From New Dawn 182 (Sept-Oct 2020) Some weeks ago I had an odd experience. Like many other people, I have spent the past few months under a voluntary “house arrest,” following the rules the government has set out in order […]
Gary Lachman
Enter the Ancient Wisdom: Quest for the Source of Lost Knowledge
From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one of its main objectives the possible reunion of the two branches of […]
Hermes Trismegistus & the Consciousness Revolution of the Renaissance
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 14 No 4 (Aug 2020) The Hermetic revival in the Renaissance was inspired by a belief that humanity could remake its own destiny. Was this promethean arrogance, or the recognition of powers that we […]
Waking Up is Hard To Do: Remembering Gurdjieff & Ouspensky
From New Dawn 167 (Mar-Apr 2018) In the spring of 1915 the writer and journalist Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, a familiar name in Russian Theosophical circles, gave a series of lectures in Moscow about his recent “search for the miraculous” in […]
Dreams, Spirits & the Occult: The Secret World of Carl G Jung
From New Dawn 174 (May-June 2019) On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a […]