Colin Wilson passed away on 5 December 2013. A tribute to his life and examination of his work written by Colin Stanley appears in New Dawn 143 (March-April 2014). New Dawn Special Issue Vol 8 No 2, published in April 2014, contains […]
Richard Smoley
The Inscrutable Madame Blavatsky: An Interview with Gary Lachman
This article was published in New Dawn 137 (Mar-Apr 2013) I was in search of the unknown…– Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1890) Gary Lachman is one of today’s most intelligent and prolific authors on the world of the occult. He started […]
Christianity: The Ultimate Secret
From New Dawn 84 Today there is an unprecedented thirst for the innermost secrets of Christianity. The quest for these lost teachings drives the plots of best-sellers like The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail; it is discussed […]
Rescuing the Bible from Literalism
From New Dawn 110 (Sept-Oct 2008) “The world,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, “is the totality of facts, not of things.” So it is, but facts take many forms. The hard-edged events of ordinary reality are only one form, and […]
Apocalypse: The End Times and the Restoration of All Things
From New Dawn 135 (Nov-Dec 2012) “The earth abideth for ever,” says the Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:4). Whether this is literally true or not, it corresponds to the deepest core of human experience. The Earth was around long before the existence […]