From New Dawn 109 (Jul-Aug 2008) Very few people are aware that there are long-standing traditions of sexual mysticism in the West. During the last quarter of the twentieth century, many in the West became aware of Hindu and Buddhist […]
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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 […]
Spirituality in Today’s Vietnam
From New Dawn 148 (Jan-Feb 2015) The Vietnamese Buddha I have a great reverence for is Di Lac Phat, the Maitreya Buddha, the fat, laughing Buddha of the future. It is impossible to gaze upon his form for even a […]
Windows to the Sacred: Occult Art in Australia
From New Dawn 133 (Jul-Aug 2012) I think contemporary art is a myth. It’s like a fashion, there’s only ever been one idea in art, all the arts deal with it, and you have to look beyond fashion to see […]
A Lucid Look at Lucifer
From New Dawn Special Issue 10 (Dec 2009) We have to literarily, philosophically and theologically deconstruct certain concepts before we can really understand them. This is a process where we look beneath and beyond the commonly assumed folklore. Some readers […]