Israel Regardie was an influential writer and occultist who is best known for his contributions to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an esoteric society that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Regardie was a student of the famed magician Aleister Crowley, and his work reflects a deep engagement with both […]
One of the problems I encounter living as a mystic in the western world, is there is no respect for individuals living in altered states of consciousness. Whether drug induced, pursued through meditation or ecstatic practice, or the product of full-blown psychosis. The individual in an altered state is uniformly shunned, feared, beaten, incarcerated, or […]
