Gary Lachman
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Writer, lecturer, philosopher: "Lachman writes about philosophical and mystical ideas with exceptional grace, forcefulness and clarity."—The Washington Post
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Here's the cover for my biography of Maurice Nicoll, the forgotten teacher of the Fourth Way, due out with Inner Traditions sometime next year.
#Jung
#Gurdjieff
#Ouspensky
#Swedenborg
#Fourthway
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I've just signed the contracts for a memoir of how I went from writing songs and playing in rock bands to writing books and lecturing on them. Quite a bit in between. I wrote it last year to keep sane. Not sure how long that will last. P.S. The 45's a hint toward the title.
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Apparently I'm the 80th most spiritually influentially person alive today, at least according to Watkins Mind Body and Spirit Review. Surely there's been some mistake, but I'm nonetheless chuffed to be in such esteemed company.
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Post-Newton we lived in a clockwork universe. After Einstein it was relative. In our computerized age we're told we live in a simulation. Remarkable how powerfully metaphors come to dominate first the scientific then the popular mind and come to be accepted as fact.
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At the British Library today the security person checked my bag. "Carrying anything sharp?" he asked. "Just my wit," I replied. He didn't smile but I've been waiting a long time to use that one.
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My favorite answer to the question "What is the content of mystical experiences? "The sense of a tremendous muchness suddenly revealed." - William James, A Suggestion About Mysticism.
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On July 4 1975 I played my first gig at CBGB with Blondie. On July 4 1977 I left Blondie to pursue my destiny. Come here what happened in between on July 4 2023 at the Century Club
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"Whatever we build in the imagination will accomplish itself in the circumstances of our lives." - W. B. Yeats, poet, magician, theosophist.
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I see quite a bit of action here about the "occult" influence on the US presidential race. I wrote a book about the same thing happening in 2016. Let me know what you think.
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A Tom Verlaine anecdote from the Television/Blondie UK tour 1977.
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Remarkable. I don't look a day over 65.
Happy Birthday, Gary (Valentine) Lachman!
📸: Kate Simon
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Has it occurred to anyone else that we are so liberated these days that we have no idea what to do with ourselves, except to dismantle the means of our liberation, and so liberate ourselves even from liberty? Oh compulsion, be thou my freedom...
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Who was Hermes Trismegistus? A good question I will do my best to answer 24/6/23 1:00 - 2:30 CT:
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Just to show I'm not always writing books. From last night's gig with Bootleg Blondie. I'm playing my original short scale Rickenbacker bass, not seen in the UK since 1977.
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8 May, White Lotus Day, marks the death, in 1891, of the redoubtable Madame Blavatsky, a remarkable woman who influenced the modern world - its art, religion, and politics - in ways that still are not adequately recognized.
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Who was Valentin Tomberg? Among other things, the author of one of the few truly esoteric works of the 20th century:
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"I am not of a sensational nature. I try to keep an even keel, to stay as balanced and composed as possible, in the face of often surprising events. But I can’t deny it. I have dreamed the future. And so have you."
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A fair handed review of my book Dreaming Ahead of Time from the Society of Psychical Research. and
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My biography of Maurice Nicoll, colleague of Jung, Gurdjieff, and Ouspensky, out next June. Get in on the octave.
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In honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of Colin Wilson, who passed away on December 5, 2013. What happens when one outsider meets another?
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I'm flattered, but why are all these scantily clad women liking my posts?
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Appropriate, no, on White Lotus Day, to let you know that on 19 May I'll be talking about the life and times of that remarkable 19th century free-thinker, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in a Zoom talk for the London Theosophical Society ?
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Strange. I'm researching a book about precognitive dreams and in a dream from 1998 someone tells me to "Just stay home. There's no reason to go out. Just stay home, where it's safe."
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The beauty, mystery and meaning of a sunset is part of the sunset, not 'subjectively' added to it, as sugar may be to coffee. Its ontological status is equal to the physical star I see. But it would not exist were I not there to bring it into being.
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Effort is proof of free will. No machine can make an effort, nor can any computer, no matter its operating system. Only a being with free will can “pull himself together,” “try harder,” and strain to reach reserves of energy he doesn’t even know he has. What machine can do that?
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Found today at Judd Books on Marchmont Street, just down from the British Library, a signed copy of Order of Assassins.
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I've been reading a lot about Zen lately. Seems there's two main schools, Rinzai and Soto. I figure, if they got together as Risoto, they'd go over big in Italy.
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I'll be speaking about the Lost Knowledge of the Imagination at this event. Its recovery is very much needed these days.
On 15 September, 1:00 PM ET, I'll be speaking about the Future of Consciousness. Dean Radin, Paul Levy, Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Smoley and Jeffrey Kripal will be too. Please use the very encouraging code GARYLACHMANFUTURE when plumping for tickets.
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New Year's Resolution: Do not ask "what is good?" but do the good that you know. - Swedenborg
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Great set with Bootleg Blondie at the Jordan Mooney Memorial.
