J. W. Barlament

Just this year, a new discovery made it even clearer that astronomy is about to revolutionize archaeology. The island-city of Motya, just...

It’s no secret that various systems of astronomy and astrology have been practiced by cultures across the globe for thousands of years....

Ancient pagan gods seem to strike modern people as exceptionally petty. The myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans are often found...

Within the past year, the term “shadow work” has exploded into the public consciousness. It’s taken an impressive while to get there; it...

The astronomical mythos around Orion is known to be many millennia old and impossibly muddied to us in the 21st century. The story starts...

The idea that ancient cultures could “steal” each other’s myths, rites, or gods is very prevalent these days. It’s easiest to point to...

A light upon the black; The moon upon a many-starred night sky. I watch with teary eyes, the lunar beauty only making me remember her,...

Chinese Daoism has been a major force in world religion and philosophy for aeons. And, oftentimes, this historical and global prominence...

The history of men making myths from the stars is already known to be an ancient one. And yet, most people can’t fathom half of its true...

Striking Similarities Westerners robbed of the religious worldview by the death of the traditional Christian God have evermore turned to...

The interwoven works of a Renaissance occultist and proto-abstract artist.

Introduction: The search for the origin of all religion is rather self-explanatory in its reasoning; such a discovery would have...

Ridiculous, isn't it? The image in question is a meme that's been making its way around the internet since at least 2013. "Everything in...

Desire is typically considered a universal evil. It is desire which the Buddha denounced as the root of suffering. It is desire which led...

Introduction- Prehistoric man is an enigma to his modern progeny. We tend to think of life in the distant past as an unenviable thing;...

As intimidating of a thought as it may be, it is undeniably true. We can never know everything. Our insatiable desire for knowledge will...

We do not desire "things". Money cannot keep us content. Fame and status cannot fill our empty hearts. Natural or man-made; antique or...

Everyone knows the all-encompassing solution to their own and all the world’s problems. Intuitively. Buried, somewhere deep within their...

The word “atheism” puts a bad taste in many people’s mouths, and seemingly for good reason. The so-called New Atheists have taken up arms...

There is a possibility, regardless of how far-fetched it may feel, that the human experience of the Way discussed in "The Idea of the Way...