The main page of this blog will now be devoted to theoretical and philosophical research and established lore. My admittedly silly risk of predicting binary-measurable events will continue on the 'predictions' page.
Statistics and protocols are secondary to just plain living well. I consider the implications and benefits of advanced human ability to be the most important aspect of this work.
Living with risk and making a living requires a heroic quality from anyone who would succeed.
Thomas Carlyle's advocacy of the heroic in our culture is no longer mentioned in our schools. In fact few teachers, much less students, know who Carlyle was.
This is not about Carlyle but about heroes and loyalty toward truly great teachers and mentors and the hidden ways they can bring back to the forefront of our mindset.
When I hit age 70 I will express my authentic self regardless of the consequences.
Nah... I'll start now at age 69
To be the best, learn from the best.
It came as a surprise to me when I learned some of my heroes are younger than I am.
Respect and loyalty can be given to the quality man at any age.
I was surprised to find that my heroes were not necessarily Elders.
At age 50, I realized Stephen E. Flowers, my academic hero with a PH.D in Germanic Languages and Medieval Studies, was actually younger than I am.
Now that I'm in my late sixties, there are more men acting as mentors who are younger. This age thing is something that I ponder these days while looking at how fortunate I am to be a participant in various revivals of ancient dynamics and how new beginnings are youthfully energized while presenting old wisdom.
Mentors and heroes are important to the young man's development when he has a true purpose. Models and established knowledge are critical. My own role model of Stephen E. Flowers is a narrative of inspiration to me not only because of his academic excellence but also his victorious humanity in dramatic challenges. I've written about that elsewhere and how his comeback inspires me when I've faced similar challenges.
Without adequately stating the powerful influence of Dr. Flowers on runic education, history, and integral cultural with his writing as Edred Thorsson, let me mention that he has also opened a hidden and neglected history to us in the areas of Zarathustra and Mazdan studies. He was in contact with people from the true Indo-Iranian culture many years before he enacted a concentrated study.
Edred watched the wilderness area around his farm burn down and when told to evacuate he remained behind to care for his rescue animals and the farm. The cost to his finances was staggering. Then he was betrayed by his partner in a website project. Death of loved ones happened in proximity to this.
This coincided with events in my own life. Discouraging, but something inside us and around us in our kindred and true culture finds a way. I am posting a link to a book and an important project by Edred that tells how he made such an impressive recovery.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Religion-Stephen-Flowers/dp/1885972997/ref=sr_1_18?qid=1550810201&refinements=p_27%3AStephen+E.+Flowers&s=books&sr=1-18&text=Stephen+E.+Flowers
This is an introduction to the Mazdan religion as it is rediscovered today. You will find much here that is familiar and that responds to your own conceptualizations and fondest faith.
Since Dr. Flowers is the premier operant runologist in the world some were surprised by his writing on Zarathustra and advocating a Mazdan way for the West. We should have known that if anyone knew an accurate account of the Indo-Iranian history and influence it would be Edred. Asatru and other Heathen practitioners will find much that is familiar here. The Triapartite functions of Indo-European cultures are similar. The Fravashi of the individual as a soul-complex entity will be seen as similar to aspects of various specific Fylgja.
The most powerful aspect of this work is the understanding of Ahura Mazda. This is similar to New Thought as Ahura Mazda is God as pure focused consciousnesss. Consciousness that encompasses ourselves, all worlds and the Gods. Ahura Mazda wants us to be happy and fulfilled. Ahura Mazda works with us to bring back to perfection creation that has overcome an attack by evil forces. This differs from Gnosticism in that the physical creation and the Spiritual world are not seen as separate. We actively work with Ahura Mazda as co-creators. Our methods are Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.
Study of the Paranormal in my estimation can be a contributing force in this mission. Not for everyone because Consciousness does not demand that everyone act the same.
What we will get from the dynamic tradition of realized traditions with practitioners and teachers is a better sense of who we are. Remembering who we are is a prime directive in living Tradition.I have written a timeline of the history of Western thought from tribal and migration eras through early science and metaphysicians through the remembrance of ancient ways to more current New Thought.
Something survives, endures, and thrives even when we think we have abandoned our awareness. For about 37 years I participated in the renewal of runes and the central Mystery we call 'Runa'. This was in the context of a cultural remembrance of guiding myth highly understood by our ancestors. One of the hallmarks and identifying features of the enthusiastic beginner in the field was an antinomianism for real Tradition and a fanatical idea that Christianity must be destroyed. But as a REAL awakening occurs this is replaced by an appreciation for the entire trajectory of Europe, America and related peoples.
"The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity" by James C. Russell is required reading for anyone who recognizes that we have more that unites us than separates us. The presence of a destructive and common enemy makes our cooperation in this age essential. This 'together' attitude toward becoming Mannerbunde in defense of the West has an interesting meme but I prefer people look up works like that of James C. Russell or Arktos media first. Crudeness and simplification is often clarifying on the internet and a meme can impress where words can't. I still prefer intelligent study.
The trajectory of ancient ways toward New Thought was evident in a past President of the United States. There is a Spiritual dimension to anyone who is that successful.
Good Thoughts. Good Words. Good Deeds. These are the essentials of Mazdan practice as it is revived today. This happens in a world that began well but degenerated badly under the influence of an enemy. The Warriors who volunteered to assist Ahura Mazda in defeating the enemy and bringing back a perfect world is us. We were glad to take on this ultimately successful challenge.
If Thought Word and Deed seem familiar, some of us have seen this in the grid of The Nine Laws as written by Ivan Throne. The fundamental (although compatible) difference is that Ivan sees our world as a Dark World. And so it is. Although the Mazdan distinction is it did not begin that way and will not always be that way.
For my inadequate review of Ivan Throne's brilliantly word-crafted book, scroll down my 'reviews' page on my Mystic Reading site.
It might seem like a paradox to know the wondrous creation of Ahura Mazda has become what Ivan Throne calls "The Dark World" but in fact one of the Nine Laws is how to deal with the seeming preposterous and the random. We know that we have a warrior mission to defeat the forces that attack creation. This is not a duty for the weak and mild. This is a purpose that calls upon the weaponized man that Ivan strives to train. It is a dangerous world but we must train for victory.
I had some slight knowledge of what used to be called the 'Manosphere' before reading "The Nine Laws." He convinced me to look for brothers in the fight for mutual support. We don't use the 'manosphere' label anymore because we have evolved to something more. The Men's Advocacy movement is richer than I can adequately identify and certainly more complex and influential than I can summarize here. I will attempt that elsewhere.
This blog is about the 'paranormal' which exists as an identifier only because we have ignored advanced talents within the normal. Skill with the manifestation of the extraordinary is what is demanded of men.
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