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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, 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, 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, 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, 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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Robert Stark and Matt Pegas try to start a New Religion

Adam Parfrey, aesthetics, Aleister Crowley, Alex von Goldstein, Alexander Dugin, Alt Center, Andrew Yang, Boyd Rice, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, Calexit, California, California Jesus, Calvinism, Camille Paglia, Carl Jung, Charles Manson, Christianity, Cults, Culture, David Lynch, dreams, ecofascism, Edward Dutton, Environment, Eugenics, Fascism, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, Human Bio Diversity, IQ, Jason Reza Jorjani, Julius Evola, Liberalism, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, Mel Gibson, Memes, Mental illness, Mike Marinacci, Morality, Multiculturalism, Nietzsche, Occultism, parapsychology, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Radical Center, Religion, Richard Dawkins, San Diego, Science, Sexuality, Shaun Partridge, social capital, Social Isolation, spirituality, the New Right, The Partridge Family Temple, Third Position, Traditionalism, Vaporfornia, Yosemite

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas  tease the notion of a speculative new spiritual movement. This is a simulcast with Matt’s literary podcast, New Write, and a field-recording, conversation on cults, the new age movement, Matt’s Substack article “The Renaissance of the Ritual“, Robert’s novel “Vaporfornia“, California as fertile soil for new religions, occultism, and much more. Recorded on May 1st, 2022, on a trip through the backcountry of San Diego County, near Palomar Mountain, where Crowlian occultist, Wilfred Talbot Smith, erected an Ordo Templi Orientis temple.

Topics:

Background on the “new religion,” started as a half joke in Yosemite
A self-initiatory religion, comparable to Discordianism
Social reasons for the rise in cults
California ‘s spiritual movements: Mike Marinacci’s book California Jesus, Order of Atwa, and the Partridge Family Temple
Syncretic occultism and the esotericism/New Age to fascist pipeline
The right hand vs. left hand path and Jungian shadow work
The occultist ritual, finding structure in chaos, and a metaphysical/esoteric take on self-improvement
Knowing when to surrender and embrace the photosynthesis of the Universe/Light of God
The relationship between spirituality and biology (speculating where atheism and various theologies fit on the Bell Curve meme)
An anti-liberal and anti-blank slatist case for Theosophy
Robert’s article on a psychological inspired approach to solving political and social problems
Aesthetic alchemy (Sigils), and the spiritual, ethereal component to  aesthetics
Bronze Age Pervert as a foundationalist (not a traditionalist), and Mike Ma as an instinctive Christian
Jason Jorjani’s Prometheism 
Why spirituality and reclaiming vitality needs to come before politics

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Robert Stark talks to Edward Dutton about the Coming Apart of Civilization

Andrea Dworkin, censorship, Class, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, demographics, Dystopia, Economics, Edward Dutton, England, Eugenics, Feminism, Futurism, Gender, History, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, IQ, Mental illness, Morality, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Richard Spencer, Roman Empire, Russia, Science, Sexuality, technology, terrorism, Ukraine, War

Dr. Edward Dutton is an English Anthropologist based in Finland and is the host of the Jolly Heretic on YouTube, and BitChute. You can follow Dutton on Twitter and check out his books on Amazon. His latest books are Sent Before Their Time: Genius, Charisma, and Being Born Prematurely and Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West.

Topics:

The historical context of the Witch Trials as an era of harsh Darwinian selection
COULD THERE BE A SILVER LINING TO THE CHAOTIC EXCESS OF MALES?
The impact of Malthusian selection pressures on fertility trends
Why populists or dissidents seizing power would not impede the incoming civilizational collapse
The evolutionary psychological motives behind woke culture, and why wokeness will wane out in the long run
Why techno-dystopian scenarios of the elite using technology to enslave the masses will not happen
How the rise in conspiracy theories are a sign of the winter of civilization
Why enclaves will be the Neo-Byzantiums of the future
The housing crisis and why NIMBYism is dysgenic
The social and psychological reasons to why terrorism will become much worse in the future
The scientific measurement of cycles of crisis, including the work of Peter Turchin and Jani Miettinen’s research on GENERATIONAL HORMONE CYCLES
The high probability of World War III and a global economic catastrophe this decade

