My father and I

My father and I

In the small hours of September 20th, 2018, I posted the announcement that my father, Leon Chaitow, had passed away. I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of sympathy, condolences, and intense grief from literally every corner of the globe, as my father had been a...
Art in dark places

Art in dark places

want of trying. Yet I saw things in that abyss that should never be spoken of except in warning. So those paintings will never be created. Late in 2019 I finally found time to sit down at the easel, following a monumental blow that added insult to injury following my...
A Cautionary Tale

A Cautionary Tale

Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, March/April 2020 This does not invalidate the RCT as an important tool in research, but it does mean we need to proceed with caution, as it has been noted repeatedly that its purpose is to assist and support clinical...
2020 Péladan research update

2020 Péladan research update

Friends who follow me on other media will be aware that this page has been quiet for a while, following a couple of years of extreme life turbulence. In early 2018 I was making good headway with the manuscript for my (horrendously overdue) book on Péladan, when family...
Les bijoux de la Rose +Croix

Les bijoux de la Rose +Croix

The 27th June 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Josephin Peladan, the mysterious French visionary author who dreamed of igniting a cultural renaissance through symbolic art containing esoteric messages and who masterminded the Salons de la Rose + Croix....