Alternative Belief Systems

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced...

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousn...

A comprehensive tour of North American spiritual groups that use psychoactive drugs in the search for higher consciousness. For thousands of years,...

An in-depth guide to attaining the enlightenment of the Philosophers Stone. Inspired by alchemists of the past, R. E. Kretz explores the mechanics ...

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth cent...

Recaptures the magical vitality of the original Orphic Hymns. As famous Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote, No magic is more powerful th...

In its most general sense, the term Spiritual but Not Religious denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutiona...

The first step-by-step guide to the techniques of Kaula Tantra, the practical yogini path to enlightenment. Written in the 8th century by the sage ...

T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from bot...

The most popular of the Norse goddesses is the Vanic deity Freya, found across the Norse myths and into modern mass media, yet often obscured by co...

An initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy. In this initiatory guide to the hermetic art of alchemy, artist Marlene Seven Bremner reveal...

Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to...

A collection of essays on magic and occultism. The essays and articles collected in this volume sum up the first not-quite-decade of John Michael ...

When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading domestic life for clothes dyed in orang...

The inside story of the world's most notorious cults.The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rit...