Gary Lachman is the author of twenty-one books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, [...]

Here he equates the map of all maps of consciousness with the mythological story of Indra’s Web. He draws both ethical and practical observations from this comparison

James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website [...]

Jeffrey Mishlove explores the complex relationship Rudolf Steiner had with the person and legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Steiner maintained that Nietzsche has been a Franciscan ascetic monk in a previous lifetime. He believed himself to be the reincarnated spirit of the medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. Steiner saw both himself and Nietzsche as wrestling with the [...]