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How many gurus had their own skyscraper? The artist, explorer, mystic, and esoteric politician Nicholas Roerich did. Follow him on his search for the secret city of Shambhala:
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You can take the writer out of rock and roll but... This was the first time I played my Blondie tunes in the UK since our first tour in 1977, during the Queen's Silver Jubilee. That week, God Save the Queen was banned.
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will." - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, 1922.
It doesn't get clearer than this.
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Here's to a very merry Christmas, and may the new year be kind to us all. Lord knows we could use it. In the meantime, let us follow the example of the three wise men...
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Today is the birthday of the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky. He would have considered recent events yet another addition to the "history of crime," and the main player in them a "has namus," one who causes "enormous suffering" to further his ambitions.
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The world will never become a paradise. Let us not deceive ourselves. The world will not become much better, merely a little different, and perhaps somewhat more appreciative of the things that really matter. - Jean Gebser
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When I lived in New York I loved the Greek coffee shops, especially the philosophical ones. Socrates' Cafe, where the unexamined meal is not worth eating, Zeno's Coffee Shop, where your order never arrives, and the Heraclitus Cafe, where you can never get the same thing twice.
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Was Freud Afraid of the Occult?
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Off to Manchester tomorrow for another Bootleg Blondie gig. Last time I performed there was 1977, when Blondie was the support for Television. I'll be playing same bass I did back then and pretty much the same tunes...
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In complete harmony with the higher will and recognizing the absolute worth of all other persons, participate as fully as you can in the work of making yourself and every one more perfect, so that the Kingdom of God may be finally revealed in the world. - Vladimir Solovyov.
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Resentment and indignation are feelings dangerous to the possessor and to be sparingly used. They give comfort too cheaply; they rot judgment, and by encouraging passivity they come to require that evil continue for the sake of the grievance to be enjoyed. - Jacques Barzun
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A philosophical cafe in the old Jewish section of Budapest.
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Do the stars in their courses exert certain forces? Or are they blind, satanic mills, oblivious to our wills? Decide for yourself.
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The entrance to the Theosophical Society HQ in Budapest, founded in 1906. The occult writer Gustav Meyrink was among its early members. Many thanks to David Teszar for the esoteric guided tour.
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A message from a reader on my birthday "There’s lots of people engaged in intellectual history. They’ve read everything & everyone but when they lack insight and produce the work cold and clinically, it has no pathos. You’re the complete opposite of that." What better gift?
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Why did a highly successful and respected psychologist abandon his prestigious practice to become a student of a mysterious, unpredictable guru? And what does the dream diary he kept tell us about this? Find out this summer.
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I'd hate to profit from a potential catastrophe, but anyone wondering why the US elections in November are important might take a look at this book:
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Do people have the right to be stupid? If so, they seem to be exercising it quite a bit.
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If you want to change the world, the best place to start is with yourself. You can start with something small and go from there. As the Swedish savant Swedenborg said long ago, do the good that you know. It is not hard to find. Usually it is right there, in front of you.
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Was Jung a mystic, or a scientist, or something somewhere in between? Decide for yourself after attending my lecture on the Lord of the Underworld, 27 March, 8:00-9:30 pm GMT:
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Synchronicity alert: Watching the British B film The Traitors, I think of the statue for H. G. Wells The War of The Worlds and wonder where it is. I find it in Woking, and return to the film. The first sentence I hear is "I've spent all night in Woking.
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You can you know.
“As Colin Wilson pointed out decades ago, modern man suffers from what he calls ‘the fallacy of insignificance’, the sense that nothing we do really matters, that life is meaningless, and that, in the long run, ‘you can’t win’.”
~ Gary Lachman, The Caretakers of the Cosmos.
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And while you're keeping clean, be mindful of the Mind Parasites. They spread a virus difficult to detect yet deadly in its effect...
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My article on precognitive dreams is in the current issue of
@ForteanTimes
. "I Dream the Future - And So Do You"
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We live in an age when everything is plausible and nothing is definite. I call it "trickle down metaphysics."
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My talk on Jung and the Dead for the London Theosophical Society:
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Have the plant people twigged to Gustav Fechner, who was writing about the soul of plants and the earth as an angel two centuries ago?
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Fruits of my labours, soon to be shared. My biography of Maurice Nicoll, and my map of H P Lovecraft's homes and travels. and
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@Andrew_Adonis
What tosh. I re-re-re-read many of the books in my library, which consists of bookshelves I have had for many years, overflowing with old occupants and new arrivals. Get in touch with your True Shelf.
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En route to speak about Colin Wilson's Outsiders, I see this at my local market's checkout stand. Thank you.
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It struck me that I was in the position of so many of my favorite characters in fiction: Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge, the young writer in Hamsun's Hunger; alone in my room, feeling totally cut off from the rest of society. - Colin Wilson, The Outsider.
