Last Born In The Wilderness

[Intro: 12:07] In this episode, I speak with prolific writer and historian Gary Lachman, author of numerous books on the evolution of consciousness, popular culture, and the history of the occult. Most recently, his works include ‘The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World’ and ‘Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump,’ both of which are the subject of this interview. In ‘Dark Star Rising,’ Gary Lachman delves into the occultic and esoteric influences that inform contemporary politics and power in the post-modern age, with a particular focus on the rise of Donald Trump in the United States and Vladimir Putin in post-Soviet Russia, as well as those who stand in the shadows of these figures, exerting their influence through subtle and not-so-subtle means. When the German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche proclaimed, in the 19th century, that “God is dead,” he was anticipating the approach of an “age of nihilism” that would define