From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) When I was sixteen our family moved to western Kentucky, about sixty miles from the Abby of Gethsemani where the famous Trappist (Cistercian) monk Thomas Merton lived. I became acquainted with Merton the year […]
Articles
ONE: The New Tarot & the Secret Doctrine that Launched the Counterculture
From New Dawn 145 (Jul-Aug 2014) It is a little known fact that an actual doctrine lies at the heart of the counterculture of the Haight Ashbury in San Francisco that emerged in 1967. This doctrine expresses a new consciousness […]
Rooted in Secrecy: The Clandestine Element Driving Australia’s Foreign Misadventures
From New Dawn 171 (Nov-Dec 2018) The dominant feature of all Australian politics is that governments come and go, with Labor alternating with the Liberal National coalition, but changes in Australian foreign policy are so slight as to be almost […]
The Return of Holy Russia
From New Dawn 178 (Jan-Feb 2020) The following is excerpted from the Introduction to my book The Return Of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World (published in May 2020). In it I […]
An Interview with Gary Lachman: “I’m interested in too many things”
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 […]