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 […]
Gary Lachman
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 […]
The Philosopher Tsar: Vladimir Putin’s Favourite Thinkers
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 3 (June 2021) In 2014, at the annual meeting of United Russia, the Russian Federation’s dominant political party, amidst the standard rhetoric of party politics, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his regional […]