Racialist Asatru

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Postby American Dream » Sun Jun 03, 2018 11:13 am

Holy Hate: The Far Right’s Radicalization of Religion


White Supremacy

Researchers have long known that white supremacists, such as adherents of Christian Identity (a racist, antisemitic religious philosophy) and racial Nordic mythology, use religion to justify acts of violence and condone criminal activity. Lesser known are the ways other white supremacy groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Creativity Movement (formerly known as the Church of Creator or World Church of the Creator), incorporate religious teachings, texts, and symbolism into their group ideology and activities to justify violating the law and committing violent acts.

The Kloran, a universal KKK handbook, features detailed descriptions of the roles and responsibilities of various KKK positions, ceremonies, and procedures. There are many biblical references in the Kloran, as well as biblical symbolism in the detailed KKK ceremonies. Also, the KKK’s primary symbol (e.g. “Blood Drop Cross” or Mystic Insignia of a Klansman) — a white cross with a red tear drop at the center — symbolizes the atonement and sacrifice of Jesus Christ and those willing to die in his name.

A lesser-known white supremacist group is the neo-Nazi Creativity Movement. Ben Klassen is credited with creating this new religion for the white race in Florida in 1973. Klassen authored two primary religious texts for the Creativity Movement; “Nature’s Eternal Religion” and “the White Man’s Bible.” Creativity emphasizes moral conduct and behavior for the white race (e.g. “your race is your religion”) including its “Sixteen Commandments” and the “Five Fundamental Beliefs of Creativity.” Klassen had a vision that every worthy member of the Creativity religion would become an ordained minister in the Church.

Two other examples of entirely racist religious movements within white supremacy are the Christian Identity movement and racist Nordic mythology. The Christian Identity movement is comprised of both self-proclaimed followers who operate independently and organized groups that meet regularly or even live within insular communities. In contrast, racist Nordic mythology rarely consists of organized groups or communities, preferring to operate through an autonomous, loose-knit network of adherents who congregate in prison or online.

A unique concept within Christian Identity is the “Phineas [sic.] Priesthood.” Phineas Priests believe they have been called to be “God’s Holy Warriors” for the white race. The term Phineas Priest is derived from the biblical story of Phineas, which adherents interpret as justifying the killing of interracial couples. Followers have advocated martyrdom and violence against homosexuals, mixed-race couples, and abortion providers.

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Matt Hale of the World Church of the Creator received 40 years in prison for plotting to assassinate a federal judge.

Racial Nordic mysticism is most commonly embraced by neo-Nazis, racist skinheads and Aryan prison gang members. It is most prolific among younger white supremacists. Odinism and Asatru are the most popular Nordic mythological religions among white supremacists. These non-Christian religious philosophies are not inherently racist, but have been exploited and embraced by white supremacists due to their symbolically strong image of “Aryan” life and Nordic heritage. Aryan prison gang members may also have another reason for declaring affiliation with Odinism and Asatru due to prison privileges — such as special dietary needs or extra time to worship — given to those inmates who claim membership in a religious group.

Chip Berlet, a former senior analyst at Political Research Associates, points out that some white supremacists may be attracted to Nordic mythological religions as a result of their affinity toward Greek mythology, Celtic lore or interest in Nazi Germany, whose leaders celebrated Nordic myths and used Nordic symbolism for their image of heroic warriors during World War II. Neo-Nazi groups, such as the National Alliance and Volksfront, have used Norse symbolism, such as the life rune, in their group insignias and propaganda. Racist prison gangs have also been known to write letters and inscribe messages on tattoos using the runic alphabet. “These myths were the basis of Wagner’s “Ring” opera cycle, and influenced Hitler, who merged them with his distorted understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy of the centrality of will and the concept of the Ubermensch, which Hitler turned into the idea of an Aryan ‘Master Race,’” says Berlet.


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Re: Racialist Asatru

Postby American Dream » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:38 pm

Achmed Huber, The Avalon Gemeinschaft, and the Swiss “New Right”

by Kevin Coogan MAY 1, 2002


Achmed Huber is not only a devout Muslim and supporter of political Islam; he also a leading member of the avowedly pagan Swiss-based Avalon Gemeinschaft (“Avalon Society” also known as the Avalon Kreis or Avalon Circle). Avalon’s estimated 150 members include aging Swiss SS volunteers, youthful far right fanatics, and died-in-the wool Holocaust deniers. Each summer solstice this motley mélange of characters journeys deep into the Swiss woods to ritually worship the pre-Christian Celtic gods of ancient Europe. They then spend the rest of the year bemoaning the Enlightenment and denying the Holocaust.

Although Huber is one of Avalon’s leading members, he was not involved in founding the group. Avalon began as a curious mixture of Old Right and New Right currents that reflected its founding members involvement in a far right youth group known as the Wiking-Jugend Schweiz (WJS) as well as their later rejection of cadre-based politics for the creation of Avalon as a self-proclaimed elite society. Besides being steeped in mystical imagery, Avalon’s founders also embraced “New Right” jargon most frequently associated with the French theorist Alain de Benoist, his Paris-based think-tank, GRECE (the Groupement de Recherche et d’Etudes pour la Civilisation Européene), and GRECE’s German counterpart, Pierre Krebs‚ Thule Seminar.

Avalon’s origins begin in the end of 1986 with the formation of the WJS by two young far rightists, Roger Wüthrich and Andreas Lorenz. After Wüthrich and Lorenz returned from a winter camp in Germany sponsored by the Wiking-Jugend Deutschland (WJD), they were granted permission by the WJD to form a Swiss branch of the organization. The WJS was formally launched in April 1987 and began publishing a paper, Nordwind, that specifically targeted Swiss youth. As WJS propaganda put it, “Have you had enough of degenerate art, jungle music, environmental destruction, immorality, and Coca-Cola culture? Then come to us! Work with us for a better worthwhile future. Travel, camps, sports, adventure, comradeship and love of our home belong to our program. Hard work, discipline, good manners, courage, and honor are things that for us again have meaning. The zero (Null) bloc of youth is already shuffling off to its decline with a Walkman in its ears and hamburgers on its brains. Not us! Join us! Viking Youth! That is the youth movement faithful to the people of Switzerland.”

In the summer of 1988 the WJS, with help from the WJD, organized a summer camp in Seelisberg, Switzerland. Participants were told that they would learn things like folk dancing, old German letters, and sports like boxing. The WJS promised all who signed up the experience of “forced marches in ankle deep mud” until the “dead tired” finally reached their goal “filthy, soaked with sweat, with a banner in hand, and a proud smile on [their] face.” The forced marches were a necessary camp experience, Nordwind explained, because “in the all masculine cultural circles to which we belong, discipline and morals are the keystone of our view of life.”

Alas, few Swiss youth seemed willing to part with their blue jeans and Coke cans for folk dance lessons and forced marches. In February 1991, at the WJS‚s fourth convention in Worblaufen, Switzerland, the group voted to dissolve itself. Along with its failure to recruit youth cadres, the WJS was equally concerned about possible adverse publicity. Just a month earlier, a Swiss far rightist named Robert Burkhard – president of the Nationalrevolutionären Partei der Schweiz (NPS) – had been arrested for a hand grenade attack on a journalist in Winterthurer, Switzerland. After the police discovered WJS material inside Burkhard‚s apartment, the WJS feared that it too might now come under scrutiny by the Swiss authorities. Equally troubling was the development of ideological dissent inside the WJS itself. The Aargau Canton branch, for example, openly broke with the WJS‚s leadership and embraced a “national revolutionary direction” complete with open overtures to the Swiss Left. Roger Wüthrich, the WJS‚s co-founder, was particularly appalled by this move because he considered National Bolshevism a political dead end, particularly given the fall of Communism.

