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Time for a review of another book by Shani Oates, this time In Search of Odhinn. Once again, I admired the breadth of evidence she brought to the table and her consideration of fine details, but was frustrated with her thoughts not being better organized or easy to follow. Let me know what you think!
This week, after the possibly synchronicity of folks asking about working with Jung's concept of the Shadow on JMG's Magic Monday right after having read an excerpt of a book on the Shadow, I decided to give it a read. It's called Transforming Darkness, and I found it interesting and helpful, though if you've read much on the subject or done much of such work, you might not find much new here.
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts here or through email.
As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts here or through email.
[Book] Paths to Immortality
May. 19th, 2024 11:19 pmAs I mentioned last time, I'm going a bit out of order here, with my new review of Paths to Immortality by Johann Baptist Krebs, which not only came out before The Rebirth, but was written by its author's teacher.
At any rate, what I found most helpful here was its depiction of a skeptic becoming a believer, not through a sudden opening of the heavens, but through stubborn hard work at the direction of a trusted friend.
Let me know what you think!
At any rate, what I found most helpful here was its depiction of a skeptic becoming a believer, not through a sudden opening of the heavens, but through stubborn hard work at the direction of a trusted friend.
Let me know what you think!
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We are getting so very, very close to the end of Seed of Yggdrasill, and I'm pretty glad about that. I know, I know, I likely carry on too much about how much of a slog it is, especially since I found some good stuff in this antepenultimate chapter. Some mostly repetitive good stuff, but good stuff nonetheless. Check it out and let me know what you think.
A shorter one this time, as I continue to work my way through Kvilhaug's big book. This chapter was basically two transcripts of a youtube videos with an intro, so it's not the most informationally dense we've dealt with, but there's a couple of interesting ideas. Check it out here.
I'm also trying something new: a mailing list. Basically, DIY substack. There's a link in the new post, as well as at the top of my Webstead, to sign up, but it's literally just an email to me saying "sign me up," so if you'd like to get my blog posts as emails, you can use one of those links or just let me know in a comment here.
I'm also trying something new: a mailing list. Basically, DIY substack. There's a link in the new post, as well as at the top of my Webstead, to sign up, but it's literally just an email to me saying "sign me up," so if you'd like to get my blog posts as emails, you can use one of those links or just let me know in a comment here.
We've gotten past the really big thoughts from Decline of the West, but there's still some interesting stuff to go through. This time, we talk about Time, Destiny, Space, and Motion.
I've gotten to one of the juicier bits of Decline of the West - the "Soul Image" that defines different Great Cultures. Here's the post.
Here we are with part two in my series of posts on understanding what to take from Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West. This post is on maybe the key thought from the books - that Cultures/Civilizations are best thought of as organisms with their own lifecycle.
I've started a (hopeful) series on some of the big ideas in Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, which is first and foremost a way for me to settle what I've learned from the book, but will hopefully also be helpful to some other folks.
You can find the post here.
You can find the post here.
