From New Dawn 178 (Jan-Feb 2020) American author Gary Lachman has long called London his home, but I caught up with him during a recent visit to Australia. Compact, quiet and stylishly dressed, Lachman’s gentle scholarly manner belies the fact […]
Walter Mason
Spirituality in Today’s Vietnam
From New Dawn 148 (Jan-Feb 2015) The Vietnamese Buddha I have a great reverence for is Di Lac Phat, the Maitreya Buddha, the fat, laughing Buddha of the future. It is impossible to gaze upon his form for even a […]
Unity: The Remarkable Story of Charles & Myrtle Fillmore
Myrtle Fillmore was in desperate straits in 1886. Sick from tuberculosis and malaria, her much-younger husband had managed to bankrupt himself in both the mining and real-estate industries. She was so weak that she was incapable of caring for her […]
Sister Veni Cooper-Mathieson: Pioneer Thinker & Metaphysical Teacher
From New Dawn 141 (Nov-Dec 2013) Australia has a long tradition of self-help literature and much of it was written, in the early years, by colourful characters who embraced a hodgepodge of new and progressive ideas which included Theosophy, New […]
The Lost City of Angkor Wat & the Mysteries of a Great Asian Civilisation
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 6 No 1 (Feb 2012) Angkor Wat is a vast stone temple at the heart of an ancient stone city. But at the ends of its corridors and the centres of its hidden rooms […]