Read: Part 1 The boys expected to find the hospital in chaos, with nurses and doctors rushing frantically around Grady. Instead, they walked into sterile white indifference. Grady, pale but otherwise looking the same as always, smiled at them from his bed. Grady’s mother was there too, her enormous girth…

12:05 AM, January 1, 1967. Lower Haight neighborhood, San Francisco, California. The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” emanates from a dilapidated house on an otherwise quiet street. The house’s windows glow with soft orange light. Darkness bathes the front porch. …

I don’t know how the saying was originally used. I only know how it’s used today. A picture is worth a thousand words. Yea, yea, yea… A few variations exist for the common usage of the phrase, but generally it’s just used as a way to denigrate words, books, and…

Fascinating. Strange. Beautiful. Inspiring. Hilarious. Those are words I’d use to describe LightBringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland. Basically, it’s got it all. Stories of the Strange, the Mystic, of Seekers Both Hapless and Hallowed, Black Bibles, and Grave Robbers Lightbringers of the North brings forth Finland’s stories of the occult, the mystical, and the just-plain strange. …

I’m interested in unexpected and unique people, and I’m interested in unexpected and unique books. Megan Rose nails it on the former, and Spirit Marriage nails it on the latter. In earning her Phd from the California Institute of Integral Studies, Rose studied a phenomenon she calls “spirit marriage.” It…

Part 2 of the Archon Hunter series Part 1 is HERE. Previous chapter is HERE. Jakob watched her car disappear into the winding suburban streets of north Tacoma. His eyes turned to the house from which she’d come. He didn’t see anything unusual there, but he felt a darkness — something from the Other Side. Slipstream static…

In the early 20th Century, a mysterious mystic named GI Gurdjieff brought forth a symbol that he called an enneagram. Like much of his teachings, the full meaning of the enneagram was never elucidated upon — at least, not in any way that most of us have been able to…

Many people have a hard time understanding how someone can be open to ideas from multiple religious and spiritual perspectives. “Isn’t that a contradiction?” they ask. The answer is, “Yes, sometimes. But not usually.” Let me explain. I understand perfectly well how the “spiritual ragpicker” perspective seems paradoxical to many…

Why fight if defeat is inevitable? Why not get down with the nihilism? — They say that the decline of the West is inevitable. All Earthly things have their cycles, and the West has simply reached the downslope of its own. It’s just the way of things. No one and nothing can stop it. Decades of sloth, corruption, incompetence, and selfishness on part of…