From New Dawn 154 (Jan-Feb 2016) Until recently the academic world paid almost no attention to the Western mystical and esoteric traditions. If any scholars strayed into these areas, they did so gingerly and apologetically, often feeling the need to […]
Secret Wisdom
Freemasons, Secret Societies, Conspiracies, Consciousness & the Hidden Masters: An Interview with Gary Lachman
From New Dawn 153 (Nov-Dec 2015) An overlooked but powerful current is flowing in our time. It’s found in a small group of writers and thinkers who are trying to overcome the materialism and rationalism of the present age and […]
What Happened to the New Age? Sorting Truth from Nonsense
This article was published in New Dawn 147 (Nov-Dec 2014). Not long ago I was walking through the aisles of a New Age fair in the suburbs of Chicago. All the usual suspects were there: booths for Baha’i and Eckankar; […]
What is Alchemy?
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 2 (June 2015) It is a remote location in China in the early 1960s. A young man, Wang Liping, is studying with three Taoist masters. After preliminary training, they give him a […]
The Mystery of Christian Origins: Hail the Solar Kristos
An innate knowledge of the Gods is coexistent with our very existence; and this knowledge is superior to all judgement and deliberate choice, and subsists prior to reason and demonstration. – Iamblichus, 4th Century Neoplatonist, On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, […]