Tag: Nicholas Roerich
Roerich, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky: the secrets of the Gobi desert
During the 1927 expedition to Central Asia, the Russian painter and explorer Nicolas Roerich moved towards the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia, crossing the Qaidam (Tsaidam) salt marsh. Traditions reported by Madame Blavatsky and Georges Ivanoviฤย Gurdjieff, as well as the tales of local folklore, said it was the site of an ancient sea, within which it was handed down that advanced civilizations, now forgotten, and legendary cities, now buried by sands, had developed.
"Underground" civilizations in myth, occultism and "alternative reality"
Simultaneously with the publication of our article on "Underworld Civilizations in Fantastic Literature" appeared in Cosmic Dimension, we have drawn up here a brief excursus on the same topos in the sacred traditions, in the esoteric sphere and in the "alternative reality" of the twentieth century
The secrets of Twin Peaks: the "Evil that comes from the woods"
di Marco Maculotti
ยซWe will meet again in 25 years"โSo Laura Palmer promised, trapped in the parallel dimension called" Black Lodge ", to agent Dale Cooper in the last episode of the second season of The secrets of Twin Peaks, which aired in the USA on 10 June 1991. What until recently seemed destined to remain a promise without a sequel is now on the verge of being kept: on 21 May the first episode of the third will be broadcast in America, highly anticipated season of the serial, which will pick up the subject exactly where we left off, with a gap of a quarter of a century. Waiting for the pilot episode of the new season to arrive on our television screens (May 26, on the channel Sky Atlantic) we want to propose to our readers an analysis of the more specifically "esoteric" themes they have made Twin Peaks a real media event of the nineties.