The Birth of the Avalon Gemeinschaft
Following the official dissolution of the WJS, Wüthrich and another rightist named Andreas Grossweiler decided to build a new elite cadre organization, the Avalon Gemeinschaft. They structured their new group on the New Right model espoused by de Benoist and GRECE in France and by Pierre Krebs and the Thule Seminar in Germany.

Wüthrich and Grossweiler‚s turn from a failed cadre-based political activist model to a self-proclaimed elite structure did not occur out of the blue. The formation of the Avalon Gemeinschaft came after the Swiss far right had learned about French and German “New Right” theory, which primarily occurred through the activity of a young Geneva-based rightist named Pascal Junod. In 1983 Junod first established the Centre national de la pensée européene with former members of the New European Order (NEO) backed student group, the Nouvel ordre social, to help popularize New Right ideas in Switzerland. One year later, Junod next established another Geneva-based organization, the Cercle Proudhon, in 1984. Junod also helped organize the Swiss branch of the Thule Seminar while he also served as the Swiss correspondent for GRECE’s journal, Nouvelle école.

In his book Strategie der kulturellen Revolution, Pierre Krebs, head of the Thule Seminar, gives a useful overview of New Right thinking when he embraces the theory of “intellectual hegemony” taken from the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci and “detourned” by the New Right. Krebs also articulated New Right themes when he attacked the “principle of equality” and instead demanded a “War against Egalitarianism and Rootlessness: For Originality and Identity! Against Americanism and Collectivism: For Culture and Organic Humanism! Race is Class! For a Heterogeneous World of Homogeneous Peoples! Vive la difference!”

Starting in 1987, members of the Swiss branch of the Thule Seminar took part in a pagan gathering around the Celtic holiday Lugnasad, along with a delegation from the WJS and various neo-Nazis from across Europe. In 1988 the Swiss branch of the Thule Seminar, along with the Circle Proudhon, organized seemingly scholarly-sounding talks on topics like “The History of the Templers and “The Heritage of the Indo-Europeans” on the grounds of Geneva University.

Although lacking the scholarly chops of a de Benoist or a Krebs, Avalon’s founders were quick to proclaim their own elite status as well as their embrace of pagan ideas. Grossweiler, for example, said that Avalon’s members “consider ourselves as an intellectual/spiritual elite and know that our ideas are incomprehensible to simple people.” Avalon’s emergence also came wrapped in a heavy dose of Celtic mysticism. One Avalon tract began, Avalon – white mist covered island in an icy sea. Avalon, land of inner rest and the confident, holy land of the Celts. Avalon, original homeland and secure pole of our European culture. The land of King Arthur gives our society its name. Many of our way and beliefs shall find the power in the circle to resist the time of the wolf (the destruction of value). This is our spiritual place of refuge, [the] place of the calling to mind of Europe‚s eternal values, Courage, Honor, Loyalty.

Huber and Avalon
Achmed Huber’s later emergence as a key Avalon leader no doubt reflects both his well-developed networking skills as well as his powerful contacts inside the European right. Huber’s particular association with Avalon, however, may also be due in part to Avalon’s New Right trappings. New Rightists are almost by definition extremely anti-American, and many look favorably on collaboration with the Islamic world. In traditional Islam they see a culture that has resisted the siren song of the Enlightenment. GRECE leader Alain de Benoist (who has visited both Iran and Libya) also regularly criticizes Jean-Marie le Pen’s Front National for its harshly anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant views.

That said, Avalon appears to be a rather poor copy of the GRECE model. The New Right, it should be recalled, emerged in Paris in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a response not just to the cultural Americanization of Europe but also as a reaction by a post ’68 generation of young right-wing activists to the failed Old Right’s tedious embrace of Hitler nostalgia and crude anti-Semitism. Against this, the New Right reveled in rediscovering unorthodox theorists, particularly from the 1920s “Conservative Revolutionary” movement in Germany; thinkers like Carl Schmidt, Moeller van den Bruck, Ernst Niekisch, and Ernst Junger. All of these men‚s ideas had either been highly marginalized or actively suppressed during the Nazi era. Under Huber and Wüthrich, however, Avalon is far more close to intellectually spurious groups like the California-based Institute for Holocaust Review than with the elite Parisian salon world of de Benoist.

Still, Huber and Wüthrich have tried to give Avalon some veneer of respectability. In March 1998, for example, on the two hundredth anniversary of his death, Huber and other Avalon members laid a wreath at the memorial to General von Erlach, who was killed by Napoleon‚s troops in 1798. Erlach’s death symbolized not just the end of Bern’s Ancien Régime and the triumph of Napoleon‚s army but the victory of the Enlightenment ideals of equality, democracy, and brotherhood associated with the French Revolution that both Avalon and the New Right so despise. By laying a wreath at Erlach’s tomb, Huber and Avalon were suggesting that they were willing to fight once more to recapture a world once thought hopelessly vanished.

Huber and Wüthrich have also portrayed Avalon in a press communiqué as a highly respectable group that sponsors gatherings dedicated to scientific and cultural themes – particularly the honoring of Europe‚s “Celtic Germanic inheritance” – as well as to groundbreaking critical research into questions of contemporary history. Avalon’s eager embrace of Holocaust deniers, even more than its strange celebrations of the summer solstice, have stripped it of even a vague sense of legitimacy as an serious organization engaged in historical research.

Avalon functions as a kind of umbrella organization for the Holocaust denial movement in Switzerland. Under the cover name of the Studiengruppe für Geschichte (History Study Group), for example, Avalon sponsored a 1993 presentation by leading French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson at a hotel conference room in Bern. Some 70 people, including the NEO’s Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, attended the gathering. Huber’s close friend Jürgen Graf, a leading Swiss Holocaust denier who is now living in Tehran, provided the simultaneous translation from French to German when Faurisson spoke. Robert H. Countess, an American editor of the Institute for Historical Review, also addressed an Avalon gathering in April 1995. Huber’s later participation (along with Graf and the German NPD’s Horst Mahler) in an IHR conference that was to have occurred in Beirut in the spring of 2001 can be seen as a logical extension of the kind of Holocaust denial activity that both Huber and Avalon have been involved with for years.

Finally, it seems particularly ironic that a self-proclaimed Muslim like Huber would be associated at all with any “New Right” grouping, even with a pale parody of the New Right, as Avalon appears to be. Huber, after all, is a self-proclaimed devotee of Islam, an utterly monotheistic religion. In the New Right canon, monotheism has always been portrayed as the original sin. This has been so ever since de Benoist identified the Enlightenment‚s universalistic values as a secular extension of a monotheist worldview; namely the Judeo-Christian tradition which Islam claims to complete.

New Right theorists insist that they embrace paganism and the pagan notion of a universe of pluralistic gods precisely out of their desire to dethrone monotheistic thought structures which they see as essential to the future elimination of American “monoculture.” That a fanatical Islamic monotheist like Huber could spend each summer solstice out in the woods worshiping Celtic gods is one more bizarre twist to his already bizarre life.


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Postby American Dream » Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:41 am

Radical Beginnings


“… keep going. We are in this together.”

From Niki Ruggiero



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Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you turn on the news? Or look at social media? Or look out the window? Everything is awful, it’s getting worse, and mainstream liberals keep telling us if we just drive a Prius, or bring our own bags to the store, or “lean in” we can be part of the change we hope to see in the world.

