Author: Dominique Johnson
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Post-Risorgimento Idealism: Historical Context of Giovanni Gentile’s Fascism, Mazzini and Carbonari Theosophists
NOTES ON GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in a way most people have not considered. Let us for the time being forget what H.P. Blavatsky states about Central Asian origins of Theosophy, the origins of Zoroastrianism, the preserved…
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Alan Watts – Man in Nature: The Mechanical Theory of Nature in Western Tradition
ALAN WATTS ON THREE THEORIES OF NATURE AND THE MECHANICAL THEORY OF NATURE IN WESTERN TRADITION
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The Tempests: Someday | America
Let the music speak . . . “Someday, maybe baby somewhere / somehow, O sometime, I’m going to find you / and make you mine, mine O mine / Someday. Someday.” . . . And then the beautiful black youth of today stood up, but so did the many. And they saw hope and light…
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This is My Stance on Death of George Floyd and Police Brutality, NFL, Conservatives on the Protests
The American Right and far-right across social media appear to all be in perfect agreement with one another about the protests and this entire crisis. Firstly, it is a lie of Conservatives, that George Floyd is seen as a martyr by the Black community. So far as for his family, pictures of him and family…
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: “There Is Only One Revolution!”
“We want to escape. . .because man has lived like this for thousands and thousands of years, with sorrow, confusion, and great misery and mischief. And without changing all that, completely, radically. . .mere outward revolution. . .changing a particular system for another system does not solve this aching agony. There’s only one revolution —…
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Helena Blavatsky Critique of the French Revolution of 1789, Material Progress and the Rich
In an excerpt from this Parisian paper, Le Lotus (Paris, Vol. I, No. 6, Sep 1887), Helena P. Blavatsky speaks about the falsity of fraternity in the French Revolution of 1789, rails against material (industrial) developments, and the conditions of the poor. The poor and child factory workers labor and are sacrificed for progress. Theosophists…
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Bhagavan Das on the Evils Of Nationalism
Liberals used to be nationalists too, but these nationalists were also cosmopolitans, internationalists, patriotic, lovers of antiquity, who romanticized the Golden Ages of ancient civilizations. In our day, liberals have conceded to give these qualities alone to their adversaries, who exploit by perpetually putting into question their love for their country. Articles read Nationalism, or…
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James J. Sack on Right-Wing Hatred of Dissenters in the 18th century
The European Right in the Era of Republicanism The attitudes and thinking-patterns of intellectuals on the political Right in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century remain as they are in today’s American Right. From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain In James J. Sack’s From Jacobite to Conservative, speaking of the “ubiquitous right-wing hatred of…
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Madhava Ashish: Contribution of Blavatsky to World Thought
“The world’s many religious teachings are human attempts to express mankind’s half defined ideas about himself and the world he lives in. As we become richer in our wealth of concepts and more knowledgeable about our environment, we find it necessary from time to time to reformulate our religious ideas. H.P. Blavatsky’s contribution to world…
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Calling-out Racist Occultists and Esotericists? This is What I think about Philosophers like Evola
In Reactions to Julius Evola on Buddhism, Jean Varenne had written in her introduction to his book The Doctrine of Awakening, that a man like Julius Evola was particularly suitable to dispel misconceptions of Buddhism and Siddhartha spread by Western perspectives of his teachings as docile, feminized, etc. In “Negrified America,” I gave Julius Evola’s…
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German Aryanism and the Magical Blood of the Teuton: Gobineau, Chamberlain, Guido von List and Liebenfels
The Aryan racial view that entered Fascism does not derive from the Ariosophy of Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels. It is also a concept in fact, not originally integrated into Fascism, as it is in Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism. Giovanni Gentile as well as other early Fascist intellectuals despised introducing Ariosophical racial…
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Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe | Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre’s “Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe” is a unique film, contemplative, visual and musical experience inspired by one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time: the Hubble Telescope’s Deep Field image.
The American Minervan 