From New Dawn 167 (Mar-Apr 2018) In the spring of 1915 the writer and journalist Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, a familiar name in Russian Theosophical circles, gave a series of lectures in Moscow about his recent “search for the miraculous” in […]
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Typhon Rising: The Magical Legacy of Kenneth Grant
From New Dawn 156 (May-June 2016) Five years on from the death of British author, occultist and poet Kenneth Grant (1924–2011), we are only just now beginning to see the first attempts at assessing the impact and legacy of the […]
Dreams, Spirits & the Occult: The Secret World of Carl G Jung
From New Dawn 174 (May-June 2019) On 11 February 1944, the 68-year-old Carl Gustav Jung – then the world’s most renowned living psychologist – slipped on some ice and broke his fibula. Ten days later, in hospital, he suffered a […]
Magic for Grown-ups: The Work of the UR Group
From New Dawn 172 (Jan-Feb 2019) In the consensus view, magic belongs (if at all) in Disney films and Harry Potter books, and adults who actually believe in it are stuck in infantile or medieval superstition. It does not help […]
Rudolf Steiner: Dweller on the Threshold
From New Dawn 171 (Nov-Dec 2018) The most enigmatic figure to emerge from the “occult revival” of the early twentieth century was also the most successful, the Austrian “spiritual scientist” Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Although many of his contemporaries were outwardly […]