It seems that events of the Civil War transformed Lincoln’s religious side, which had previously been sufficiently skeptical that, as a candidate, he had to defend himself against the charge of being a “scoffer.” Lincoln seemed, according to historian Shelby Foote, “not to be a praying man and he had never joined a church.” The […]
I was guided to look into the ancient Mystery Religions, of which the Eleusinian and Orphic are the most famous. The Mysteries were cults whose rites were open only to initiates. Participants were sworn never to disclose what took place and, remarkably, none ever did. What little we know is thanks to historians’ detective work. […]
One week I testified before a U.S. Senate committee. It did not go well and, bowed as well as beaten, my ego limped out of the hearing room. Get your ego out of it. Stand back and look (at it) at a distance. “A ‘God’s-eye’ view?” No, just objectively, as if it were someone else. […]
