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 […]
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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 […]
Mystery of the Seven Seals: Seven Spheres, Planetary Archons & Corruption on High
From New Dawn 158 (Sept-Oct 2016) Until baptism …fate is true. But afterward the astrologers are no longer correct. – Excerpta ex Theodoto, 78 The New Testament is probably the most widely read book in the world. And yet it is […]