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 […]
Gary Lachman
Getting Beyond the Robot: Some Reflections on Paradoxical Freedom
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 […]
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 […]