From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 6 (Dec 2019) For the last several years a thickening stream of New Age books and documentaries have, to the chagrin of critics, attempted to use quantum theory to “prove” that the […]
New Science/Consciousness
The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century
From New Dawn 189 (Nov-Dec 2021) In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four-year-old British existentialist Colin Wilson (1931–2013) made his first attempt at analysing a character he felt was peculiar to our age, or at least to that of […]
Reality Tunnels: How to Control & Re-Program Your Mind
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, […]
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 […]