From New Dawn 178 (Jan-Feb 2020) When Pierre Boulle wrote his novel La Planète des singes during the early 1960s, he had undoubtedly observed the strange division of mind and body in modern, Western society, reflecting it in the novel […]
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Mouni Sadhu: The Adept From the West
From New Dawn 166 (Jan-Feb 2018) Twentieth-century Australia was a greenhouse of spirituality and occultism in their many colourful varieties, offering a revolving door to a diverse range of international teachers and practitioners who graced our shores. Among them was […]
The World of Esoteric Orders: Secrets Within Secrets
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 7 No 3 (June 2013) It is noon on a summer morning in California, and I am sitting in a dimly lit auditorium that is decorated in an Egyptian style with Art Deco touches. […]
William Walker Atkinson & His Legacy
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 13 No 5 (Oct 2019) William Walker Atkinson was one of the most influential and mysterious metaphysical writers of the twentieth century. Under an array of different pseudonyms, Atkinson authored over a hundred books […]
The Strange Connection Between Science & the Occult
From New Dawn 170 (Sept-Oct 2018) We like to think that modern science has developed as a result of rational enquiry; however, the history of science is littered with tales of bizarre experiments, eccentric characters and peculiar coincidences. Many of […]