Solve et Coagula: The Greater Dissolution

By |2025-12-23T15:43:55+01:00December 23rd, 2025|Blog, Essays|

Here we are. At the end of 2025. At the end of the year. At the end of many things, for all things must pass. And in their passing, there is a revealing. And in this revealing there is revelation and renewal. Okay – this was not how I intended to begin my final essay [...]

The Fault Lines of Modernity (or the Veiling of the Sacred)

By |2025-07-29T09:06:22+01:00July 29th, 2025|Blog, Essays|

‘Reality is a creation of our excesses, of our disproportions and derangements’ E.M. Cioran   Modernity from a western perspective has been one of linear progress, as opposed to cyclic notions such as in the works of the Greek poet Hesiod, the Roman poet Ovid, and the Hindu Vedic yugas. Another popular historical narrative is [...]

OUR INITIATION: Passing Through the Underworld

By |2025-04-24T09:45:16+01:00April 24th, 2025|Blog, Essays|

‘Hope, when bold, is strength. Hope, with doubt, is cowardice. Hope, with fear, is weakness.’ G I Gurdjieff   During the six months of winter-spring 2010-2011 I was busy writing what would eventually become my book New Revolutions for a Small Planet: How the Coming Years Will Transform Our Lives that was published in 2012 [...]

Soul-Making

By |2024-09-06T11:05:35+01:00September 6th, 2024|Essays|

‘There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but did not forget that, then there would be no cause to worry; whereas if you performed and remembered and did not forget every single thing, but forget that one thing, then you would have done [...]

THE ACORN & THE CATERPILLAR: Introducing a Perennial Psychology for Contemporary Times

By |2024-09-06T11:06:31+01:00August 24th, 2024|Essays|

‘Man, we say we know, originates from far away; so far, indeed, that in speaking of his origin, such phrases as “beyond the stars” are frequently employed. Man is estranged from his origins. Some of his feelings (but not all of them) are slight indicators of this…Man has the opportunity of returning to his [...]

The Demiurge Perspective & The Artificial God

By |2024-07-26T11:22:51+01:00July 26th, 2024|Essays|

‘… it can be said in all truth that “the end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.’ Rene Guenon   Transmutation and transfiguration can still occur within a realm of illusion. Illusion does not necessarily mean that something is intrinsically wrong but rather that something [...]

Is There Life on Earth? (A Thought Experiment)

By |2024-06-14T09:08:33+01:00June 14th, 2024|Essays|

Sometimes in order to advance along a train of thought it is necessary to be shaken away from the main highway and to take a different track – to receive a ‘shock’ (such as in a thought experiment). This is one of those, as it helps to provide an energetic impetus for the continuation [...]

The Energetics of Equilibrium, Inertia & Evolvement

By |2024-05-30T10:54:10+01:00May 30th, 2024|Essays|

As humanity moves through the transition period of the transmutation octave, or cycle, there will inevitably be a split as people align themselves to differing realities and their resonant frequencies. I have mentioned previously in this series of essays how around the period of the juncture, or what some have termed as the ‘bifurcation,’ [...]

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