From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 4 (Aug 2017) Today the popular image of witchcraft in the mass media and in books and magazines is largely defined by ‘Wicca’, a form of neo-pagan witchcraft created by a retired […]
Secret History
Unity: The Remarkable Story of Charles & Myrtle Fillmore
Myrtle Fillmore was in desperate straits in 1886. Sick from tuberculosis and malaria, her much-younger husband had managed to bankrupt himself in both the mining and real-estate industries. She was so weak that she was incapable of caring for her […]
Medieval Magic & Pharmacy: Not Just “Flying Ointments”
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 3 (June 2016) When I first started my investigation into the so-called “witches’ ointment” of the early modern period I was looking for a specific kind of ointment that caused a specific […]
The Cathars & Their Modern Day Revival
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 2 (Apr 2016) Most forms of spirituality or religion look back to the past in some way. The past is a source of origin, tradition, revelation, and inspiration. For the medieval Cathars […]
From Witchcraft & Satanic Rites to Demon Possession
The supernatural: the images that come to mind when that word is uttered often are ones that arouse anxiety or dread. Why? To begin with, you can only be afraid of something that you believe is real. A child has […]