It seems we have entered an age where science and ancient spiritual wisdom can actually agree. For millennia the yogi-mystics have preached that the world we see is simply an interactive play of energy, often called chi or prana. In recent times Western science proved that what appears to be a solid object is in fact a swirling mass of protons and neutrons…
WAY OF THE WEIRDO
You would have to be living on another planet not to have noticed the thousands of books, Internet blogs and chat-rooms dedicated to the impending end of the Mayan long count calendar in December of this year. For many New Dawn readers who have been on their spiritual journey for a number of years, the apparent hoopla over “new” insights such as possible world-government conspiracy theories…
ALEISTER CROWLEY: THE BIOGRAPHY
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was one of the most enigmatic figures of last century. Poet, pornographer, sexual libertine, philosopher, spy, author and magician, he is often maligned and nearly always misrepresented and misunderstood. A man way before his time, he fought against his Plymouth Brethren upbringing to become openly bi-sexual and to advocate women’s liberation well before anyone else dared consider it. When rediscovered in the Sixties by the Hippies…
THE HIDDEN REALITY: PARALLEL UNIVERSES AND THE DEEP LAWS OF THE COSMOS
Following up his two previous bestsellers, The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, Columbia University Professor of Physics and Mathematics Brian Greene has carried on in his attempt to enlighten the lay reader to leading edge developments in scientific research into the deepest mysteries of both the micro-world and the macro-world…
AUTHORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: THE PARANORMAL AND THE SACRED
Surely to author the impossible is a contradiction in terms, yet it is our insatiable hunger for mystery that drives so many of the great minds of our times. Author Jeffrey Kripal is no less fascinated with the impossible. His new book attempts to recover a history of “thinking off the page” through the work of four investigators of telepathic experiences, ghosts, UFO encounters, and other strange or unexplainable…
THE VELIKOVSKY HERESIES: WORLDS IN COLLISION AND ANCIENT CATASTROPHES REVISITED
Laird Scranton has steered down an entirely new path from his previous three books about ancient myth and the African Dogon. In this latest offering he asks us to rethink the 1950 theories presented in Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision. As a college student, Scranton was intrigued by Velikovsky’s ideas and by the controversy they evoked…
SYNCHRONICITY: THE ART OF COINCIDENCE, CHOICE, AND UNLOCKING YOUR MIND
The experience of meaningful coincidences is universal. They are reported by people of every culture, every belief system, and every time period. Synchronicity examines the evidence for the human influence on the meaningfulness of events, and the way the modern computational model of the mind predicts how we create meaning…
SEVEN SECRETS OF TIME TRAVEL: MYSTIC VOYAGES OF THE ENERGY BODY
Time remains the most misunderstood and mystical dimension of our experience of life. We never seem to have enough time, yet often it seems to drag by too slowly. Enthralled with the possibility of time travel and time machines, we long for the future or regret our past and wish for a way to break out of the linear progression of time. Behind all of this time fascination…
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES: THE REST OF THE STORY
The first major work in the field of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) was Raymond Moody’s Life After Life in 1975 and it opened the floodgates to reports, research, speculation and some very sound scientific investigation. P.M.H. Atwater has been there since the earliest time and this work not only summarises a lifetime of research into NDEs but offers some conclusions gained from such a long period of research…
DESTINATION SAIGON: ADVENTURES IN VIETNAM
Walter Mason’s adventures display a great affection for and familiarity with the Vietnamese people. He has travelled widely, often with the assistance of friends for whom he shows much fondness. He writes in a picaresque style that has something of the Rabelaisian character of the Canterbury Tales that readily details both traditional and modern features of contemporary Vietnam…