From New Dawn 153 (Nov-Dec 2015) An overlooked but powerful current is flowing in our time. It’s found in a small group of writers and thinkers who are trying to overcome the materialism and rationalism of the present age and […]
Richard Smoley
Where Does Consciousness Reside? Eben Alexander & the Brain-Mind Problem
This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 3 (June 2015) Why has Eben Alexander’s story caught the public imagination so intensely? Admittedly, not everyone has looked favourably upon his revelations. Much of the materialistic press […]
A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Worlds Beyond: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 3 (June 2015) Today the intellectual world is facing an insurrection. It has nothing to do with politics or economics. It is about worldviews. Contemporary intellectual thought is hidebound by a materialistic […]
What Happened to the New Age? Sorting Truth from Nonsense
This article was published in New Dawn 147 (Nov-Dec 2014). Not long ago I was walking through the aisles of a New Age fair in the suburbs of Chicago. All the usual suspects were there: booths for Baha’i and Eckankar; […]
What is Alchemy?
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 9 No 2 (June 2015) It is a remote location in China in the early 1960s. A young man, Wang Liping, is studying with three Taoist masters. After preliminary training, they give him a […]