From New Dawn 187 (Jul-Aug 2021) When I was in secondary school, a teacher showed me an animated optical illusion in which a dancer appears to be spinning in one direction. I was adamant that the dancer was spinning clockwise, […]
New Science/Consciousness
Destiny Calling: Experiments with Dreaming, Time & Synchronicity
From New Dawn 181 (Jul-Aug 2020) This article about synchronicities and precognitive dreams was originally published in Quest magazine in 1997. At the time I wrote it, I didn’t have access to the dream journals I mention in it, and […]
Robert Anton Wilson & Guerrilla Ontology
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 1 (Jan 2021) Although we are in the midst of an ‘information revolution’, many of us rarely question the world around us. As the political domain becomes increasingly polarised, there is a […]
Magical Words: General Semantics & the Power of Language
From New Dawn 181 (Jul-Aug 2020) Words hold incredible power. When used poetically, they can evoke the most primal of passions within us. When used destructively, they can wage war and create conflict. When used imaginatively, they can create fantastic […]
Hermes Trismegistus & the Consciousness Revolution of the Renaissance
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 14 No 4 (Aug 2020) The Hermetic revival in the Renaissance was inspired by a belief that humanity could remake its own destiny. Was this promethean arrogance, or the recognition of powers that we […]