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Dr. Edward Dutton

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We know from Spengler that each great civilization goes through a cycle: hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men. On the Dissident Right, our belief is in personal responsibility, in taking ownership for who and what we are. If we accept this intellectually, it gives us a blind spot with regard to biology and just how immutable heritability is, however. Blood trumps culture and policy, even naked power. Heritability is the ultimate red-pill, and in some ways the ultimate black-pill (and then a white-pill).

Ancestral Being, Part Three

Collin Cleary

Rupert Sheldrake

3,409 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 4 here)

6. The Presence of the Past: A View from the Margins of Science

Some of the above remarks might suggest that we should interpret the Germanic hamingja–fylgja teaching as a mythic, symbolic, or even superstitious way of understanding the phenomenon of inheritance – something our ancestors relied upon because they did not have the modern science of genetics. Read more …

Published: March 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, articles, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetics, hamingja, heritage, North American New Right, Odinism, originals, Stephen Flowers, the individual | 2 Responses

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Ancestral Being, Part Two

Collin Cleary

The Norns by Johannes Gehrts, 1889

4,547 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

4. Tradition

Having now discussed the clannic being of the individual purely in philosophical terms, I now turn to a consideration of the treatment of this idea in the Germanic tradition.

The first thing we must note is what can be called the “primacy of the past” in that tradition. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, C. G. Jung, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, Germanic tradition, hamingja, heritage, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, Plato, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual, time, Volsunga Saga | 1 Response

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Ancestral Being, Part One

Collin Cleary

4,538 words

Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

1. Introduction

This essay presents an “ontology of the individual.” The theory is new, though it has very old roots. “Ontology” is the branch of philosophy that studies being-as-such, or “being as being,” as Aristotle expressed it.[1] My argument is that the being of an individual person is bound up with that individual’s relation to his family or clan. Read more …