The museum of Athanasius Kircher (1602 – 1680) in the Jesuit College of Rome was an obligatory stop for high-class tourists, from John Evelyn the diarist to Queen Christina of Sweden, but they never knew what to expect. The college […]
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The Mystery of Iniquity: Does Evil Exist or Do Bad Things Just Happen?
On June 10, 1991, a cover story appeared in Time magazine on the topic of evil. The author, Lance Morrow, did not argue for a particular thesis and did not reach any conclusions. What he did, however, was in a […]
The Necronomicon
From New Dawn Special Issue 9 (Sept 2009) In 1977, America had barely heard of Iraq or of Saddam Hussein. The first Gulf War was more than a decade away; the second, more than twenty-five years away. The attacks on […]
Dogon Cosmology & Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing
From New Dawn 112 (Jan-Feb 2009) Along the cliffs of the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali – south of the Niger river and north of Upper Volta – live the modern-day Dogon tribe, a reclusive society consisting of approximately 300,000 individuals. […]
What is Biodynamic Farming?
From New Dawn 112 (Jan-Feb 2009) My first introduction to a biodynamic farm was over 35 years ago, yet it made such an indelible impression upon me that I can still vividly recreate the memory. Nestling in the soft East […]