Alexander Wilder, Blavatsky, and the Sunset of American Platonism

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The following is an edited excerpt from the just released book Letters to the Sage: Selected Correspondence of Thomas Moore Johnson Volume II: Alexander Wilder (2018), edited by Patrick D. Bowen and K. Paul Johnson 
Working for Manly Hall at the Philosophical Research Society I had the privilege of spending hours each day browsing the library shelves.  MPH provided, through his own writing and in conversation, a treasure map to obscure tomes full of flights of creative imagination filled with fascinating details of history and food for the soul. Thanks to his recommendation I read Plotinus On the Beautiful and so the Neoplatonists captured my attention.  Like every other English-speaking enthusiast before the recent renaissance in academic work on Proclus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus, I depended on the torturous translations of Thomas Taylor, joining the likes of Shelley and Emerson, finding gems of insight in the cave of run-on sentences.

In the PRS Library I also found a newspaper called The Platonist which featured American translations of the Neoplatonists from a time that most of us associate with Billy the Kid.  I imagined a dusty western street, an upstairs office in a plank building, and there inside a small room, in the glow of a lamp, a hardy soul burning the midnight oil, scribbling out the sublime communications left by pagan philosophers over a thousand years before. Alexander Wilder, Thomas Johnson, Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, even at PRS I could find out very little about them.

With the help of the internet in 2013 I returned to these studies.  A wealth of old and new materials were now available.  The research presented in this introduction began as a series of essays for Newtopia Magazine entitled “The Platonist on Sunset Boulevard,” referring to a bound edition of The Platonist I had once serendipitously acquired in a shop across from the Whisky A Go Go.

As a journalist Alexander Wilder supported the abolition of slavery in the United States.  As an elected official he helped end Boss Tweed’s corrupt reign over New York.  As a physician Wilder pioneered what would later become known as holistic medicine.  As a social activist he was an early feminist, publishing Plea for the Liberal Education of Women in 1884.  As a book editor he helped Madame Blavatsky complete Isis Unveiled.  As a young man Wilder was a member of the notorious Oneida cult.  Later in life he lectured at the New England Transcendentalist Concord School of Philosophy. The author of a nine-hundred-page history of medicine, and of books on alchemy and theurgy, he somehow found the time to write, edit and translate articles for dozens of publications, over almost sixty years, on a diverse range of subjects including Platonism, Hermetic studies, and the dynasties of ancient Egypt.

During the Dark Ages and after, apart from the writing of St. Augustine, certain works by the Church Fathers, and by the 13th century Franciscan St. Bonaventure, Plato and Platonism all but disappeared from European culture. When Ficino reintroduced Platonism to the west he brought to it the mystical perspective of an Orphic. In fact, he performed the Orphic Hymns with appropriate incenses, accouterments and astrological timing. At the turn of the 19th century Thomas Taylor (and Floyer Sydenham) sparked a Platonic revival that had Shelley translating Plato’s Banquet in England and Emerson singing the praises of Proclus in America, where Plato became a popular pastime, especially among cultured women in the Old West.  Ficino through Taylor cast a long shadow, deeply influencing famous American writers like Thoreau and Poe.

In Plato’s Ghost (2009) Cathy Gutierrez argues convincingly that Platonism deeply informed American Spiritualism.  Not only did mediums find reincarnation in Plato’s work, they also found the idea of soul mates in his description of how all human souls were split in two so they strive to join again through many lifetimes.  In Platonic recollection American spiritualists found the best description and endorsement of the activities of mediums who claimed to be reacquainting souls with their true histories, explaining suffering as not chaos but the consequences of forgotten mistakes, often in a past life, sometimes in another world.

