The 16th-century French doctor Michel de Nostradamus, and his obscure yet hypnotic prophecies, have cast their spell on the world over the last four-and-a-half centuries. He has become a wellspring for wisdom and waggishness for a broad range of diverse […]
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Revisiting Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
From New Dawn 144 (May-June 2014) Perhaps myth first arose out of the answers parents give to their children’s questions. Many of these are unanswerable: Why is water wet? Why is fire hot? Where does everything come from? Who is […]
Asherah (aka Astarte) was one of the forms of the feminine aspect of God in the ancient Middle East.
God’s Forgotten Wife
From New Dawn 123 (Nov-Dec 2010) Is God a man or a woman? Put baldly, this question seems ridiculous. And yet over the centuries it has proved almost impossible to keep from imagining the Supreme Being in a human form, […]
Entangled Minds: Telepathically Entering Another Person’s Lucid Dreams
From New Dawn 149 (Mar-Apr 2015) In the late 1970s I read the research on dream telepathy conducted at Maimonides Medical Center’s Dream Laboratory in New York.1 I was fascinated with how a person could send pictures into the minds […]
Robert Monroe & the Science of Astral Travel
From New Dawn 145 (Jul-Aug 2014) For nearly half a century, Robert Monroe has been the “out-of-body” man, the man who took the subject of astral travel out of the realm of religious or occultist dogma and plopped it right […]