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I saw with undoubted clarity that violent methods in anything whatever would unfailingly produce negative results... P.D. Ouspensky, in the midst of the Russian Civil War.
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I'm always amazed at the efforts people make to deny that we have free will. One would almost think they had decided to do this.
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May the new year be kind to us all. And may we find less reason to make others feel guilty and ourselves virtuous. The sentiment of "O Freunde, nicht diese Tone" has never been more needed.
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I'll be discussing the work of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint with the art critic Matthew Collings at the Standon Calling Festival 22/7/23.
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Pseudoscience, i.e., what your opponents call what you're doing once they've twigged that you're on to something.
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For centuries Hermes Trismegistus was believed to be a great sage from the dim past whose teaching inspired Moses, Plato and Jesus. Then humanist scholarship pulled the rug out from under him. Or did it? Decide for yourself 24/6/23 1-2:30 CT
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I've just heard that the pb of Beyond the Robot, my book about Colin Wilson, is now out of print. If you are among the many who didn't buy a copy, there's still time to not get the Kindle edition too.
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In the early 20th century, Rudolf Steiner predicted that the next stage of human consciousness would emerge from Russia. What would he have thought about events in Ukraine today? Have we entered a 'war of all against all'?
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Each act of imagination, each moment of creative life stands up to the entire material universe and affirms the reality of meaning against the corroding solvents of entropy, dark matter, or whatever else may be dragging the physical world into oblivion.
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On August 16 I'll be making a rare North American appearance at one of my old Hollywood haunts, Manly P Hall's Philosophical Research Society, discussing imagination as a way of knowledge.
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Thank you Johnny. And I imagine CW would be happy too.
For anyone interested in the life and works of Colin Wilson ‘Beyond The Robot’ by
@GaryLachman
is utterly brilliant. Great job Gary. I’m onto your latest one ‘Dreaming Ahead Of Time’ next.
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I'm delighted to have been asked speak on Swedenborg's correspondences at the Meaning and Modernity seminar in Engelsberg, Sweden on 1 October. I may be bringing coals to Newcastle, but they'll be live ones.
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Only those afraid of history want to rewrite it. I call them historiphobes.
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People seem almost to go out of their way to find things to feel guilty about, or to encourage others to feel guilty about. Responsibility is food for the will, guilt is food for the feelings only. - Owen Barfield, History, Guilt and Habit 1979.
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What happened when Thoth met Hermes in ancient Alexandria? Find out here, 24/6/23 1-2:30 CT:
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"Scientism is the fallacy of believing that the method of science must be used on all forms of experience and, given time, will settle every issue." - Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence.
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A great time today giving my talk about dreams at the Pari Center. Oddly enough, no one fell asleep.
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We dream ahead of time.
Can we see the future in our dreams?
@GaryLachman
, former Blondie bassist turned philosopher, explores the mysteries of precognition and dreams and how they impact our perception of time.
Watch this fascinating talk here:
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Here's my recent talk to the Theosophical Society about Madame Blavatsky. With any luck it's low in flapdoodle.
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Rasputin says: You will attend this free online talk about the return of Holy Russia on 25/2/21 6:30 UK time:
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Thought for the day - and the next and the next...
"Is it not clear that to develop anything in oneself one must isolate oneself from collective influences?" - Maurice Nicoll
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Maurice Nicoll was a student of Jung, Gurdjieff, and Ouspensky, and a reader of Swedenborg. Here's the Introduction to my book about the Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way.
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I dreamed that everyone bought a copy...
New issue on sale! Precognitive dreams and visions; the real-life case behind The Exorcist; Middle-Aged Mulder Syndrome; Tartaria; Matt Hancock bomb clown; haunted King’s Lynn; feral humans; To-Ya & his ice family; Zimbabwe’s colonial ghosts; Texas fish fall; Anne Rice and more!
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@clem_burke
In 1977 Clem brought a Dr. Feelgood album back from his London holiday and played it at the celebrated party at the Blondie Bowery loft which everyone on the scene attended. No malpractice that. And of course I stole jumping around on stage from Wilco.
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Increasingly we seem to live in a world where everyone has to apologise for practically anything they say. Sorry about that.
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My article "The Horror at Clinton Street" about H.P. Lovecraft's disastrous time in NYC is in Fortean Times
#396
, available at temples to Dagon near you... And don't forget, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
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What we need now is a tiny portable instrument, to which one listens through ear-phones, so that it does not disturb anybody else, and whole symphonies and concertos and operas recorded on miniature reels of film, so that they could easily be carried about... J. B. Priestley 1937
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"Constant observation pays the unconscious a tribute that more or less guarantees its co-operation." - C.G. Jung, Aion.
A truth I can confirm.
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Calling all Outsiders! The crowdfunding page for the Colin Wilson documentary, "Dreaming to Some Purpose: The Life and Times of Colin Wilson" is up and running. Please help me and other dedicated Wilsonians make this happen!
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It's getting better all the time. Or is it? Why the evolution of consciousness can often make a mess.
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