From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 6 (Dec 2019) For the last several years a thickening stream of New Age books and documentaries have, to the chagrin of critics, attempted to use quantum theory to “prove” that the […]
Mitch Horowitz
Mysterious Beasts & Natural Wonders: Toward a New Understanding of Bigfoot, Flying Saucers, Fairies & other Inconvenient Realities
From New Dawn 179 (Mar-Apr 2020) Several years ago a critic wrote about me, “Horowitz is an okay historian, but the guy believes in leprechauns for chrissakes.”That is true – I plead guilty. In this paper, I will try to […]
Hermes Resurrected: Does Hermetic Literature Hold Any Meaning for Today’s Seekers?
This article was published in New Dawn 165 (Nov-Dec 2017) I sometimes suspect that we deploy the word ‘Hermetic’ – a term for late ancient Greek-Egyptian mystical texts attributed to the mythical man-god Hermes Trismegistus, or thrice-greatest Hermes – as […]
“Nothing is Impossible”: Rediscovering The Kybalion
From New Dawn 165 (Nov-Dec 2017) And with the wish the energy was born…– Corpus Hermeticum, book I I once regarded The Kybalion as little more than a novelty of early twentieth-century occultism. I considered the book a faux-antique work […]
The Black Arts after Fifty Years
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 4 (Aug 2017) This year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Cavendish’s classic study of the occult, The Black Arts. The year of Cavendish’s book – 1967 – could be seen as a […]