Author: Dominique Johnson
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Black Family Issues, Beguiling Conservatism, and Homophobia
Opinion: Solutions through Homophobia? While we could agree the landscape of dating and marriage is difficult for Black men to contend with, and that having fathers in the household and stable families are vital, you must then get into behavior, duties and roles. Alot of Black men are part of their “household,” but what do…
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A Queer Icon and the Power and Eloquence of Effeminacy
POWER AND THE ELOQUENCE OF EFFEMINACY Jin Yong’s wuxia novel The Smiling and Proud Wanderer antagonist was given the name, Dongfang Bubai, meaning Invincible East, Asia the East, or Asia the Invincible. In the novel and film, Bubai heads the “Sun-Moon Holy Sect” (Rì Yuè Shén Jiào), an unorthodox martial arts sect. Bubai wanted to…
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The Psychology of “Gay Agenda” Conspiracy among Black People
I am not familiar with Dr. T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in this video, but he has an incredible resume and credentials. I am wary of other Black scholars, or ideologues, that propagate homophobic conspiratorial notions and outlooks like the “Gay Agenda,” because I have to hear similar nonsense from…
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The Reluctant Messiah: Truth about Jiddu Krishnamurti and Theosophy
INTRODUCTION Jiddu Krishnamurti, “Great Liberator or Failed Messiah,” asks Luis S. R. Vas in his highly insightful book about the relations between Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society. This story is about a young boy that became an important philosophical teacher throughout the 20th century. Groomed by theosophists, Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater to…
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History of a Word: Greek Origin of “Theosophy”
THE NEOPLATONISTS, DIOGENES AND THE GREEK ORIGIN OF THE TERM THEOSOPHY, CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM & THE 1875 THEOS. SOC. There are multiple ways to describe Theosophy, whether technical, mystical, from the special point-of-view of the mystic through their experience, or in describing the ancient wisdom of peoples and religions throughout human history. We must go outside…
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Bogoroditse Devo (Virgin, Mother of God) | Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil)
Blessed is the Virgin (Bogoroditse Devo)Rachmaninoff Vespers, No. 6 Rejoice, virgin, God-bearer (Bogoroditse Devo, raduysia) Mary, full of grace (Blagodatnaya Mariye), the Lord be with you. (Hospod s’Toboyu)Blessed are you amongst women (Blagoslovenna Ti v’zhenah).and blessed is the Fruit of your Womb (i Blagosloven Plod chreva Tvoyego).for you have borne the Savior of our souls…
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Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality
WHERE AUTHORITY LIES “. . .And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness (zohar) of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Dan. xii, 3) What is called the “new morality” (a term dating to the 1920s) today guided by progressive social movements seems…
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Tragedy of Satan the Double-Headed Dragon
THE GOD OF THE THEOLOGIANS, THE JEWISH GOD-NAME AND THE ANCIENT MYTH OF THE TWIN BROTHERS IT IS A MISTAKE TO VIEW HELENA BLAVATSKY’S DISMANTLING OF BIBLICAL POLEMICS as threatening, even anti-Semitic as she has been falsely accused of. She often spends a great deal explaining just as she does with the history of the…
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Historical Connection of Born-Again Christianity to 17th century Theosophers, Occultism and Alchemy
Theosophy and Mike A. Zuber on the Nature and Roots of “Born-Again” Christianity traced to the clandestine network of theosophers, Rosicrucians and alchemical Paracelsianism around 1600 are connected to the later spiritual movements of the American settlers. The beliefs of post-liberal Catholic conservatives that Gnosticism is creeping into church theology are mute, against a long…
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Why the Academic Study of Western Esotericism is not as Popular as Critical Theory and Women’s History?
Thoughts on Wouter J. Hanegraaff about “Rejected Knowledge” in Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism (page 149-151). Should this be a topic to tip toe over, or be careful? There are things that must be considered first. While so many people have become interested with deconstructing the hegemonic grand narratives of Western culture, racial…
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The Practice of Concealing Spiritual Wisdom
Thoughts on the persecution and exclusion of the marginalized ‘esotericist’ in Western Culture and the difference between Ancient and Modern Esotericism in an illuminating paper from Michael L. Frazer’s “Esotericism Ancient and Modern:Strauss Contra Straussianism on the Art of Political-Philosophical Writing,” Political Theory 34:1,February 2006, pp. 33-61. In Stanley Rosen’s Hermeneutics as Politics, a critique…
The American Minervan 