by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) All the folk customs and rituals which today celebrate our belonging to nature are but the scattered and oft-distorted remnants of a primordial nature religion. This is the view put forward by French scholar Alain Daniélou (1907-1994) in his 1979 book Shiva et Dionysos. [1] As the … Continue reading Our sacred belonging
by W.D. James In 399 BC, an Athenian court condemned and then executed a stonemason who had served honorably in several of her wars. The man, like most condemned criminals throughout history, left no written record of his life and doings. His father had likewise been a stonemason and his mother a midwife. Though 70 … Continue reading Socrates as Hero (The Myth of Philosophy 1)
by Paul Cudenec with photos by Ibraar Hussein [Audio version] "In the time when gods, spirits and human beings lived together in nature with the plants and the animals, everyone communicated, each knew everything about the others". [1] Such is the ancient wisdom of the Kalash people of South Asia, their ancestral memory of a … Continue reading Rooted in our living world
[Audio version] We know that busy modern people like you have so much on their hands that you often have no room for the more basic pleasures in life. With social media to update, emails to check and Zoom meetings to attend, sometimes there's not even time to go for a walk! But now, thanks … Continue reading Introducing Walk-A-Bot!
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) What would it feel like if, in the eyes of the outside world, you suddenly ceased to exist as the person you knew yourself to be? If your partner, colleagues and family no longer recognised you, if your bank account simply disappeared, along with all means of … Continue reading Existing for real in a world of fakery
by Paul Cudenec (who sings and plays it here) Born in a world on its headLost in a labyrinth of liesOur culture is virtually deadThanks to those who corrupt and despiseChained in a dungeon of doubtWe can't even trust what we seeIt seems that there is no way outIt seems that we'll never be free … Continue reading A hymn to freedom
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) I have often been struck, while carrying out my contemporary and historical research, by the way in which the same manipulative tricks are used again and again by ZIM - the dominant global entity whose acronym should now be understood, on the back of my article 'Karl … Continue reading The old binary bounce routine
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) I imagine that everyone reading this will be aware of the role of the deep state, that murky self-concealing entity built around various "intelligence agencies" such as the CIA, MI5, MI6 and Mossad. These well-funded institutions ostensibly exist in order to protect the people of the countries … Continue reading A deep state of denial
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) I have long felt that we need not only a new political ideology to fuel our resistance to the system, but also an authentic philosophy underpinning all we say and do. This was the idea behind organic radicalism [1] and also of the Withway, which I described … Continue reading Continuism and our desire to remain human
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) The question of overcoming the left-right divide is a key one for those like me who have never fitted neatly into either box of control. There is nothing I would like to see more than the convergence of the best minds and ideas from both classifications - … Continue reading The folk against the power!
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