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2013: Or, What to Do When the Apocalypse Doesn't Arrive

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There are two stereotypical responses to the crisis points in civilization. One is the desire to return to some previous golden age; the other is the urge to leap into a dazzling future. The 2012 scenario seems to partake of both camps. Is there more to it than escapism?  (more)

Strange Bedfellows

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Politics and the occult seem an unlikely couple, but the truth is that the two have had a long and remarkably influential relationship involving some of the key turning points in western history and spanning the political spectrum. (more)

Vril

Have a listen to a BBC Radio 3 doc I contributed to.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00gd7hr/Sunday_Feature_Vril/

 

Cheers and happy old year.

Archangels of Our Darker Natures

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To his many readers, Mircea Eliade is known as a visionary historian of religion and the occult. Few are aware that in his early career, Eliade was a fascist propagandist in his homeland of Romania. (more)

An American Fascism?

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Perhaps the most significant development in what we may call “illuminated politics” in the twenty-first century is happening now in the United States. (more)

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