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 […]
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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, […]
Kindling the Divine Spark: The Secret to Awakening
From New Dawn 100 (Jan-Feb 2007) Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.1– G.I. Gurdjieff The United States Declaration of Independence proudly proclaims […]