It’s lies. All lies. We cannot buy our way out of this mess. Our individual actions are not to blame for the systemic crumbling of our freedoms and the ravaging of our planet. Large corporations engage in and promote the very things that we are being asked to manage. We are told to reduce/reuse/recycle; corporations continue to make things disposable, unfixable, and wrapped in wasteful packaging. We are told to eat more veggies, but our soil is poisoned, as is our water; food “deserts” are very real; and ingredients companies know are toxic are included in our food. We are told to drive less, but car companies refuse to decrease gas consumption in vehicles, oil companies get massive tax breaks, and few cities are developing true community-wide public transportation systems. And so on.

But we cannot just throw all efforts into the wind and stop giving a fuck. We still have our individual agency. Sure, not all of us can be Rhyd Wildermuth or Dr. Conjure. Where does one begin? If you’re reading Gods & Radicals, you’re likely ten steps ahead of most people. We all started somewhere. One step led us to another and another.

I didn’t always identify as an anti-capitalist. I still don’t feel like I’m doing enough to make positive change in this world. Yet, I look back at my life and I realize that the small steps I took led to bigger steps, and that this is possible for the people in our lives who might not yet identify as radical.

Below are a list of actions and choices that can lead to other steps. Some of these are relevant to some people, some are out of reach for others. Some of us do some of these things out of necessity, for others certain of these items might be life changing. This is not a complete list, but there is no complete list. As we saw with the popularity of Rhyd’s magical article “Garlic Bread of the Revolution,” there is a strong desire among us to begin where we are. Below is an incomplete list of ways to inspire you to begin!

Barter
Read new literature – explore writers from other parts of the world; ask your favorite writers who they read
Use and support libraries
Walk/bike/utilize and support public transportation
Own less stuff
Share tools/start a tool library
Buy what you can locally
Homeschool/Unschool and/or support alternative forms of education in your community

Get healthy and strong, inside and out
Find help for your trauma
Join a mutual support group
Learn to shoot
Learn a martial art

Use cloth menstrual products and/or menstrual cup
Use cloth diapers
Homebirth and/or support midwives
Breastfeed
Babysit for a working family/babysit for meetings so working families can attend
Use cloth toilet paper
Compost
Grow your own food
Support Community Supported Agriculture/utilize or support community gardens
Share land
Share housing
Work for equitable housing
Host a clothing swap
Make your own beauty supplies
Learn first aid
Make your own food
Teach someone to cook

Support artists/crafters/thinkers/organizers
Support trans rights and inclusion
Support Black Lives Matter
Support prison abolition
Support the demilitarization of our police forces
Support indigenous rights and decolonization
Support disability rights

Practice polytheism, Paganism, witchcraft – remember that other religions also have radical communities within them
Cast spells for the overthrow of oppressive systems
Cast spells for liberation
Cast spells for the protection of people on the front lines
Cast spells for the protection of people supporting those on the front lines

Network with other like-minded folk, especially those engaged in projects different from yours
Engage in mutual aid whenever possible
Amplify voices that might not otherwise be heard
Be quiet and listen to voices that are different from your own

Judge less, practice more

If you have, GIVE
If you need, ASK


Many of these things do not look radical at all. Plenty of non-radical people do some of these things. Engage those people, because they are one step closer to being radical than they (or you) might think.

Most important of all: get rid of “all or nothing” thinking and start where you are. For those of you doing a few, some, most, or all of these things: keep going. We are in this together.


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Postby Elvis » Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:28 pm

^^^ Very nice. Good practical approaches, to which of course I always add: Boycott banks, use credit unions!

Also, don't buy plastic disposal lighters (imo they should be banned, like plastic straws).
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Postby American Dream » Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:46 pm

Yes, all of the above. I like to emphasize organized, long-term "Fight the Power" work along with the (also important) lifestyle-centered approaches.
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Postby American Dream » Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:53 am

The Songs I Know

“The Spirit of the Depths had shown me how to awaken the dead,

How to bring forth the lost memories of the dream world,

How to touch the primordial power

That I thought I had banished from the world,

When I filled the womb of the gods with blood.

For the well beneath the tree is the well of dreams.”



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Postby thrulookingglass » Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:44 am

I have this saying, "life just gets worse." God, I hate it when I'm right. Fat lot of good this religious zealotry has gotten us. This "purity supreme" strikes of the third reich's Aryan fantasy land of blue eyed blondes with white skin dominating creation makes me sick inside. Mormons used to have this nefarious belief that true faith in Jesus would clarify your skin. They once believed it would turn African peoples white if they fully practice the LDS church's beliefs, even going so far as to say Negro peoples bared the 'mark of Cain'. It's a biblical delusion this "being free from sin" that we should have left behind long ago. No one is perfect and no one should ever claim to be. Rule. Control. It's a contortion even the most practiced Yogis cannot achieve. Dominance. It's a poison covering the land as Round Up Ready humans. So many threads of this tapestry of life abraded and worn thin. We are all abused. What calamity have we brought upon each other? Shall no one stand before this prostituted world and declare it is OUR despotic worship of violence and intolerance that has driven us barren!? Time echoes on. I begrudgingly watch Oliver Stone's "The Untold History of the United States" paint my visions as a deep shade of blood curdling red. This right wing reactionary pseudo-political uprising, which is really just a continuation of fascist nation-state philosophies fills my soul with poison. Save Zion whatever the cost. What is saved at the point of a blade? Stop worshipping money, it's merely a control mechanism used to pervert us. "They" are the one's who make it, it's a false construct. The communications corporations are just specters of an occulted form of governance, all of them. We are lost. We'll all be singing at a funeral tomorrow, it's the death of the love and compassion we should have brought one another. Amen.
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RED ICE CREATIONS AND THE NEW FASCIST MEDIA


What could be considered even more of a focus would be pagan guests, always leaning to the far right. Lana herself has spoken about her fondness for the pagan side of the Alt Right, how it avoids the cultural and restrictive trappings of Christianity, and how it can help to define their race.

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Stephen Flowers Speaking About Indo-European Religon

It is this paganism that has created one of its crossover points to the non-racialist circles, though it becomes clear that even those unaffiliated with the Alt Right previously are more than willing to flirt with its racial nationalism. An example of this would be the recent interview with Stephen E. Flowers, who is known inside of heathen circles for writing some of the more respected books on the runes. He caused a controversy inside of the Troth, the largest Universalist heathen organization, for also being a member of the Left Hand Path Temple of Set. Though his interview really does focus on the topics of ancient Indo-European religions, he uses “blood and soil” rhetoric to discuss this and helps to validate the racialist voice of Henrik.


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American Dream » Wed May 23, 2018 9:48 pm wrote:
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1976: McNallen created the Asatru Free Assembly (AFA).

Late 1979 – early 1980: Also from Texas, and a member of the Asatru Free Assembly (AFA), Stephen Edred Flowers, commonly known as Stephen E. Flowers, and also by the pen-names Edred Thorsson, and Darban-i-Den, founded The Rune-Gild, an initiatory order focused on “the revival of the elder Runic” tradition, advocating runic magic [17]. From 1978 to 1983 he led the Austin Kindred of the AFA [18].

Writing as both Stephen Flowers and Edred Thorsson, his prolific books have been instrumental in the advancement of a unique aspect of Heathenry. While it has been argued that his methodology for rituals, runic magick, and its derivatives, may not be purely Germanic and may have borrowed heavily from other magickal traditions; he is unquestionably the one who “got there first” in terms of being in the right place at the right time to get the concepts and words out there. Consequently, he is credited with advancing what has become standard Heathen practice for many people interested in both a magickal system and ritual practice that was separate and apart from the Western Mystery Tradition of calling quarters calling and circle drawing.

Into the present day, Edred Thorsson as a prolific writer, continues to support McNallen and his organization(s). All royalties from his books go to a racist organization: “Since 2013, the AFA has owned rights to many of Edred Thorsson’s books.”

