Edward Kelley: What an Alchemist Really Did
What an alchemist really did, told through Edward Kelley: the Trebon laboratory in John Dee's diary, the 1586 projection, the 1587 fire, Burghley's letters, two prisons and his...
Bezoar Stones: The Antidote Myth and the 1567 Test
The stomach stone that kings set in gold as an antidote: its Persian origin, cabinets of curiosities, Ambroise Paré's deadly 1567 test, artificial Goa stones and what science...
Kaula Tantra: History, the Five M's and Modern Myths
The path of energy that treats all of life as divine: what Kaula means, what the five M's really are, how Tantra became a New York scandal in...
The Good Friday Experiment: Psilocybin at Marsh Chapel
Boston, Good Friday 1962: twenty divinity students, one chapel, psilocybin or a placebo. What Walter Pahnke measured, what he left out for 29 years, and where the question...
Mont-Saint-Michel: Legend, Tides and the "Saint Michael Line" Checked
A bishop with a hole in his skull, a forest drowned in 709, a tide as fast as a galloping horse and a straight line of Michael sanctuaries...
Element 115 and Bob Lazar: What the Lab Data Show
Bob Lazar called element 115 stable and impossible to make. Dubna made it in 2003 and Darmstadt confirmed it. What the data show and what is still open.
Astragalomancy: Knucklebone Divination Explained
Astragalomancy is divination with sheep ankle bones: how the ancient oracle pillars worked, why the bones fall unevenly, and where it lives on today.
The Golem of Prague: Where the Legend Comes From
A man of clay brought to life by a word: how the golem traveled from Psalm 139 and the Talmud through medieval mysticism to Prague, Hollywood and the...
Johann Weyer: The Physician Who Called Witches Deluded, Not Guilty
In 1563 a court physician argued that most accused witches were old, melancholic women deceived by the devil. What Johann Weyer's book really says — Agrippa's dog, Faust,...
Giambattista della Porta: The Witches' Ointment, Bodin and the Chapter That Vanished
He printed a witches' ointment and an experiment with an old woman in 1558. Bodin called the book worthy of the fire, Scot used it against witch-hunters, a...
Marie-Louise von Franz: Fairy Tales, Alchemy and a Missing Name
She paid for her analysis with Jung in Latin translations, read fairy tales as maps of the psyche, and waited sixty years for her name on her own...
Israel Regardie: The Man Who Published the Golden Dawn's Secrets
Crowley's former secretary swore an oath of secrecy, left the order within a year and printed everything. What is documented about Israel Regardie, and what is only told.