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  • March 10, 2021 Kathryn S. 28
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    Throne & Altar, King & Prophet:
    A Study of Marvelous Dysfunction

    Illustration of a firebird by Kay Nielsen in Hansel and Gretel & Other Stories (1925)

    6,744 words

    Yet more and greater ills by land remain.
    The coast, so long desir’d . . .
    Thy troops shall reach, but, having reach’d, repent.
    Wars, horrid wars, I view a field of blood,
    And Tiber rolling with a purple flood.

    — The Æneid [1]

    I hope Counter-Currents readers are enjoying the first flush of spring and continue to find moments of happiness despite all the petty Javerts in our midst. (more…)

  • November 13, 2020 Nicholas R. Jeelvy 11
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    Dreamweaving

    Vasily Surikov, A God’s Fool Sitting on the Snow, 1885.

    2,124 words

    Before the American general election, my friends kept asking me who’d be the likely winner, Trump or Biden. My response, which infuriated everyone who got it, was usually some variation of “define winning.”

    Do you mean who’ll win the most votes? Do you mean who’ll win the elections, presuming no shenanigans, which was a laughable proposition even before the evidence started pouring in for America’s advanced banana republicanism? (more…)

  • November 11, 2020 Trevor Lynch 5
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    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    1,543 words

    David Lynch’s 1992 movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is his prequel to the Twin Peaks series, which ran on ABC from 1990 to 1991. Fire Walk with Me was a flop with critics and moviegoers, except in Japan. This is unjust, because Fire Walk with Me is a very fine movie. I won’t say it is Lynch’s best work. That praise belongs to Blue Velvet alone. But the music to Fire Walk with Me is composer Angelo Badalamenti’s best work ever. (more…)

  • November 4, 2020 Trevor Lynch 4
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    Twin Peaks

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    I feel like I grew up in Twin Peaks, the fictional Washington logging town that gave its name to David Lynch’s iconic TV series, which aired on ABC from the spring of 1990 to the spring of 1991. Twin Peaks has one of the best pilots in television history, which was followed by an abbreviated first season of seven episodes. (more…)

  • October 14, 2020 James J. O'Meara 10
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    Hook, Line, & Sinker:
    Steve Bannon & the Usual Suspects

    7,911 words

    Benjamin Teitelbaum
    War For Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
    New York: HarperCollins, 2020

    “I am sure you can appreciate the urgency of such matters. . . Richard Spencer [is not someone] that you play around with.”  — Jason Jorjani [1] (more…)

  • October 5, 2020 Kathryn S. 7
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    American Gods & Their Shadows

    Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.

    6,121 words

    I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). (more…)

  • September 22, 2020 Kathryn S. 9
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    The Weird Victorians & the Last Enchanted Age

    Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: a modern take on the motifs of the weird nineteenth century.

    5,476 words

    It’s ill to loose the bands that God decreed to bind;
    Still we be the children of the heather and the wind.
    Far away from home, O it’s still for you and me
    That the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie. [1]

    Even below the Missouri-Compromise Line, the mornings now have a delicious coolness, faltering on the edge of a “chill,” and I found myself yearning for an old-fashioned, nineteenth-century ghost story. (more…)

  • August 25, 2020 Fenek Solère 26
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    Golden Gods & Guitars:
    Led Zeppelin IV

    Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977.

    2,100 words

    Someone told me there’s a girl out there
    With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

    — “Going to California”

    Led Zeppelin’s back catalog already includes songs like “Ramble On” from the rocky Led Zeppelin II and the melancholic classic “Tangerine” from the flower-powered III. (more…)

  • August 24, 2020 James J. O'Meara 18
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    Beast Men & BLM: 
    Lanz von Liebenfels’ Prophetic Visions

    5,583 words

    Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels
    Ostara and the New Templars
    Translated by George Klanderud
    GermanenOrden Series, vol. 4
    The 55 Club, 2019

    Deep-sea fish, bats, clairvoyant Frisians in foggy country, the saurian with the electrical central eye in an equally dim, misty world, the wise Nibelung-dwarves have a strange and conspicuous connection to the results of the most recent natural scientific research. (more…)

  • July 27, 2020 Fenek Solère 9
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    Angel of Avalon

    1,746 words

    “My favorite singer out of all the British girls that ever were.”