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Postby American Dream » Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:00 pm

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Scapegoating

HOW THE SHADOW HIDES IN THE LIGHT

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Wetiko is the Native American name for the evil that is playing out both in the world as well as within our own minds. A living part of the personality, “the shadow,” what Jung calls “our sublunary nature,” is at the root of wetiko disease. The psychological process of projecting the shadow (scapegoating)—which is the shadow projecting itself outside of itself so that it can remain hidden—is the core underlying dynamic that informs wetiko. Understanding the ins and outs of shadow projection therefore helps us to dispell wetiko.

What we don’t accept in ourselves, but rather, exclude from our self-image and push into the shadows of netherworld of the unconscious—thereby depriving it of light—becomes toxic. To quote Jung, “for a thing to become poisonous, you only need to repress it.”[1] These repressed shadowy contents build up a charge in the unconscious, and they approach us through the circuitous route of projection, which is to say that these shadow energies appear to us in the outside world in the form of an adversarial other. What we avoid, abandon, escape and turn away from in ourselves will turn against us – both inwardly and outwardly. We have to face our own darkness, Jung comments, “if we want to reach the fountain of life again.”[2]

Projecting the shadow outwards not only deprives us of the capacity to deal with evil, but ensures that we will unwittingly become an instrument of evil. In projecting the shadow outside of ourselves, we are standing in the way of our own light—and are thus “in the dark”—which guarantees that we will become our own evil spirit. This brings to mind the folk saying that the person without a shadow is the devil. Trying to destroy the evil in the world, we become possessed by the very evil we are trying to destroy.

Though the repository of all our inferior and regrettable qualities, the shadow is at the same time, according to Jung, “the prerequisite for higher consciousness,”[3] which is to say that when we project the shadow we unwittingly deprive ourselves of the possibility of truly expanding our consciousness. Jung emphasizes, “The shadow is the block which separates us most effectively from the divine Voice.”[4] Jung’s imagery suggests how the shadow blocks and mutes the sound of God’s voice within us, whose sole purpose is to expand our consciousness and wake us up.

To quote Jung, “By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions. When you don’t acknowledge that you have such qualities, you are simply feeding the devils…. The thing you have buried grows fat while you grow thin.”[5] In denying and projecting out our shadow, as if feeding a psychic tapeworm that lives in our body, we are simultaneously nourishing the evil within us while simultaneously starving our true—and potentially healthy—selves.

Shadow projection relies on dehumanizing the recipient of the projection through seeing the worst in them, which justifies hatred, oppression, violence—even genocide—against those perceived as “the other.” This is an outer enactment of an intra-psychic process of self-hatred which only postpones the process of coming to terms with our own hated and rejected parts. Those upon whom the shadow is foisted are typically seen as carriers of infection and are likened to animals, vermin, parasites, microbes, germs, cancers, bacillus, etc., which attack the organism (the body politic) through their infestation so as to poison it, and hence, need to be destroyed.[6] Projecting evil outside of ourselves is the fast road to fascism; it should be remembered that Jung’s equivalent term for wetiko is “totalitarian psychosis.”

Although happening inside of an individual psyche, shadow projection can become collectively mobilized and acted out en masse, writ large on the world stage via various “witch hunts” (to use a politically popular term) against specific individuals or groups. Our leaders can—and often do—manipulate our unconscious propensity to project the shadow outside of ourselves to feed their dreams of power. Manipulating the shadow projections of the masses is one of the most powerful tools of collective mind control used by the power elite. Collective shadow projection is the unmediated acting out of the darkest aspects of the shadow in an expedient and politically correct form that reinforces one’s group identity in opposition to some other group that is vilified. War—be it between people, nations, or within our own psyche—is the result. Jungian analyst and scholar Erich Neumann writes, “No war can be waged unless the enemy can be converted into the carrier of a shadow projection.”[7]

Neumann felt that shadow projection is “in fact one of the gravest perils confronting mankind.”[8] When we, as a nation, collectively project the shadow onto another nation or group, “it becomes,” to quote Jung, “a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas.”[9] It should be noted that the accumulation of arms is itself an evocation and call to war. Due to the mixture of personal and archetypal contents that inform our projections, the recipients of our shadow projections are seen as an amalgam of subhuman and superhuman qualities, the devil incarnate in human form. “The devil,” as Jung reminds us, “embodies the evil powers of the unconscious.”[10]

“Evil,” to quote Marie Louise von Franz, Jung’s closest colleague, “starts with lying, that is, with the projection of the shadow.”[11] Jung himself simply calls projecting the shadow “the lie.”[12] “The devil,” to quote Christ, “is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44). Projecting the shadow outside of ourselves is the primordial lie—the father of all lies—in action. Shadow projection (also known as “demonization”) is the prime, most essential action of the devil within each one of us. The devil is the sponsor of lies, which is to say that the devil—the personification of the forces of darkness—is the inspiration for the process of shadow projecting. Every time someone projects their shadow, the devil has claimed another victim. Ironically, instead of freeing ourselves from our own evil, shadow projection binds us even more to it.

French American philosopher and cultural anthropologist Rene Girard, author of the classic book The Scapegoat, is of the opinion that the origin of human culture is to be discovered in what he calls “the founding murder,” which is none other than the psychological process of scapegoating/shadow projecting. Interestingly, Christ—who is the archetypal innocent scapegoat (“the lamb of God” who bears the sins of the world)—refers to the devil as “a murderer from the beginning.” This founding murder, what Girard calls “the secret of Satan,” must be concealed at all costs, i.e., remain unconscious. This founding murder is wetiko. This murder is ahistorical and atemporal, in that it regenerates itself always and everywhere—informing human culture (or lack thereof)—until seen through.

This founding murder, and the lie that covers it, imprisons humanity in a never-ending, self-replicating feedback loop in which humanity must kill, and continue to kill, in order to not know that we are killing. To quote Girard, “This lie is a double homicide, since its consequence is always another new homicide to cover up the old one.”[13] The result is a heart anesthetized—numb—to feeling, which enables us to be party to atrocities that we would normally never countenance or even be able to imagine. Speaking about the founding murder, Girard says, “It is an inexhaustible fund; a transcendent source of falsehood that infiltrates every domain and structures everything in its own image, with such success that the truth cannot get in.”[14] To the extent we are asleep to this deeper process, we become, in Jung’s words, “an unconscious instrument of the wholesale murderer in man.”[15] When we are unconscious of the evil within us, it will insinuate itself into the surroundings, where it will work its black magic.

Scapegoating/shadow projecting is itself a violent act of self-mutilation. The origin of scapegoating involves a severing and disowning of a darker part of ourselves, which we then—in a second act of (energetic) violence—project outside of ourselves onto an “other.” We react violently when we encounter an embodied reflection of our shadow in the outer world, wanting to destroy it, as it reminds us of something dark within ourselves that we want nothing to do with. This act of external violence is a dramatization of the original inner act of “splitting” (which is itself a violent affair) off from our own darkness. In other words, our inner process of violence towards our own darkness (which is itself inspired by the very darkness we are dissociating from) is being dreamed up and acted out on the canvas of the external world with real world consequences.

A question naturally arises: is otherness more threatening in its difference (in its alien quality) or is it more menacing in its sameness (that its reflecting something back within ourselves)?

Girard felt that humanity was in slavery to violence. He was of the opinion that the scapegoat mechanism has a hold on humanity and is society’s best collective defense against coming to terms with its own violence. To quote Girard, “The old pattern of each against another gives way to the unified antagonism of all against one.”[16] Girard felt that human culture is based on the deeper archetypal process of conjuring away the pent-up psychological violence intrinsic to humanity’s shadow by endlessly projecting it onto new victims, which is to say that human culture is organized around a violent—and thus disingenuous—disavowal of human violence.