As Gutierrez writes in Plato’s Ghost:

Reports of Plato clubs were serialized in the Atlantic Monthly, magazines wrote multivolume accounts titled `Plato in History’ and the Yale Review kept readers current on new translations.  In 1869, the New Englander sported a densely packed, thirty two page “defense” of Plato as a proto monotheist, and in the same year a pamphlet titled “The Eclectic Philosophy” was circulated with “An Outline of the Interior Doctrines of the Alchemists of the Middle Ages.”  The former endeavors to explain the entire history of Neoplatonism, beginning, oddly, several centuries before Plato and laying claim to a single, united truth known to the ancients and covered loosely under the umbrella of Neoplatonism.  From vaunted literary minds to the conspiracy theorists of their day, Americans were awash in Platonic and Neoplatonic writings and thought.
The author of that eclectic pamphlet was Alexander Wilder.  Wilder filled eclectic medical journals, Theosophical magazines, and Platonic periodicals with wry articles, delivering lectures from friend’s living rooms and university lecterns with equal enthusiasm, providing so much information on so many different subjects he earned the nickname “The Walking Encyclopedia.”  Wilder and his friend Thomas Moore Johnson were the moving forces behind The Platonist. An unlikely pair of Platonic scholars Wilder was 28 years older, an urbane New Yorker with political experience. Johnson was a westerner who never had enough money to keep his beloved journal The Platonist going until he inherited his father’s estate, but then he didn’t have the time. An attorney and later mayor, Johnson was never able to make a living as a writer or editor. Wilder was not only an important writer of his time but also an eminent editor. Johnson lived happily in the bosom of his family while Wilder never had children. And yet because of their love of Plato and the Platonic tradition they enjoyed a productive friendship. Together they would face the sudden sunset of a brief but bright Platonic renaissance
According to his own affidavit, in winter of 1842, eighteen-year-old Wilder joined the Calvinist Perfectionist community, where he lived in the house of John Noyes, the founder of Oneida.  John Humphrey Noyes is generally credited with being the first American to put free in front of love.  Free love was then a scandalous but popular subject in America. By the time Wilder arrived the original community of 87 had grown to 172 and it would nearly double again by 1878.  Community members believed that the return of Jesus was not imminent because it had already happened in 70 A.D.  Therefore a life of perfection was possible.  The world had been waiting around for almost one thousand nine hundred years for someone to notice that heaven is now.
Everyone worked according to his or her best abilities in the Oneida community.  Committees and administrations decided every detail of life.  Did Wilder participate in the Oneida practice of Complex Marriage?  Everyone in the community was married to everyone else so no one was unavailable.  In Oneida postmenopausal seniors were encouraged to teach curious teenagers everything they needed to know about sex.  The idea was that the teens would face less risk of pregnancy.

The community also practiced what they called stirpiculture but we call eugenics.  Committees chose breeding pairs hoping to create perfect offspring.  Parents weren’t allowed to bond too closely with their children.   What did Wilder think of the practice they called Mutual Criticism, when a committee or the general assembly would criticize members harshly?  Victims were expected to be grateful for the good advice. Oneida had branches in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, and Ontario, Canada.  Their businesses flourished.  From canned fruits and vegetables to animal traps, from silk thread to leather bags and straw hats.  But their biggest success was silverware. Wilder didn’t last long at Oneida; he also remained celibate except for a brief marriage.

1857 was an important year for Alexander Wilder.  He prepared the charter for the teacher’s college at Illinois Normal University.  The American Institute of Homeopathy released a series of pamphlets written by him.  And he moved to New York City to become an editor at The Evening Post.  The latter job apparently suited him.  He spent thirteen years with The Post.  Political experience and knowledge of financial matters was a side benefit.  He wrote: “I became clerk of the committee on Ways and Means of the Assembly and served in that capacity several sessions.”

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Alexander Wilder
Among Wilder’s friends was General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, the Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen’s grandson.  Hitchcock made his name in 1841 when he investigated fraud complaints in the territory of the Five Civilized Tribes.  He found widespread corruption as white agents and traders routinely cheated natives.  His report took five months to compile and was irrefutable, but because negotiations with the Cherokee were underway it was suppressed for over a year, then given to Congress, who ignored it, as did historians for almost a hundred years.  During the Civil War, Hitchcock served in the Department of War as a major general.

