From New Dawn 100 (Jan-Feb 2007) Elie Wiesel, in his sombre memoir Night, describes a poignant incident from his time in a Nazi concentration camp. Amidst unimaginable suffering and despair, an inmate named Akiba Drumer “had discovered a verse from […]
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Harmony of Nonconformity
From New Dawn 167 (Mar-Apr 2018) In a linear world, the external order dictates an artificial way of life to the individual, creating a conformist society and forcing us to relinquish our power to a machine that is unnatural and […]
Waking Up is Hard To Do: Remembering Gurdjieff & Ouspensky
From New Dawn 167 (Mar-Apr 2018) In the spring of 1915 the writer and journalist Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, a familiar name in Russian Theosophical circles, gave a series of lectures in Moscow about his recent “search for the miraculous” in […]
Typhon Rising: The Magical Legacy of Kenneth Grant
From New Dawn 156 (May-June 2016) Five years on from the death of British author, occultist and poet Kenneth Grant (1924–2011), we are only just now beginning to see the first attempts at assessing the impact and legacy of the […]
Dreams, Spirits & the Occult: The Secret World of Carl G Jung
From New Dawn 174 (May-June 2019) On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a […]