From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 4 (Aug 2017) This year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Cavendish’s classic study of the occult, The Black Arts. The year of Cavendish’s book – 1967 – could be seen as a […]
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Witchcraft Before Wicca: The Cunning Men and Wise-Women of Old
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 11 No 4 (Aug 2017) Today the popular image of witchcraft in the mass media and in books and magazines is largely defined by ‘Wicca’, a form of neo-pagan witchcraft created by a retired […]
Marijuana Reconsidered: An Interview with Dr. Lester Grinspoon
Dr Lester Grinspoon is associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He researched the medicinal legitimacy of marijuana prohibition 45 years ago and discovered that an immense chain of lies served as a base for sending millions of […]
Unity: The Remarkable Story of Charles & Myrtle Fillmore
Myrtle Fillmore was in desperate straits in 1886. Sick from tuberculosis and malaria, her much-younger husband had managed to bankrupt himself in both the mining and real-estate industries. She was so weak that she was incapable of caring for her […]
Medieval Magic & Pharmacy: Not Just “Flying Ointments”
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 10 No 3 (June 2016) When I first started my investigation into the so-called “witches’ ointment” of the early modern period I was looking for a specific kind of ointment that caused a specific […]