From New Dawn 107 (Mar-Apr 2008) Sufism belongs in spirit to the modern age. It has an affinity with it; it is in tune with secularism, with the modern thirst for objective knowledge. Yet the Sufi tradition is immensely old. […]
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The Power of the Mind
From New Dawn 106 (Jan-Feb 2008) Living in the world under your skin is a bustling metropolis of 50 trillion cells, each of which is biologically and functionally equivalent to a miniature human. Current popular opinion holds that the fate […]
A Pagan Christ? Reflections on the Real Christmas Story
From New Dawn 105 (Nov-Dec 2007) Strictly speaking, a pagan Christ is a contradiction in terms. The very concept of paganism was constructed by Christians who wanted to distinguish their faith from the old religion of Greece and Rome, which […]
Forces of the Unconscious Mind: Exploring the Work of Stan Gooch
From New Dawn 105 (Nov-Dec 2007) In the first chapter of his fascinating book The Origins of Psychic Phenomena (1984), the British psychologist Stan Gooch explains that he used to smile when he heard, “for instance, stories of invisible ‘thought […]
John Perkins: From Economic Hitman to Shaman
I remember John Perkins. He was a real jerk. A gold-plated, super-slick lying little butthole shill for corporate gangsters; a snake-oil salesman with a movie-star grin, shiny loafers, a crooked calculator and a tooled leather briefcase full of high-blown bullshit. […]