From New Dawn 100 (Jan-Feb 2007) I believe there are many gods, not one, and always in conflict. Well, if there are gods who created and control what’s going on here, you can tell a lot about them by what […]
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Kuan Yin: The Compassionate Rebel
From New Dawn 99 (Nov-Dec 2006) It is unfortunate that Buddhism’s most enduring (and universal) contribution to the world has been insufficiently translated as compassion. The original Sanskrit word is karuna, which holds within itself traces of the fragment ‘ru’, […]
William S. Burroughs: 20th Century Gnostic Visionary
From New Dawn 199 (Nov-Dec 2006) In 1984, in Boulder, Colorado, an interviewer asked William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), “What religious persuasion would you consider yourself?” Without hesitating, Burroughs replied, “Gnostic, or a Manichean.”1Upon reading those words, suddenly everything made sense. […]
The Incredibly Strange Story of Intelligent Design
From New Dawn 97 (Jul-Aug 2006) Children in Ohio may be taught life was created by aliens under an education package designed to ditch Darwin’s Theory of evolution. The US state is considering adopting the “intelligent design” theory that life […]
How to Make a Ghost: Magic and Mysticism in Tibet
This article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) Authors note that fictional characters have a tendency to take on a life of their own. But few readers realise just how literally they mean it. A friend of mine, […]