Yesterday's panel discussion on Eastern Esotericism in the Western Mode raised so many interesting questions.  The previous one I blogged about, with the ultimate attainment of Moksha was the most outstanding one.  (And I'm going to update that post in a second).  But the panelists asked another really probing question.  Why is it that Westerners ( Read more... )

I'm continuing to plod along through this work.  It's striking me as a slightly more readable, and far less reliable version of Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. At times I find it fascinating and others completely infuriating because it's blazingly clear that whatever research he did to go into this book was only half-baked.  As if ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I was cruising through Barnes and Noble and ran across Mark Booth's "The Secret History of the World" in the actual history section.  I found this kind of curious, and picked it up.  It purported to be about the secret underpinning history that is taught in secret societies and mystery traditions and put together an amazing " ( Read more... )