarah Janes discusses the ancient history and cultural significance of dreaming, lucid dreaming, and dream incubation as initiatory practices for insight, healing, and guidance. She explores how early civilizations, from Egypt to Anatolia and Greece, used dreams as portals to the sacred, sources of prophecy, and catalysts for transformation. She also describes her contemporary work [...]

Kathleen Speeth, PhD, is co-editor (with Daniel Goleman) of The Essential Psychotherapies. She is author of The Gurdjieff Work and Gurdjieff: Seeker of the Truth. She served on the faculty of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in Menlo Park, California. She maintains that, underneath the apparent separation of individuals, there is a level of unity and interconnectedness. True liberation, suggests [...]

Here she describes magical practices dating back to neolithic times in Britain. She explains that certain sites were used for burials, initiations, and ritual activities. These were carefully coordinated with the seasons and the movement of celestial bodies. She describes her own experience inside an ancient chamber of initiation. She also discusses how people’s experience [...]

Glenn Aparicio Parry explores love as the primordial force underlying nature, consciousness, and the cosmos itself. He describes how ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous worldviews, and modern physics all point toward love as the vibration that restores wholeness amid strife. He also reflects on time, ritual, the moon, and the evolution of human consciousness as pathways [...]

Here he explains that he began having lucid dreams as a child and has now made a profession of studying such dreams and facilitating others in experiencing them. For the most part, he recognizes that lucid dreaming is a way of exploring the depths of one’s own psyche – although it can also be viewed [...]