From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 18 No 2 (Apr 2024) One of the most remarkable spiritual teachers of modern times, Richard, Duc de Palatine (1916-1977), is little known today outside of a handful of modern Gnostic churches and initiatory […]
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Carlos Castaneda: The Myth and the Man
From New Dawn 187 (Jul-Aug 2021) Carlos Castaneda burst onto the scene in the 1960s after rave reviews of his early books, The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality. This was during the early heyday of psychedelics and […]
Return of The Mind Parasites: Lovecraft, Wilson, & Phenomenological Science Fiction
From New Dawn 188 (Sept-Oct 2021) In 1959, while staying at the farmhouse of an old friend, the British existentialist Colin Wilson came across a book seemingly designed to attract his attention; the fact that it was the only one […]
The Eurasian Vision in the Great South Land
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 3 (July 2021) ‘Eurasia’ was not a name you heard in Australia thirty years ago. Apart from an obscure reference in academic publications focused on the Soviet Union, ‘Eurasia’ (Ezrasia) would occasionally […]
Manifesto of the New Magi
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 3 (July 2021) “The new magi [wizards] establish their art and realise social upheavals. They specialise in geopolitics, mass science, and they subjugate the elements; they tame the Atlanticist Leviathan, and they fatten […]