Wilder met Hitchcock through a mutual friend, a bookseller who arranged the meeting for Wilder who was a fan of Hitchcock’s books, including Swedenborg a Hermetic Philosopher (1858), and The Story of the Red Book of Appin(1863) where Hitchcock shared his theories about alchemical metaphors in fairy tales.   In 1857 Hitchcock had anonymously published Remarks on Alchemy and the Alchemists, which anticipated Jung by almost a hundred years in the theory that alchemical language was actually a symbolic code for the psychology of enlightenment.  Hitchcock argued that the alchemical mercury was human conscience.  Until the conscience is awakened the alembic (human being) contains only base metals (ignorance and suffering).  Hitchcock wrote that fire and sulphur were alchemical symbols for conscience because conscience burns until what is left is pure.  Wilder appears to have based his own 1869 work Alchemy or the Hermetic Philosophy on Hitchcock’s book.  At the beginning of the Civil War, Hitchcock sold his library to the great regret of Wilder who hated to see such a comprehensive collection scattered.

Around 1864 ex-Mayor Havemeyer, Horace Greeley, and other powerful notables decided New York City needed an Eclectic Medical College.  They turned to Wilder to prepare the charter.  Just after the Civil War ended in 1865 Wilder pushed the charter through the legislature despite the opposition of traditional doctors.  Wilder was the right man in the right place at the right time.  A friend of the governor, he knew every member of the legislature personally.  They all knew him to be an honest, intelligent scholar, a true man of integrity.  Wilder had a logical answer to every protest the old school doctors could summon.  Besides, after five years of Civil War the United States needed as much medicine as it could get.  The college was established.

Eclectic medicine was botanically based.  Today we’d call it herbal medicine.  As for the competition: “Medical Colleges were rare,” Wilder wrote, “except those of the dominant school, and these would graduate nobody except with the assurance that he would adhere to the approved practice. Physicians at this time were often illiterate; physiology was almost an unknown science; materia medica limited to brief dimensions; and practice consisted of bleeding, the administration of calomel, antimony, and little else.”

Perhaps Wilder’s own writing about healing explains Eclectic Medicine best.  “When we are cheerful we are safe from disease; when we are depressed and downhearted we are in danger.  An even temperature or well kept apartment and cleanliness of person are blessings to be prized.  When they exist many of the external causes of disease are absent.  Our cities are breeding places of disease, because the sunshine is excluded from the houses and the ventilation is defective. Then, too, the poor, who make up the great majority of the population, and, therefore, should be cared for the most, are pressed into dens that a dog or a pig would shudder at, and there live under conditions that make them easily assailable by infection, after which they prove their common human nature by communicating it to those better circumstanced.”

Wilder described an experience in his youth that influenced his ideas about medicine.  “Being constantly found fault with whether I was right or wrong and overborne by the cruel despotic will of another had depressed me, till the digestive and nervous functions were impaired.” Or as he put it elsewhere, hopelessness kills.  He turned to Plato’s belief that music could cure illness to support his point of view that a life lived in harmony is a healthy life.

Even though Wilder refused to campaign for the office in 1871 he was elected New York City Councilman in a landslide on a ticket promising to end the corruption of the notorious Boss Tweed.  Wilder took office on January 1, 1872 but soon learned the new boss was just as tyrannical as the old.  So he never ran for office again.  In 1872 Wilder became an editor at Harper’s Weekly.  Despite refusing the position repeatedly, in 1873 he became Professor of Physiology and Psychology at the Eclectic Medical College of New York.  He was also made co-editor of their journal The Medical Eclectic.

Few of Wilder’s colleagues in the political, journalistic, and medical worlds knew about his occult interests.  He took no extraordinary measures; the friends who respected his esoteric learning rarely overlapped with his friends in public life.  In the Transactions of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, amid the exchange of cures and medical tips could be found Wilder’s writing about Plotinus and alchemy, illustrating how his esoteric interests could be considered scholarly, and how expert he was at framing respectable contexts and legitimizing them with historical precedents.

Enter Helena Blavatsky, book first.  “On a pleasant afternoon, in early autumn,” Wilder writes, “I was alone in the house. The bell was rung, and I answered the door. Colonel Henry S. Olcott was there with an errand to myself. I did not recognize him, as I had never had any occasion to make his acquaintance, but he having had some governmental business with one of my employers several years before, had known me ever since.  He had never suspected, however, that I took any interest whatever in unusual subjects; so completely successful had I been in keeping myself unknown even to those who from daily association imagined that they knew me very thoroughly. A long service in journalism, familiar relations with public men, and active participation in political matters, seemed to have shut out from notice an ardent passion for mystic speculation, and the transcendental philosophy.”
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Blavatsky and Olcott.

