Gary Lachman: 20 books

Book cover of A Dark Muse

A Dark Muse

A History of the Occult

by Gary Lachman
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009

The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source...
Book cover of Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World

by Gary Lachman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

This definitive work on the occult’s “great beast” traces the arc of his controversial life and influence on rock-and-roll giants, from the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath. When Aleister Crowley died in 1947, he was not an obvious contender for the most enduring pop-culture...
Book cover of Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
by Gary Lachman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the...
Book cover of The Caretakers of the Cosmos

The Caretakers of the Cosmos

Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World

by Gary Lachman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013

Drawing on esoteric, spritual and philosophical thought, this book cononsiders the all-important question -- why are we here? -- and offers a counter-argument to the current nihilsm prevalent in our world.
Book cover of El ocultismo en la política

El ocultismo en la política

Historia secreta de la búsqueda del poder

by Gary Lachman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 23, 2017

Ocultismo en la política es un libro: ...Para descubrir que Estados Unidos fue una nación que diseñaron los masones, y que el peso de sus cimientos se deja sentir incluso en la Era Trump. ...Para saber en qué medida las ideas de artistas y literatos como Swedemborg, Steiner, Blavatsky,...
Book cover of Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
by Lachman, Gary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003

How did a decade of love and peace end in Altamont and the Manson Family bloodbath? Gary Lachman explores the sinister dalliance of rocks high rollers and a new wave of occultists, tying together John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Mick Jagger, Brian Wilson, Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, Jim Morrison, L. Ron Hubbard and many more American cultural icons.
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