The guilt-feelings that co-arise with the very existence of the shadow are discharged in the same way by the individual and the collective – via the mechanism of shadow projection. In an endless self-generating feedback loop, the process of projecting our shadow outside of ourselves—due to its disingenuousness—feeds into our unconscious feelings of guilt, which results in more shadow projection to assuage our guilt, and so the endless cycle continues, feeding on itself. We continually attempt—unsuccessfully—to wash our hands of our guilt and return to innocence by repeating the very thing we feel guilty about. The whole thing is madness.

Having someone to project the shadow onto is helpful in a perverse sort of way, as it temporarily shields us from having to look at our own evil or consciously feel our own guilt. Jung writes, “Having an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one’s conscious. You can then say at least, without hesitation, who the devil is.”[17] In an uncertain world you then have a certainty that the cause of your troubles is outside of, rather than within, yourself. To quote Neumann, “In the economy of the psyche, the outcast role of the alien is immensely important as an object for the projection of the shadow.”[18] Those who carry our evil are seen as alien, just as the (illegal) alien is experienced as evil. Once we demonize others, this self-righteously justifies their destruction without any feelings of conscious guilt or remorse emerging within us. We see our actions as laudable rather than sinful, which simply ensures more shadow projection as the destructive cycle continues, ad infinitum.

Like a narcotic, shadow projection produces only an apparent and temporary relief, however, invariably demanding more projection of the shadow—more lying and violence—to keep itself in business. The only way to prevent a return of the content of our projections is through their continued projection, a circular process which endlessly loops back and feeds on itself. To quote Neumann, “Repression will have to be continually on the defensive against a dawning apperception of the shadow side.”[19]

One of the main ways shadow projection keeps itself alive is through—as if a contagious disease—the known infectious quality of hate. Heterophobia, hatred of the other, feeds into all kinds of fear, racism and endless projection of the shadow onto those seen as different from ourselves. Considered one of the most fundamental poisons by the Buddha, hatred is the high-octane fuel that powers the very process of shadow projection. Hatred inspires a wish to injure, kill and destroy, an impulse which can develop an autonomy—and a seeming mind—all its own. In Christian theology, the essence of the devil is his hatred of anything wholesome and holy.

“Projections,” to quote Jung, “change the world into a replica of one’s own unknown face.”[20] In projecting our own evil outside of ourselves, we transform the outer world into an embodied reflection of the unknown face of our own evil. The mirror is the holder of the shadow, after all. Jung talks about “the primitive tendency in us to shut our eyes to evil and drive it over some frontier or other, like the Old Testament scapegoat.”[21] Scapegoating is truly a “primitive tendency” that is still active within our psyche that Jung rightfully connects with shutting our eyes (becoming blind) to evil. Jung writes, “The resultant projection creates a dangerous situation in that the disturbing effects are now attributed to a wicked will outside ourselves, which is naturally not to be found anywhere but with our neighbor de l’autre cote de la riviere [on the other side of the river]. This leads to collective delusions, ‘incidents,’ revolutions, war—in a word, to destructive mass psychoses.”[22] Wetiko is just such a mass psychosis.

Due to our proclivity to project the shadow outside of ourselves, Jung felt that “Western man is in danger of losing his shadow altogether.”[23] Losing—disassociating from—our shadow would be catastrophic, for not only does our shadow add substance to who we are and make us truly human, but in losing our shadow we are ensuring that our shadow will confront us in projected form through and as the outside world. Jung writes, “the more consciousness insists on its own luminous nature and lays claim to moral authority, the more the self will appear as something dark and menacing.”[24]

Once collective shadow projection becomes the order of the day, it becomes “systematized,” and as Neumann writes, “the final result will be the paranoid reactions of individuals and whole nations, whose own repressed aggressive tendencies reappear in the shape of fear of persecution at the hands of other people and of the world at large.”[25] We then preemptively and insanely try to kill others out of fear of them attacking us first,[26] thus endlessly strengthening the spiral of fear, abuse and madness.

According to Girard, the figure of Satan (one of whose inner meanings is “the shadow of the Lord”) is the name and the source of all the various forms of lying that take place in the human world. The violence inherent to scapegoating isn’t just “the work of Satan,” to quote from James G. Williams’ foreword to Girard’s book I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, “it is Satan.”[27] Girard ties scapegoating to the true mystery of Satan, referring to it as “his most clever trick.” Girard calls scapegoating “the satanic principle,” considering it the source of Satan’s astonishing power. It is not for nothing that Satan, a personification of the archetype of the shadow, is known as “the accuser.”

Satan sponsors the project(ion) of the shadow onto the (innocent) recipient—creating a split in the community—and then, in a sleight of hand that goes unnoticed, inspires the victim to be condemned and expelled from the community to seemingly restore balance and harmony. In other words, Satan creates the problem by fomenting disorder, sowing scandals and then at the height of the crises that he himself provokes, offers the solution, which invariably just further feeds the lie which is the source of the problem in a self-generating cycle that poisons the community. This process continues forever until seen through. Collective scapegoating is a form of organized violence in the service of social tranquility, i.e., tranquilizing (putting to sleep) its adherents. Once the scapegoat—who is seen as the cause of the community’s problems—is exiled, a sense of peace is initially restored, which serves as evidence confirming the guilt of the scapegoat, further entrenching the apparent truth of the lie which underlies and foments the whole process.

Just like individuals have an ineradicable tendency to get rid of their own evil by foisting it upon someone else, it is the nature of political bodies to always see the evil in their adversary or the opposing party. When scapegoating happens collectively, the identity of the scapegoat is based on no other evidence than the unshakable unanimity of the collectivity’s own consensus. This collective collusion, a form of group-think, is based on the irrational illogic of the herd, what I refer to as “wetiko-logic.” To the extent that we are unaware of the scapegoat mechanism that covertly operates through our world, we are all complicit in collectively perpetuating it. We are then all murderers of Christ. All the while we imagine ourselves alien to—and innocent of—all violence.

This primordial self-division intrinsic to the scapegoating process is referred to in the Bible as “Satan driving out Satan.” Describing this very process, Jung writes, “the devil is cast out by Beelzebub.” In a project doomed to failure, darkness is trying to get rid of itself, which is the very act that generates, is generated by, and is an expression of the darkness in the first place. Here’s what I wrote in Dispelling Wetiko, “Projecting the shadow, while seeming to deliver us from the specter of evil haunting us within ourselves, is the primal act which generates the very evil that we are attempting to avoid in the first place.”[28]

In an interview with noted philosopher and historian of religion Mircea Eliade, Jung said, “But Satan represents evil, and how can evil be integrated? There is only one possibility: to assimilate it, that is to say, raise it to the level of consciousness.”[29] Integrating our darker unconscious aspects into the light of consciousness—i.e., becoming conscious—is the definition of individuation, the process of becoming whole. Becoming conscious of an unconscious content is, in Jung’s words, “a coniunctio Solis et Lunae,” i.e., a conjunction of Sun and Moon - symbolic of a coming together of the opposites.

Becoming conscious of evil necessarily means to withdraw our shadow projections, which involves recognizing and accepting “the other” in ourselves. Once we recognize and withdraw our projections, Jung writes that such a person:

"has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against…. Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day. These problems are mostly so difficult because they are poisoned by mutual projections. How can anyone see straight when he does not even see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?"[30]

Becoming aware of and owning our own darkness is the best way of dealing with the darkness of other people and the evil in the world. We would then have to demand of ourselves, and of no one else, all the things we habitually demand of others.

