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 […]
Secret Wisdom
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 […]
The Return of Myth
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 5 (Oct 2021) Myth for us – except in exceptional cases of extreme degradation and the secularisation of tradition and culture – is not the fiction of primitives, superstition, or misunderstanding. Instead, […]