From New Dawn 176 (Sept-Oct 2019) For centuries, Western philosophy has viewed animals and plants as unthinking automatons. The famous 17th scientist and philosopher, Rene Descartes, maintained that non-human organisms cannot reason or feel pain; they are robotic machines that […]
New Science/Consciousness
Astral Bucket List: Advanced Instruction on Travelling Out-of-Body
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 6 (Dec 2018) So you’ve had your first out-of-body experience (OBE) and found yourself spontaneously floating from your bed up to the ceiling. Or you’ve read everything you could get your hands […]
Mind of Light: Optical Networks in the Brain (and Beyond)
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 6 (Dec 2019) Modern brain research is conducted under the rather arbitrary assumption that the original emergence of consciousness was likely to have been a lucky accident, a random byproduct of neuronal […]
The Power of Egregores: An Interview with Mark Stavish
From New Dawn 176 (Sept-Oct Dec 2019) Diane Fraser speaks with Mark Stavish about egregores, their existence and power in our lives, and how they can help or restrict us. Mark shares practical advice on how to determine if an egregore […]
Walking Between Worlds: UFOs & Consciousness
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 6 (Dec 2019) In December 2017 the New York Times released two videos of UAPs, or “unidentified aerial phenomenon” – a more official-sounding term for what most of us call UFOs or […]