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The Abbey: Custodian of an Esoteric Legacy in Australia

Paul V Young — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:00:44 +0000

Every July, thousands gather in Queensland, Australia, for one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest medieval festivals. But past the jousting and pageantry lies a far stranger reality: the site was originally built as an esoteric sanctuary. Founded by Cambridge scholar and mystic J.S.M. Ward, the Abbey was created to safeguard sacred relics and ancient stained glass rescued from a collapsing…

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The Cures They Keep From You

Marie Jones — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:00:39 +0000

“A patient cured is a customer lost.” – Unknown On January 9, 2025, actor and director Mel Gibson appeared on the popular podcastThe Joe Rogan Experience (episode #2254). One of the most-watched clips from the discussion began at 1:37:16, when Mel Gibson spoke about three friends who all had stage 4 cancer. “They don’t have cancer anymore,” Gibson stated. When Rogan asked what…

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The View From the Other Side of the Chessboard

Robert Black — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:00:35 +0000

The ongoing conflict between the US and Iran makes “The Grand Chessboard Endgame” essential reading for anyone willing to understand the strategic design behind the shifting headlines. Exclusive to New Dawn #216, this investigation traces the struggle back to Mackinder and Brzezinski, revealing why Iran’s position at the heart of Eurasian trade, energy and emerging multipolar alliances matters far…

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René Guénon and The Spirits

Richard Smoley — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:00:30 +0000

Even the greatest thinkers are uneven. They have areas of brilliance and other areas where they cannot avoid showing their weaknesses. Immanuel Kant, for example, one of the most admired philosophers in Western civilisation, is known for The Critique of Pure Reason rather than for Dreams of a Spirit Seer, his intemperate and embarrassing rant against the visionary Emanuel Swedenborg.

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What if the New Agers Were Right All Along?

Mitch Horowitz — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:00:26 +0000

I believe that some of us dedicated to experimental spirituality and mind metaphysics must attempt to theorise the mechanics and delivery systems behind what we experience and observe. There exist, of course, manifold risks of personal bias toward a favoured thesis. But to limit the wish to “know thyself” to clinical study is to eviscerate the principle itself. This is my effort to describe “what…

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A Traveller’s Guide to Anomalies on Mars: Evidence of Lost Civilisations?

George J. Haas — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:17:18 +0000

I am the founder and premier investigator of the Mars research group known as The Cydonia Institute and a member of the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR). My research encompasses over 30 years of study and analysis of NASA and ESA images of the planet Mars. I have coauthored two books and six peer-reviewed science papers that discuss anomalous formations on the surface of Mars.

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How To Fight A Robot Army… And Win

Gordon White — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:17:13 +0000

As a tribute, we are posting this article by Gordon White, who made his transition and passed from this world in May 2026. Although the article was written in 2016, its analysis and Gordon’s advice remain highly relevant in today’s chaotic world. Humans have a tendency to overestimate short term risks and under-estimate long term ones. You see this when you watch people nervously smoking a…

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Ancient Extreme Biohacking: Is Deforming Your Skull & Drilling a Hole in it the Key to Higher Consciousness?

Lee Paqui — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:17:10 +0000

In 1929 something unexpected was discovered in a country that was already brimming with the unexpected. A burial ground containing the remains of 300 individuals with elongated skulls was found in the township of Paracas in Peru. Believed to have lived around 3,000 years ago, these people were unique in their morphology – they had massively elongated skulls, they were tall, they were of all ages…

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Harry Turner & the Secret UFO Science Wars of OZ

Bill Chalker — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:17:06 +0000

The name Harry Turner has returned to prominence after David Grusch, the former US intelligence officer and UAP whistleblower, recently drew attention to Turner’s declassified 1971 Australian Joint Intelligence Organisation report. Here we present Bill Chalker’s article on his friend Harry Turner and Turner’s findings, which now appear to reveal the edges of a much larger cover-up of the UFO…

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Mysterious Britain: The Secrets of Glastonbury

Marie Jones — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:17:02 +0000

Most people think of Glastonbury as a quiet little town in Somerset, England, that occasionally hosts the “Glasto,” otherwise known as the Glastonbury Festival. This five-day event has in the past featured, since its inception in 1970, some of the biggest names in the performing arts, music artists like U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, T-rex, Oasis, Billie Eilish, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z…

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