From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 14 No 4 (Aug 2020) The Hermetic revival in the Renaissance was inspired by a belief that humanity could remake its own destiny. Was this promethean arrogance, or the recognition of powers that we […]
Gary Lachman
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 […]
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 […]
Rudolf Steiner: Dweller on the Threshold
From New Dawn 171 (Nov-Dec 2018) The most enigmatic figure to emerge from the “occult revival” of the early twentieth century was also the most successful, the Austrian “spiritual scientist” Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Although many of his contemporaries were outwardly […]
The Fantastic Reality of Pauwels and Bergier
From New Dawn 165 (Nov-Dec 2017) In 1960 a book appeared in France that triggered a kind of revolution. Not a political one, although one of the book’s authors had political ideas that slanted distinctly toward the right. It was […]