Guides
Start here: the essentials of each major theme on the site, with the reading in the right order.
Gnosticism: what it was, Nag Hammadi and the lost textsGnosticism saw the world as an error and gnosis as the way out; the Nag Hammadi texts, found in 1945, show what these groups said about themselves.5 min read · 8 readings
Hermeticism and The Kybalion: Hermes Trismegistus and the seven principlesThe Kybalion, from 1908, condenses Hermeticism into seven principles attributed to Hermes Trismegistus; see where the book and the tradition it invokes come from.5 min read · 10 readings
Indigenous peoples and ancestral wisdom: the complete guideWhat shamanism is, the role of elders, the oral tradition of indigenous peoples, and how to cover it without appropriation or caricature.5 min read · 1 readings
Near-death experiences: the complete guideWhat an NDE is, what science has measured, what traditions and personal accounts say, and where research still has no answer.5 min read · 6 readings
Spiritism and the afterlife: the complete guideWho Allan Kardec was, how he codified spiritism, what The Gospel According to Spiritism says, and what mediums say about the afterlife.4 min read · 8 readings
Vedanta and Advaita: what the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita teachVedanta seeks the Self that never dies, the ātman; see where the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita come from, and what Śaṅkara, Ramana and Swami Dayananda taught.5 min read · 11 readings