Podcast (altered-boy-podcast): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Email | RSSSeptember 12th, 2016, The Last American Vagabond had the privilege of sitting down across the screen from veteran researcher, Jan Irvin, of Gnostic Media. With The Last American Vagabond’s recent and continued elaboration on the ancient, esoteric origins of politics and government through Read More…
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The Components of Alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone
Today, alchemy is an idea that has been pigeon-holed into either fantasy fiction or mad scientist craze (often both at the same time), and like any of the ancient sciences of the Mysteries, alchemy as an idea is shelved by most people before even being considered. Also like the collection of ancient sciences (astrology, numerology, Tarot, Read More…
Your Esoteric Initiation – Part 7: Real Magicians Don’t Read “New Age”
The overall point of this article series has been to propose the following: the objective nature of Natural Law (the Law of Karma); the components of how Natural Law functions—through gnostic understanding of the Microcosm and Macrocosm by the Divination Arts of Astrology, Numerology, Tarot, and the Tree of Life; how gnosis applies to alchemical Read More…
Your Esoteric Initiation – Part 6: A Look at Modern Secret Societies and Natural Law
“Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one–and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. The time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating Read More…
Your Esoteric Initiation – Part 5: Fortean Ontology – A Meta-Analysis of Esoteric Metaphysics, the Paranormal and Ufology
The word ontology is of a Greek derivation that generally means, “that which is being,” and is perhaps the best contemporary discussion of gnosis that has been openly considered amongst scholars, especially for the last couple centuries or so (again, generally speaking). However, since gnosis is such an ancient concept, there can hardly be considered a Read More…
Your Esoteric Initiation, Part 4: Alchemical Transmutation and Owning Your Archetypes
The first three parts of this series have discussed and laid the foundation for the concepts of Natural Law/Law of Karma, as empirically demonstrated in the neuronal constructs of the brain (not the only demonstration by any means, but perhaps the most poignant one); this series has also discussed the synthesis of this Natural Law Read More…






