There were many greats — these ten stood out — In nearly twenty years as a historian of the occult, I have been touched by many great works. While writing my latest book, Modern Occultism (September 19, 2023)— a history of occult thought from late-antiquity to the present — these ten assumed a special place. So much is missing from…

Archetypes As Creative Programming Language For A.I. Prompts Asking whether AI can be sentient is like asking whether God is real. It’s great for arguing, but not so useful beyond that. …

Pataphysics is a freewheeling literary trope that had an oversized but under-appreciated impact on 20th century art and postmodern philosophy. It’s generally thought of as a precursor to other artistic movements, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Decadent movement. However, pataphysics is much more than a footnote in literary history…

Carl Jung — Are His Ideas Psychology or Religion? This follows on from the previous article where I discussed Carl Jung’s two faces, psychologist/scientist, and religious Gnostic. Here I’ll focus on the latter and ask the question, do his ideas constitute a new religion? There are two especially fascinating incidents…

Your gantt chart is a superstitious relic from an age long past. In a world of constant and dramatic change, any attempt to predict the future is simply an act of pseudo-religious deception. To navigate an unknown world, you need to work in cycles, gradually feeling your way forward, knowing that you have no answers, only questions. — There are many different systems and ideas that propose a methodical approach to innovation and transformation. Lean, Agile, Design-thinking and many others, all take a different angle on the same process. When you dig into it, this process is thousands of years old.

Creating an organisation without fixed hierarchies and privileged classes requires new approach to the identification and allocation of tasks and roles. The approach of the Round Table accepts all the different aspects of work within an organisation as integral to its existence. Beyond the removal of hierarchy, a holistic organisation…

Starting with the ideas of Integral theory, it is possible to arrive at the Zodiac, by combining the Integral Quadrants with three levels of worldview. A 5000 year old system based on observation of the seasons, just happens to align with some of the most up-to-date theories of human development. — This part of my ongoing quest to understand different maps of change. I fell into exploring the Zodiac as part of a university statistics project 20 years ago. I found that what I thought was a random superstition was very carefully structured, and contained a lot of useful ideas about…

The Journey into the Unconscious — Jung and Shamanism, Part 4