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Collin Cleary

Collin Cleary, Ph.D. is an independent scholar living in Sandpoint, Idaho. He is the author of Summoning the Gods: Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011). He is one of the founders of TYR: Myth—Culture—Tradition, the first volume of which he co-edited. He is a Master in the Rune-Gild. His essays have appeared in TYR and Rûna.

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Kniha Stephena A. McNallena Ásatrú: Původní evropská duchovnost

Collin Cleary

3,990 words

English original here

Stephen A. McNallen
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality
Runestone Press, 2015

Dobrý kazatel

Steva McNallena není radno brát na lehkou váhu. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Asatru, book reviews, Collin Cleary, in Czech, in translation, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Steve McNallen | Comments closed

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La quadrité

Collin Cleary

5,838 words

English original here

1. Introduction

Ceci est le premier de deux essais traitant de la cosmologie germanique. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Asatru, Collin Cleary, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, neo-paganism, neopaganism, North American New Right, originals, paganism, phenomenology, philosophy, poetry, religion, the fourfold, the world | Comments closed

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Some Thoughts on Yule

Collin Cleary

3,344 words

Yule is the midwinter festival celebrated by my ancestors and by Germanic neo-pagans today. Midwinter is a time when much of nature seems to die or to depart. The trees are stripped of their leaves. The birds abandon us, flying off to warmer climes. Bears, badgers, chipmunks, and squirrels hibernate. Water freezes over. The earth is covered in ice and snow, so that nothing can grow. The air is so chilled that when we are out in it for too long, death becomes something tangible, and we rush inside. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christmas, Collin Cleary, finitude, holidays, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Yule | Comments closed

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Asatru as a Living Tradition

Collin Cleary

New Grange Hall

3,882 words

Author’s Note:

This essay was an address delivered to the members of the Asatru Folk Assembly on Friday October 16th, at the AFA’s Winter Nights in the Poconos. I wish to thank Steve and Sheila McNallen, Brad Taylor-Hicks, et al., for inviting me, and for their hospitality and friendship. Hail the AFA!

Last month I celebrated the AFA’s acquisition of New Grange Hall with a short essay entitled “What New Grange Hall Means for Us.” Read more …

Published: October 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Asatru, Asatru Folk Assembly, Collin Cleary, creedal religion, Eddas, folk religion, North American New Right, originals, religion, Richard Wagner, Sagas | Comments closed

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What NewGrange Hall Means for Us

Collin Cleary

1,108 words

Where should we honor the ancestral gods?

Tacitus wrote of the ancient Germans, “they think it proper neither to confine their gods within walls nor to give them any likeness of human appearance: they consecrate groves and glades and call by the names of gods that intangible quality they see with the eye of reverence alone.”[1] Read more …

Published: September 8, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Asatru, Asatru Folk Assembly, Collin Cleary, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Les cadeaux d’Ódhinn et de ses frères

Collin Cleary

La Pierre d’Odin, Gotland, Suède

10,423 words

English original here

Survol de l’anthropologie germanique

Qu’est-ce que la nature humaine ? C’est peut-être bien la plus importante question philosophique, parce que la philosophie elle-même est singulièrement humaine, et que les « problèmes » philosophiques se présentent seulement aux êtres humains. Tous les grands philosophes ont des réponses explicites ou implicites à cette question. Read more …

Published: August 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Asatru, Collin Cleary, in French, in translation, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, Odin, originals, philosophy, religion | Comments closed

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Stephen A. McNallen’s Asatru: A Native European Spirituality

Collin Cleary

4,882 words

Czech translation here

Stephen A. McNallen
Asatru: A Native European Spirituality
Runestone Press, 2015

The Good Preacher

Steve McNallen is a serious character. Read more …

Published: August 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Asatru, book reviews, Collin Cleary, North American New Right, originals, religion, Steve McNallen | Comments closed

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Now in Print & Shipping to Customers
What is a Rune? & Other Essays

Collin Cleary

620 words

Collin Cleary
What is a Rune? & Other Essays
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2015
256 pages

Collin Cleary’s new book is now in print and shipping. The next one hundred orders will be autographed. Let us know if you want your book personalized.

Hardcover: $35

Paperpack: $20 Read more …

Published: April 16, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, news item, philosophy, religion | Tagged Cleary book, Collin Cleary, news item, What is a Rune? | Comments closed

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The Metaphysics of Indo-European Tripartition, Part 6
F. W. J. Schelling & Indo-European Triparition

Collin Cleary

4,492 words

Friedrich Schelling, 1775–1854

Part 6 of 6

1. Schelling’s Influences: The Christian Trinity and Jacob Boehme

I turn, finally, to a different Indo-European tradition, that of German Idealism of the 19th century. I include this material so as to show the perennial character of Indo-European thought. One could argue that the entire history of Western (and Indian) philosophy is a long, unconscious attempt to recollect the wisdom known “directly” by our Indo-European ancestors. Read more …

Published: April 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Collin Cleary, D. H. Lawrence, F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, German Idealism, gunas, hinduism, Jacob Boehme, North American New Right, originals, religion, tripartition | Comments closed

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The Metaphysics of Indo-European Tripartition, Part 5
Tripartition & the Gunas

Collin Cleary

1,714 words

Part 5 of 6

1. The Emergence of the Gunas from Brahman

We are obviously dealing with three principles which manifest themselves in different forms. These principles have the status of Platonic ideas: transcendent forms which we may approach through their various expressions in the world. But can we express the three principles in the abstract? Read more …