Gary Lachman Valentine of Blondie: Jung, Consciousness, and the Occult

Mas Assets Full 9781101188293
In the 1970s, Gary Valentine Lachman was the founding guitar bass player for Blondie. In recent years though, Lachman shifted his focus to writing a slew of books about fringe culture, the occult, consciousness, and esoteric figures from history. His book about sixties psychedelia and the occult, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius, is one of my favorite chronicles of the time. I highly recommend it. (The 2001 book was recently reprinted in the UK as The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind.) In the above interview, Lachman talks about his own long strange trip, and his new book, Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings. He's also blogging over at the Daily Grail!