From New Dawn 181 (Jul-Aug 2020) Over the years, I have used a variety of contemplative practices in combination to achieve specific spiritual outcomes. These practices eventually became ritualised into cyclical patterns in which the stage was set for some […]
Rev. Gary Duncan
UNPLUG: Staying Spiritually Sane in the World of Advanced Technologies
From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) When I was sixteen our family moved to western Kentucky, about sixty miles from the Abby of Gethsemani where the famous Trappist (Cistercian) monk Thomas Merton lived. I became acquainted with Merton the year […]
Entangled Minds: Telepathically Entering Another Person’s Lucid Dreams
From New Dawn 149 (Mar-Apr 2015) In the late 1970s I read the research on dream telepathy conducted at Maimonides Medical Center’s Dream Laboratory in New York.1 I was fascinated with how a person could send pictures into the minds […]
Thoughtforms, Tulpas & Egregores
From New Dawn 146 (Sept-Oct 2014) What are thoughts – are they real, and once created are they things that exist independent of our minds? Are they constructs created by our soul’s mental and emotional faculties? If so, how do these […]
Helping Stuck Souls Crossover
When I was twelve years old, my brother – a Funeral Director – began introducing me into the business. Over the next several years, he taught me anatomy and physiology, principles of mortuary science as well as other aspects of […]