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 […]
Gary Lachman
Meditations on Valentin Tomberg: Tarot, Spirituality, Mysticism, Hermeticism & the Occult
From New Dawn 184 (Jan-Feb 2021) The twentieth-century esoteric philosopher Valentin Tomberg was born in 1900 in St. Petersburg to a Russian father and an Estonian mother. Little is known about his early life; indeed, Tomberg seems to have gone […]
Return of The Mind Parasites: Lovecraft, Wilson, & Phenomenological Science Fiction
From New Dawn 188 (Sept-Oct 2021) In 1959, while staying at the farmhouse of an old friend, the British existentialist Colin Wilson came across a book seemingly designed to attract his attention; the fact that it was the only one […]
The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century
From New Dawn 189 (Nov-Dec 2021) In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four-year-old British existentialist Colin Wilson (1931–2013) made his first attempt at analysing a character he felt was peculiar to our age, or at least to that of […]
Destiny Calling: Experiments with Dreaming, Time & Synchronicity
From New Dawn 181 (Jul-Aug 2020) This article about synchronicities and precognitive dreams was originally published in Quest magazine in 1997. At the time I wrote it, I didn’t have access to the dream journals I mention in it, and […]