Why had Olcott rung the bell?  “He had been referred to me by Mr. Bouton.”  Wilder worked for J.W. Bouton as an editor, proofreader (for English and Hebrew) and expert on esoteric subjects.  Bouton bought the copyright for Isis Unveiled and refused to return it to the author.  Blavatsky wanted to give her book the title A Skeleton Key to Mysterious Gates. The mystery of why a book that has so little to do with Egypt should be called Isis Unveiled is solved by a letter from Wilder included in this volume: “Mr. Bouton is entitled to that distinction. He was a skillful caterer in the bookselling world to which he belonged, but he had business ability rather than a sense of fitness. He once published the treatise of R. Payne Knight on Ancient Art and added pictures relating solely to Hindu mythology, entirely foreign to the subject. This work of Madam Blavatsky is largely based upon the hypothesis of a prehistoric period of the Aryan people in India, and in such a period the veil or the unveiling of Isis can hardly be said to constitute any part. On the contrary, it is a dramatic representation peculiar to the religion and wisdom of Egypt. Certainly the problems of Egyptian lore are to be considered with other pens than those with which `Isis Unveiled’ was written.” By “skillful caterer” Wilder means that Bouton liked to include controversial illustrations. The unveiled Isis on the first edition was quite a sexy graphic for those days.

In 1878 Bouton had committed another publishing gaffe.  He released only volume one of the two volume obscurity Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions by Godfrey Higgins, an enormous and marvelously learned and imaginative work of mingled fact and mistaken assumptions, among the books that inspired Borges to write “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”  Perhaps Bouton never published the second volume because readers didn’t appreciate the way he shrank the size of such a word stuffed tome leaving them squinting at tiny print.  With both veil and Isis in its title Anacalypsis seems to have been a possible inspiration for Bouton’s christening of Blavatsky’s book as Isis Unveiled.

The first meeting between Blavatsky and Wilder had taken some time for Olcott to arrange.  “Colonel Olcott was very desirous that I should become acquainted with Madam Blavatsky. He appeared to hold her in high regard closely approaching to veneration, and to consider the opportunity to know her a rare favor for any one. I was hardly able to share his enthusiasm. Having a natural diffidence about making new acquaintances, and acting as a critic upon her manuscript, I hesitated for a long time. Finally, however, these considerations were passed over and I accompanied him to their establishment in Forty seventh Street. It was a `flat,’ that un homelike fashion of abode that now extends over populous cities, superseding the household and family relationship wherever it prevails.”
Wilder was almost sixty years old and not inclined to be impressed by purveyors of exotica.  “The dining room,” he continues, “was furnished in simple style with no affectation of anything unusual or extraordinary. Perhaps, I ought to add that later in the years following, this condition was quite considerably modified,” he quips, referring to the stuffed baboons and oriental furniture and decor that inspired the New York World (before it became famous for yellow journalism) to nickname Blavatsky’s home the Lamasery.
Wilder describes Madame Blavatsky’s workspace: “The study in which Madam Blavatsky lived and worked was arranged after a quaint and very primitive manner. It was a large front room, and being on the side next the street, was well lighted. In the midst of this was her `den,’ a spot fenced off on three sides by temporary partitions, writing desk and shelves for books. She had it as convenient as it was unique. She had but to reach out an arm to get a book, paper or other article that she might desire, that was within the enclosure.” Wilder lists only a few, among them “Jacolliot’s work on India, Bunsen’s Egypt, Ennemoser’s History of Magic.  The place could not accord with a vivid sense of beauty, except after the ancient Greek conception that beauty is fitness for its purpose, everything certainly being convenient and handy. In this place Madam Blavatsky reigned supreme, gave her orders, issued her judgments, conducted her correspondence, received her visitors and produced the manuscript of her book.”

And what did he think of Blavatsky herself?  “She did not resemble in manner or figure what I had been led to expect. She was tall, but not strapping; her countenance bore the marks and exhibited the characteristics of one who had seen much, thought much, traveled much, and experienced much. Her appearance was certainly impressive, but in no respect was she coarse, awkward, or ill bred. On the other hand she exhibited culture, familiarity with the manners of the most courtly society and genuine courtesy itself.  She expressed her opinions with boldness and decision, but not obtrusively.  It was easy to perceive that she had not been kept within the circumscribed limitations of a common female education; she knew a vast variety of topics and could discourse freely upon them.”

