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Gary Lachman, some references from Dark Star Rising
DIR By: forbitals
Date: December 26, 2019, 8:07 pm
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So Gary Lachman is talking about Ernst Holmes and lots of
others.
Let me try and capture some of it:
George Bernard Shaw, play
Back to Methuselah
R. A. Orage
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Thomson Jay Hudson, The Law of Psychic Phenomenon (1893)
Robert Place, The Tarot, History, Symbol, Divination (2005)
Jaq D. Hawkins, Understanding Chaos Magic (1996)
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^^^^ not in libraries
Dave Evans, The History of British Magic After Crowley
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^^^^^ not in libraries, book looks extremely interesting! See
cover picture!
So after in 1960 when Norman Vincent Peale was campaigning
against John F. Kennedy over his Catholicism, many turned
against him. Newspapers stopped carrying his column and some in
his own congregation started denouncing him. They accused him
of preaching a Christianized Magic.
And then Albert Ellis, though offering a kind of
self-improvement of his own, he turned into a major critic of
Peale!
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And then we have Ralph Waldo Trine:
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And then Neville Goddard
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Re: Gary Lachman, some references from Dark Star Rising
DIR By: forbitals
Date: December 30, 2019, 3:57 pm
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Alt Right, Pepe the Frog, Something Awful, Anime, 4chan, Tulpas,
KEK, Brietbart News, Norman Vincent Peale
Dark Star Rising : Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, by Gary
Lachman
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Reading from page 78ff
Read Anything Gary Lachman has written.
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Re: Gary Lachman, some references from Dark Star Rising
DIR By: forbitals
Date: December 30, 2019, 7:26 pm
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So from page 78ff
... is the brainchild of white supremacist Richard Spencer, and
it came to global prominence when Hillary Clinton inadvertently
gave it the best publicity it could ask for. In her campaign
speech in Reno, Nevada, on August 25, 2016, Clinton spoke out
against her opponent, Donald Trump. She accused him of basing
his campaign on "prejudice and paranoia," of supporting
anti-Semitism and white nationalism, and of bringing what had
until then been a "paranoid fringe" in American politics into
the mainstream. This "paranoid fringe," in American politics
into the mainstream.
This "paranoid fringe," she said, was the "alt-right," or
"alternative right," a "loosely organized movement, mostly
online," that--as she quoted from The Wall Street
Journal--"rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism
and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white
identity." They call themselves "racialists" rather than
"racists" and speak of "white nationalism" rather than "white
supremacy,"....
Steve Bannon, who through the right-wing website Breitbart.com,
gave the alt-right a place to air its views. ....
Through this she believed that "a fringe element has effectively
taken over the Republican Party."
..
part of a "rising tide of hard-line, right wing nationalism
around the world."
She included in this the far right British politician Nigel
Farage and Vladimir Putin.
"There's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics,"..."But
it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it,
encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone."
...
Clinton spoke out against Trump's endorsement of conspiracy
theories and his intransigence when criticized for accepting the
support of people like David Duke, head of the KKK. She
complained of his retweeting white supremacist propaganda and
giving his approval to the ideas of talk show host Alex Jones of
InfoWars infamy....
Richard Spencer ... watched Clinton's speech in a hotel room
in Tokyo. .... spreading the alt-right word since 2008.
(a campaign to destabilize President Obama. )
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Re: Gary Lachman, some references from Dark Star Rising
DIR By: forbitals
Date: January 2, 2020, 7:10 pm
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Dark Star Rising : Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, by Gary
Lachman
p51ff
Both Hitler and Mussolini wanted people to believe in them, and
both found that fhis was precisely what many people wanted to
do. They, it seemed, were made for each other. ow Hitler and
Mussolini got millions of people to believe in them was by
believing in themselves an d their respective causes, in
Hitler's case National Socialism and in Mussolini's fascism.
They did not win this believing through argument, persuasive
reasoning, or a convincing display of facts. They didn't force
people to believe nor did they buy their compliance. Something
much deeper and more immediate was at work. Something that is a
part of the very fabric of our being.
Mussolini and Hitler gathered the masses beind them by
fulfilling a need, a very powerful one, and also by meeting a
desire. The need is to believe that our lives have some meaning
and purpose beyond that of fulfilling our basic animal
appetites. This is the essence of all religion. We need to
feel there is some reason for our existence. This lack of
belief leads to nihilism, that belief in nothing, a condition
that postmodernism seems to hvae saddled us with today. Man, we
know, does not live by bread alone; if he did, any feasible plan
for the equitable distribution of the planet's resources would
solve the world's problems overnight. As George Orwell, a
witness to the rise of populist demagogues in pre-World War II
Europe, "Hitler...knows that human beings don't only want
comfort, safety, short working hours, hygiene, birth control
and, in general, common sense; they also want struggle and
self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty
parades."
... Hitler and Mussolini were adept at providing many people in
Germany and Italy with the sense that they belonged to some
larger reality beyond their everyday lives. This is why all
attempts to explain Hitler's success through economic, class, or
some other "rational" reason are ultimately inadequate. They
leave what we might call the "existential" element out of their
reckoning, the need for a meaning to life more significant that
a full stomach.
