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 […]
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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 […]
Architects of Power: How the Global Elite Profit from Extreme Inequality & Pre-empt the Backlash
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 3 (June 2019) There is a new, mega-rich global elite consisting of a small number of billionaires and multibillionaires. Many of them made their money in the technology sector. Others play financial […]
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 […]
UNPLUG: Staying Spiritually Sane in the World of Advanced Technologies
From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) When I was sixteen our family moved to western Kentucky, about sixty miles from the Abby of Gethsemani where the famous Trappist (Cistercian) monk Thomas Merton lived. I became acquainted with Merton the year […]