By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Sep 23
A Conversation between Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin John: The term gender identity was first defined in two 1964 papers by UCLA psychiatrists Robert Stoller and Ralph Greenson.… View Post The post Gender-Critical Philosophy: A Defence appeared first on Areo.
A Conversation between Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin John: The term gender identity was first defined in two 1964 papers by UCLA psychiatrists Robert Stoller and Ralph Greenson.… View Post The post Gender-Critical Philosophy: A Defence appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Aug 23
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 124 What is the true nature of Being? That’s one of those “big” questions that we probably cannot answer. Related to it is another huge question: how should we be disposed toward the fact of Being? That’s a fundamentally religious, or even pre-religious, question, and it’s important to answer. While we may not know the true nature of Being itself, of all of existence, we can say something about the mood of our relationship to it. In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions …
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 124 What is the true nature of Being? That’s one of those “big” questions that we probably cannot answer. Related to it is another huge question: how should we be disposed toward the fact of Being? That’s a fundamentally religious, or even pre-religious, question, and it’s important to answer. While we may …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Aug 23
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 61 Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It’s not because Gnostics go around telling people they’re wrong. It’s because they go around telling people they’re limited. Your beliefs, maybe in science, spirituality, Christianity, politics, or whatever, aren’t wrong; they’re low-level. The Gnostics hold themselves out as people who know more about whatever you’re into than you do, and they explain their superiority as being “liberated” from the limitations “THEY” (your teachers, pastors, etc.) are placing upon your knowledge. They don’t want you to know these secrets, but we do. That’s the Gnostic temptation. Host James Lindsay …
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 61 Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It’s not because Gnostics go around telling people they’re wrong. It’s because they go around telling people they’re limited. Your beliefs, maybe in science, spirituality, Christianity, politics, or whatever, aren’t wrong; they’re low-level. The Gnostics hold themselves out as people who know more about whatever you’re …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Jul 23
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the… View Post The post Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War appeared first on Areo.
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the… View Post The post Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Jun 23
It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally… View Post The post Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die appeared first on Areo.
It’s been almost a century and a half since Karl Marx’s death, and decades since the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. In the still nominally… View Post The post Marxism: The Idea that Refuses to Die appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 May 23
Consciousness is among the greatest outstanding scientific mysteries. We have no direct way of telling whether a given being is conscious and therefore have to rely on basic induction. We… View Post The post The Consciousness Conundrum appeared first on Areo.
Consciousness is among the greatest outstanding scientific mysteries. We have no direct way of telling whether a given being is conscious and therefore have to rely on basic induction. We… View Post The post The Consciousness Conundrum appeared first on Areo.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 May 23
The Secret Religions of the West, Session 3 of 3 In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded “As above, so below,” but this is only half of the principle. The full expression is “As above, so below; as below, so above,” which outlines a snake eating its own tail as a driver of Hermetic alchemical magic. In his third lecture for the Mere Simulacrity conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022, Dr. James Lindsay explains how this principle is a driver of what …
The Secret Religions of the West, Session 3 of 3 In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded “As above, so below,” but this is only half of the principle. The full expression is “As above, so below; as below, so above,” …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 2 May 23
It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place. Intersectionality was first described by this cumbersome term in a paper by Crenshaw in 1989, wherein she likened the idea of occupying more than one “position” of sociocultural systemic oppression to being caught in an intersection of highways. Crenshaw argued that if you are, say, a black woman, occupying at least two such …
It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place. Intersectionality was first described by this cumbersome term in a paper by Crenshaw …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Apr 23
The Secret Religions of the West, Session 2 of 3 In his first talk at the Sovereign Nations Mere Simulacrity conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022, James Lindsay introduced the idea that there is a long, running current of “Secret Religions” in the West. These are the Modern and Postmodern manifestations of the Esoteric Religions like Gnosticism and Hermeticism as they developed through what we might consider the Middle Age’s “New Age” period, famously codified by G.W.F. Hegel. In the second lecture in his “Secret Religions of the West” series, Lindsay explains that these “philosophies,” including Marxism, are actually …
The Secret Religions of the West, Session 2 of 3 In his first talk at the Sovereign Nations Mere Simulacrity conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022, James Lindsay introduced the idea that there is a long, running current of “Secret Religions” in the West. These are the Modern and Postmodern manifestations of the Esoteric Religions like Gnosticism and Hermeticism …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Apr 23
In that Marxism is a theology that gives birth to a religion of Communism, it has to also have a process of conversion. That process was not well-developed under Karl Marx, but it grew over the intervening century and a half and came to be known as “conscientization.” As Marxism entered its cultural turn in the 1920s, Theorists like Gyorgy Lukacs recognized that “class consciousness” unfolds in stages and is educable, though the last steps remained elusive and mysterious. By the 1980s, Theorists like Paulo Freire developed the process of conscientization further into a critical and even utopian consciousness that …
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In that Marxism is a theology that gives birth to a religion of Communism, it has to also have a process of conversion. That process was not well-developed under Karl Marx, but it grew over the intervening century and a half and came to be known as “conscientization.” As Marxism entered its cultural turn in the 1920s, Theorists like Gyorgy …
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