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Blavatsky made Wilder a vice president of the Theosophical Society, but the title was more honorary than active.  In a letter from 1877 Wilder wrote that “Blavatsky professes to be a Platonist, & assures me that I am one.”  The recipient of Wilder’s letter, Thomas Moore Johnson, would publish a Missouri based journal called The Platonist four years later in collaboration with Wilder. Wilder gives us a glimpse of Blavatsky’s relationship with the perhaps overawed Olcott: “he not unfrequently came under her scorching criticism. He writhed under it, but, except for making some brief expression at the time, he did not appear to cherish resentment.”

What did Olcott think of Wilder?  “Prof. Alexander Wilder, a quaint personality, the type of the very large class of self educated American yeomanry; men of the forceful quality of the Puritan Fathers; men of brain and thought, intensely independent, very versatile, very honest, very plucky and patriotic. He is not a college bred or city bred man, I fancy, but if one wants sound ideas upon the migration of races and symbols, the esoteric meaning of Greek philosophy, the value of Hebrew or Greek texts, or the merits and demerits of various schools of medicine, he can give them as well as the most finished graduate. A tall, lank man of the Lincoln type, with a noble, dome like head, thin jaws, grey hair, and language filled with quaint Saxon Americanisms.  He used to come and talk by the hour with H. P. B., often lying recumbent on the sofa, with – as she used to say – ‘one long leg resting on the chandelier, the other on the mantel piece.’  And she, as stout as he was thin, as voluble as he was sententious and epigrammatic, smoking innumerable cigarettes and brilliantly sustaining her share of the conversation.”

Olcott continued: “She got him to write out many of his ideas to use in Isis, and they will be found there quoted. The hours would slip by without notice until he sometimes found himself too late for the last train to Newark, and would have to stop in town all night. I think that, of all our visitors, he cared about the least of all for H. P. B.’s psychical phenomena: he believed in their scientific possibility and did not doubt her possession of them, but philosophy was his idol, and the wonders of mediumship and adeptship interested him only in the abstract.”

Perhaps Wilder provides a measure of Blavatsky’s importance as a feminist when he writes about Isis Unveiled: “After the work had been printed and placed on sale, there was discussion in regard to the actual authorship. Many were unwilling to acknowledge that Madam Blavatsky could be sufficiently well informed or intellectually capable of such a production. True that women like Frances Burney had composed romances of high merit. Miss Farley had conducted successfully the “Lowell Offering.” Mary Somerville had written on Physical Science, and Harriet Martineau on Political Economy. The manuscript which I handled I am very sure was in the handwriting of Madam Blavatsky herself. Anybody who was familiar with her, would, upon reading the first volume of Isis Unveiled, not have any difficulty in recognizing her as the author.”

But while Wilder had no doubt that Blavatsky had authored Isis Unveiled, he did have doubts about her. In a letter to Johnson written in 1877 Wilder wrote about Blavatsky and her cohort: “They flattered me very much – almost grossly, & initiated me into their Theosophic Society. I learned no secret, no occult truth, nor any thing which I cared to know; & declined absolutely all public identification with them.”

In 1881 Wilder wrote to Johnson about the Theosophists:  “They profess to work thaumaturgic wonders; to have the power of prolonging physical life; to become apparent as a wraith or dropped in one place while the unsouled body is asleep in another (Judge professes to have done this); that Mme. B. is not the so called Russian of that name, but a mediaeval personage whose soul was seeking a new incarnation, & finding her body just unsouled in some skirmish in the Campagna in 1848, got into it, & so is the Man Woman Theosophical Marvel now at Bombay, etc.   Very little of all this was ever communicated to me personally; but I get it at second hand from Gen. Doubleday & other.”

