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The Morning of the Magicians: Alchemy, Nazis, a...
Quick Answer The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier is a 1960 French book that launched the modern esoteric counterculture. It covers Nazi occultism, alchemy and atomic physics,...
Kim by Kipling: The Esoteric Quest Behind the G...
Quick Answer Kim by Rudyard Kipling follows Irish orphan Kim O'Hara through British India as the chela of a Buddhist lama seeking the liberating River of the Arrow, and as...
Momo by Michael Ende: Time, the Grey Men, and t...
Quick Answer Momo by Michael Ende is about a listening girl who battles the Grey Gentlemen -- sinister time-thieves -- who steal life by convincing people to save time obsessively....
Illusions by Richard Bach: The Messiah's Handbo...
Quick Answer Illusions by Richard Bach follows barnstormer Richard Bach as he meets Donald Shimoda, a former messiah who teaches that reality is a collective illusion, limits are self-imposed agreements,...
Foucault's Pendulum by Eco: Conspiracy, Kabbala...
Quick Answer Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by Umberto Eco follows three Milan editors who invent an elaborate conspiracy about the Knights Templar as an intellectual game. Their artificial conspiracy, fed into...
The Aleph by Borges: Infinity, Kabbalah, and th...
Quick Answer The Aleph (1949) by Jorge Luis Borges is a collection of seventeen stories exploring infinity, identity, and the limits of language. The title story describes a small sphere...