From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 4 (Aug 2017) This year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Cavendish’s classic study of the occult, The Black Arts. The year of Cavendish’s book – 1967 – could be seen as a […]
Mitch Horowitz
What Do You Mean The Occult? A Brief Introduction
MITCH HOROWITZ was raised in a world of Bigfoot stories, UFO sightings, and Carlos Castaneda books. He grew determined to find the truth behind it all – and today is a PEN Award-winning historian and the author of Occult America […]
Edgar Cayce: Ordinary Man, Extraordinary Messenger
From New Dawn 150 (May-June 2015) The year 1910 marked a turning point in Western spirituality. It saw the deaths of some of the most luminous religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, including psychologist-seeker William James; popular medium Andrew Jackson […]
Secret Teachings Reborn: The Mysterious Life of Manly P. Hall
This article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of spiritual teachers and impresarios dealing in “secret wisdom.” Their ranks included hacks and frauds – as well as more […]