Gary Lachman is the author of twenty-one books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society.
In this interview, rebooted from 2019, he describes how, prior to meeting George Gurdjieff, Peter D. Ouspensky had achieved acclaim in Russia as a writer, journalist, and lecturer. He had been active in the Theosophical movement. His encounter with Gurdjieff changed his life. The relationship was not an easy one, and at one time Ouspensky suspected that Gurdjieff had gone mad. The two personalities were very different. Even after he broke away from Gurdjieff, Ouspensky continued to teach his system.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.
(Recorded on February 13, 2019)
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LINKS TO BOOKS BY GARY LACHMAN
Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson – https://amzn.to/3daXSPT
Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic – https://amzn.to/2L807Yx
Gary Lachman, Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work – https://amzn.to/3fbCjRj
Gary Lachman, The Quest for Hermes Trigmegistus – https://amzn.to/35q7kMG
Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World – https://amzn.to/2W001YQ
Gary Lachman, Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality – https://amzn.to/2Sx5jch
Gary Lachman, Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Studies – https://amzn.to/3fi10LC
Gary Lachman, In Search of P. D. Ouspensky – https://amzn.to/2yn88WA
