Tag Archives: Kali Yuga

Albertus Pictor, Death Playing Chess, 1480-90.

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There is something sinister in the springtime this year. Rather than a serving as a yearly reminder of rebirth and natural beauty, the blooming trees and emergent grasses wear the face of some ancient enemy, awoken from its long slumber. The spreading pestilence makes one long for the dormancy and stasis of winter.

This atmosphere of dread has infected every dimension of our lives. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged accelerationism, apocalypse, articles, coronavirus, COVID-19, ecology, extinction, nature, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, religion, Rene Guénon, Savitri Devi, William de Vere | 5 Responses

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“Hotter than Georgia asphalt”
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart

Trevor Lynch

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Wild at Heart is not David Lynch’s best movie, but it is my favorite. I would argue, for instance, that Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, and The Straight Story are all better films. But for some reason they do not call me back year after year like Wild at Heart.

Wild at Heart was released in the summer of 1990, when Lynch was riding high on Twin Peaks mania. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes film festival, albeit over vocal protests. Read more …

Published: February 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, crime, David Lynch, individualism, liberalism, movie reviews, narcissism, North American New Right, Plato, religion, reprints, sexual liberation, thumos, Trevor Lynch | 15 Responses

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What Would Evola Do?

John Morgan

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The follow is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered to The New York Forum on May 20, 2017.

Tonight I thought I’d talk about Julius Evola, since yesterday (May 19) was his 119th birthday, and I have overseen the publication of many of Evola’s texts in English. Read more …

Published: May 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, German Idealism, Italian fascism, Italy, John Morgan, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, racialism, Rene Guénon, reprints, Second World War, The New York Forum, Traditionalism | 9 Responses

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Taunton on Tantra:
A Guide for the Perplexed Westerner

James J. O'Meara

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Gwendolyn Taunton
Tantric Traditions: Gods, Rituals, & Esoteric Teachings in the Kali Yuga
Manticore Press, 2018

Mention “tantra” and almost any Westerner, no matter how sophisticated, thinks of weekend seminars on how to improve your sex life, with endorsements from the likes of Sting. Read more …

Published: April 3, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain Daniélou, book reviews, Gwendolyn von Taunton, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, North American New Right, Rene Guénon, Tantrism, Traditionalism | 1 Response

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Two Orders, Same Man: Evola, Hesse, Part Two

James J. O'Meara

Hermann Hesse with Thomas Mann and Jakob Wassermann in the Swiss Alps, 1931.

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Here is where Hesse meets up with Evola: the two post-First World War writers share a number of themes, though what Evola would have called their “personal equation” gave them decidedly different interpretations. Demian, for example, treats of initiation, paganism, esoteric knowledge, and construction of elites, in ways comparable to Evola’s personal investigations with the UR group;[1] but apart from Hesse’s overall Jungian lens, his war-derived pacifism would have disgusted Evola. And his Buddha “is certainly not the one depicted by Hermann Hesse in his novel [Siddhartha].” Read more …

Published: June 7, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Hermann Hesse, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, The Glass Bead Game, Thomas Mann | 1 Response

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What Would Evola Do?

John Morgan

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The follow is the text of the talk that Counter-Currents editor John Morgan delivered to The New York Forum on Saturday.

Tonight I thought I’d talk about Julius Evola, since yesterday (May 19) was his 119th birthday, and I have overseen the publication of many of Evola’s texts in English. Read more …

Published: May 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, German Idealism, Italian fascism, Italy, John Morgan, Julius Evola, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, racialism, Rene Guénon, Second World War, The New York Forum, Traditionalism | 7 Responses

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The Dark Age

Savitri Devi

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Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from chapter 16 of Savitri Devi’s The Lightning and the Sun. The title is editorial.

The Jews & the Dark Age

Savitri Devi

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Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from chapter 16 of Savitri Devi’s The Lightning and the Sun. The title is editorial.

The advanced Dark Age of this present Time-cycle is the reign of the Jew—of the negative element; of the reverser of eternal values for the sake of “human” ones, and, finally, for that of his own, selfish interests; Read more …