Category Archives: Rudolf Steiner

Robert Stark is interviewed about his new Religion Cosmoplatonism

aesthetics, American Culture, Art, Asian Culture, attachment, Buddhism, Catholicism, China, Christianity, conformity, Control, Cosmoplatonism, Culture, death, Drugs, Gnosticism, History, Human Bio Diversity, Islam, Jin the Ninja, Judaism, Julius Evola, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Mormonism, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sexuality, social status, Sufism, Theosophy

Robert Stark is interviewed as a simulcast by Jin the Ninja for his podcast, Threshold Saints, about his new religion, Cosmoplatonism. Jin the Ninja is a Tantric Buddhist and you can follow him on Twitter/X. 

Topics: 

-The esoteric significance of Zelda’s Triforce
-How Theosophy is legit but there is a spiritual hierarchy among faiths
–Theurgy as ritual acts and use of aesthetics to become closer to the Divine
-Why Neoplatonic emanation theory makes more sense than the gnostic rejection of the physical world
-Jin the Ninja addresses the critique that the Buddhist rejection of attachment is demoralizing
-How a dualism about what is divine can help with both ethics and politics
-How Buddhism is misrepresented by western hippie leftists
-Why Cosmoplatonism is simultaneously sex positive and sex negative, regarding stages of consciousness
-A nuanced embrace of asceticism 
-How science is fundamentally interconnected to spiritually
-How human consciousness is an emanation from divine consciousness
-How human genetic differences reflect spirituality (eg. Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy)
-The Americanization process as an analogy for split consciousness
-Placing things and subjects in a neoplatonic hierarchy of importance
-How all Abrahamic faiths have factions that are influenced by Neoplatonism
-What actually is evil and sin?
-How to use occult practices, including Kabbalah, to reach the 5th layer of density
-Explaining the metaphysics of Cosmoplatonism, including the avatars
-Co-opting the gnostic demiurge to describe the manmade spiritual prison

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Robert Stark interviews Adem Luz Rienspects

1960's, Adem Luz Rienspects, aesthetics, Arizona, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Carl Jung, Colin Wilson, counterculture, Culture, Donald Trump, Drugs, High School, Hipsters, humor, Leftism, Literature, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Music, Mythology, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, relationships, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sedona, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, social status, social trust, spirituality, Surrealism, Theosophy, Vaporfornia

Robert “Starkattack” and Matt “Las” Pegas talk to Adem Luz Rienspects. Adem is the author of Mixtape Hyperborea and you can follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics:

-Intro song: Brian is the Most Beautiful by Memo Boy
Adem’s background as a former Marxist and Sam Harris Centrist Liberal, and how he is now politically homeless
-Was Trump surviving an act of God?
-The current online scene that is more open, decentralized, and culturally oriented
-Is Dime Square a cursed brand?
-Adem’s advocacy for a new Hippie movement
-How the Hippies failed to fulfill spiritual perennialism
-Adem’s unique theological view of God
-Our recent trip to Sedona and its spiritual significance
-“Starkattack’s” heroism in Sedona with the power of friendship
-Adem’s positive and mythical experience attending a Walford Steiner School
-How science and spirituality are fundamentally interlinked
–Our experience with and the spiritual attributes of magic mushrooms
-How shrooms transformed Adem into an Aryan
-The effects of using a soundtrack for Mixtape Hyperborea
-The book’s off the wall humor
-Why friends should call each other racial slurs
-The spiritual component of masculinity
-How male social hierarchies are formed
-Whether the tribal village-like environment of HS should be recreated for adults
-The esotericism of nostalgia

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Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about The Black Album

1980's, aesthetics, alienation, Alt Center, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, Carl Jung, conformity, Crime, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, David Lynch, Despair, Donald Trump, Dragon Day, education, Ellliot Rodger, Extroversion, Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, Hipsters, Homosexuality, Incels, Introversion, James Nullick, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jordan Peterson, Journey to Vapor Island, Las Vegas, Literature, Los Angeles, Malls, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, meditation, Mental illness, Michel Houellebecq, Music, Neoliberalism, Neon, Nihilism, Occultism, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Robert Lindsay, Rudolf Steiner, Serial Killers, Sexuality, spirituality, Spree Shootings, Tarot, The Perfume Nationalist, Traditionalism, Utopia, Vaporfornia, Vaporwave

Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about his book, The Black Album. The Black Album is a collection of essays and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. The book deals with themes, including alienation, masculinity, incels, serial killers, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy and aesthetics.

