From New Dawn Special Issue 5 (May 2008) The death of ex-President Soeharto of Indonesia at the age of 86 [in 2008] reminded me that I was present in Jakarta in 1967 during the bloodbath in which the Communist Party […]
Paranormal
Monks & Magic: Buddhism and the Supernatural in Thailand
From New Dawn Special Issue 7 (Mar 2009) In August 2008 Bun Rany, the wife of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, led Buddhist monks and soldiers to the site of the historic Hindu temple Preah Vihear to call upon […]
Padre Pio Paranormal Man
During the Second World War the Americans had an airbase in Bari, about seventy-five miles from San Giovanni Rotondo, a village in Southern Italy that houses Capuchin friary. According to US intelligence, the Germans had a munitions facility in the […]
Forces of the Unconscious Mind: Exploring the Work of Stan Gooch
From New Dawn 105 (Nov-Dec 2007) In the first chapter of his fascinating book The Origins of Psychic Phenomena (1984), the British psychologist Stan Gooch explains that he used to smile when he heard, “for instance, stories of invisible ‘thought […]
How to Make a Ghost: Magic and Mysticism in Tibet
This article was published in New Dawn 96 (May-June 2006) Authors note that fictional characters have a tendency to take on a life of their own. But few readers realise just how literally they mean it. A friend of mine, […]