We need to own our own shadow, while at the same time, however, not identify with it, which would be, in Jung’s words, to go “down the drain.” The shadow belongs to us - it is our responsibility, and yet, it is not who we are. If we identify with it, we can easily fall into the abyss of despair, depression and worthlessness, which can not only be dangerous, but potentially fatal. Discriminating between the shadow and who we are—our true nature that embraces our shadow—opens the doorway for the shadow, rather than obscuring our light, to flesh it out, distinguish and reveal it.

Girard’s founding murder is repeated—reproduced again and again over, as and throughout history—oftentimes (if not always) taking as its victim the person who has revealed it, whose liberating message everyone refuses to understand. The one who is in essence simply holding up a mirror and reflecting back to us our own violence is typically silenced. The messenger is killed, so to speak, in what becomes a collectively sanctioned symbolic murder.

The intrusion of a mirror that reflects truth (mirrors, after all, show us our true face) can’t help but to shine light on the darkness. Being a reflector is an act which is seen by the collective as subversive, for it disturbs our comfortable, familiar illusions, which depend upon a lie. When someone points out the shadow in the field they are, ironically, typically viewed by people who aren’t seeing the shadow (and are hence unconsciously acting it out) as being blind. It is very dangerous to reflect back to people who are projecting their shadow that they themselves, rather than the recipient of their projection, are the ones who are possessed by and hence, embodying the shadow – we do so at the risk of being demonized ourselves. Violence can often be the result.

“The devil,” as it says in the Bible, “has always hated the truth.” Only those who are themselves living a lie get upset when someone speaks the truth. Ironically, the result is that the reflection of our underlying violence that the collective tries to stifle is confirmed as true. This is to say that the revelation is one and the same as—and is validated by—the violent opposition to the revelation. Seeing this equivalence between the revelation and our violent resistance to the revelation (which is evidence confirming the very revelation it is reacting against) is the doorway through which the revelation can actually take hold and blossom within our mind, thereby liberating us from the lie.

The most horrible acts of persecution are often committed in the name of the fight against persecution. The ones who are scapegoating believe they are self-righteously supporting the truth while in actuality they are living and propagating an egregious lie. Neumann writes, “True to the basic principle of the scapegoat psychology, the conscious mind believes itself to be identical with the higher values and commits the most appalling atrocities in the sublime self-assurance of an ‘absolutely clear conscience.’”[31] Scapegoating illustrates how the darkness uses people who are overly identified with the light as its secret outposts. The darkness literally hides in the light. Overly identifying with our light nature and projecting out our darkness are interrelated aspects of a deeper singular process.

Scapegoating only functions based on ignorance, blindness and a persecutory unconsciousness. In Christ’s words, those who scapegoat “know not what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34) Its power is dependent on a lie, which is why the lie must remain hidden at all costs. When the lie underlying the scapegoat mechanism is exposed the spiral of violence is broken and wetiko is dispelled – for good.



A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the author of The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (SelectBooks, May 2018), Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father (Awaken in the Dream Publishing, 2015), Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (North Atlantic Books, 2013) and The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis (Authorhouse, 2006). He is the founder of the “Awakening in the Dream Community” in Portland, Oregon. An artist, he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung, and has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over thirty years. He was the coordinator for the Portland PadmaSambhava Buddhist Center for over twenty years. Please visit Paul’s website http://www.awakeninthedream.com. You can contact Paul at paul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections.



[1] Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, vol. 2, 1058.

[2] Jung, Children’s Dreams, 209.

[3] Jung, Aion, CW 9ii, para. 402.

[4] The Jung-White Letters, 285.

[5] Jung, Dream Analysis, 53.

[6] It should be noted that these are precisely the terms that the Nazi’s used to characterize the Jews. What the Nazi’s did to the Jews during World War II was scapegoating writ large—in industrial scale—acted out on the world stage.

[7] Erich Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, 57.

[8] Ibid., 50.

[9] Jung, Civilization in Transition, CW 10, para. 463.

[10] Jung, Children’s Dreams, 426.

[11] Marie Louise von Franz, Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology, 120.

[12] Jung, Letters, vol. 2, 168.

[13] Rene Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 161.

[14] Ibid., 162.

[15] Jung, Psychology and Religion: West and East, CW 11, para. 86.

[16] Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred, 82.

[17] Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, CW 8, para. 518.

[18] Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, 52.

[19] Ibid., 56.

[20] Jung, Aion, CW 9ii, para. 17

[21] Jung, Civilization in Transition, CW 10, para. 572.

[22] Jung, Alchemical Studies, CW 13, para. 52.

[23] Ibid., 559.

[24] Jung, Psychology and Religion: West and East, CW 11, para. 716.

[25] Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, 56.

[26] This point is exemplified when Himmler declared that the Jews “want to destroy us.” This worldview allowed the Nazi’s to claim that in their attempted genocide they were acting out of self-defense against what was perceived as a threat of annihilation.

[27] Rene Girard, I See Satan Fall like Lightning, xii.

[28] Levy, Dispelling Wetiko, 88.

[29] William McGuire and R. F. C. Hill, eds., C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, 227.

[30] Jung, Psychology of Religion: West and East, CW 11, para. 140.

[31] Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, 55.
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Anti-fascism and the Left’s Euro-Secular Arrogance

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European Leftism, European Atheism

There are several reasons we had all felt both embittered and scared of being open about our beliefs.

Most of these reasons are historical. Anarchism and communism were both first articulated in Europe during a time when being anything other than atheist marked you as anti-intellectual and aligned with bourgeois values. Proudhon, Marx, Stirner, Bukunin–pretty much all of the early philosophers of anarchism or communism (with Tolstoy a significant exception) were not just dismissive of spiritual beliefs, but aggressively hostile.

Any astute reader of the aforementioned paragraph, however, will note that the philosophers of whom I am speaking are all of European origin or derivation. This is an important fact, because the atheism that was carried into leftist thought was a European atheism. Being European, it bore with it utterly unnoticed colonial conceits. While many were influenced by indigenous (including Iroquois) forms of autonomous self-government and anti-colonial struggle, the European narrative of progress (which posits that all societies eventually “progress” from animist and polytheist beliefs into monotheism and finally atheism) prevented these philosophers and theorists from accepting the metaphysically animist nature of the cultures that inspired them.

This arrogance is what then allowed communists, anarchists, and socialists to argue that indigenous cultures would need to relinquish their non-scientific (that is, non-European) beliefs and worldviews in order to achieve full liberation. No gods no masters was not just a rallying cry but an imperative, and this has in no small part led many indigenous cultures to reject some leftist ideologies as continuations of colonial oppression.

This arrogance was rarely subtle in the leftist spaces in which I moved. I listened to socialists, anarchists, and communists (sometimes to crowds of thousands) say that First Nations and indigenous peoples of other continents must eventually come into the 21st century and “throw off the chains” of shamanic and other traditional beliefs. Never once did I hear this challenged in those spaces.

As non-indigenous adherents to reconstructed Pagan beliefs, my partner and I had even less ground to stand upon in these arguments. Though the “backwardness” of indigenous people gave them some time to change, we were white, which meant we were supposed to have moved beyond such beliefs centuries ago. We were “lifestylists,” according to the worshipers of Bookchin and “immature” according to the Scientific Socialist currents birthed by Trotsky and Lenin. But worse than this, we are also “crypto-fascists.”

There is another root to this accusation. The history of Paganism and occultism in Europe during the 19th and 20th century is unfortunately rife with fascist forms. Esoteric fascists such as Julius Evola evoked Pagan forms in their writing, Theosophy and the Golden Dawn both had adherents who were sympathetic to fascist forms, and of course some Nazis attempted a re-invigoration of ancient Germanic religious beliefs. But socialists and anarchists also evoked Pagan forms, and the aformentioned occult traditions (Theosophy and the Golden Dawn) had more intersections with leftist groups than they did with the right (*a good source for more on this is Affective Communities by Leela Ghandi). Further back, as Peter Linebaugh has shown repeatedly in his works, leftist and anarchist resistance to Capitalism in Ireland and England often evoked ancient pagan gods (particularly the Whiteboys in Ireland and the Luddites in England) and pagan forms (such as May Day) as part of their resistance.

