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Edward Dutton
Shaman of the Radical Right: The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden
Imperium Press, 2025

It has just over one year since the publication of Edward Dutton’s biography of orator and activist Jonathon Bowden. As of March 29th, it has now been exactly 14 years since its subject matter passed away at the tragic age of 49, an event that Dutton’s well-researched biography sheds new light on.[1] The book itself was a timely affair. Bowden has progressively morphed into an online cult figure who, like many of his heroes, obtained greater fame posthumously than while alive; his distinctive bellow haunts the dissident internet with riveting soundbites taken from numerous intense and spellbinding lectures. (more…)

Odin riding Sleipnir in a detail on the Tjängvide stone

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1. The Language of Birds

In our last installment, we explored the idea that Sigurd bathing in the dragon’s blood is a symbol for the achievement of the “spiritual corporeality.” In order to complete this alchemical transmutation, however, Sigurd must also consume the dragon’s blood, and its heart. (more…)

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

While we’ve entered the realm of online immortality,[1] let me end with some speculation on how Bowden’s shamanic methods have been absorbed, perhaps unknowingly, by the online Dissident Right, and even in the unlikeliest of places. (more…)

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(Part 1)

For a book with “shaman” in the title, Dutton spends remarkably little time on shamans or shamanism, words which occur less than 20 times in the 333 pages of text. Bowden is a shaman, or shamanistic, in the sense that he can, sort of like a shaman, travel to other spaces or dimensions, obtaining knowledge which can be brought back to his tribe to heal or inspire them. (more…)

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“I’d heard his voice on the tape and it really put a hook in me. But I couldn’t connect up that voice with this man.”
-Capt. Willard on Col. Kurtz [1]

“Always superb, and getting better!”
– Jonathan Bowden’s habitual greeting.[2] (more…)

Album art from Kvitravn by Wardruna, showing the band’s rune-based logo.

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Norwegian folk group Wardruna released their fifth album, Kvitravn, in January of this year. The band is an impressive example of prominent white Europeans embracing aspects of their own traditional culture. As the band puts it, they are “dedicated to creating musical renditions of ancient Norse and Nordic traditions.” (more…)

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Puisque le libéralisme, en tant qu’idéologie fondée sur les droits de l’individu, appelle à « la libération vis-à-vis de toutes les formes d’identité collective en général, [et est donc] entièrement incompatible avec l’ethnos et l’ethnocentrisme, et est l’expression d’un ethnocide théorique et technologique systématique », l’« ethnocentrisme » et l’affirmation positive de l’identité « ethnique » sont vues par Dugin comme une base potentielle pour la résistance au libéralisme. (more…)

George Heermann, Cronos, 1696

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Traducción por A. Garrido.

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El ethnos continúa existiendo como el sustrato de las sociedades tradicionales. Por ejemplo, el ethne pre-indoeuropeo continúa existiendo como la tercera función de las sociedades indo-europeas. (more…)

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Traducción por A. Garrido.

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Ya que el Liberalismo, como una ideología fundada sobre los derechos del individuo, llama por la “liberación de todas las formas de identidad colectiva en general, [y por lo tanto es] completamente incompatible con el ethnos y el etnocentrismo, y es una expresión de un teóricamente sistemático y tecnológico etnocidio”, el “etnocentrismo” y la afirmación positiva de la identidad “étnica” son vistas por Dugin como una potencial base para la resistencia al Liberalismo. (more…)

George Heermann, Cronos, 1696

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Spanish translation here

The ethnos continues to exist as the substratum of traditional societies. For example, the pre-Indo-European ethne continue to exist as the third function of Indo-European societies. Dugin explains the emergence of traditional civilizations through the emergence of nomadic pastoralism, that is, the appearance, from out of autochthonous agricultural society, of small, nomadic groups of war-like herdsmen.

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Translations: French, Spanish

Since liberalism, as an ideology founded on the rights of the individual, calls for “the liberation from all forms of collective identity in general, [and is therefore] entirely incompatible with the ethnos and ethnocentrism, and is an expression of a systematic theoretical and technological ethnocide,” “ethnocentrism” and the positive affirmation of “ethnic” identity are viewed by Dugin as a potential base for resistance to liberalism. (more…)

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Part 3 of 7 (other parts here)

3. Art Begins in Wonder

My thesis, quite simply, is that art, religion, and language are all made possible by a mental or cognitive act which I have called elsewhere ekstasis.[1] To better understand what this consists in, I will ask the reader to consider a simple (or, perhaps, not so simple) question. (more…)

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2. Theories of Stone Age Cave Art

One of the first attempts to explain the origin of Upper Paleolithic cave art was formulated by the French paleontologist Édouard Lartet (1801–1871), (more…)