From New Dawn 164 (Sept-Oct 2017) A human life is a story, with a beginning, middle and an end. Like stories, our lives are filled with moments and experiences that shape us into who we ultimately become. Many of those moments […]
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What is the Tarot?
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 5 (Oct 2019) The Tarot is a path. In Egypt it was called the Books of Life or Books of Thoth and also the Royal Way of Life. The word Tarot was […]
Getting Beyond the Robot: Some Reflections on Paradoxical Freedom
From New Dawn 182 (Sept-Oct 2020) Some weeks ago I had an odd experience. Like many other people, I have spent the past few months under a voluntary “house arrest,” following the rules the government has set out in order […]
Enlightenment & Gnosis: An Inquiry into Experiential Religion
From New Dawn 186 (May-June 2021) The study of mystical religious experience was introduced into psychological studies in the late nineteenth century. Curiously, this somewhat novel interest was initially stimulated by researchers of medical psychology who observed that phenomena resembling […]
Enter the Ancient Wisdom: Quest for the Source of Lost Knowledge
From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one of its main objectives the possible reunion of the two branches of […]