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Welcome to the Rose+Croix Journal!

Welcome to our fourth year of publication! We thank all of the readers of our past issues, and we look forward to engaging conversations and discussions on the topics covered in this year’s edition. Please alert your local library of the Journal, and encourage them to list the Rose+Croix Journal as an electronic resource available to all, through its International Standard Serial Number (1553-9156) and a full listing in the United States' Library of Congress Catalog at http://catalog.loc.gov. 

The Rose+Croix Journal is an international, transdisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal that focuses on topics that relate to the sciences, history, the arts, mysticism and spirituality, especially transdisciplinary topics that traverse and lie beyond the limits of different fields of study.   

This issue features the following papers:

“Shakespeare’s Rosicrucian Revelations in the Dedication to the Sonnets” by Helen Heightsman Gordon; “Insights on the Evolution of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue: Past, Present, and Future” by Linda Groff;  “The Effect of Magnetically Shielding a Dowser” by Shelley Higgins; “Traditional Medicine in Zimbabwe” by Takawira Kazembe; “Les deux mariages en Alchimie” by Emmanuel Le Bouter; “Voices of Fire – Spiritual Entities and Personality” by David K. Stolowitz; “Towards a Unified Theory of Forces” by Pieter C. Wagener; and “Causality, 4-Geons and Dark Energy: A Radical View Of Space-Time” by R.E.S. Watson.

The fourth issue also includes entries in our Currents section, “On the Relationship of the Physiology of the Brain to Spirituality” by Stuart J. Malkin, and “Health, Happiness and Disease” by G. Bryan Young and Ingrid A. Hutchinson-Young. The Journal encourages scholarly dialogue through its Currents section, and invites readers to submit thoughtful commentary on topics raised in the issue throughout the year, via the web form available in that section.

These papers and reviews successfully explore our subject areas and transdisciplinary topics and expand our understanding of the natural laws around us. The abstracts for each of the papers are published in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. The papers themselves are published in the author's original language. Also included on the Journal’s website are dissertation searches, research links, archival documents of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC and information on how to submit a paper. The submission deadline for the next issue of the Rose+Croix Journal is December 15, 2007.

On a note of farewell, this year, the Journal marks the transition on May 6 of one of our Editorial Board Members, Alvin Batiste, a Rosicrucian of long standing and a member of the New Orleans Chapter of AMORC. Frater Batiste was an avant-garde jazz clarinetist, and taught in his own Jazz Institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) where he was lead teacher in jazz instrumental music. He recorded jazz albums with Canonball Adderley, Branford Marsalis and many other notable jazz musicians. Many of these same musicians he numbered among those who had studied under him, including Marsalis, Donald Harrison and Henry Butler. Although he toured with Ray Charles and recorded albums with Clarinet Summit and other labels, the focus of his life’s work was the education of jazz musicians, sharing the gift that he had been given, spreading the Light through his art.

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this issue.

Sincerely,

Christian Bernard
Executive Editor