From New Dawn 110 (Sept-Oct 2008) “The world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things.” So it is, but facts take many forms. The hard-edged events of ordinary reality are only one form, and […]
Richard Smoley
Apocalypse: The End Times and the Restoration of All Things
From New Dawn 135 (Nov-Dec 2012) “The earth abideth for ever,” says the Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:4). Whether this is literally true or not, it corresponds to the deepest core of human experience. The Earth was around long before the existence […]
Awakening Our True Potential
From New Dawn 129 (Nov-Dec 2011) Man is born an unfinished creature. He cannot walk or talk or feed himself. Long years of care are required to bring him to even the most minimal levels of self-sufficiency. And yet even […]
India’s Science of Light
From New Dawn 127 (Jul-Aug 2011) While most people in the Western world are aware of astrology, comparatively few know that other cultures have other systems of astrology. There are Chinese and Tibetan horoscopes, with their cycles of twelve signs […]
New Dawn & the Tradition of Alternative Publishing
This article was published in New Dawn 126 (May-June 2011) The origins and influences for a publication as rich and manifold as New Dawn are difficult to trace in any simplistic way, particularly for someone who has come to write […]