So while a case can be made that Pagan, esoteric, and occult forms are fascist and do not belong in leftist or anarchist movements, the exact case can also be made that they were important parts of leftist and anarchist movements from the very beginning. Thus, leftists who label Pagan beliefs as fascist by pointing to historical connections are only ever looking at half of the evidence, if they are even looking at all.


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Love And Death In The Time Of Monsters

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It is Samhain in the north of the world, Beltane in its south.

Samhain and Beltane are twinned mysteries. In ecstasy, we touch the realm of the dead. In death, we fulfill the ecstasy of our ancestors and become ancestors ourselves.

Sex brings life, life brings death. We exist because two humans had sex with each other. But we also exist because all of nature has sex with itself. The sun’s rays caress the leaves of plants, whose metabolic ecstasy produces the air we breathe and food we eat. To eat that food, we participate in death, consuming part of nature in its older, pre-capitalist sense: “consummation,” becoming together one-with. And when we die we are part of another consummation, our bodies surrendering to the ecstasy of dirt, which is anyway bits of dead stone and dead bodies like ours. In that soil life is born again; the seed which sprouts in what we once were to reach higher towards the sky to be loved by the sun.

So this day of the dead is also the day of life. The veil doesn’t really “thin,” but we just learn to give attention to what’s always been around, those whose death meant life for us, those whom we will join in death in order to bring life to others.

The word vital has two meanings, but we forget the second. The first is something that is necessary, crucial, essential. But vital also means literally to be full of life, abundantly alive, energetic, and life-giving. To look through the gates of Samhain is to remember something no human likes to remember: death is vital, in both senses. Not only can nothing live without death, but it is death which gives life to life, makes life abundant, makes life lively and worth living.

At the end of everything is death, but death is also at the beginning of everything too.

The world we know is dying. The orders of meaning and authority, civilizations and societies, and all the things both glittering and rotting that humans have made are dying around us. But not quite dying, not yet. Capitalism and Liberal Democracy, our modern technological orders and governments built upon colonization and patriarchal violence, are dead but restless, still wreaking havoc upon the world because they refuse to stay in their graves.

Until they are finally put to rest, they cannot decompose into the earth, and we humans and the rest of the nature of which we are but one small part cannot meet the ecstatic consummation which will birth a new world.

Remember: death is vital. As the skin peels off and the limbs rot from the walking corpses of the civilizations around us, we await a new ecstasy, a new birth, a new life, one which cannot be born until they are finally put to rest.

As Gramsci said, “the old world is dying, a new world struggles to be born. This is the time of monsters.”

Happy Samhain. Happy Beltane.

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Why We're Investigating Extreme Politics in Underground Music
Dylan Miller , November 19th, 2018 12:12

With the far right in ascendence across the globe, there's never been a more necessary time to investigate fascist and racist infiltration, current and historical, into the underground culture we love. In an introductory essay to a new Quietus series, Dylan Miller explains why we're doing it


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For over 10 years now this website has championed underground music, art and culture which seeks to challenge its audience, provoke thought and subvert mainstream ideas. Part of our purpose is to celebrate artists who have left a unique stamp on the world through uncompromising vision and determination, artists like The Fall, Sunn O))), Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Gnaw Their Tongues, Dragged Into Sunlight, Death Grips, Fat White Family and The Body. Whilst sonically dissimilar, all these bands share a disregard for convention and a sincere desire to push artistic and intellectual boundaries.

Artistic transgression and subversion are vital elements of any socially progressive culture, but mindlessly pushing against the boundaries of what is considered acceptable, artistically, politically, or socially, is not necessarily progress.

In his excellent book England’s Hidden Reverse (2015), David Keenan argues: “to take morality so seriously you have to pick it apart yourself in order to rebuild it in the face of the truth of existence, in all its horror and beauty, is intensely moral”. To push limits of expression in such a way that boundaries are questioned and moral lines are overstepped (either intentionally or by sheer accident and experimentation) is a moral endeavour. But, through this process of picking apart the fabric of morality, the more positive and vital elements of our communities may, if we are not vigilant, be exposed to the threat of entryism – infiltration and appropriation – by those whose motives and beliefs are regressive and altogether more sinister.

Underground culture has frequently utilised the aesthetics and imagery of fascist or extremist ideologies as a means to subvert, satirise or mirror social, cultural and political trends. In the immediate post-war period we witnessed this in the biker gangs of the 50s, who openly flaunted swastikas and iron crosses brought home from WWII by their fathers, wearing them as an act of generational rebellion and, perhaps, twisted patriotism. They simultaneously celebrated the Allied victory over the Nazis whilst shocking the ‘straight,’ law-abiding citizens they sought to differentiate themselves from, and challenging the dour post-war values they sought to liberate themselves from.


Gradually – culture moved slowly in those days – these underground, potentially dangerous acts of social defiance manifested themselves in the new pop culture. Many have interpreted the wave David Bowie made outside Victoria Station on returning from Sweden in 1976 as a Nazi salute, while his coke-fuelled fascination with fascism rose to the surface on that year’s Station To Station, a record peppered with references to Nietzsche and the occultist Aleister Crowley. “I believe Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader. After all, Fascism is really nationalism” Bowie told a journalist that year, while musing to another that Hitler was “one of the first rock stars”. Bowie, to his credit, was publicly contrite the following year: “I have made my two or three glib, theatrical observations on English society and the only thing I can now counter with is to state that I am NOT a fascist.”

At that point, racism was part of mainstream culture. Later in 1976, Eric Clapton drunkenly declared his support for anti-immigrant firebrand Enoch Powell to an audience in Birmingham, who probably wanted to hear him yell “Laaaaylaaaaa”, rather than “get the foreigners out, get the wogs out, get the coons out" and "keep Britain white". That year, a shit one for Britain, which was plunging fast into and social and economic doldrums, saw a surge of support for the Far Right, in the shape of the National Front, and the formation of Rock Against Racism as a response from the musical underground.

But not everyone got the message. High street punks, following the lead of Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious, adopted the Nazi swastika as a symbolic rejection of the suburban society they wanted no part of. In Manchester, Joy Division’s Hitler Youth stylings and references to Rudolph Hess – not to mention the fact they were named after a concentration camp brothel from the novel House Of Dolls – can, perhaps generously, be read as clumsy, yet powerful attempts to find beauty in the macabre and to hold a mirror up to Britain’s own psychic ills. In London, Throbbing Gristle brought extreme performance art to the music scene and invented “industrial” music, creating the blueprint for four decades, and counting, of electronic noise outfits. TG’s logo cleverly merged Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists lightning bolt with Bowie’s glam fash-flash from the cover of 1973’s Aladdin Sane. TG called their Martello Street studio the Death Factory, an overt reference to the Nazis’ wartime death camps and titled tracks ‘Zyklon B Zombie’ (a reference to the gas used to exterminate their victims) and ‘Subhuman’. Initially oblique, the reasoning behind their extreme references were gradually made explicit: an attempt to expose the hypocrisies of politicians and the conservative media, and to draw parallels between the mundane brutalities of day-to-day life and the horrors that mankind so often inflicts upon itself.

