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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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Ancestral Being, Part Four

Collin Cleary

Siegfried & Mime, Arthur Rackham, 1911

2,325 words

Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here)

7. Concluding Reflections

I turn now to some thoughts on how the foregoing treatment of the influence of the past on the present ought to affect our own present, when we finish this essay and return to the real world.

It is a well-known fact that our ancestors acted with awareness of membership in the clan: trying to be worthy of their own ancestors, and not to disgrace them. Read more …

Published: March 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, death, East vs. West, ethnicity, fylgja, Germanic tradition, hamingja, Heraclitus, heritage, heroism, individualism, kynfylgja, logos, modern man, Norse sagas, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, originals, Paul Bauschatz, Plato, Sagas, Sigurðr, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual, The Well and the Tree | Comments closed

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Ancestral Being, Part Three

Collin Cleary

Rupert Sheldrake

3,409 words

Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 4 here)

6. The Presence of the Past: A View from the Margins of Science

Some of the above remarks might suggest that we should interpret the Germanic hamingja–fylgja teaching as a mythic, symbolic, or even superstitious way of understanding the phenomenon of inheritance – something our ancestors relied upon because they did not have the modern science of genetics. Read more …

Published: March 21, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancestors, articles, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, genetics, hamingja, heritage, morphogenesis, morphogenetics, North American New Right, Odinism, originals, Rupert Sheldrake, Stephen Flowers, Svarfdæla Saga, the individual, The Presence of the Past | Comments closed

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Ancestral Being, Part Two

Collin Cleary

The Norns by Johannes Gehrts, 1889

4,547 words

Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

4. Tradition

Having now discussed the clannic being of the individual purely in philosophical terms, I now turn to a consideration of the treatment of this idea in the Germanic tradition.

The first thing we must note is what can be called the “primacy of the past” in that tradition. Read more …

Published: March 20, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, C. G. Jung, clans, Claude Lecoutex, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, hamingja, heritage, Hilda Ellis Davidson, Norns, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, Paul Bauschatz, Plato, Stephen Flowers, the future, the individual, the past, The Well and the Tree, time, Volsunga Saga, Wyrd | Comments closed

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Ancestral Being, Part One

Collin Cleary

4,538 words

Part 1 of 4 (Part 2 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here)

1. Introduction

This essay presents an “ontology of the individual.” The theory is new, though it has very old roots. “Ontology” is the branch of philosophy that studies being-as-such, or “being as being,” as Aristotle expressed it.[1] My argument is that the being of an individual person is bound up with that individual’s relation to his family or clan. Read more …

Published: March 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancestors, Aristotle, articles, being, clans, Collin Cleary, ethnicity, ethny, fylgja, G. W. F. Hegel, genetic inheritance, Germanic tradition, heritage, metaphysics, neo-Hegelianism, North American New Right, Odin, Odinism, ontology, originals, Plato, relations, the Absolute, the future, the individual, things, time | 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 22, 2017 | 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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What is Odinism?, Part IV:
Odinism as an Esoteric Path

Collin Cleary

5,637 words

Editor’s Note:

This is part four of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

What is Odinism?, Part III:
The Odinic & the Faustian

Collin Cleary

3,131 words

Editor’s Note:

This is part three of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

Let us return to the story of Mímir’s Well, and Odin’s sacrifice of an eye. What does this loss signify? As Wagner recognized, it means that while Odin gains wisdom, he also becomes half blind.[1] On a literal level, this is obvious. Read more …

Published: August 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Collin Cleary, Faustian man, North American New Right, Odinism, Oswald Spengler, reprints, Tyr | Comments closed

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What is Odinism?, Part II:
The Allfather

Collin Cleary

1,919 words

Editor’s Note:

This is part two of a four-part essay that first appeared in Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4.

The idea that the Odinist must strive not just to become Odin but to surpass him – to seek to realize an ideal of perfect knowledge and supremacy – is obviously a very provocative one. Read more …