Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World.
An independent magazine on alchemy, consciousness, psychedelics, philosophy, mysticism and strange history. Old texts read closely, new research followed carefully.
Latest articles
- Alice Coltrane's Turn Toward God After John Coltrane died in 1967, his widow went through an ordeal, found a guru, made two astonishing records and left the music business for an ashram.
- MKUltra: The CIA's Secret Psychedelic Experiments For twenty years the CIA tested LSD on Americans, some of them unwitting. Then it destroyed the files. Here is what survived.
- Isaac Newton's Secret Life as an Alchemist A 1936 auction revealed that the author of the Principia wrote about a million words on alchemy. Here is what the manuscripts really show.
- Gateway Process: The Army Report That Tried to Explain Consciousness In 1983 an Army officer wrote up astral travel in memo format. What the famous Gateway report says, what page 25 held, and what science supports.
- The Voynich Manuscript: The Book Nobody Can Read A fifteenth-century book in an unknown script has beaten codebreakers for a century. Here is what is known, and why every solution fails.
- What Is the Philosopher's Stone? It was a powder, a medicine, a symbol of Christ and a crime in England. What alchemists really claimed, and what historians now think they were doing.
- What Jung Actually Meant by the Shadow Jung's shadow was a moral problem, not a journaling prompt, and it held more than darkness.
- What Aleister Crowley Meant by True Will "Do what thou wilt" was never a license to do as you please. Crowley meant something stricter, and stranger.
- The Kybalion Is Not Ancient: The Real Story of the Seven Principles The famous seven Hermetic principles were published in Chicago in 1908, almost certainly by one prolific New Thought writer.
- Project Stargate: When the U.S. Government Paid Psychic Spies For two decades and about $20 million, American intelligence tested remote viewing. The declassified files tell a stranger story than the myth.
- Lucid Dreaming Was Proven in a Lab With a Flick of the Eyes In 1975 a sleeping man in Hull signaled to the waking world with his eyes, and a disputed experience became a measurable fact.
- John C. Lilly and the Invention of the Isolation Tank He built the float tank, tried to talk to dolphins, then lost the plot. What John C. Lilly got right, and what flotation research finds now.