    — Robert Plant

    I first came across the name Sandy Denny on the liner notes of the classic Led Zeppelin IV. (more…)

  • May 19, 2020 Fenek Solère 2
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    Owen Barfield’s History in English Words

    3,323 words

    Owen Barfield
    History in English Words
    New York: Doubleday & Company, 1926

    In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

    — Owen Barfield (more…)

  • April 10, 2020 Scott Weisswald 8
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    Sol Invictus’ In the Rain

    2,035 words

    Sol Invictus, fronted by Tony Wakeford, is one of the “neofolk” scene’s best-known groups, alongside Death in June and Current 93. Sol Invictus emerged following Wakeford’s departure from Death in June — and later departure from controversial Above the Ruins — with a sound that progressively became lighter and more classically-inspired than most of what can be considered “neofolk.” (more…)

  • March 4, 2020 Scott Weisswald 8
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    Death in June’s The Rule of Thirds

    1,784 words

    Released 12 years ago yesterday, March 3rd, 2008, Death in June’s The Rule of Thirds is a somber and introspective record that tussles with the concepts of aging and death, love lost, and the decay of the surrounding world. It’s recorded in the characteristic stripped-back, solemn, guitar-centric style of Douglas Pearce, Death in June’s sole constant member, (more…)

  • March 2, 2020 Stan the Man 4
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    Vision Quest

    905 words

    I recently went with a friend to deliver some groceries to a guy who had a medical problem and couldn’t get to the store. We went to this person’s house and found him on his couch, watching The Breakfast Club on video. (more…)

  • February 28, 2020 Counter-Currents Radio 11
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 262
    Nostalgia for a Lost Future:
    A Conversation with Xurious

    215 words / 70:38

    To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

    Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. (more…)

  • December 17, 2018 Collin Cleary 17
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    The Problem of Eckhart Tolle

    Eckhart Tolle

    4,752 words

    It would be no exaggeration to say that Eckhart Tolle is now the most popular “spiritual teacher” in the United States – and possibly the world. The New York Times and The Watkins Review have declared as such. And he has been heavily promoted by Oprah Winfrey. The actor Jim Carrey is also a big fan. Normally, this would be enough for me to completely dismiss someone, but in this case I cannot. (more…)

  • July 20, 2018 Collin Cleary 15
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    How to Know if You Have Had a Mystical Experience

    Hildegard von Bingen’s “finger of God”

    4,074 words

    Most people believe they have never had a mystical experience. This includes sceptics, of course – but also those who are quite open to the idea and who wonder, perhaps, why they have never been graced with one. However, the conclusions of both groups are usually based on misconceptions about what a mystical experience must be like. People imagine, for instance, that it involves visions of some kind, in which, perhaps, voices are heard or supernatural beings appear. (more…)

  • May 21, 2018 Collin Cleary
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    Introduction to Vedanta, Part II
    The Katha Upanishad

    Yama, the Vedic god of death

    4,058 words

    Part I here, Part III here, Part IV here

    The Katha Upanishad tells the story of a boy named Nachiketa whose father, Vajasravasa, decides to curry the favor of the gods by giving away his possessions. However, it seems that he was rather selective in what he gave up, only parting with things that were now useless to him. Nachiketa, who is quite pious, sees through his father’s insincerity: “What merit is there,” the boy asks, “in giving away cows that are too old to give milk?” This question, from a mere child, wounds Vajasravasa’s pride. Foolishly, Nachiketa persists: “To whom will you offer me?” he asks. Vajasravasa ignores the question at first, but when Nachiketa repeats it his father answers angrily, “To death I give you!”  (more…)

  • May 7, 2018 Collin Cleary 6
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    Introduction to Vedanta, Part I
    The Isha Upanishad

    Lord Vishnu as Vishvarupa, illustrating the three realms: heaven (head to belly), earth (groin), and underworld (legs). Painting c. 1800-50, Jaipur.

    2,774 words

    Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here

    In this series of self-contained essays, I will offer an introduction to Vedanta, the philosophy of the Upanishads, through brief commentaries on individual Upanishads. These essays are geared toward individuals drawn to the path of Traditionalism – and especially the Left-Hand Path of Evolian Traditionalism.They place Vedanta in the context of Tradition. Further, they make clear the relevance of this path for those of us who are not just in revolt against the modern world, but who wish to live the ideal of “self-overcoming” –  an ideal for all ages. (more…)

  • January 5, 2018 James J. O'Meara 3
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    Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part Two

    9,927 words

    Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

    Partings II – Watts and The Church Today: Real Presence or Real Estate?

