How to Drink Like an Occultist
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The Daily Eudemon
A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?
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McGilchrist Explains What Huxley Experienced
Show notes. If the left hemisphere's grip on people's minds can be loosened, McGilchrist says, their perceptions will change. They will see "into the depth of things . . . all at once [and] recognize them for what they are, no longer overlaid by our projections." When this happens, the conventional notions and mental clichés we live by in our everyday world get shoved aside, and the "hall of…
The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature
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Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger
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Gardening and Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
Gardening is just a hobby, and it might not always be practical. But it is arguably the pursuit that postmodern man needs the most. A Copernican revolution in metaphysics explains why. Link to essay from which this podcast is adapted
Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary
Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that thrived during the twentieth century and has today settled in as the dominant cultural disposition that drives public debate. Today’s powerful elites aren’t gnostics, but they ride their left hemispheres like…
How to Brand Yourself
Pick four traits. The last one must be "victim." It's because we live in a gnostic culture that rails against the evil "structure." If there's a structure, there must be victims of the structure. Show notes
The Gnostic Hates the Structure
Belief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose. Ancient Gnosticism Presupposed an Elaborate Cosmological Structure of Evil Ancient gnosticism used the ancient cosmic system: The earth was in the center, surrounded by the air and spheres: sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and a ring of fixed stars that close it all off. That was…
The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About
Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the socio-political superstructure. Natural economic evolution would eliminate it, but the ruling classes are suppressing the evolution out of self-interest, so a revolution needs to bring…
The Gnostic is a Believer
Did you take a sociology class in high school or college? Did you know sociology’s founder, August Comte (1798-1857), was kind of a dick? The Encyclopedia Britannica says he was “ungrateful,” “self-centered,” and “egocentric.” If those aren’t bad enough, other biographers say he was a megalomaniac, cruel, and downright nuts. Comte, on the other hand, considered himself a relevant man, to put it…