Tag Archives: Tantrism

Dionysus & the “Left-Hand Path”

Antinous as Dionysos-Osiris, 2nd century, Vatican Museum

Antinous as Dionysus-Osiris, 2nd century, Vatican Museum

2,146 words

Translated by G. A. Malvicini

As outlined in one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s first works, the very suggestive Birth of Tragedy, the concepts of Dionysus and Apollo correspond very little to the meaning these entities had in antiquity, especially their esoteric meaning. Nevertheless, we will use their Nietzschean interpretation as a starting point in this text, in order to define certain fundamental existential orientations.

The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky

7,465 words

Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Rochester Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2008

1. Introduction

Alejandro Jodorowsky is known to English-speaking audiences as the director and star of the cult film El Topo (1970). His other films (of which there are only a few) are lesser known, and his work outside of film is hardly known at all in America. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, book reviews, Collin Cleary, G. I. Gurdjieff, hinduism, originals, the left hand path, Vedanta, Zen Buddhism | 3 Responses

Thanks for Watching:
Awakening Through Repetition in Groundhog Day,
Point of Terror, & Manhunter, Part 1

James J. O'Meara

7,862 words

Part 1 of 2

Point of Terror (1973); 88 min. Director: Alex Nicol; Writers: Peter Carpenter (story), Ernest A. Charles (screenplay); Stars: Peter Carpenter, Dyanne Thorne, Lory Hansen. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Groundhog Day, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, karma, Manhunter, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, reincarnation, Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 6 Responses

D. H. Lawrence’s Phallic Traditionalism

Derek Hawthorne

Sacred phalluses, Delos, Greece

4,361 words

Sex and Religion

D. H. Lawrence argues that through the sex act, individuals participate in some kind of mysterious power running through nature. But does this momentary experience have any kind of long-term effect on them? Lawrence directly addresses this question. When the sex act is over, he writes, “The two individuals are separate again. But are they as they were before? Is the air the same after a thunderstorm as before? No. The air is as it were new, fresh, tingling with newness. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, North American New Right, originals, pornography, promiscuity, sexuality, vitalism | 10 Responses

D. H. Lawrence on the Meaning of Sex

Derek Hawthorne

Georgia O’Keeffe, “D. H. Lawrence Pine Tree,” 1929

4,925 words

D. H. Lawrence is best known to the general public as a writer of sexy books. In his own time, his treatment of sex made him notorious and caused him to run afoul of the authorities on a number of occasions. I have no desire to rehearse in detail the well-known history of Lawrence’s troubles with censorship, Read more …

Published: August 19, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain Daniélou, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, Derek Hawthorne, North American New Right, originals, sexuality, the left hand path | 11 Responses

The Japanese Hara Theory & its Relations to East & West, Part 2

Robert_Fludd_-_Utriusque_cosmi_Historia_-_1617-19

The relationships of microcosm and macrocosm as illustrated in Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi Historia, 1619

2,914 words

Part 2 of 2

An inquiry into the doctrine of the “center” in the West would indeed be of much interest for the purposes of a further comparison, but it presents special difficulties because esoteric knowledge in the West has taken the form of cryptograms, and has been clothed in abstruse symbols and myths of many meanings to which a uniform interpretation, such as modern critical thought desires, cannot always be given. We shall therefore only make a few references.

The Japanese Hara Theory & its Relations to East & West, Part 1

4,045 words

Part 1 of 2

On first receiving Karlfried Graf Dürckheim’s book, Hara: Man’s Terrestrial Center,[1] we had thought of writing one of the usual reviews, calling attention to it as an interesting contribution to our knowledge of the psychology, the behavior, and the “existential morphology” of the Far Eastern, or rather of the Japanese, man; Read more …

Published: June 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, hinduism, Japan, Julius Evola, kundalini, North American New Right, reprints, Taoism, yoga, Zen | 1 Response

Oriental & Mediterranean Ancient Erotic Symbolism

3,188 words

The theme of an original duality or polarity related to that of the sexes occurs in the traditions of almost all cultures. This duality is sometimes expressed in purely metaphysical terms, sometimes in that of divine or mythological figures, cosmic elements, principles, gods, and goddesses.

It seemed evident to the early historians of religion of recent times that this was due to anthropomorphism. In their opinion, as man had created his gods in his own image, Read more …

Published: June 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Buddhism, hinduism, Julius Evola, love, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, superhumanism, Taoism, Traditionalism, translations | Leave a comment

The “Mysteries of Woman” in East & West, Part 2

2,963 words

Part 1 of 2

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, no. 4 (1958): 349–55. This is chapter 15 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, Read more …

Published: April 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Buddhism, hinduism, Julius Evola, love, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, Sufism, Taoism, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

Yoga, Immortality, & Freedom

4,488 words

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 6, no. 3 (1955): 224–30. This is chapter 9 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, forthcoming from Counter-Currents in the summer of 2013.

