From New Dawn 123 (Nov-Dec 2010) Millions of Australians are prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs – statins like Pravachol®, Zocor® and Lipitor® – each year at a cost of more than $1 billion dollars with very little, if any, benefit. In the […]
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The Bible: Myth or History?
From New Dawn 123 (Nov-Dec 2010) Every civilisation needs a myth; but woe to the civilisation whose myth has been found wanting. That is the position of Christianity today. It came to ascendance at a time when the myths of […]
A New Theory for the Great Pyramid: How Science is Changing Our View of the Past
This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue 13 (Sept 2010) Of all the chambers in the Great Pyramid, the subterranean chamber is the largest, as well as the most mysterious. It is 46 feet long, 27 feet wide, […]
Waiting for the End of the World: René Guénon and the Kali Yuga
From New Dawn 122 (Sept-Oct 2010) Currently the fear – or hope – of the closing of the age pervades the air like a thick vapour. Sometimes this end is envisaged as an environmental calamity, sometimes as the second coming […]
Magic & Mysticism in Java
From New Dawn Special Issue 5 (May 2008) The death of ex-President Soeharto of Indonesia at the age of 86 [in 2008] reminded me that I was present in Jakarta in 1967 during the bloodbath in which the Communist Party […]