From New Dawn Special Issue 8 (Winter 2009) Every visible thing in the world is put under the charge of an angel. – St Augustine In 2002 the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph reported that the Vatican had banned the veneration […]
Ancient Mysteries
Searching for the Dawn & Demise of Ancient Civilisation
From New Dawn Special Issue 8 (June 2009) When and where did civilisation begin? How far back in time does high culture go? Indeed, what do we mean by such terms as civilisation, or sophisticated and high culture? When I […]
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 […]
When Does the Kali Yuga End?
From New Dawn 138 (May-June 2013) The widespread belief that an age is ending and a new one dawning is part of a cyclical concept of time common to most philosophical cultures. The best known versions are the Four Ages […]
Dogon Cosmology & Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing
From New Dawn 112 (Jan-Feb 2009) Along the cliffs of the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali – south of the Niger river and north of Upper Volta – live the modern-day Dogon tribe, a reclusive society consisting of approximately 300,000 individuals. […]