One of the famous shew stones of the Elizabethan magician and spy, John Dee, was of Aztec obsidian brought back from the New World by Spanish conquistadores. The Aztecs used the obsidian shew stone in...
Elizabethan magician and spy, Dee also became convinced that a Welsh prince had discovered America centuries before Columbus.24
Halloween (known among European pagans as Samhain, pronounced sa-wen) is traditionally the day when the dead return to visit the living, similar to the Asian Wandering Souls festival mentioned above....
Perception like a Gestapo boot in the middle of a crystal night. He saw a
Terrorism is nothing more than a form of psychological warfare, as acts of terrorism have no intrinsic military value aside from their effects on the psyches of the target populations.
Is science a candle in the dark?… Or is it simply whistling in the dark?
It was Lippmann who gave us the concept of the stereotype (1922), which was basically a continuation of the Jungian concept of the archetype (1919) by other means. To Lippmann, the world outside our b...
Jack Parsons was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons on October 2, 1914 in Los Angeles, California. His father was a captain in the US Army. His name was also Marvel Parsons. That’s right: his father was Ca...
Levenda’s study is broad and deep, a life’s work that runs to volumes. What distinguishes it from other efforts, such as those of Pasolini, is not merely its comprehensiveness. Rather, it is Levenda’s...
Using selective evidence out of context and ignoring evidence that doesn’t fit in with basic assumptions, it is possible to attack virtually everything and sound knowledgeable doing it.
And, finally, what about the reality of spiritual experience? Are saints and madmen equally deluded? Are witches’ sabbats the same as alien abductions? Is exorcism merely a form of psychotherapy, or i...
It is better to rely on one’s self alone. In my cat-life, all our training is founded on suspicion. I can see that it is just the same in the life of men. Those who confide in others are only betrayed...
The involvement of intelligence agents in the field of Egyptian archaeology, the UFO phenomenon, and other odd pursuits will be discussed in a later chapter. For now, it suffices to point out that psy...
The physical world has its boundaries; only the psychic is ‘oceanic,’ as the author of Civilization and its Discontents puts it. That is why mankind’s next bold step must be the materialization of th...