From New Dawn 129 (Nov-Dec 2011) This year [2011] is the 700th anniversary of the birth of Liu Ji (1311-1375), military commander of Chinese forces both on land and on sea and long-time advisor to the first Ming emperor Zhu […]
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From Ancient Egypt to Modern Science: The Forgotten Link
From New Dawn 129 (Nov-Dec 2011) The ‘Scientific Revolution’ describes the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century watershed in the basic attitude to the scientific method, laying the foundations for the modern technological age. Starting when Copernicus went public with his heliocentric theory […]
Beyond the Five Senses: The Powers Latent in Humankind
From New Dawn 129 (Nov-Dec 2011) The traditional five senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch – are these the only ways to perceive the world, to gain information, to experience reality? In fact there are more than five […]
Search for the Mind of God
From New Dawn 127 (Jul-Aug 2011) Stephen Hawking famously ended his 1988 bestseller A Brief History of Time with the statement that, if and when physics finds its long-sought grand unified field theory “we would know the mind of God.”1 […]
The Russian Occult Revival
Known in certain new age circles as the focus of the Aquarian age, Russia is currently undergoing a massive ‘occult revival’. Interest in paranormal phenomena, occultism and parapsychology has never been more prevalent. With the end of the communist system, […]