.
.
.
The desire Hitler and Mussolini met in millions of people was a
simple one: to be free of the burden of giving meaning to their
lives themselves, of fulfilling their hunger for "struggle and
self-sacrifice," for some greater purpose than the satisfaction
of their own appetites, though their own efforts.
.
.
.
There seems to be an inverse ration between a people's lack of
self-belief, and the enthusiasm with which they embrace a belief
in someone else, provided he displays enough self-belief to fill
the void within them. The examples above refer to how
"charismatic leaders," as the sociologist Max Weber called them,
do precisely this. For Weber such figures are set apart from
ordinary men and are often seen as superhuman or supernatural.
Charisma is of Greek origin and means a "gift of grace."
Then it goes into endorsement of a book I have long admired,
"Feet of Clay" by Anthony Storr.
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Jewish Community Denounces Anti-Semitic Attacks Fueled by a
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First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Impact on New Deal
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Zion SRT
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Whitesnake - Still of the Night
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Re: Gary Lachman, some references from Dark Star Rising
DIR By: forbitals
Date: January 2, 2020, 7:36 pm
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so page 60ff Lachman writes:
Power is perhaps the greatest intoxicant because it is linked to
the feeling of life itself. Nietzsche knew this, and it helped
him to outgrow Schopenhauer's pessimism. "What is goo?" he asks
in The Antichrist.
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power,
power itself in man.
What is bad? -- All that proceeds from weakness.
What is happiness? -- The feeling that power increases -- that a
resistance is overcome.
Nietzsche's rhetoric is powerful itself and is too often quoted
out of context to support attitudes and beliefs he did not
share; that is an occupational hazard of a good writer.
Nietzsche is not advocationg power over others, as he is often
said to be, but power over oneself. Life Nietzsche tells us, is
that "which must overcome itself again and again." His
Ubermensch -- usually mistranslated as "superman" -- is not a
demigod or a member of a master race lording it over the rest of
us, but someone who has "overcome" himself, an "overman." When
Nietzsche's prophet Zarathustra addresses the people in the
market place and says that "as long as I can conceive of
something better than myself I cannot be unless I am striving to
bring it into existence or clearing the way for it." The
greatest sense of power comes from overcoming one's own
weaknesses and strengths, from growing beyond oneself. This is
what creative evolution is about.
(Creative Evolution is the title of a work by Henri Bergson.
Lachman has to know this. )
But Nietzsche the psychologist knows that often this will to
power finds other more immediately stimulating channels and that
it is all to easy to develop the habit of following those rather
than developing the more legitimate means of heightening our
sense of power, that is of growth. Indeed, one sign of
self-mastery is that one outgrows the temptation to get a quick,
cheap thrill at the expense of one's development.
.
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As Colin Wilson discovered, one of the avenues for this is sex.
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Re: Gary Lachman, some references from Dark Star Rising
DIR By: forbitals
Date: January 2, 2020, 8:21 pm
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Gary Lachman's Dark Star Rising
page 61ff
talks of Frithjof Schuon, and his book "The Transcendent Unity
of Religions." REAL TURKEY!
Then opens discussion of Rene Guenon, and this of course leads
to Julius Evola.
We have now mention of a book and writer who look most
interesting:
Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World (2004) Seems to be
about this "Traditionalism" movement and Sedgwick is said to be
a historian of esotericism.
Mark Sedgwick
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Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret
Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to
Liberal Democracy Paperback – February 5, 2019
Since the start of the twenty-first century, the political
mainstream has been shifting to the right. The liberal orthodoxy
that took hold in the West as a reaction to the Second World War
is breaking down. In Europe, populist political parties have
pulled the mainstream in their direction; in America, a series
of challenges to the Republican mainstream culminated in the
2016 election of Donald Trump.
In Key Thinkers of the Radical Right, sixteen expert scholars
explain sixteen thinkers, providing an introduction to their
life and work, a guide to their thought, and an explanation of
their work's reception. The chapters focus on thinkers who are
widely read across the political right in both Europe and
America, such as Julius Evola, Alain de Benoist, and Richard B.
Spencer. Featuring classic, modern, and emerging thinkers, this
selection provides a good representation of the intellectual
right and avoids making political or value judgments. In an
increasingly polarized political environment, Key Thinkers of
the Radical Right offers a comprehensive and unbiased
introduction to the thinkers who form the foundation of the
radical right.
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Yes, both Mark Sedgwick books and his others are readily
available.
Lachman also talks much about Putin't guy Alexander Dugin
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^^^^ a real piece of work. Occult fascism is indeed on the rise
world wide.
UKIP
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Nigel Farage
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Again, what I find most telling is from Mark Sedgwick,
"Since the start of the twenty-first century, the political
mainstream has been shifting to the right. The liberal orthodoxy
that took hold in the West as a reaction to the Second World War
is breaking down. In Europe, populist political parties have
pulled the mainstream in their direction; in America, a series
of challenges to the Republican mainstream culminated in the
2016 election of Donald Trump. "
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