In a letter written May 27, 1882 Wilder reports that he has in hand baseball legend General Abner Doubleday’s translation of Transcendental Magic by the Parisian magus Eliphas Levi.  In a letter written on June 13 Wilder writes that the translation would be published by Bouton. But those plans never came to fruition. When Doubleday died in 1893, Wilder, seventy years old, took on the task of writing an introduction and annotations for the translation.  Six years after Wilder’s death, The Word, a popular Theosophical magazine, published it serially over several years.

As the titles of just a few of Wilder’s lectures at the Concord School prove he was expert on many subjects: Functions of the Cerebellum, Relations of Food to Health, The Rosicrucian Brotherhood (like so many key figures of American Metaphysical Religion he argued that Sir Francis Bacon was a founder of the Rosicrucian movement), Philosophy in China, Hebrew Scriptures Interpreted Astrologically, The Enigma of Alchemy, The Ethics of the Zoroastrians, Origin of the Universe and Man, Plato on Education, Plea for the Collegiate Education of Women, and Should Men Cut Their Hair (no). But Wilder was never comfortable among the New England elite of Concord. Looking back, he wrote in a letter to Johnson dated February 24, 1894 that he had felt like a “strange cat in a stranger garret.”

At its peak the Plato Club of Jacksonville, Illinois, or as it was known then “the Athens of the West” had over four hundred members, but many were spread across the American continent and even overseas so the largest group at a popular event would be about two hundred, in a town whose population even today numbers less than twenty thousand. The formal papers presented by members and reprinted in The Platonist and other philosophical journals give us a sense of the impact of Platonism on these people who were at the edge of the frontier. Emerson who befriended and visited these Platonists of the Midwest thought of them as the ultimate outpost of what he considered true civilization.  The idea of a rough farmer reading Plato by firelight in his simple cabin on the prairie captured Emerson’s imagination.  The admiration was mutual. Thomas Johnson named his sons Ralph Proclus, Franklin Plotinus, and the whimsical Waldo Plato.

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Thomas Moore Johnson

But these letters of Wilder to Johnson culminate in the melancholy of a cultural twilight.  They begin with grand plans for journals, books, societies but they end in long silences and Wilder’s critical comments about Hiram Jones, Blavatsky, Burgoyne and others.  Wilder repeatedly and earnestly encourages Johnson to keep The Platonist going.  But subscribers are too few, and the financial burden is too heavy for Johnson.

All too soon modernity swept away Platonic intentions.  Even on their grave markers all three of Johnson’s sons dropped their middle names. Proclus, Plato and Plotinus, were replaced with the initial P. The world of Eclectic Medicine and of Emerson reinventing Thomas Taylor to inspire Americans had come to an end, although it would see rebirths in places like the Philosophical Research Society and movements like the New Age of the 1980s.

For the July 1907 issue of the New Hampshire journal The Rosicrucian Brotherhood, Wilder wrote: “I suppose that the Rosicrucians have existed; I doubt whether there are any now. All of whom I knew that pretended to be such were charlatans.”

One day before Wilder died in 1908 a passenger on a plane piloted by Orville Wright became the first in history to die in an aviation accident.  Nine days after Wilder’s death Henry Ford made the first Model T automobile.  Earlier that year the vacuum cleaner had been invented and acquired by a company named Hoover.  Wilder’s world of Platonic New England transcendentalists and alchemically inclined Civil War generals who knew Lincoln had disappeared and the brusque industrial world of the 20th century was just getting underway.  The last medical school of the Eclectics closed in 1939 just as World War 2 began.

A biographer could argue that Wilder and for that matter Johnson had needlessly complicated their lives pursuing a quixotic quest to save souls and society.  While complaining about the gullibility of Spiritualists Wilder fought as they did to educate common citizens in the mysteries of the soul.  In 1877, in one of their early correspondences, Wilder wrote to Johnson: “Ere many years, I think, we shall have our renaissance. I am slowly preparing. I want that or to die.”

Another Florentine Renaissance was not around the corner.  Two world wars loomed ahead.  Medicine and philosophy, Wilder’s devotions, were about to become industrialized.  But the joy and inspiration these men found in their studies is undeniable and the information and insights they shared continue to have value not only for historians but for anyone seeking a better life..

