The Review Curmudgeon

Just came across this image in the " historical anatomies " collection of the US National Library of Medicine: I don't know wh...

Before I return Jacob Needleman's Lost Christianity to Julianne, I want to note down the things that struck me in it, particularly ...

Although I haven't been reading Meditations on the Tarot lately, I am one chapter behind on my blogging, so this is me catching up. The ...

Further quotes from Needleman's Lost Christianity. These come, supposedly, from a mysterious Middle Eastern monk called Father Sylvan, a...

It's not unusual for me to be reading two or three books at once. I usually have one "recreational" and sometimes one "se...

I've started to work out a sequence for starting up a Pentasystem game. So far, it looks like this: Pull out the coolmap and decide wha...

I'm reading Wisdom's Children by Arthur Versluis at the moment. It traces the obscure history of "theosophy" - not Madam ...