    Watts was quite successful in his attempt to express the religio perennis in the language of Christian theology; not just in my opinion today, but among his Episcopal peers at the time (one bishop even called it “the most important book on religion in this century”[1]), (more…)

  • January 4, 2018 James J. O'Meara 10
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    Re-Kindling Alan Watts, Part One

    9,403 words

    Part 1 of 2

    Alan W. Watts
    Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
    New York: Pantheon, 1947; reissued with a new Preface, 1971
    Kindle, 2016

    “For God is not niggardly in his self-revelation; he exposes himself right before our eyes.” — Alan Watts (more…)

  • June 28, 2014 Greg Johnson 48
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    The Hatred Born on Sinai:
    Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian

    assmann-moses-the-egyptian-harvard-university2,520 words

    Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish

    Jan Assmann
    Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997

    When I first read Jan Assmann’s Moses the Egyptian in June of 1997, it was a life-changing experience. Moses the Egyptian belongs to the rarest genre of academic books: the bold and exciting ones.  (more…)

  • August 15, 2013 Derek Hawthorne 9
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    D. H. Lawrence on Idealism & Evil

    B.J.O. Nordfeldt, "D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates"

    B. J. O. Nordfeldt, “D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates”

    4,086 words

    The Origin of Evil

    D. H. Lawrence believed in the reality of evil, but he believed that its source lay in the human soul. “Abstraction is the only evil,” he wrote.[1] By abstraction he does not refer to the process of making generalizations or forming concepts. Instead, he means the tendency of human beings to abstract themselves from feeling, from intuition, from nature, and from the present. Abstraction is fundamentally evil, for Lawrence, because it makes most of humanity’s crimes possible.  (more…)

  • April 10, 2013 Julius Evola
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    Vedanta, Meister Eckhart, Schelling

    Friedrich Schelling, 1775–1854

    Friedrich Schelling, 1775–1854

    3,778 words

    Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

    Editor’s Note:

    The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, nos. 2 & 3 (1960): 182–86. This is chapter 18 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, forthcoming from Counter-Currents in the summer of 2013.

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  • March 12, 2013 Julius Evola 3
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    The Concept of Initiation

    Great Eleusis Frieze, Eleusis Museum, Greece, late 5th c. BCE

    Great Eleusis Frieze, Eleusis Museum, Greece, late 5th c. BCE

    9,609 words

    Translated by Bruno Cariou

    It is not easy, today, to give an exact idea of what is meant by Initiation and to define the figure of the ‘Initiate’. The main difficulty lies in the necessity of referring to a vision of the world and man, and to structures, which belong essentially to traditional civilisations, distant from the present one, not only from the modern mentality and culture, but also, to a large extent, from the religion which has come to predominate in the West.

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  • September 18, 2012 Counter-Currents Radio 41
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    Keith Preston Interviews Tia Foster

    60:13 minutes / 135 words

    Editor’s Note:

    Keith Preston’s “Attack the System” will now appear on Counter-Currents Radio. Welcome, Keith!

    Audio Version: To listen in a player, click here.

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  • January 28, 2012 Jonson Miller 2
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    Les dieux sont encore là :
    Une réponse au livre de Collin Cleary : Summoning the Gods

    2,111 words

    English original here

    « Le problème avec nos païens occidentaux modernes, c’est qu’ils ne croient pas vraiment en leurs dieux, ils croient seulement croire en eux. » (Cleary, Summoning the Gods, 21). (more…)

  • January 16, 2012 Jonson Miller 35
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    The Gods are Still Here:
    A Response to Collin Cleary’s Summoning the Gods

    1,995 words

    French translation here

    “The problem with our modern, Western pagans is that they do not genuinely believe in their gods, they merely believe in believing in them” (Cleary, Summoning the Gods, 21). (more…)

  • January 11, 2012 Anthony M. Ludovici
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    My Education, Part II

    7,812 words

    Editor’s Note:

    What follows are selections from Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, ch. 4, “My Education, II (1910–1916).” (more…)

  • November 30, 2011 Collin Cleary
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    Connaître les dieux

    7,634 words

    1. Une fausse connaissance

    Il y a aujourd’hui ceux qui souhaitent faire revenir l’humanité (ou une portion de l’humanité) à une foi plus ancienne, préchrétienne. (more…)

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