Behind the News

Pine Gap: Mystery, Myth & Conspiracy

From New Dawn 171 (Nov-Dec 2018) The Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs has had a troubling, if discrete history in the Australian political landscape. It is, more than anything, a sign of the pressing inequalities of […]

New Science/Consciousness

Inorganic Intelligent Beings May Dominate The Universe

From New Dawn 192 (May-June 2022) My new book, A New Science of Heaven (Hodder & Stoughton), gives a full scientific description of the nature of inorganic, non-biological, intelligent beings in space.  We have two such ‘creatures’ close to our […]

Cosmic Life: Dawn of a New Paradigm

From New Dawn 165 (Nov-Dec 2017) If it can be firmly established that we are not alone in the Universe the implications for humanity will be profound. It could be even more important if we know that alien life in […]

Secret History

Mystical Elvis: From Rock Star to American Shaman

From New Dawn 209 (Mar-Apr 2025) Elvis Presley remains one of culture’s greatest icons and solo pop stars today. At best, he’s viewed as an innovative, profoundly talented performer who led rock music into the heart and psyche of Western […]

March on Fiume

From New Dawn No. 21 (Sept-Oct 1993) “To die is not enough.”– D’Annunzio When pressed about his political allegiance, Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) refused to commit himself. “My undertaking may seem rash and alien to my art and style of life,” […]

The Untold Story of Ernst Jünger

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 14 No 3 (June 2020) Ernst Jünger isn’t a name on many English speakers’ lips, although in his home country of Germany he is recognised as one of that nation’s greatest literary figures, if […]

Secret Wisdom

Mastering the Master Game: The Self-Completion of Robert de Ropp

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 4 (Aug 2016) Biochemist, author, spiritual teacher, kayaking fisherman, founder of an intentional community, misanthrope – Robert de Ropp was a complex man. Within him, the scientist, the magician, the missionary, the […]

Magic and Awakening

From New Dawn 68 (Sept-Oct 2001) New Dawn No. 68 (Sept-Oct 2001) featured Jay Kinney‘s review of Julius Evola’s Introduction to Magic Vol 1. This was one of the earliest books penned by Evola that was translated into English and […]

Paranormal

The Lost Airliner: Accident, Conspiracy or Something Else? 

From New Dawn 203 (Mar-Apr 2024) Aviation history’s greatest enigma unfolded on 8 March 2014. The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 passengers and crew members on board sparked the world’s largest, most intense and expensive air-sea rescue […]

Building Magical Power: The Secret of Occult Thailand

From New Dawn 180 (May-June 2020) The Thais call it Samathi, the crucial element when constructing magical items or using magic to influence events and people. Pronounced sa-ma-tee, Samathi is sharply focused intention, and a major contributing factor in the […]

Health/Wellness

The Secrets of Longevity

From New Dawn 147 (Nov-Dec 2014) Today, longevity is a hot topic. Sometimes it goes by other names such as anti-aging, cellular renewal, or regenerative medicine, but since it is a focus of current interest, there is money to be […]

The Benefits of Traditional Foods

From New Dawn 193 (Jul-Aug 2022) Traditional foods is a term that emerged at some point around the same time the mainstream diet started to resemble something made in Frankenstein’s lab. These are foods produced on small farms and homesteads […]

Technology/Mind Control

Elon Musk: The Power Behind the Mask

From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 18 No 4 (Aug 2024) Toward the end of the twentieth century, Man created machines that were solid-state computers with new properties. These machines could think, reason, and self-program and learned to self-metaprogram themselves. […]

UFOs/Unexplained Phenomena

Ancient Mysteries

Who Killed Mars: Did a Nuclear War Destroy the Red Planet?

From New Dawn 150 (May-June 2015) Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.– Vishnu in the Bhagavad-Gita, 5th Century BCE Art is sometimes prophetic. A case in point is the Hollywood movie, Rocketship X-M, starring Lloyd Bridges and […]

Afterlife

What’s This About An Afterlife?

From New Dawn 199 (Jul-Aug 2023) So you think the continuity of consciousness after physical death is just a bunch of faith-based woo-woo?  You think it’s something cooked up to make us feel better about our inevitable journey from the […]

Allan Kardec and the Way of the Spirit

From New Dawn Special Issue No 5 (Winter 2008) In Allan Kardec’s The Spirits’ Book, which is considered by many to be the bible of Spiritism, the characteristics of “impure spirits” are listed. They are “inclined to evil,” it says, […]