Tag: racism
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What should be the role of Black people in this time of political despair?
Just because the world puts empathy for Black people at the bottom of the rung, does not mean we ought to expect the world to put empathy for us at the middle-point or highest rung. No doubt, empathy everywhere by everyone is needed. Just because empathy for Black people is at the bottom of the…
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Racism, Freemasonry and fighting degeneration of American Politics
A situation I have absolutely no patience for is the condition esotericists everywhere find themselves in. What has been the main obstacle to simple propagation of Theosophy, without any elaborate spiritual explanation? This is gossip, instigation, inner conflict, mass paranoia (an intrinsic feature to American politics), pre-established religious conditioning, hoaxes and the flaws of human…
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The Complex Legacy of Albert Pike
The life and writings of Albert Pike provide a lesson to those interested in the history and study of Esoteric Philosophy. This article briefly lays out some facts to consider in light of recent events to challenge both American racial conflicts and limitations and the Trump Administration’s appropriation of Albert Pike (The Unseen Danger of…
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Charlie Kirk: Conservative leaves behind a Legacy of Racism
Charlie Kirk, conservative activist and founder of right-wing youth organization Turning Point USA has died today after taking a shot to the neck at a Utah Valley University event on campus. Kirk spent his days peddling slanderous racist propaganda, perpetuating racism towards Muslims, skewering the undeniable facts about the Palestinian genocide broadcasted live to the…
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Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity
I just returned abroad from my journey to the island of Hydra (Gr: Ύδρα, romanized: Ýdra) and Athens in Greece back home to the state of Illinois and came back very happily engaged to my beautiful partner. It has been over two years since I went on a trip through a tour agency to Italy…
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Interview of Man and Woman with Family who owned Slaves
In the first interview with a man, he answers questions about how he personally viewed Black people in the United States, when Black people were slaves, and considered property. Black Interviewer: “What did you think we were, before you began to view us as human-beings?” White Man: “We thought of you almost as a very…
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Biopolitics, Eugenics, and State Racism in Ancient Philosophy | Mika Ojakangas
Main Grahn-Wilder of the ORT-project interviews Prof. Mika Ojakangas of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland in a talk about the origins of State Racism. It serves the same purpose as Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander. “In episode 3, Professor Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä) discusses his book On…
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Martin Luther King Jr: ‘America, Be True to What You Said on Paper’
ON THIS DAY April 4th, 1968–Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at 6:01 p.m. CST at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King delivered this final speech popularly known as “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee. Rebellious cause for liberation is inherent to REPUBLICANISM…
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The Abnormality of American Violence and Conditioning — Shahid Bolsen
“The American mind resets every morning, and that is the perfect condition for those in Power.” On the conditioning of White people in the U.S.: “…if people really understood history, then they would recognize that nothing about the American system is accidental. Everything from its racial hierarchy to its economic disparities, to its unjust foreign…
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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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Cornel West on America as a Failed Social Experiment
Cornel West has been bringing Anderson Cooper to tears as of late on national television in his dialogue with the philosopher and civil rights activist, who shares his insight on the eruption of protests in America, explains what he means when he says “…what we see, is America as a failed social experiment.” On the…
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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…
The American Minervan 