From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 4 (Aug 2022) We should be cautious of prophecies that claim we are on a path of infinite political progress or infinite economic growth – or, conversely, headed toward civilisational collapse. Things […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 5 (Oct 2021) We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde We’re living through one of the most tumultuous and significant periods in […]
From New Dawn 124 (Jan-Feb 2011) The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.– William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience If there is a central religious doctrine […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 5 (Oct 2022) Aleister Crowley’s penchant for photobombing some of the world’s most infamous conspiracies is often a topic for debate, but in the present case the analogy can be taken quite […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 3 (June 2021) Lenin was a mushroom! At least according to Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin, the pioneering Russian musician, activist, and prankster from St. Petersburg who convinced viewers of Leningrad Television in January […]
From New Dawn 130 (Jan-Feb 2012) In our last New Dawn article we listed the great pioneering discoveries of science that – unacknowledged by science historians – were directly inspired by the ancient Egyptian ideas as set out in the […]
From New Dawn 191 (Mar-Apr 2022) Is the human race under spiritual attack? And did the esoteric philosopher and clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner warn about it over a century ago when he said a ‘vaccine’ would be the delivery system for […]
From New Dawn Special Issue No 5 (Winter 2008) Of those of us who do take mediumship and channelling seriously, and believe wholeheartedly in the existence of discarnate entities, very few of us are willing to concede that such beings […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 5 (Oct 2019) He has been very ill and that afternoon he realises he is dying. He’s confused for a moment as he is plucked up and out of his pain-racked body. […]
From New Dawn 188 (Sept-Oct 2021) Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, in their book, The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (1904), provided a classic account of an extraordinary tradition. An Aborigine, Kurkutji, was set upon by two spirits, Mundadji and […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 12 No 2 (April 2018) ‘Ancient Aliens’ is the title of a popular show running on the History Channel, now in its 12th season, but the same title was used on a book published […]
From New Dawn 173 (Mar-Apr 2019) Over 40 years ago, during the early evening of 21 October 1978, pilot Frederick Valentich reported in a radio communication with Steve Robey of Melbourne Flight Service that “a large aircraft” which had “a long shape” and “a green light,” appearing […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 4 (Aug 2022) The following was one of the final pieces written by the late Australian geopolitical analyst James O’Neill. For several years, James had been writing on these matters for New […]
From New Dawn 191 (Mar-Apr 2022) The following article, published in early 2022, is a reminder of how the “science” of the COVID-19 pandemic was relentlessly politicised which in turn subjected it to constant mutations to conform to official narratives. […]
From New Dawn 194 (Sept-Oct 2022) It’s hard to know where to start. So much has been done. So many have suffered. Not because of a virus but due to hasty, reckless, and irrational decisions made by elected leaders and […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 5 (Oct 2021) Founded in the aftermath of the first nucleus-splitting explosions in the 1940s, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a panel of nuclear and other specialists. Every year, they […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 1 (Feb 2022) You are the product. Your personal data are sold to brokers and advertisers against your informed consent to profit the uber-rich, like Facebook’s (now “Meta”) co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.1 But […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 2 (June 2022) The world of non-lethal weaponry has opened the door to technologies that allow the control of one’s mind, thoughts, actions, and behaviours via the use of pulsed high-frequency microwave […]
From New Dawn 189 (Nov-Dec 2021) In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four-year-old British existentialist Colin Wilson (1931–2013) made his first attempt at analysing a character he felt was peculiar to our age, or at least to that of […]
From New Dawn 187 (Jul-Aug 2021) When I was in secondary school, a teacher showed me an animated optical illusion in which a dancer appears to be spinning in one direction. I was adamant that the dancer was spinning clockwise, […]
From New Dawn 181 (Jul-Aug 2020) This article about synchronicities and precognitive dreams was originally published in Quest magazine in 1997. At the time I wrote it, I didn’t have access to the dream journals I mention in it, and […]
From New Dawn Special Issue No 5 (Winter 2008) In Allan Kardec’s The Spirits’ Book, which is considered by many to be the bible of Spiritism, the characteristics of “impure spirits” are listed. They are “inclined to evil,” it says, […]
From New Dawn 109 (Jul-Aug 2008) The possibilities for life after death come down to a mere three:1. There is no life after death. Death is the total extinction of consciousness. 2. Life after death continues on earth (through reincarnation). […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 6 (Dec 2017) What happens when we die? Human beings have asked this question probably more than any other, with “Does God exist?” and “What is the meaning of life?” coming in […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 4 (Aug 2021) The history of peoples is made by the unwritten history of great travels and world travellers – a history that began long before Herodotus or Marco Polo, in the […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 6 (Dec 2021) Timing is everything. Everything moves in cycles. Our days are defined by the turning of the earth, our weeks and months by the cycle of the moon, while the […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 14 No 3 (June 2020) Like other New Dawn readers, I had heard something about Roman road-builders, Mayan mathematicians and Babylonian astronomers. But I was subsequently surprised to discover that these and other peoples […]
From New Dawn 184 (Jan-Feb 2021) For much of human history, the true cause of infectious diseases remained a mystery. In the absence of treatment, many patients succumbed to their illnesses. It was not until the nineteenth century that evidence […]
From New Dawn 181 (Jul-Aug 2020) Over the years, I have used a variety of contemplative practices in combination to achieve specific spiritual outcomes. These practices eventually became ritualised into cyclical patterns in which the stage was set for some […]
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 2 (Apr 2021) Scientists, politicians, media, and health professionals note that Western countries face obesity and fatness epidemics. Large numbers of poor, malnourished children are obese because the cheap, processed, low-nutrient food […]