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Journal publishing high-quality essays and radiocasts on nature, philosophy, and religion.

Joined March 2026
No. 7: Lessons of the Wandervogel, a free 2hr radiocast Midterms revealed fatal weaknesses on the right, but the one generation may serve as an ideal model of the future: a cultural movement based on fraternity, youthful romanticism, and rejection of cheap patriotism...
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NEW: Two years ago, Tucker Carlson confessed to being molested by a demon. He—the "djinnbrained"—see the world as full of demons, explaining all things Can something so bizarre be defended? What does Tucker have in common with Thales, Goethe, and Klages? Read below...
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Radiocast returns with No. 6 Is man the steward of nature or a suppliant? Interactions between religiosity and environmentalism, the problems associated with both leftist and conservative views of nature, and a peculiar third alternative…
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"He was Dionysus taking flesh, come into the 20th century." Radiocast No. 5, on Jim Morrison and The Doors, their music and philosophy, use of concerts as rituals, and why people openly declare that he was an incarnation of "the god who comes". Link below
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Ep 5 - The God Who Comes Jim Morrison, Dionysus Incarnate 10AM Tomorrow
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Throughout his tragically short life, he remained unquestionably a Christian. Yet his mission, along with others, was to find a "new mythology"—the result was the birth of Romanticism, and the symbol of the blue flower. Issue 5 of "Great Heathens", on Novalis.
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Radiocast returns for No. 4, discussing the forgotten L. Klages, his psychology & highly original vitalist and pagan views in "Of Cosmogonic Eros" Jaspers called him "the true successor to Bachofen", but he was perhaps, too, a successor to Nietzsche & Goethe—"the last Romantic".
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Enter the realm of the "Den Mother"...! We see many theories of chthonic/matriarchal culture today, but the first, found in Bachofen's Das Mutterrecht, is substantially different—even with some praise for the "night side" of ancient societies. A free 2hr radiocast on Bachofen
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Radiocast No. 3: Bachofen's Matriarchy On the Original Theorist of Ancient Gyneocracies Monday 7/13/26
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After a generation of neglect, J.J. Bachofen was suddenly thrust into enduring posthumous popularity and debate, thanks to one man: Ludwig Klages. How he initiated "Bachofenomania" in 1920s Germany, and the first English translation of his tribute to Bachofen in "Gräbersymbolik"
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