Gary Lachman, in his book, Signposts: Revolutionaries of the Soul, Reflections on Magicians, Philosophers, and Occultists, brings focus on some of our greatest spiritual guides. Sponsored Article – Signposts: Revolutionaries of the Soul The development of a deeper or higher consciousness has often been compared to a journey toward an ultimate goal with steps along the way and with entries into an inner dimension of the person, called by some ‘the Spirit’, by others ‘the Soul.’ Plato uses the image of the passage from the shadows of a cave to the sunlight of reality. To help the individual on this journey, there are Signposts; sometimes giving directions, at other times warnings, at times encouragement, at times techniques for walking. On the path to higher consciousness Garry Lachman who has written separate, book-length biographies of a number of spiritual teachers, here brings together essays written for journals of individuals who have helped to design such signposts. (1) Except for the earlier Swedish Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Lachman outlines the lives of writers whose impact goes from 1875? the founding of the Theosophical Society in New York City by H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) to the death o the Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung (1875-1961). During this period, we find Lachman’s portraits of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) with his lasting contribution to the education of children and ecological agriculture, as well as Jung, some of whose ideas and techniques of analysis have become part of the general field of psychotherapy even among people who do not consider themselves as Jungian analysts. Lachman also has chapters on interesting personalities but whose work had only very temporary significance or were known only in small circles: Julius Evola, editor of Fascist journals during the reign of Mussolini, P.D. Ouspensky and G.I. Gurdjieff, Violet Firth who wrote as “Dion Fortune”, Aleister Crowley,...

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