{"id":13590,"date":"2023-09-14T21:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2024-07-18T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T22:38:09","slug":"robert-stark-talks-to-james-omeara-about-mysticism-after-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13590","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks to James O’Meara about Mysticism After Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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<\/a>, where it is available for purchase. You can also find it at Counter-Currents<\/a> and on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur spirituality has gotten too tame today. James J. O\u2019Meara has a solution [in Mysticism After Modernism]
\n–Mitch Horowitz<\/a>, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and The Miracle Club<\/p>\n

-The intersection of mysticism with politics and culture, and how mysticism is available to any political persuasion
\n-Countering the Hippie-dippy liberal\u00a0 stereotype about New Age gurus
\n-Critiquing the reactionary who passively accepts cycles of decay, and the need to embrace infinite possibilities
\n-A practical take on magic\/mysticism, in regards to enacting real world change
\n-Aleister Crowley’s definition of magic as transforming the World in accordance with one\u2019s will
\n-Examples of opinions and attributes of Alan Watts and William Burroughs that come across as anti-liberal
\n-Greg Johnson’s article, \u201cThe Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of\u00a0Does It Matter<\/em>?<\/a>\u201d
\n-Watts’ ties to quasi-fascist Serbian mystic, Dimitrije Mitrinovi\u0107<\/a>
\n–New Thought<\/a>, and an explanation for how Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption<\/a> works
\n-New Thought as a vehicle for political change, by removing all mental constraints
\n-Why Theosophy is the theology best adapted to hereditarianism (eg. illiberal pluralism)
\n-William Burroughs’ obsession with rejecting control in a metaphysical sense
\n–The Greek Qabalah<\/a>, hidden esoteric traditions in Abrahamic faiths
\n-Colin Wilson’s practical mysticism, focused on expanding consciousness<\/a>
\n-Parapsychology and Spiritual Science
\n-The need for spiritual elitism and Aristocratic Radicalism
\n-Robert’s novel, Vaporfornia<\/a>, which has themes relating to New Thought
\n-James’ book,\u00a0Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/James-Omeara-mystic-final.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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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. … Continue reading Robert Stark talks to James O’Meara about Mysticism After Modernism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,542,774,988,703,1364,221,706,457,1014,362,1352,1146,6,203,476,299,429,382,1371,470,607,583,156,473,459,741,484,1004,12,591,9,1369,1305,532,1368,276,684,112,505,211,110,828,773,1134,124,115,343,116,262,1289,161,309,670,1126,1372,171,425,1374,1370,1373,475,707,1319,775,169,172,622,86,136,1366,654,18,605,1338,1042,829,762,1404,32,111,1026,469,677,1339,1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-aesthetics","category-alan-watts","category-aldous-huxley","category-aleister-crowley","category-alfred-hitchcock","category-american-culture","category-aristocratic-individualism","category-art","category-automation","category-basic-income","category-bronze-age-pervert","category-buddhism","category-california","category-capitalism","category-carl-jung","category-christianity","category-cinema","category-class","category-colin-wilson","category-conformity","category-conspiracy-theories","category-consumerism","category-corporations","category-counterculture","category-culture","category-david-lynch","category-donald-trump","category-dreams","category-economics","category-england","category-fascism","category-franz-kafka","category-gnosticism","category-greg-johnson","category-h-p-lovecraft-2","category-history","category-hollywood","category-homosexuality","category-human-bio-diversity","category-islam","category-james-omeara","category-jason-reza-jorjani","category-jeffery-mishlove","category-journey-to-vapor-island","category-judaism","category-julius-evola","category-liberalism","category-literature","category-managerialism","category-marin-county","category-marquis-de-sade","category-materialism","category-media","category-meditation","category-mitch-horowitz","category-morality","category-mythology","category-neoplatonism","category-neville-goddard","category-new-thought","category-nietzsche","category-occultism","category-oscar-wilde","category-parapsychology","category-philosophy","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-psychology","category-religion","category-rudolf-steiner","category-science","category-sexuality","category-socialism","category-spirituality","category-stanley-kubrick","category-sufism","category-surrealism","category-theosophy","category-third-way-economics","category-traditionalism","category-transcendentalism","category-transhumanism","category-utopia","category-vaporfornia","category-william-s-burroughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13590"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13617,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13590\/revisions\/13617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}