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Richard Smoley

About the Author

RICHARD SMOLEY is the author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition; The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe; Conscious Love: Insights from Mystical Christianity; The Essential Nostradamus; Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism; Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History; The Deal: A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness; How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying about God and the Bible; and Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions (with Jay Kinney). A frequent contributor to New Dawn, he is editor of Quest: Journal of the Theosophical Society in America. Visit his blog at www.innerchristianity.com/blog.htm.

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The Way of the Sly Man: The Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff

By Richard Smoley

This article was published in New Dawn 131 (Mar-Apr 2012) It has happened to everyone. You go into a room only to find you have no recollection of why you went; someone reminds you of a promise you made but […]

Gematria: The Link Between Numbers & Letters

By Richard Smoley

Count the numerical values Of the letters in Nero’s name, And in “murdered his own mother”: You’ll find the sum is the same. This piece of doggerel, written on a wall in Rome around 60 CE, points to a widespread […]

What Is Consciousness?

By Richard Smoley

One of the central themes of our age is consciousness. Mystics, scientists, philosophers alike have cast their eyes on this elusive entity, but no one seems quite able to say what it is. If you look up “consciousness” in a […]

Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth

By Richard Smoley

Perhaps myth first arose out of the answers parents give to their children’s questions. Many of these are unanswerable: Why is water wet? Why is fire hot? Where does everything come from? Who is God? Because people like to tell […]

Asherah (aka Astarte) was one of the forms of the feminine aspect of God in the ancient Middle East.

God’s Forgotten Wife

By Richard Smoley

Is God a man or a woman? Put baldly, this question seems ridiculous. And yet over the centuries it has proved almost impossible to keep from imagining the Supreme Being in a human form, and a human form immediately implies […]