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Robert Stark interviews Nathanael Gould

aesthetics, Alt Center, Alternative Right, Ben Winegard, Canada, Cape Party, Cape Town, capitalism, Class, Classical Liberalism, colonialism, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron, England, Éric Zemmour, Globalization, History, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Imperialism, James O'Meara, Jonathan Edwards, Leftism, Liberalism, Matthew Pegas, Middle Class, Milo, Morality, Nathanael Gould, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Sexuality, South Africa

Robert Stark and co-host Jonathan Edwards talk to Nathanael Gould about South Africa, Anglo identity, and the need for a non-woke gay identity. Nathanael Gould is from Cape Town, South Africa, born to Canadian immigrant parents, and is currently under quarantine in Vancouver, Canada. Nathanael is sympathetic to Robert Stark’s  Alt-Centrism, and describes his politics as socially left on gay rights (for personal reasons),  right leaning on issues of HBD and race relations, and centrist on economics. Follow Nate on Twitter.

Topics:

Nate’s interest in HBD and the Twitter Account Birth Gauge that tracks global fertility
The dissident right’s narrative on South Africa (their accurate and inaccurate perceptions)
How South Africa’s politics is polarized along ethnic-sectarian lines
How woke culture is spreading to South Africa, especially in universities, in part due to American influence
Rightwing multiculturalism, and the need to grant groups some degree of autonomy
The critique of Anglos from the right as being uniquely individualistic, liberal, and putting morality over group interests
The decline of the Anglosphere in contrast with the rise of Nationalism in France
LGBTQ identity politics, and why cis gay White males are being excluded from the intersectional hierarchy
A need for a rightest gay identity that emphasizes the contributions of gays as an artistic and intellectual caste
Contrasting global homogenization with true diversity and the politics of aesthetic tribes and hierarchies

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Poolside Over Politics with Anatoly Karlin

Afghanistan, Africa, Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, automation, Banking, Basic Income, censorship, China, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, cryptocurrency, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, India, Islam, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Republican Party, Ron Unz, Russia, Transgender, Vladimir Putin, War, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Moscow based blogger Anatoly Karlin about his resignation from the Unz Review, current events, geo-political trends, and revisiting political predictions from past podcasts. Check out Anatoly’s new Substack: Powerful Takes and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The Last Reaction: Why Anatoly is returning to his roots as an independent blogger
Anatoly’s assessment of Biden’s presidency
The continuation of countering China as part of  the US foreign policy consensus
The post-pandemic economic recovery, the inflation scare, and risk of crash due to financialization
The pandemic as a test run for UBI and zoomers demanding higher wages
The pollicization of vaccinations (anti-vaxxer Red Tribe in America and Anti-Putin Communists in Russia)
The minimal impact of covid lockdowns on fertility trends and why Anatoly predicts that Germany will have a higher fertility rate than India by 2050
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Why Anatoly embraces The Great Reset but thinks its overhyped
What to expect out of the Woke Culture War
Why Anatoly predicts Biden vs. Trump in 2024, with a Biden victory
Why American politics  are no longer of a concern since Anatoly returned to Russia

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Robert Stark interviews Futurist Writer Michael Anissimov

2020 Riots, Alternative Right, Anatoly Karlin, Andrew Yang, automation, Barack Obama, Basic Income, Berkeley, Black Lives Matter, California, capitalism, censorship, Cities, Class, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, democracy, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Economics, Elections, Elon Musk, Futurism, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, IQ, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Michael Anissimov, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Peter Nimitz, Political Correctness, Politics, Post-scarcity economy, Race Relations, Russia, San Francisco, Science, Scott Jackisch, Silicon Valley, social capital, Socialism, Suburbia, technology, Transhumanism, Urbanism, Walnut Creek CA, Wealth, Wilderness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark interviews futurist writer Michael Anissimov about artificial intelligence, NRx politics, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Michael Anissimov is a San Francisco Bay Area native of White Russian émigré decent now living in Florida. Michael worked for the Singularity Institute where he co-founded the Singularity Summit and is the author of the Idaho Project, A Critique of Democracy: A Guide for Neoreactionaries, Our Accelerating Future: How Superintelligence, Nanotechnology, and Transhumanism Will Transform the Planet, and has an upcoming book on the dissident right. You can also follow Mike on Twitter.

