Is the New Left the Old Occult?
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
Gnosticism
How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?
Thomas Merton started as a writer, became a Trappist monk with genuine insight into the spiritual life, and then wrapped himself in worldly activism. What happened?
Those Hippy Puritans
Exploring America's Millenarian Movements
We are a nation held together, paradoxically, by the agonism of conflicting
millenarian projections: communists, race mythologists, space-alien cults,
hippie utopians, biblical numerologists and an uncountable number of Great
A Key Modern School of Philosophy Looked a Lot Like an Ancient School of Heresy
The pagan cosmic system of late antiquity put the earth at the center of
creation, surrounded by eight heavenly spheres: (sun, moon, first five planets,
and their stars).
The ancient Christian heresy of