From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 6 (Dec 2019) Modern brain research is conducted under the rather arbitrary assumption that the original emergence of consciousness was likely to have been a lucky accident, a random byproduct of neuronal […]
May, 2020
UNPLUG: Staying Spiritually Sane in the World of Advanced Technologies
From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) When I was sixteen our family moved to western Kentucky, about sixty miles from the Abby of Gethsemani where the famous Trappist (Cistercian) monk Thomas Merton lived. I became acquainted with Merton the year […]
ONE: The New Tarot & the Secret Doctrine that Launched the Counterculture
From New Dawn 145 (Jul-Aug 2014) It is a little known fact that an actual doctrine lies at the heart of the counterculture of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco that emerged in 1967. This doctrine expresses a new consciousness […]