The Speed of Life: Why Time Seems to Speed Up and How to Slow it Down
Posted by davidjones on September 1, 2007 · 
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By STEVE TAYLOR
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I’m six years old, in the car with my parents and brother, travelling back from our annual two week holiday in Conwy, North Wales. It’s dark and the journey seems to take forever. I lie in the back seat, watching the orange streetlights and the houses pass by, and wonder if we’re ever [...]
William S. Burroughs: 20th Century Gnostic Visionary
Posted by davidjones on November 1, 2006 · · Leave a Comment
By ROBERT GUFFEY
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In 1984, in Boulder, Colorado, an interviewer asked William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), “What religious persuasion would you consider yourself?” Without hesitating, Burroughs replied, “Gnostic, or a Manichean.”1Upon reading those words, suddenly everything made sense.
Perhaps it’s appropriate that the above conversation occurred in 1984. In many ways, Burroughs was a far more lucid and [...]
Mary Magdalene, Apostle of the Apostles
Posted by davidjones on April 9, 2006 · · Leave a Comment
By SHARRON ROSE
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With the publication of Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the mid-nineties and the Gnostic Gospels found in Nag Hammadi, a new perspective on the role of Mary Magdalene in the revelation and dissemination of the esoteric teachings of Christ has emerged onto the public stage. With the release of The Da Vinci Code, [...]
New Dawn Interview With Tobias Churton
Posted by davidjones on July 1, 2005 · · Leave a Comment
By RICHARD SMOLEY
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Tobias Churton is one of today’s most lively and spirited investigators of that underground stream of the Western tradition known as Gnosticism. He first became interested in the Gnostics while reading for a degree in theology at the University of Oxford in the 1970s.
Soon after leaving, he became interested in exploring these ideas [...]
Beyond Left & Right: Escaping the Matrix
Posted by davidjones on September 26, 2000 · · Leave a Comment
By RICHARD K. MOORE
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The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises “the truth, nothing more.” Neo takes the red pill and awakes to reality – something utterly different from anything Neo, or the [...]
