All posts by P.D. Newman

  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 […]

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 […]