619. The receptive (V)
I am not a diplomat or a politician, so I say exactly what I think and feel. Gosh, that’s not going to make you popular…that’s not going...
I am not a diplomat or a politician, so I say exactly what I think and feel. Gosh, that’s not going to make you popular…that’s not going...
As an addendum to yesterday’s post about Columbine, we should consider the contention made by the lead shooter Eric Harris that his...
I. It is customary in America, every few months or so, for someone to shoot up a school or workplace. These events have become so...
You know, you do seem to have an attitude problem as regards women—all you seem to talk about is how they are perennial liars who want to...
As you may have noticed, we live in a narcissistic age—and narcissism is even worse when combined with irony; indeed, narcissism requires...
A bit of the old ultra-violence, eh? Well, America has suffered yet another mass-shooter event, although such events are so regular in...
This will be no revelation for old hands, yet we might as well say it: the Enlightenment was a negative development in human history—this...
If you scroll down any Wikipedia article, you will arrive at an entry that reads somewhat as follows: “Rather than a period with...
The people who I have met who speak about their “trauma” tend to be decadent elites with enough time for extensive psychotherapy and the...
The problem with Dugin is that he is what he always has been: an academic—he is academician Dugin to the last. After his own fashion,...
What is the I Ching? After all, it provides the topics and titles for all the sequential posts on this site. So what is the oracle? The...
Aleister Crowley and René Guénon would not, in general, agree with each other: Guénon saw Crowley as a man who perpetuated the...
Hysteria. It comes from the womb—if you want to calm down, get a hysterectomy. The Victorians had a real problem with it, women got the...
Viktor Orbán will fail in his aspirations unless he changes his course—perhaps not soon, but ultimately he will fail. In a recent speech,...
A new trend in the abortion debate has been for the pro-abortion side to hold up placards that say “I wish my mom aborted me!”—the...
FA Hayek is substantially correct in his ideas, but he makes one major mistake that invalidates them. Hayek points out that Darwin’s...
On the intellectual level, here is a problem with Aleister Crowley’s work: Crowley claimed that he had repurposed magic as a science....
Periodically, you will hear Christians say that UFOs are an invention by the government, a means to usher in the New World Order. The...
Despite my associations with Crowley, yesterday I had some strong synchronicity with another British wizard and one whom I much...
Yesterday, I came across a passage in Aleister Crowley that explained a ceremony he developed to end the Christian era; it involved a...