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Freemasons, Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Consciousness & the Hidden Masters: An Interview with Gary Lachman
Read More →: Freemasons, Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Consciousness & the Hidden Masters: An Interview with Gary LachmanAn overlooked but powerful current is flowing in our time. It’s found in a small group of writers and thinkers who are trying to overcome the materialism and rationalism of…
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Where Does Consciousness Reside? Eben Alexander & the Brain-Mind Problem
Read More →: Where Does Consciousness Reside? Eben Alexander & the Brain-Mind ProblemThis article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 3 (June 2015) Why has Eben Alexander’s story caught the public imagination so intensely? Admittedly, not everyone has…
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A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Worlds Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander
Read More →: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Worlds Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Eben AlexanderToday the intellectual world is facing an insurrection. It has nothing to do with politics or economics. It is about worldviews. Contemporary intellectual thought is hidebound by a materialistic view…
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What Happened to the New Age? Sorting Truth from Nonsense
Read More →: What Happened to the New Age? Sorting Truth from NonsenseThis article was published in New Dawn 147 (Nov-Dec 2014). Not long ago I was walking through the aisles of a New Age fair in the suburbs of Chicago. All…
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What is Alchemy?
Read More →: What is Alchemy?It is a remote location in China in the early 1960s. A young man, Wang Liping, is studying with three Taoist masters. After preliminary training, they give him a grain…
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Manifesting Your Will
Read More →: Manifesting Your WillMuch of New Thought is about manifesting your will. It’s far more helpful to do this if your will is in alignment with your own higher nature. This exercise is…
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Has Consciousness Evolved?
Read More →: Has Consciousness Evolved?The idea that consciousness is evolving is one of the most important doctrines of the New Age. But is it true? Over the long term, the answer seems obvious. Even…
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The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller
Read More →: The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. HoellerOne of the most compelling themes of current times is Gnosis – the idea of a transcendental knowledge that, like enlightenment, liberates the individual from bondage to the world of suffering.…
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Is Your God a Devil?
Read More →: Is Your God a Devil?It is one of the most familiar and reassuring lines in scripture: “The Lord is my shepherd.” But when you think about it, the metaphor is a disturbing one. It’s…
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Will Thinking Make It So? An Interview With Mitch Horowitz
Read More →: Will Thinking Make It So? An Interview With Mitch HorowitzThis article was published in New Dawn 142 (Jan-Feb 2014) Much of today’s writing about spirituality is loaded with nonsense. Often it consists of little more than wild speculation, shoddy…
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The Secret History of Astrology
Read More →: The Secret History of AstrologyThe history of astrology is in many ways the history of a polemic. The question of whether astrology works, as crucial as it is, is soon buried under other issues,…
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The Dual Search for the Philosophers’ Stone
Read More →: The Dual Search for the Philosophers’ StoneTo say what the Philosophers’ Stone – the great goal of alchemy – is, one has to know. And to know, one must have attained it. I cannot claim to have done…
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Ritual Magic in Theory & Practice
Read More →: Ritual Magic in Theory & PracticeSeveral years ago I decided to do an evening-long introduction to ritual magic at the New York Open Center, one of the city’s best-known gathering places for mind, body, and…
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Spaceship Earth: The Visionary Ideas of the Russian Cosmists
Read More →: Spaceship Earth: The Visionary Ideas of the Russian CosmistsWinston Churchill famously characterised Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” It’s apt, then, that the father of the Russian space program – perhaps of all space…
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Cultivating Consciousness in an Unconscious World
Read More →: Cultivating Consciousness in an Unconscious WorldPoliticians constantly evade the truth. Why can they get away with it? According to a recent study conducted at Harvard University, it’s because people have such terrible attention spans. Behavioural…
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Madame Blavatsky & the Spirit World
Read More →: Madame Blavatsky & the Spirit WorldSéances. Mediums. Apparitions. And fraud. These are a few of the things that come to mind when the subject of Spiritualism comes up. Like so many things in the world…
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Reincarnation: The Eastern View
Read More →: Reincarnation: The Eastern ViewReincarnation has become an increasingly popular doctrine in the West. For example, polls taken in the US over the past couple of decades have shown that between 20 and 28…
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A Way to Live: The Path of Self-Knowledge
Read More →: A Way to Live: The Path of Self-KnowledgeFor all the scarcity in the world, one thing we never seem to be lacking is advice. We’re constantly deluged with exhortations of one sort or another – for diet,…
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Colin Wilson & the War Against Sleep
Read More →: Colin Wilson & the War Against SleepColin Wilson passed away on 5 December 2013. A tribute to his life and examination of his work written by Colin Stanley appears in New Dawn 143 (March-April 2014). New Dawn Special…
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The Inscrutable Madame Blavatsky: An Interview with Gary Lachman
Read More →: The Inscrutable Madame Blavatsky: An Interview with Gary LachmanThis article was published in New Dawn 137 (Mar-Apr 2013) I was in search of the unknown…– Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1890) Gary Lachman is one of today’s most intelligent and…
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Christianity: The Ultimate Secret
Read More →: Christianity: The Ultimate SecretFrom New Dawn 84 Today there is an unprecedented thirst for the innermost secrets of Christianity. The quest for these lost teachings drives the plots of best-sellers like The Da…
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Rescuing the Bible from Literalism
Read More →: Rescuing the Bible from Literalism“The world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things.” So it is, but facts take many forms. The hard-edged events of ordinary reality are…
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Apocalypse: The End Times and the Restoration of All Things
Read More →: Apocalypse: The End Times and the Restoration of All Things“The earth abideth for ever,” says the Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:4). Whether this is literally true or not, it corresponds to the deepest core of human experience. The Earth was around…
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Awakening Our True Potential
Read More →: Awakening Our True PotentialMan is born an unfinished creature. He cannot walk or talk or feed himself. Long years of care are required to bring him to even the most minimal levels of…
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India’s Science of Light
Read More →: India’s Science of LightWhile most people in the Western world are aware of astrology, comparatively few know that other cultures have other systems of astrology. There are Chinese and Tibetan horoscopes, with their…
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New Dawn & the Tradition of Alternative Publishing
Read More →: New Dawn & the Tradition of Alternative PublishingThis article was published in New Dawn 126 (May-June 2011) The origins and influences for a publication as rich and manifold as New Dawn are difficult to trace in any…
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The Mysterious Kybalion
Read More →: The Mysterious KybalionPeople who have spent time grazing in metaphysical bookshops may have come across a mysterious volume called The Kybalion, written by “Three Initiates” and first issued by the Yogi Publication…
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The Bible: Myth or History?
Read More →: The Bible: Myth or History?Every civilisation needs a myth; but woe to the civilisation whose myth has been found wanting. That is the position of Christianity today. It came to ascendance at a time…
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Waiting for the End of the World: René Guénon and the Kali Yuga
Read More →: Waiting for the End of the World: René Guénon and the Kali YugaCurrently the fear – or hope – of the closing of the age pervades the air like a thick vapour. Sometimes this end is envisaged as an environmental calamity, sometimes…
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A Pagan Christ? Reflections on the Real Christmas Story
Read More →: A Pagan Christ? Reflections on the Real Christmas StoryStrictly speaking, a pagan Christ is a contradiction in terms. The very concept of paganism was constructed by Christians who wanted to distinguish their faith from the old religion of…
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