I passed through Stoke-on-Trent, where the BNP has won 29 council seats out of sixty, and the Labour Party is down to sixteen. A senior member of the party in the Potteries told me the party mechanisms have “collapsed”; “If you want your drains fixed you go to the BNP,” they said. BBC As our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tradition’
Grow up about sexuality already
Typical sleight of hand — they project what they’re thinking, imply a negative judgment, but never say it so they can’t be criticized: MALE science students are a university’s most likely virgins while females who study arts subjects are the most sexually active, Australian researchers say. { snip } It found arts students were “younger, [...]
Transcendental Christians versus symbolist Christians
Scanning around the web for death metal-related information (a favorite passtime) I found some Christian folks who seemed rather irate about death metal. Although I started life as a radical Christian hater, I now view Christianity as one means through which philosophies can be expressed. Specifically, if we express Romanticism — transcendental naturalistic idealism with [...]
Osama bin Laden: warrior against modernity
I don’t agree with him attacking the USA, but I can see how from where he’s standing we seem like the warriors OF modernity, bringing Coca-Cola, strip clubs, toxic waste pollution and mindless lifestyles to his homeland. And Thomas got close enough to bin Laden to observe the al-Qaeda leader was polite and shy, didn’t [...]
Arranged marriages: not evil after all?
Seth, now 32, is happily married with a two-year-old son, and has become an advocate of the principles of arranged marriage, which she suggests her own experience reflects. This does not mean that she supports the kind of marriage in which the parties are left without choice about whom they marry. Rather she believes that [...]
Polarizing views of gun control miss the point
The gun-control activist whose provocative billboards have been turning heads along the Massachusetts Turnpike for 13 years today will unveil one of his most eye-popping messages yet – a fake neon advertisement for American gun shows where people can buy weapons, no questions asked. “Gun shows are the equivalent of Al Qaeda terrorists walking directly [...]
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)
Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (Translation of Bhagavad-Gita by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood.) by Aldous Huxely. More than twenty-five centuries have passed since that which has been called the Perennial Philosophy was first committed to writing; and in the course of those centuries it has found expression, now partial, now complete, now in this form, [...]
Shinto – The Way of the Gods (Savitri Devi)
“Shinto — La via degli dei,” Arya, no. 4 (July 1980). Trans. Guido Stucco. Savitri Devi’s essay “Shinto — The Way of the Gods” was written in English in New Delhi in 1979. It was then translated into Italian by Vittorio De Cecco for the Italian-language NS periodical Arya, published in Montreal. The English original [...]
Indian Paganism (Savitri Devi)
Savitri Devi, chapter 3 of A Warning to the Hindus (Calcutta, 1939). Another, and perhaps a more expressive word for Hinduism would be: Indian Paganism. The Christian missionaries call “Pagans” all those who are neither Christians, nor Mohammadans, nor Jews, that is to say, all those whose religious tradition has no connexion with the Bible [...]
The UR Group
In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act “magically” on the world. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. [...]
