From New Dawn 144 (May-June 2014) Perhaps myth first arose out of the answers parents give to their children’s questions. Many of these are unanswerable: Why is water wet? Why is fire hot? Where does everything come from? Who is […]
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Spirituality in Today’s Vietnam
From New Dawn 148 (Jan-Feb 2015) The Vietnamese Buddha I have a great reverence for is Di Lac Phat, the Maitreya Buddha, the fat, laughing Buddha of the future. It is impossible to gaze upon his form for even a […]
Windows to the Sacred: Occult Art in Australia
From New Dawn 133 (Jul-Aug 2012) I think contemporary art is a myth. It’s like a fashion, there’s only ever been one idea in art, all the arts deal with it, and you have to look beyond fashion to see […]
A Lucid Look at Lucifer
From New Dawn Special Issue 10 (Dec 2009) We have to literarily, philosophically and theologically deconstruct certain concepts before we can really understand them. This is a process where we look beneath and beyond the commonly assumed folklore. Some readers […]
The Magic & Mysticism of Eliphas Lévi: The Father of Modern Occultism
From New Dawn Special Issue 10 (Dec 2009) The most influential figure in the centuries old story of Western magic and the Judaic Kabala (“the receiving”) was neither a Jew by birth or conversion. That being said and further contributing […]