Gary Lachman is the author The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World as well as over twenty other books about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson.
Here he describes the many mystical threads that run through Russian history. He describes the interplay of Slavic and Mongol shamanism with the Orthodox Christian faith. He highlights many paradoxes associated with the Russian character, such as a penchant to fuse devout religious feelings with a violent temperament. He focuses on Russia's unique geography that is both European and Asian.
(Recorded on March 4, 2020)
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Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, The Quest for Hermes Trigmegistus – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Studies – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, In Search of P. D. Ouspensky – [ Ссылка ]
Gary Lachman, Dark Star Rising: Magicking and Power in the Age of Trump – [ Ссылка ]
Jack Weatherford, Ghengis Khan and the Quest for God – [ Ссылка ]
W. B. Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium (audio) – [ Ссылка ]
Nikolai Berdyaev, The Russian Idea – [ Ссылка ]
Alexander Dugin, Eurasian Mission – [ Ссылка ]
Lesley Chamberlain, The Philosophy Steamer – [ Ссылка ]
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – [ Ссылка ]
Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala – [ Ссылка ]
G. I. Gurdjieff, Meetings With Remarkable Men – [ Ссылка ]
Nicholas Roerich, Realm of Light – [ Ссылка ]
P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous – [ Ссылка ]
P. D. Ouspensky, Letters from Russia 1919 – [ Ссылка ]
Nicolas Berdyaev, The Divine and the Human – [ Ссылка ]
Pitirim A. Sorokin, The Crisis of Our Age – [ Ссылка ]
Pitirim A. Sorokin, The Ways and Powers of Love – [ Ссылка ]
The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowski – [ Ссылка ]
Alejandro Jodorowski, The Holy Mountain (video) – [ Ссылка ]
Alejandro Jodorowski, El Topo (video) – [ Ссылка ]
Herman Hesse, Blick Ins Chaos – [ Ссылка ]
Rene Furor-Miller, Rasputin: The Holy Devil – [ Ссылка ]
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment – [ Ссылка ]
Ivan the Terrible: A Life From Beginning to End – [ Ссылка ]
Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind – [ Ссылка ]
Colin Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs – [ Ссылка ]
Nikolai Fedorov, What Was Man Created For? – [ Ссылка ]
Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle – [ Ссылка ]
Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religions – [ Ссылка ]
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