From New Dawn 74 (Sept-Oct 2002) In the midst of the Cold War both the Soviets and the Americans employed psychics to spy on each other’s activities. These were the so-called remote viewers. Both the CIA and the US Army […]
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The War on the Cathars
From New Dawn 110 (Sept-Oct 2008) The “Cathar heresy” that struck Southern France in the 13th century, and was viciously persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church, remains a pool of interest and intrigue. What really happened, and what did the […]
Athanasius Kircher’s Theatre of Marvels
The museum of Athanasius Kircher (1602 – 1680) in the Jesuit College of Rome was an obligatory stop for high-class tourists, from John Evelyn the diarist to Queen Christina of Sweden, but they never knew what to expect. The college […]
The Mystery of Iniquity: Does Evil Exist or Do Bad Things Just Happen?
On June 10, 1991, a cover story appeared in Time magazine on the topic of evil. The author, Lance Morrow, did not argue for a particular thesis and did not reach any conclusions. What he did, however, was in a […]
The Necronomicon
From New Dawn Special Issue 9 (Sept 2009) In 1977, America had barely heard of Iraq or of Saddam Hussein. The first Gulf War was more than a decade away; the second, more than twenty-five years away. The attacks on […]