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 […]
Secret History
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 […]
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, […]
The Strange Case of The Secret Gospel: A Controversial New Look at the Secret Gospel According to Mark
From New Dawn 82 (Jan-Feb 2004) Even with recourse to the best scholarship and offering the best proofs for events of Jesus’ life and linked issues across history, it is not enough to claim to have found Jesus’ horoscope as […]
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 […]