Topics:
-the inspiration for the title from Joan Didion’s The White Album and the music trope of color-coded albums
-Mass shootings as a metaphysical attack against reality
-The context of Matt writing himself into fictional stories
-Adapting to writing with time limitations
-Matt’s struggles with serial killer OCD and POCD in adolescence
-the gnostic component to psychology and mental illness
-Jefferey Dahmer and the trope that the weird loner is the most dangerous
-the archetype of the Emo
-coping with malaise and dissatisfaction with life
-transcript of a disturbing correspondence involving an online follower
-Matt’s essay, Renaissance of The Ritual
-Foundational thinking over Traditionalism
-A painting of a failed alchemist and why alchemy is legit
-Matt’s experiences with Tarot, transcendental meditation, and esotericism
-Matt’s Essay, David Lynch, Bronze Age Pervert, and the possibility of inner freedom
-Matt’s thought experiment of a based Marianne Williamson or BAPist version of Steiner schools
-Matt’s essay, The Politics of Aesthetics Revisited
-The esoteric significance of Las Vegas
–Revisiting Alt-Centrism
-How Robert and Matt manifested Dime Square in 2018

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Robert Stark talks to James O’Meara about Mysticism After Modernism

1960's, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley, Alfred Hitchcock, American Culture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, automation, Basic Income, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, California, capitalism, Carl Jung, Christianity, Cinema, Class, Colin Wilson, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, Corporations, counterculture, Culture, David Lynch, Donald Trump, dreams, Economics, England, Fascism, Franz Kafka, Gnosticism, Greg Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, History, Hollywood, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Islam, James O'Meara, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Journey to Vapor Island, Judaism, Julius Evola, Liberalism, Literature, Managerialism, Marin County, Marquis de Sade, materialism, Media, meditation, Mitch Horowitz, Morality, Mythology, Neoplatonism, Neville Goddard, New Thought, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oscar Wilde, parapsychology, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sexuality, Socialism, spirituality, Stanley Kubrick, Sufism, Surrealism, Theosophy, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, Transcendentalism, Transhumanism, Utopia, Vaporfornia, William S. Burroughs

Robert Stark speaks with James O’Meara about his book, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, & Other Populist Gurus. Mysticism After Modernism is published by Manticore Press, where it is available for purchase. You can also find it at Counter-Currents and on Amazon.

“Our spirituality has gotten too tame today. James J. O’Meara has a solution [in Mysticism After Modernism]
–Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and The Miracle Club

-The intersection of mysticism with politics and culture, and how mysticism is available to any political persuasion
-Countering the Hippie-dippy liberal  stereotype about New Age gurus
-Critiquing the reactionary who passively accepts cycles of decay, and the need to embrace infinite possibilities
-A practical take on magic/mysticism, in regards to enacting real world change
-Aleister Crowley’s definition of magic as transforming the World in accordance with one’s will
-Examples of opinions and attributes of Alan Watts and William Burroughs that come across as anti-liberal
-Greg Johnson’s article, “The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of Does It Matter?”
-Watts’ ties to quasi-fascist Serbian mystic, Dimitrije Mitrinović
–New Thought, and an explanation for how Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption works
-New Thought as a vehicle for political change, by removing all mental constraints
-Why Theosophy is the theology best adapted to hereditarianism (eg. illiberal pluralism)
-William Burroughs’ obsession with rejecting control in a metaphysical sense
–The Greek Qabalah, hidden esoteric traditions in Abrahamic faiths
-Colin Wilson’s practical mysticism, focused on expanding consciousness
-Parapsychology and Spiritual Science
-The need for spiritual elitism and Aristocratic Radicalism
-Robert’s novel, Vaporfornia, which has themes relating to New Thought
-James’ book, Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about Rudolf Steiner

Academia, Aleister Crowley, American Culture, Anarchism, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Austria, capitalism, Carl Jung, Christianity, Consumerism, Culture, decentralization, Despair, Distributism, dreams, Drugs, Economics, Emile Durkheim, Enlightenment, ethnopluralism, Eugenics, Fascism, Germany, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, Human Bio Diversity, Jeffery Mishlove, Julius Evola, Keith Preston, localism, Managerialism, Marxism, materialism, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Occultism, parapsychology, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Rationalism, Religion, Robert Putnam, Rudolf Steiner, Science, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Media, social trust, Socialism, spirituality, Surrealism, technology, Thinkers Against Modernity, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Timothy Leary, Traditionalism, Transhumanism

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas talk to Keith Preston about the life and philosophy of Austrian occultist and Renaissance Man, Rudolf Steiner, and what we can learn about Steiner’s ideas to address contemporary problems. Check out Keith Preston’s article, Scientific Spirituality and Ethical Individualism: The Legacy of Rudolf Steiner, and Troy Southgate’s new book, THE SPIRIT UNBOUND: RUDOLF STEINER’S PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.

Topics:

The crisis of modernity as anomie, uprootedness from place, identity, tradition, and social bonds, and its impact on the human psyche
Parallels between the modern existential crisis and that of Steiner’s era
Traditional religion being replaced by new secular religions (eg. social justice, scientism, secular heresies)
Steiner’s belief that spirituality and science are interconnected
Parapsychology, including studies of near death experiences
Comparisons to Carl Jung and Christian mystics, Emanuel Swedenborg and William James
Anti-vaxxers’ fascination with Steiner’s warnings of genetically re-engineering people’s spirituality
Steiner’s views on spiritual races and the Steiner schools becoming a target of cancel culture, though Steiner was staunchly anti-fascist
The limitations of materialism and rationalism, and Steiner’s influence from Romanticism 
Steiner’s philosophical relation to other thinkers, including Julius Evola, Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, and Martin Buber
How the essence of Steiner’s political philosophy was reconciling the differences  between individualism and rootedness, liberal egalitarianism and tradition, and occultism and ethics
How Steiner favored an economic system like distributism, over capitalism or Marxism, and decentralized local autonomy and identities, over nationalism

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