Thanks to the work of Mark R. Jaqua a treasury of Alexander Wilder’s writing has recently been made available in four volumes, which alongside this book of correspondence and Letters to the Sage: Collected Correspondence of Thomas Moore Johnson: Volume One: The Esotericists (2016), provides significant new resources for students of American Metaphysical Religion, history and alternative medicine. As J. Patrick Devaney wrote: “It will be impossible in the future to discuss the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, the Theosophical Society in America, or occultism in America generally during the last decades of the nineteenth century without reference to this book.”

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2020 Election: The Decriminalize Psilocybin Movement
Are you curious if mushrooms will follow in marijuana’s footsteps? Read to learn about how the U.S. is moving to decriminalize psilocybin.

Oregon’s Initiative to Legalize Mushrooms | Initiative Petition 34
Oregon continues to push ahead with their initiative to legalize Psilocybin in 2020. The measure received its official title and now needs signatures.

Canada Approves Psilocybin Treatment for Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients
Canada’s Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu approved the use of psilocybin to help ease anxiety and depression of four terminal cancer patients.

Mapping the DMT Experience
With only firsthand experiences to share, how can we fully map the DMT experience? Let’s explore what we know about this powerful psychedelic.

Guide to Machine Elves and Other DMT Entities
This guide discusses machine elves, clockwork elves, and other common DMT entities that people experience during a DMT trip.

Is the DMT Experience a Hallucination? 
What if the DMT realm was the real world, and our everyday lives were merely a game we had chosen to play?

How to Store DMT
Not sure how to store DMT? Read this piece to learn the best practices and elements of advice to keep your stuff fresh.

What Does 5-MeO-DMT Show Us About Consciousness?
How does our brain differentiate between what’s real and what’s not? Read to learn what can 5-MeO-DMT show us about consciousness.

How to Smoke DMT: Processes Explained
There are many ways to smoke DMT and we’ve outlined some of the best processes to consider before embarking on your journey.

How to Ground After DMT
Knowing what to expect from a DMT comedown can help you integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible from your journey.

How To Get DMT
What kind of plants contain DMT? Are there other ways to access this psychedelic? Read on to learn more about how to get DMT.

How DMT is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make DMT? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how DMT is made.

Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know
Have you ever wondered about sex on DMT? Learn how the God Molecule can influence your intimate experiences.

Does the Human Brain Make DMT? 
With scientific evidence showing us DMT in the brain, what can we conclude it is there for? Read on to learn more.

How to Use DMT Vape Pens
Read to learn all about DMT vape pens including: what to know when vaping, what to expect when purchasing a DMT cartridge, and vaping safely.

DMT Resources
This article is a comprehensive DMT resource providing extensive information from studies, books, documentaries, and more. Check it out!

Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences
Some say there are similarities between a DMT trip and death. Read our guide on differentiating DMT and near-death experiences to find out.

DMT Research from 1956 to the Edge of Time
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.

The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing
Check out our ultimate guide on DMT pricing to learn what to expect when purchasing DMT for your first time.

DMT Milking | Reality Sandwich
Indigenous cultures have used 5-MeO-DMT for centuries. With the surge in demand for psychedelic toad milk, is DMT Milking harming the frogs?

Why Does DMT Pervade Nature?
With the presence of DMT in nature everywhere – including human brains – why does it continue to baffle science?

DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to DMT has everything you want to know about this powerful psychedelic referred to as “the spirit molecule”.

DMT for Depression: Paving the Way for New Medicine
We’ve been waiting for an effective depression treatment. Studies show DMT for depression works even for treatment resistant patients.

Beating Addiction with DMT
Psychedelics have been studied for their help overcoming addiction. Read how DMT is helping addicts beat their substance abuse issues.

DMT Extraction: Behind the Scientific Process
Take a look at DMT extraction and the scientific process involved. Learn all you need to know including procedures and safety.

Microdosing DMT & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing DMT.

DMT Art: A Look Behind Visionary Creations
An entire genre of artwork is inspired by psychedelic trips with DMT. Read to learn about the entities and visions behind DMT art.

Changa vs. DMT: What You Need to Know
While similar (changa contains DMT), each drug has its own unique effect and feeling. Let’s compare and contrast changa vs DMT.

