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Oriental & Mediterranean Ancient Erotic Symbolism
3,188 words The theme of an original duality or polarity related to that of the sexes occurs in the traditions of almost all cultures. This duality is sometimes expressed in purely metaphysical terms,...
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The Japanese Hara Theory & its Relations to East & West, Part 1
4,045 words Part 1 of 2 On first receiving Karlfried Graf Dürckheim’s book, Hara: Man’s Terrestrial Center,[1] we had thought of writing one of the usual reviews, calling attention to it as an...
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D. H. Lawrence on Idealism & Evil
B. J. O. Nordfeldt, “D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates” 4,086 words The Origin of Evil D. H. Lawrence believed in the reality of evil, but he believed that its source lay in the human soul....
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 83 The Pursuit of Happiness An Overview of...
28:24 / 154 words Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Beginning in...
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Le materialisme spirituel d’Alan Watts
2,615 words English original here Alan Watts Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality New York: Vintage, 1971 Edition française : Matière à penser Denoël, 1975 Does it Matter ? [Est-ce...
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There & Then:Personal & Memorial Reflections on Alan Watts (1915-1973)
7,833 words Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion Ed. Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012 “It is the peculiar nature of my...
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Schopenhauer & Hitler
Arthur Schopenhauer 2,373 words Part 1 of 3 I recently came across a collection of Arthur Schopenhauer’s writings entitled Essays & Aphorisms.[1] It really is wonderful stuff, ruthlessly realistic,...
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Remembering Sven Hedin
2,062 words Editor’s Note: We are presenting the following excerpts from Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews in honor of the birthday of the great Swedish explorer, travel...
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The Buddha as Spiritual Lawgiver
3,870 words Sayings of the Buddha Rupert Gethin, translator Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 Anyone who wishes to promote certain values is faced with the challenge of how to maintain those values...
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Of Apes, Essence, & the Afterlife
4,893 words Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: When did you first . . . become . . . well, develop this theory? General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh, I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical...
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Rashomon & Realism
3,476 words Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) is commonly found on lists of the world’s greatest movies, and deservedly so. Rashomon features avant-garde narrative techniques (flashbacks, multiple...
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Christianity & the Red Pill
1,567 words A discussion on a recent episode of The Daily Shoah brought up a topic on which everyone has an opinion but that rarely ends well: Christianity and the Alt Right. The discussion unearthed...
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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One
9,403 words Part 1 of 2 Alan W. Watts Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971 Kindle, 2016 “For God is not niggardly...
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Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two
9,927 words Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here. Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate? Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language...
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Remembering Sven Hedin
2,062 words Editor’s Note: We are presenting the following excerpts from Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews in honor of the birthday of the great Swedish explorer, travel...
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Sugimoto Gorō & Soldier-Zen
2,382 words Asceticism often has a bad reputation in vitalist circles. The idea of the sexless, passionless, passive, world-rejecting monk seems self-evidently maladaptive, an evolutionary dead end, as...
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The Ancients on Speaking Rightly
1,605 words We are all faced with the challenge of speaking, and living, truths which are felt to be offensive by a great many of our countrymen, not to mention the powers that be. This is not a new...
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Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death
2,446 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013),...
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Between Buddha & Führer: The Young Cioran on Germany
1,980 words Emil Cioran Apologie de la Barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) Paris: L’Herne, 2015 This is a very interesting book released by the superior publishing house L’Herne: a collection of...
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Remembering Mr. Gurdjieff (January 13, 1866/1872/1877–October 24, 1949)
Mr. Gurdjieff 7,589 words George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on whom you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his...
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Meditation & Nationalism
1,232 words As a white man in the modern world, you are programmed to self-destruct. As dissident artist Owen Cyclops puts it, “our people have been taught that they’re bad, so they’re killing...
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Death After Life
“Death found an author writing his life. . .” from Edward Hull’s Danse Macabre, 1827. 1,180 words It always sounds silly to me when people tell the dead to “rest in peace.” Practically speaking, don’t...
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Jesus, We Hardly Know Ye
5,383 words Robert M. Price Judaizing Jesus: How New Testament Scholars Created the Ecumenical Golem Durham, N.C.: Pitchstone Publishing, 2021 “[The] Christian faith, sprung from the wisdom of...
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Buddha a Führer: Mladý Emil Cioran o Německu
1.807 slov English original here Emil Cioran Apologie de la barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941) Paris: L’Herne, 2015 Špičkové nakladatelství L’Herne v roce 2015 vydalo velice zajímavý titul:...
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Mysticism as the Path to Political and Social Change: The Aristocratic...
You can buy James J. O’Meara’s Mysticism After Modernism here. 1,646 words James J. O’Meara has a book out, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, and Other Populist...
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