"Though the modern-day rise of a distinctly Western Buddhism is arguably the most significant spiritual development of our ""time,"" it did not happen overnight. From the early exchanges between class...

"Groundbreaking poet, world-class mountaineer, bisexual adventurer and drug experimenter before his time, Aleister Crowley would have been famous even if he never taken an interest in the occult. By t...

Aleister Crowley, alias "The Beast," has inspired passionate - but seldom fair - assessments from historians. This biography treats Crowley as a cultural phenomenon, not simply a sorceror or charla...