Topics:

Michael’s background, interest in transhumanism and artificial intelligence, and political evolution
Potential impacts of artificial intelligence on inequality and the liberal worldview
Why the post scarcity economy (Fully Automated Luxury Communism) is a long ways away
The Bay Area futurist scene and the Gray Tribe
The demographic and class dynamics of the San Francisco Bay Area
The trend of demographic fragmentation into enclavism/neo-tribalism and end of the mythos of America
The economic strategy of diversity
Thoughts on the election, civil unrest, crackdown on the right, and alt-tech
The politics of acceleration vs. boiling frog theory


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Robert Stark interviews Ben Winegard

2020 Riots, Academia, Alt Center, Alternative Left, American Culture, animals, Ben Winegard, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, censorship, Class, Conservatives, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Morality, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, Republican Party, social capital, social status, Socialism, Suicide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Ben Winegard about academic freedom, woke culture, the election, and future political trends. Ben Winegard is an assistant professor of psychology at Hillsdale College, and you can read his article at Quillette and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

How Ben is both anti-woke and anti-Trump, politically homeless, and tepidly backs Biden
The impact of the election outcome on the culture war and civil unrest
Trump admits to “playing down” coronavirus threat in taped Woodward interviews
Trump’s synthetic populism and turn to Supply Side economics with advisor Larry Kudlow
The decline in conservatism and how the GOP can only survive politically if it adopts some form of socialism
The Democrats becoming the party of the urban professional managerial class
Ben’s prediction that the Democrats will push race based rather than class based wealth redistribution
The degree to which woke ideology is accelerating because of Trump
Ben’s preference for colorblind institutions and concern that ethnic fragmentation may be inevitable
Cancel culture in academia and the termination of Ben’s brother Bo from his position in academia
The hereditarian hypothesis
The value of thought experiments in academia to advance ethics
Ben’s love of Capybaras, Otters, and the season autumn

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Robert Stark interviews Ed Dutton: The Jolly Heretic

Aspergers Syndrome, Class, conformity, Culture, demographics, Economics, Edward Dutton, Emotions, England, Eugenics, Extroversion, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Introversion, IQ, Islam, Mental illness, Narcissism, Personality Types, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, social capital, social status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Dr. Edward Dutton about personality types and the evolutionary forces behind culture and politics. Edward Dutton is an English Anthropologist based in Finland and is the host of the Jolly Heretic on YouTube and Bitchute. You can follow him on Twitter and check out his books on Amazon.

Topics:

The collapse of Darwinian selection and rise of the Spiteful Mutants
Evolutionary factors for religiosity and ethnocentrism
Fertility patterns taking into account religion, ethnocentrism, intelligence, income, and personality traits
Personality traits for success
The Big Five(OCEAN) personality traits
The Psychology of the Genius and unique environmental factors needed for geniuses to thrive
The profile of the smart but poor
Incels, the breakdown of monogamy, and r/K selection factors
Whether there is a metric for measuring beauty
The correlation between sexual fetishes and neuroticism
The Freudian theory of repressed sexuality being channeled into creative endeavors
A Bit of an Age Gap: Who’s Attracted to People Who are Much Older or Much Younger than them?

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Robert Stark talks to Anatoly Karlin about the Gray Tribe

Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, Andrew Yang, Asian Culture, Basic Income, California, censorship, Class, conformity, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, Dain Fitzgerald, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Elon Musk, Futurism, Human Bio Diversity, IQ, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Biden, Leftism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Personality Types, Peter Turchin, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Rationalism, Science, Scott Jackisch, Silicon Valley, Transhumanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and co-host Dain Fitzgerald talk to Moscow based Unz Review columnist Anatoly Karlin about the Gray Tribe political sphere and other current events. Follow Anatoly and Dain on Twitter.

Topics:

Anatoly’s article No Country for Gray Tribesmen
Gray Tribe themes in Andrew Yang’s The War on Normal People
Scott Alexander’s original article on the Gray Tribe
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
Hypothetical profile of a Gray Tribesman (against woke culture, rejects blank slatism, corona-virus hawk, but accepts climate science)
Unique environment that allowed the Coffee Salons of Western Europe to emerge
Coffee Salon Demographics 
CEOs: the Bamboo Ceiling vs. the Madras Floor
Why White Centrists have the highest in-group bias
The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics
California Isn’t the SJWtopia of Right-Wing Fantasies
Enclaves for the intelligent but poor
Woke Austerity: Chevron diversity ratio to improve as layoffs progress
Is Woke Left outliving usefulness to economic elite?
Mask Compliance as IQ/Personality Test
Chances of an effective corona-virus vaccine by next year

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