This article was published in New Dawn 131 (Mar-Apr 2012) It has happened to everyone. You go into a room only to find you have no recollection of why you went; someone reminds you of a promise you made but […]
Richard Smoley
Gematria: The Link Between Numbers & Letters
From New Dawn 148 (Jan-Feb 2015) Count the numerical values Of the letters in Nero’s name, And in “murdered his own mother”: You’ll find the sum is the same. This piece of doggerel, written on a wall in Rome around […]
What Is Consciousness?
From New Dawn 120 (May-June 2010) One of the central themes of our age is consciousness. Mystics, scientists, philosophers alike have cast their eyes on this elusive entity, but no one seems quite able to say what it is. If […]
Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
From New Dawn 144 (May-June 2014) Perhaps myth first arose out of the answers parents give to their children’s questions. Many of these are unanswerable: Why is water wet? Why is fire hot? Where does everything come from? Who is […]
Asherah (aka Astarte) was one of the forms of the feminine aspect of God in the ancient Middle East.
God’s Forgotten Wife
From New Dawn 123 (Nov-Dec 2010) Is God a man or a woman? Put baldly, this question seems ridiculous. And yet over the centuries it has proved almost impossible to keep from imagining the Supreme Being in a human form, […]