MITCH HOROWITZ was raised in a world of Bigfoot stories, UFO sightings, and Carlos Castaneda books. He grew determined to find the truth behind it all – and today is a PEN Award-winning historian and the author of Occult America […]
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Occult Paris Revealed – Artists, Mystics & the Revival of the Arcane Tradition: An Interview with Tobias Churton
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 1 (Feb 2017) Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar in Western esotericism. A film-maker, composer and poet, he recently completed his latest book, Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque, […]
Donald Trump & ‘Positive-Thinking’: An Interview with James Wasserman
From New Dawn 161 (Mar-Apr 2017) Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! With sound self-confidence you can succeed. – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Trump family pastor, inspiration to President Donald J. Trump & the Father of ‘Positive-Thinking’ US […]
Magic in Mind
From New Dawn 98 (Sept-Oct 2006) A question frequently put to me by newcomers to magical practice is whether there is a reliable way of distinguishing subjective experience from what exists independently of their perception of it. In other words, […]
Quest for Hidden Wisdom: An Interview with Richard Smoley
This article was published in New Dawn 98 (Sept-Oct 2006) Richard Smoley and Jay Kinney need no introduction to New Dawn readers. After successful careers as editors of Gnosis (1985-1999), the highly respected US journal of esoteric knowledge, in 1999 […]