From New Dawn Special Issue No 5 (Winter 2008) In Allan Kardec’s The Spirits’ Book, which is considered by many to be the bible of Spiritism, the characteristics of “impure spirits” are listed. They are “inclined to evil,” it says, […]
Afterlife
Life, Death & Gnosis: The Gnostics on the Afterlife
From New Dawn 109 (Jul-Aug 2008) The possibilities for life after death come down to a mere three:1. There is no life after death. Death is the total extinction of consciousness. 2. Life after death continues on earth (through reincarnation). […]
Will I Survive? A Look at the Afterlife
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 6 (Dec 2017) What happens when we die? Human beings have asked this question probably more than any other, with “Does God exist?” and “What is the meaning of life?” coming in […]
Camille Flammarion & the Mystery of Death
From New Dawn 123 (Nov-Dec 2010) In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France, a famous, and favourite, personality was the astronomer, science populariser, and science fiction writer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925).1 It is difficult today to gauge the celebrity status that […]
The Cathars and Reincarnation: The Strange Revelations of Arthur Guirdham
From New Dawn 145 (Jul-Aug 2014) The Cathars remain an enigma. An austere, world-denying sect, they were nevertheless associated with a remarkable cultural renascence in the southern France of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Beloved in the regions that […]