Following in TG’s wake came a grimly-determined race to the bottom, as the early 1980s experimental noise scene entirely blurred, or perhaps simply erased, the lines between provocative art and outright political incitement. Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, Death in June and others sought to out-outrage audiences, and each other, with visual and lyrical preoccupations with far right politics, serial killers, rape and sadism. The deliberate obfuscation of motive was a standard technique for generating mystique amongst many of these groups – did they really want to move in with the Moors Murderers and bring about a new Holocaust, or did they just like shouting about it? Many of these early noiseboys, now older and perhaps wiser, put it down to youthful indiscretion; some have chosen to maintain their tired mystique, while others remain defiantly unapologetic.

In America Boyd Rice, aka American noise artist Non, still supported by Mute Records, has spoken publicly about amongst other things, his Social Darwinism, his misogyny and his unusual beliefs about rape and, over four decades, surrounded himself with a wretched pantheon that includes Tom Metzger (leader of US neo-Nazi organisation White Aryan Resistance), Bob Heick (founder of American Front, another White Nationalist order), Charles Manson (whom he visited in prison on a number of occasions) and Michael Moynihan, of neo-folk/martial band Blood Axis, himself for many years an intellectual influencer for America’s new right.

In Europe, cryptic references to the ‘metapolitical’ fascism of European New Right ideologues like Julius Evola, Alan de Benoist and Aleksandr Dugin are de rigeur for the neo-folk/martial post industrial music popularised by Death in June, whose only core member Douglas Pearce is, shall we say, unguarded in his vituperation of racial diversity and multiculturalism – greatest hits include “The West’s liberalism will be its death” and “Britain imported millions of unskilled labourers from the colonies for that kind of work and look what a huge success that was”. Former DIJ member Tony Wakeford was at one time a British National Front activist (though he recanted his racist past in 2007), while his follow up groups Above the Ruins and Sol Invictus have included members – like Gary Smith and Ian Read – with direct links to right-wing extremism. It’s hardly surprising then that convicted National Action activist Claudia Patatas should be seen photographed, a beaming fan, alongside Pearce, or that a member of the murderous American neo-nazi organisation Atomwaffen Division, is seen sporting a striking Death In June totenkopf T Shirt.

In Scandinavia during the early 1990s, young Black Metallers prioritised the visceral impact of their look and their music over intellectual considerations. And, within the largely equal-opportunities misanthropy central to the ethos of the scene, a vein of explicitly National Socialist Black Metal emerged. Its poster boy was, and still is, Varg Vikernes of Burzum, whose beliefs that “true Norwegian culture” was being eroded by Judeo-Christian values were backed up with a series of notorious church burnings. Having served 14 years for the murder of Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, Vikernes now lives in France, spreading far right propaganda via his ‘Thulean Perspective’ YouTube channel. Countless National Socialist black metal bands have since sprung up across the globe, and as with the noise and neofolk scenes before it, it’s perhaps no surprise that fans of a musical aesthetic which thrives on darkness, misanthropy and sonic brutality, should be drawn to the outer edges of politics and occultism. Membership of organisations like the crypto-nazi-satanic Order Of Nine Angles have grown dramatically as a result.

The latter’s infiltration of the UK underground music will be the the subject of the first in an irregular series of features examining the ways in which extremist political ideas have entered (predominantly) underground music cultures. Looking at bands, albums, labels and movements the articles will attempt to understand, and present clearly, the motives of the players involved, the ideologies they address, the historical contexts within which they were formed and the problems that they may raise today.

We hope to discover why some people think it acceptable to wear a Burzum or Death in June t-shirt in public, when they would never dream of wearing of wearing the slogans of a White Nationalist organisation, or a far right political party; and we hope to understand why it might have been OK for Siouxsie Sioux to wear a swastika armband in 1976, but Christine and the Queens probably wouldn’t get away with it now (nor, presumably, would she want to).

Fear not, this isn’t the birth of a new, conservative era for the Quietus. We aren’t going to fall into the kneejerk-triggered traps that state that artists should be held responsible for the actions of their fans, or that participation in ‘negative’, misanthropic music scenes leads one to acts of violence. Real world atrocities are the result of a multitude of inter-related social, economic and psychological factors – culture can, of course, play a part in shaping and influencing events, normalising certain destructive attitudes and beliefs for example, but we know from years of experience that listening to heavy metal won’t make you a satanic murderer, that listening to Marilyn Manson didn’t cause the Columbine school shootings, and that rap, grime and drill aren’t the cause of gang violence.

But, what (if any) responsibility do we have to police our musical and cultural scenes? What responsibility do artists have to police their fanbase? Are an artist's personality defects, behavioural flaws or political beliefs reason enough not to at least explore their work?

There is an argument to be made that music scenes and artistic communities are self-policing, that the majority of small underground and experimental scenes are populated by reasonable people, that arseholes are usually pushed out simply because nobody wants to be around them. Following this logic, any attempts at political entryism by, say, a far right element would simply be excluded or ignored. Sadly, however, history has shown that this is an idealised, romantic vision of the cultural underground and arseholes, especially arseholes with bands or a following, are always amongst us, along with the same bigotry and ignorance that exist in the wider world.

Our task is not an easy one. At a time when the notion of objective truth is regularly called into question and the Orwellian practice of ‘doublethink’ is becoming an everyday reality, separating ‘difficult’ or ‘provocative’ art from genuinely anti-democratic far right sentiments becomes an increasingly difficult task. The xenophobic rhetoric of the far right filters down into the underground just as ideas emerging from the underground influence mainstream politics and culture.

Boyd Rice and Douglas Pearce might be brushed off as hipster pranksters using confrontational, dadaist or situationist methods to achieve their artistic ends, in part because underground culture audiences – who are, predominantly, good people – find it hard to accept that people like them mingle with people like us. The same blend of ignorance and denial means wearing a Burzum or Death In June T-shirt can be considered a harmless, edgier-than-thou exercise in naughty provocation, rather than the end result of an exchange that involves paying economic and cultural capital to people who would likely do many of us harm if so empowered.

The times have changed. Playing into the myth of harmless artistic provocation in the name of cultural libertarianism is simply feeding a beast that would remove many of our own personal, social and cultural freedoms. As music fans and supporters of underground cultures in all their raging complexity and beautiful diversity, we have a duty, and an imperative, to question, reappraise and, where necessary, hold to account, the artists who we listen to and support.
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Re: Racialist Asatru

Postby American Dream » Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:57 am

Decolonizing Zwarte Piet

Darryl Barthe | Race & Ethnicity | Analysis | January 1st, 2018

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The connections between the Germanic god of Magic, War and Rulership, known variously as "Woten," "Woden," and "Odin," and "St. Nicholas," "Father Christmas," "Sinterklaas," and "Santa Clause" are convincingly documented by a number of scholars. The figure of "Sleipnir," Odin's 8-legged horse, is re-imagined in the English poem "The Night Before Christmas," as "eight tiny reindeer," for example. The All-father's habit of visiting unsuspecting families and testing their hospitality is the reason that American children leave Santa milk and cookies ("koekjes," being the original Dutch word; what Americans call "cookies" are called "biscuits" in the UK) and why Dutch children leave hay or carrots for Sinterklaas' horse. It is ironic that this tradition, grounded in a belief in the transcendent, moral, value of hospitality, should be expressed in blackface, a mode of drama and comedy steeped in a history of racist dehumanization and exploitation.


ImageIn the case of the "naughty" children -those who do not show the All-father hospitality-there are a number of re-interpretations of the Old Norse myth which involved Odin, in some way, cursing the offenders. All involve some reinterpretation of the mythical "svartalfar," or "dark elves," who controlled all the minerals under the mountains. So, good children get gold while bad children get coal; good children get presents while bad children get abducted by the dark elves in a manner suggested by the German Christmas tradition of "Krampus," and the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin. In the Santa Claus tradition, the svartalfar have been reimagined as "Santa's elves" who leave children lumps of coal in their stockings if they are naughty, as opposed to treats.


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