New Dawn & the Tradition of Alternative Publishing

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By RICHARD SMOLEY (Left) The first issue of New Dawn, No. 30, to hit newsagencies in 1995. The origins and influences for a publication as rich and manifold as New Dawn are difficult to trace in any simplistic way, particularly for someone who has come to write for it comparatively late in its development, but all [...]

Crop Circles: Messages From the Future?

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By FREDDY SILVA — Linear time is a frustrating thing. At least to those who inhabit the invisible universe: the souls or spirits. We humans fret about time, or lack of it, or the speeding up of, or what will happen in time, or in the future, or… you get the picture. Meanwhile, in the [...]

The Mayan Calendar and 2012: Why Should We Care?

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By JOHN MAJOR JENKINS — In my own process of studying the Maya and their traditions, I moved progressively into deeper water with time. Twenty-two years in, I can report back to newcomers that the implications of the Mayan calendar are staggering, its connection to other cosmologies around the globe is deep, and its most [...]

Visions of the Future – Sim Card Man

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By NIGEL KERNER — Isaac Newton once said that he felt “the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered” before him.1 Dr. Michio Kaku, a pioneer of string theory, is a little less modest in his estimation of our current knowledge. In a series of TV programmes entitled ‘Visions of the Future’, he confidently states [...]

Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?

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By GEOFF STRAY — Over the last two thousand years, there have been literally dozens of proposed dates upon which the world was expected to end. Around 30 CE, Jesus is reported to have said “Judgement Day” would come within the lifetimes of his audience. This is the failed prophecy on which all the others [...]

2012: A Time Odyssey

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By SHARRON ROSE — Many experts, scientists, artists and philosophers have reached the conclusion that the human experience is reaching some kind of ultimate climax. Each person who studies this phenomenon calls this coming event by a different name, or uses different terms to describe it, but essentially they are all speaking of the same [...]