5-MeO-DMT Guide: Effects, Benefits, Safety, and Legality
5-Meo-DMT comes from the Sonora Desert toad. Here is everything you want to know about 5-Meo-DMT and how it compares to 4-AcO-DMT.

4-AcO-DMT Guide: Benefits, Effects, Safety, and Legality
This guide tells you everything about 4 AcO DMT & 5 MeO DMT, that belong to the tryptamine class, and are similar but slightly different to DMT.

How Much Does LSD Cost? When shopping around for that magical psychedelic substance, there can be many uncertainties when new to buying LSD. You may be wondering how much does LSD cost? In this article, we will discuss what to expect when purchasing LSD on the black market, what forms LSD is sold in, and the standard breakdown of buying LSD in quantity.   Navy Use of LSD on the Dark Web The dark web is increasingly popular for purchasing illegal substances. The US Navy has now noticed this trend with their staff. Read to learn more.   Having Sex on LSD: What You Need to Know Can you have sex on LSD? Read our guide to learn everything about sex on acid, from lowered inhibitions to LSD users quotes on sex while tripping.   A Drug That Switches off an LSD Trip A pharmaceutical company is developing an “off-switch” drug for an LSD trip, in the case that a bad trip can happen. Some would say there is no such thing.   Queen of Hearts: An Interview with Liz Elliot on Tim Leary and LSD The history of psychedelia, particularly the British experience, has been almost totally written by men. Of the women involved, especially those who were in the thick of it, little has been written either by or about them. A notable exception is Liz Elliot.   LSD Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety LSD, Lysergic acid diethylamide, or just acid is one of the most important psychedelics ever discovered. What did history teach us?   Microdosing LSD & Common Dosage Explained Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing LSD.   LSD Resources Curious to learn more about LSD? This guide includes comprehensive LSD resources containing books, studies and more.   LSD as a Spiritual Aid There is common consent that the evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. From the described process of how consciousness originates and develops, it becomes evident that its growth depends on its faculty of perception. Therefore every means of improving this faculty should be used.   Legendary LSD Blotter Art: A Hidden Craftsmanship Have you ever heard of LSD blotter art? Explore the trippy world of LSD art and some of the top artists of LSD blotter art.   LSD and Exercise: Does it Work? LSD and exercise? Learn why high-performing athletes are taking hits of LSD to improve their overall potential.   Jan Bastiaans Treated Holocaust Survivors with LSD Dutch psychiatrist, Jan Bastiaans administered LSD-assisted therapy to survivors of the Holocaust. A true war hero and pioneer of psychedelic-therapy.   LSD and Spiritual Awakening I give thanks for LSD, which provided the opening that led me to India in 1971 and brought me to Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharajji. Maharajji is described by the Indians as a “knower of hearts.”   How LSD is Made: Everything You Need to Know Ever wonder how to make LSD? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how LSD is made.   How to Store LSD: Best Practices Learn the best way to store LSD, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long LSD lasts when stored.   Bicycle Day: The Discovery of LSD Every year on April 19th, psychonauts join forces to celebrate Bicycle Day. Learn about the famous day when Albert Hoffman first discovered the effects of LSD.   Cary Grant: A Hollywood Legend On LSD Cary Grant was a famous actor during the 1930’s-60’s But did you know Grant experimented with LSD? Read our guide to learn more.   Albert Hofmann: LSD — My Problem Child Learn about Albert Hofmann and his discovery of LSD, along with the story of Bicycle Day and why it marks a historic milestone.   Babies are High: What Does LSD Do To Your Brain What do LSD and babies have in common? Researchers at the Imperial College in London discover that an adult’s brain on LSD looks like a baby’s brain.   1P LSD: Effects, Benefits, Safety Explained 1P LSD is an analogue of LSD and homologue of ALD-25. Here is everything you want to know about 1P LSD and how it compares to LSD.   Francis Crick, DNA & LSD Type ‘Francis Crick LSD’ into Google, and the result will be 30,000 links. Many sites claim that Crick (one of the two men responsible for discovering the structure of DNA), was either under the influence of LSD at the time of his revelation or used the drug to help with his thought processes during his research. Is this true?   What Happens If You Overdose on LSD? A recent article presented three individuals who overdosed on LSD. Though the experience was unpleasant, the outcomes were remarkably positive.

The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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