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Crow Screen, Japan, 17th century, Seattle Art Museum

3,639 words

Translator anonymous, ed. by Greg Johnson

Zen may be regarded as the last discovery of Western spiritualistic circles in sympathy with Oriental wisdom. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, C. G. Jung, D. T. Suzuki, Dadaism, existentialism, Julius Evola, North American New Right, psychoanalysis, reprints, surrealism, Traditionalism, Zen | Comments closed

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The “Mysteries of Woman” in East & West, Part 2

Julius Evola

2,963 words

Part 1 of 2

Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, no. 4 (1958): 349–55. This is chapter 15 of Julius Evola, East and West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson, Read more …

Published: April 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book excerpts, Buddhism, hinduism, Julius Evola, love, North American New Right, reprints, sexuality, Sufism, Tantrism, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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Paganisme sans dieux :
Alain de Benoist et Comment peut-on être païen ?

Collin Cleary

7,186 words

1. Introduction

Le livre d’Alain de Benoist Comment peut-on être païen ?[1], comme son titre le suggère, est un appel pour un retour au paganisme. Beaucoup plus exactement, c’est un appel pour un nouveau paganisme. « Paganisme » est un terme inventé par les chrétiens pour désigner les religions qu’ils souhaitaient supplanter. Le « néo-paganisme » est la tentative pour revenir à ces religions préchrétiennes indigènes. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged about Benoist, Alain de Benoist, book reviews, Collin Cleary, Comment peut-on être païen ?, Friedrich Nietzsche, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, modernity, neo-paganism, North American New Right, On Being a Pagan, originals, paganism | Comments closed

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Remembering Alan Watts:
January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

Greg Johnson

1,500 words

Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at age 15. In 1941, while Watts was living in New York City, his first wife Eleanor had a mystical vision of Jesus. This led him to return to Anglicanism.

The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts:
A Review of Does it Matter?

Greg Johnson

2,242 words

Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
New York: Vintage, 1971

Does it Matter? is one of my favorite Alan Watts books, to which I have returned again and again. It is also an excellent introduction to Watts’ work. Thus I was delighted to discover that, at long last, it has been reprinted, hence this review.

D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 3

Derek Hawthorne

2,744 words

Part 3 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

2. The Nature of Man

As we have seen, Lawrence believes that men (most men) need to have a woman in their lives. Their relationship to a woman serves to ground their lives, and to provide the man not only with a respite from the woes of the world, but with energy and inspiration. Read more …

Published: December 2, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, emasculation, femininity, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hawthorne-Lawrence, manliness, North American New Right, originals, sex differences, sexuality | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence on Men & Women, Part 1

Derek Hawthorne

Venus and Mars by Sidney Harold Meteyard

2,077 words

Part 1 of 6. For the whole series, click here.

1. Love and Strife

In a 1913 letter D. H. Lawrence writes that “it is the problem of to-day, the establishment of a new relation, or the readjustment of the old one, between men and women.” Read more …