That Old Time Sophistry

Oh you'll go outside again, work at a job, hate the president. But that old world is gone, let it go and prepare for the new.

Article, Cultural Commentary, Philosophy, PoliticsPatacelsusApril 21, 2020pandemic, COVID-19, plato, sophists, bullshit, Donald Trump Comment

Noam Chomsky Interview: The Greatest Challenge To State Power

Noam Chomsky: International law is for the weak.

Fascism, Philosophy, Politics, Resilience, StruggleGods&RadicalsNovember 19, 2019noam chomsky, whistleblowers, journalism, Assange, War, Imperialism, português, portugueseComment

The Songs I Know

The Spirit of the Depths had shown me how to awaken the dead,How to bring forth the lost memories of the dream world

Gnosticism, Gods, Heathenism, Heathenry, Magic, Mythology, Paganism, Philosophy, Poetry, Ritual, Uncategorized, Violenceramon elaniJuly 18, 2018Carl Jung, dreams, Eddas, Hermann Hesse, Odin, Ragnarök, Runes Comments

Down, Down to Troy Town

But with what desperation do we seek to deny the cycles of time! That it were not so is the dearest wish of humanity. Any catastrophe imaginable would be preferable to the secrets hidden in Troy Town.

Druidry, Gnosticism, Gods, Heathenry, Magic, Mythology, Paganism, Philosophy, Poetry, Ritual, Uncategorized, Violenceramon elaniJune 27, 2018Borges, Caerdroia, Carl Jung, Hermann Hesse, Labyrinth, Minotaur, Nietzsche, Prose poem, ritual, TimeComment

The House of Cold Rain

To join our essence and consciousness with the world was once the common inheritance of humanity. Now, it can only be found in the hinterland, the lands beyond. Beyond techno-industrial society. For what is there to join with in concrete and steel?

Ancestors, Animism, Environmentalism, Gods, Industrialisation, Paganism, Philosophy, Poetry, Resilience, Uncategorizedramon elaniMay 11, 2018Anti-Industrialism, Carl Jung, Home, Robinson Jeffers, The Book of Invasions Comments

Opening the Seals

Death is not the enemy of life, but godlessness. The despair of humanity today is the product of centuries worth of both the denial of the spiritual life of the world and the suppression of the natural urge to reintegrate with that world.

Animism, Climate Change, Environmentalism, Gnosticism, Gods, History, Industrialisation, Philosophy, Uncategorizedramon elaniMarch 22, 2018animism, apocalypse, Carl Jung, D-H- Lawrence, Mircea Eliade Comments

Assigned Faggot: Gender Roles, Sex, and the Division of Labor

Sophia Burns looks at gender roles on paper vs. in practice, and the division of labor underlying both.

Article, Capitalism, Community, Cultural Commentary, Liberation, Philosophy, Politics, Privilege, Queer Theory, Radicalism, Radicals, Stories, Struggle, Theory, Uncategorized, ViolenceSophia BurnsFebruary 26, 2018Feminism, Gender, LGBT, Patriarchy, Trans Comments

Do Trees Have Rights? Toward an Ecological Politics

John Halstead proposes an alternative holistic theory of rights, one in which we can ground the rights of nature.

Animism, Community, Environmentalism, Long-Form Essay, Philosophy, PoliticsJohn HalsteadJanuary 30, 2018Law, Locke, natural rights Comments

The Anima of Disintegration

Titanic forces war within us. A war waged by the blood against the intellect, between the influences of the industrial fallen world in which we live, and the primeval, fecund, blood drenched swamps that we remember in our dreams and in the shadows of the woods at night.