David Gosselin

David Gosselin is a poet, researcher, and filmmaker. He publishes a weekly journal of arts and letters on Age of Muses. His latest films include The Devil at Woodstock, Reclaiming the Mysteries, and Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery. His new book is titled A Renaissance or New Middle Ages: Magic, Mystery and the Trance-formation of the West.

Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery: Solving the Paradox of the Sublime

David Gosselin

Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of murder and mystery, and his hauntingly beautiful poems, have fascinated readers for nearly two centuries. New research, presented in this article and in a new documentary, questions the official narratives about his life ...

Escaping Huxley’s Island: Psychedelics, Scientific Paganism and the Changing Images of Man

David Gosselin

As old bonds are broken and new connections made, let us carefully consider the new images of ourselves. Are they imitation or the real thing?

Breaking the Binds: Curing Western Schizophrenia

David Gosselin

Leave off the escapism of drugs and untie the Laingian knot. As long as we allowed ourselves to be fooled by imitations, the game always won. Decide to play no more games.

Art, Metaphor and Epiphany

David Gosselin

Beauty is not without purpose.

The Fall of the Tavistockians: Defeating the "Mother" of All Brainwashing

David Gosselin

Can British psychiatry ever be undarkened? Why did it stop seeing man as the image of God?