Yoga, may well he said to be that portion of the heritage of Indian wisdom—nay, of the wisdom of the East as a whole—that is most familiar to Western Europeans and to Americans. Read more …

Published: April 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, book reviews, Julius Evola, Mircea Eliade, North American New Right, reprints, yoga | Comments closed

Pan Gurdžijev

1,235 words

English original here

Jedinců, kteří nám pomáhají poukázat na znepokojivou cestu, po níž se ubírá existence velké většiny lidí, je za těchto zhoršených podmínek málo a hrozí, že budou zaměňováni se šarlatány.Do této kategorie patří bez nejmenší pochybnosti „tajemný pan Gurdžijev“, tedy Georgij Ivanovič Gurdžijev (1866 – 1949). Read more …

Published: February 4, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, esotericism, Frank Lloyd Wright, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Karl Haushofer, National Socialism, North American New Right, occultism, P. D. Ouspensky, reprints, Traditionalism, yoga | Leave a comment

Somos Livres?

Norns by J. L. Lund (1777-1867)

4,683 words

English original here

1. O Problema

Nós temos “livre-arbítrio”? Certamente isso me parece que eu livremente escolho o que eu faço em vida, com respeito a coisas tanto maiores quanto menores. Minha decisão de graduar no colégio, por exemplo, certamente parece ter sido feito livremente, sem nenhuma coerção de outros. Read more …

Published: August 12, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, Collin Cleary, determinism, free will, Immanuel Kant, in Portuguese, in translation, J. G. Fichte, Jean-Paul Sartre, philosophy, reprints, the left hand path | Leave a comment

Are We Free?

Norns by J. L. Lund (1777-1867)

4,748 words

Portuguese translation here

1. The Problem

Do we have “free will”? It certainly seems to me that I freely choose what I do in life, with respect to things both major and minor. My decision to go to graduate school, for example, certainly seems to have been one that I made freely, without anyone or anything coercing me. Read more …

Published: April 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aristotle, Collin Cleary, determinism, free will, Immanuel Kant, J. G. Fichte, Jean-Paul Sartre, originals, philosophy, the left hand path | 17 Responses

Introduction au livre de Collin Cleary: Summoning the Gods [L’appel aux dieux]

Greg Johnson

2,903 words

English original here

Collin Cleary – l’énigmatique sage de Sandpoint, dans l’Idaho – surgit sur la scène intellectuelle il y a presque dix ans, avec la publication du premier volume du journal TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition. Read more …

Published: October 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alejandro Jodorowski, Asatru, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Eastern religion, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, movie reviews, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Summoning the Gods, The Prisoner, theology | Leave a comment

Mr. Gurdjieff

1,525 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Czech translation here

Individuals who help us put a finger on the disturbing way in which the existence of the great majority of people has been, metaphysically speaking, degraded, are rare in our times and run the risk of being confused with charlatans.

The Holy Mountain, Part 1

Derek Hawthorne

4,959 words

Part 1 of 2

1. Introduction: “A Lofty Humanity and Eternal Blondeness”

The Holy Mountain (Der Heilige Berg, 1926) is the greatest of the German “mountain films” and the prototype for all the rest. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Arnold Fanck, Bergfilm, Derek Hawthorne, Ernst Petersen, female psychology, Julius Evola, Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, manliness, mountain climbing, mountain films, movie reviews, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Otto Weininger, Plato, Sex and Character, sex roles, sexuality, The Holy Mountain, Traditionalism, white heroism | 1 Response

Introduction to Collin Cleary’s Summoning the Gods

Greg Johnson

Franz von Stuck, "Orpheus"

2,654 words

French translation here

Collin Cleary—the enigmatic sage of Sandpoint, Idaho—burst onto the intellectual scene almost ten years ago, with the publication of the first volume of the journal TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition. Along with Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan, Cleary was one of the founding editors of TYR, having a hand in all aspects of the first volume and contributing three substantial articles and several reviews. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alejandro Jodorowski, Asatru, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Eastern religion, Greg Johnson, Martin Heidegger, mysticism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Summoning the Gods, The Prisoner, theology, TV reviews | 2 Responses

What God Did Odin Worship?

Franz von Stuck, “Wild Hunt,” 1899

4,143 words

Translations: French, Russian

1. Introduction

In The Poetic Edda, Odin narrates his discovery of the runes:

I wot that I hung on the wind-tossed tree
All of nights nine,
Wounded by the spear, bespoken to Odin,
Bespoken myself to myself,
Upon that tree of which none telleth
From what roots it doth rise. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Collin Cleary, Julius Evola, kundalini, mythology, North American New Right, Odin, originals, religion, Shiva, Traditionalism, yoga | 8 Responses

What Tantrism Means to Modern Western Civilization