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Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard’s Final Lectures, edited and introduced by Mitch Horowitz
New York: G&D Media, 2022
Carter phoned Neville the next morning and said, “Neville you are Judas.” The teacher immediately agreed. “Judas,” he replied, “betrayed the Messianic secrets.” (more…)
Neville Goddard
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This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far our grand total is $179,160.94. That puts us at 59% of our goal. Thanks so much to all our donors for their support. Complete information on how you can help appears below. But first, a few inspirational words from James J. O’Meara.
Greg Johnson
Many of you Constant Readers of my many essays on Neville and New Thought have no doubt wondered, “Well, if it’s all in your mind, why don’t you just think about what you want. For example, that $300,000 you need.” (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
While basing itself on consensus scholarship, the hypothesis of Creating Christ has some interesting local effects on mainstream scholarship. For one thing, the dating of the “later” so-called “pastoral” epistles: the elaborate bureaucratic system of deacons, bishops, orders of consecrated virgins, and so on seems to indicate a later stage of the cult; but if Christianity was a top-top movement imposed by the Romans, the Romanesque bureaucracy could have been nearly original, as with the Mafia. (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
James S. Valliant & Warren Fahy
Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity
Crossroad Press, 2018
“Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (more…)
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Part 6 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here)
6. Gonzo: Paleocon, Neocon, or Just Con?
I had just begun to doubt some of my strongest convictions when I stumbled upon [Colin Wilson’s The Outsider]. But rather than being wrong, I think that I just don’t express my rightness correctly. — Hunter S. Thompson (more…)
Thompson when he was running for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado in 1970.
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Part 4 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here)
4. Father of Fake News – or OT (Original Troll)? . . . The Myth of the Golfing Douchebag
I have discovered the secret of writing fiction, calling it impressionistic journalism, and selling it to people who want “something fresh.” — Hunter S. Thompson
Any man who still has a residue of honor will be very careful not to become a journalist. — Dr. Josef Goebbels (more…)
Hunter passed out drunk while covering an event as a journalist circa 1960.
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Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)
3. Gonzo: What Happened? — Decline and Fall of Gonzo
As Thompson charts Hemingway’s road from literary brilliance to failure and suicide, he maps out his own path for the future. (more…)
Hunter S. Thompson during his time in the Air Force.
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Part 2 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)
2. What is Gonzo? — High White Notes
“It has finally come home to me that I am not going to be either the Fitzgerald or the Hemingway of this generation . . . I am going to be the Thompson of this generation, and that makes me more nervous than anything else I can think of.” (more…)
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Part 1 of 7 (Part 2 here)
David S. Wills
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism
St. Andrews: Beatdom Books, 2021
“He’s a drunk and he’s a doper who has got a style which is very dangerous for journalism students to pick up on.” — Harlan Ellison, 1979[1]
David Wills comes not to bury Hunter Thompson, but to praise him; ultimately, he does a pretty good job of both. (more…)
