by Paul Cudenec The southern French coast near Montpellier Airport is rather congested. Holiday resorts have sprung up to profit from those heading to the lovely sandy beaches - as have, of course, the roads required to take them there. Just to the east of La Grande-Motte - a product of the proudly modernising 1960s - the … Continue reading In search of the source: a personal journey against the flow
Number 102 In this issue: Zones of corporate tyranny A message to the nature-hating bastards London conference for freedom and Palestine We Were the Shepherds Walter Benjamin: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. Zones of corporate tyranny Campaigner David Powell has issued a new warning about the spectre of corporate tyranny facing the UK. We … Continue reading The Acorn – 102
by Mike Driver Stop for a moment, listen, can you hear it? Like a strain of music in the distance, lost, then heard again. Spring is coming. Hope gathers itself in the soil, the songs of the forest are changing, optimism lights the air. Spring is nature’s trampoline propelling colours like prayers on butterfly wings. The … Continue reading About This Life
Our Beloved! You are within us, around us and beyond usWe feel you, we see you, we know youYou move us and breathe through usYour heart is our soulYou gave us birth, we give you bodyYou gave us everything and so we will give our whole selves to you We will be your song and … Continue reading The spirit of Sophia: our promise
by W.D. James A Review of Christendom or Europe? by Novalis (with introduction by Michael Martin) Angelico Press acquired or otherwise subsumed Philosophia Perennis Press, one of only a very few publishers of Traditionalist books, several years ago. Their combined list of books and authors is stellar. One of their most recent offerings is a … Continue reading Immanent Sophia
by Paul Cudenec I have been greatly interested by a book that I was kindly sent by a friend, The Speech of the Birds by Farīdu'd-Dīn 'Attār. [1] This is an English-language presentation, by Peter Avery, of a masterpiece of medieval Persian literature. Mantiqu't-Tair, to use its original title, explains and illustrates the Sufi tradition's … Continue reading Wisdom natural and divine
Number 84 In this issue: The money behind the smears Transhumanism: the opposition Three days against techno-sciences Hans Driesch: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. The money behind the smears by Paul Cudenec Back in 2020 I was on the receiving end of a lot of vitriol from so-called "anarchists" who objected to the fact … Continue reading The Acorn – 84
Number 83 In this issue: Defending people and land The worm behind the facade Nature that is us Fredy Perlman: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. Defending people and land by Miguel Amorós "A Power based on Authority can of course use force, but while Authority can create force, force can never, by definition, create … Continue reading The Acorn – 83
by Crow Qu'appelle And the heart reaves on its madness, tracing that sore. Bitterness blooms its own rare fruit Out of the spiked earth, scars of alienation Lost is the primeval oneness What unity prevails? Desire. That the bomb should drop, great cities go down, all the heckling nations rub each other out. That I … Continue reading Our yearning to go home
[Audio version] Three years ago we published an article explaining how the idea of a nature-based philosophy had been smeared by its opponents. Apologists for the industrial capitalist system, masquerading as "left-wing" and even "environmentalist", constantly sought to suggest that there was something "fascist" about such an outlook. We quoted "social ecologists" Janet Biehl and … Continue reading For nature and freedom!
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