About P.D. Newman

P. D. Newman has been immersed in the study and practice of alchemy, hermetism, and theurgy for more than two decades. A member of both the Masonic Fraternity and the Society of Rosicrucians, he lectures internationally and has published articles in many esoteric journals, including The Scottish Rite Journal, Knights Templar Magazine, and Ad Lucem. He is the author of Angels in Vermilion: The Philosophers’ Stone from Dee to DMT and Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry. He lives in Tupelo, Mississippi, with his son, Bacchus, and his wife, Rebecca.

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The Missihuasca Hypothesis: Speculations on an Undocumented Ayahuasca Analogue in the Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere

We warmly welcome P.D. Newman, author of Tripping the Trail of Ghosts: Psychedelics and the Afterlife Journey in Native American Mound Cultures, as our featured author this month. P.D. Newman’s book examines the role of psychoactive plants in afterlife traditions, sacred rituals, and spirit journeying by shamans of the Mississippian […]

P.D. Newman | 8th March 2025

Lewis-Williams’ ‘Three Stages of Trance’ Model and its Correlation to Neoplatonic Cosmology

It is said that above the threshold of Plato’s Academy at Athens, the words, “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,”1 were inscribed. As the “first and noblest of sciences,” it is by geometry that, according to one Scottish luminary, “we may curiously trace nature through her various […]

P.D. Newman | 10th June 2021

Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret Of Freemasonry

It is with pleasure that we welcome our first Author of the Month of 2018: P.D Newman, and his radical interpretation of Masonic symbolism, Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry. “In the tradition of Wasson, Hofmann and Ruck, in The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), and Heinrich’s Strange […]

P.D. Newman | 1st January 2018