Path of Totality

Ed Odyssey Confessional I admit it! It’s an election year, and I have election season fever. This happens to me every four years, and I can’t shake it. Please God, help me overcome it. That is all.

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National Socialism as the Highest Morality (2 of 2) “One does not merely have pride in one’s own ethnicity or geographic location; one has an almost mystical appreciation for the holiness of one’s own morality. And if a sense of shared cultural history and destiny can be understood as nationhood, then pride in one’s group is only otherwise known as nationalism. The holy veneration on one’s social group — sprung from the liquid roots of blood-bound kinsfolk — is a kind of mystical socialism. A bond that is driven by shared culture, history, destiny, and blood might be otherwise called National Socialsm.” — from Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition, pgs. 28-29

National Socialism as the Highest Morality (1 of 2) “Human nature…as the source of societal bonds, is the source of morality. That which acts against the social bonds acts against human nature — it is unnatural. Objective morality — i.e., morality that exists independent of human perception — does not exist. This is not to say that morality does not exist, for it certainly does — as assuredly as culture exists. What this means is that morality is always group focused, or relationship dependent. That which impedes or precludes advancement of the group is evil; that which fosters or enables group advancement is sublime.”

Trump as Precursor “The traditionalist roots of American culture have degraded into partisan bickering, gridlock, corruption, selfish indulgence, individualism, and, worst of all, blind servitude to abstractions. Yet just as Rome had her Caesar to overcome decay, so too will America have hers.” — from Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition, p. 18

#ScienceSaturday No. 93 Analemma Timelapse of the sun photographed daily from the same location and time for a year and a half. The figure of 8 is called an analemma.

Mystic Roots As Destiny “A humanity cut off from its mystic roots is fated for machine-like alienation. This alienation imparts nihilism; this nihilism offers only degradation, and this, in turn leads to socio-cultural death. This death — this darkest night — is followed by the glowing sun of spiritual renewal. Schopenhauer said this world is a will-to-live; Nietzsche said this world is a will-to-power: they are both right, and it is time that proves their case over and again. Hail the lightning that rends the night — hail the sun that follows the dark!” — from Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition, pgs. 6-7

Jewish Entanglement “By the time of the two fratricidal world wars, the world was already firmly in Jewish hands; the wars wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Thus, these wars were not transitional markers, but only the Germanic folk’s paroxysmal rejections of inevitability.” — from the acknowledgments page of Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition

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Nature (2 of 2) “Essentially, Heidegger identifies phusis with being. For the Greeks, ‘nature’ is the very activity of the world around us continually emerging, unfolding, arising, unconcealing, appearing to us. Note, however, that there is a ‘to us’. Things only appear to a subject. They are only ‘unconcealed’ to a subject from whom something can be hidden. They only ‘emerge’ to a subject that stands outside them, experiencing their emergence from hiddenness. Thus for phusis/being to ‘happen’, the clearing [awareness or openness] is necessary.” — from Being & “The Birds” (2024) by Derek Hawthorne, Cinephile Books edition, pgs. 82-83

Nature (1 of 2) “Heidegger points out that there is a huge difference between the Greek phusis and its Latinized translation, ‘nature’. The difference basically consists in the fact that ‘nature’ has come to have the connotation of a collection of things that offer themselves to us to be gazed upon or made over in some fashion. By contrast, the Greek phusis suggests a dynamic process. The word is derived from phuein, meaning ‘to generate or grow’.”

The Ego as Archetype (2 of 2) #EgoSeries No. 2 “Have you ever considered the possibility that the technocrats of the science of Kali Yuga managed to give an ‘ego’ to their electronic brains, their robots, merely by moving a lever? Will the same ‘ego’ survive when the robot is destroyed? Will the same ‘ego’ be reproduced in other machines? Mightn’t something similar have happened in the case of the human being? This horrifying possibility is for me a further proof that consciousness is an archetype which forges a path through the universes, seeking to give itself a shape, and it uses the human being in the same way as it would use a machine . . . . I have never managed to say this openly: That the ‘ego’ is an Archetype.” — from NOS: Book of the Resurrection (1984) by Miguel Serrano [Routledge & Kegan Paul Edition, translated in collaboration with the author by Gela Jacobson, pgs. 66-68] Featured movie scene is from A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

The Ego as Archetype (1 of 2) #EgoSeries No. 2 “What is the ‘ego’? Where was it before it entered the child’s body” I asked. He answered me with other questions: “Perhaps it was the ‘guardian angel’ which the child later loses, when the ‘ego’ enters his body? Or perhaps the ‘guardian angel’ is that wise man, who goes away when the ‘ego’ enters the child’s body and waits for ‘your’ return? Or is the ‘ego’ a point, a fold in the mantle of the persona, of the Monad, of which only a tiny part can enter a body made of dense matter? I have been asking myself [these same questions] for an entire eternity, without obtaining an answer” Featured movie scene is from A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Rudolf Hess, the last prisoner of Spandau, takes a lonely walk along the garden path. “And I, the last, go forth companionless, and the days darken round me, and the years, among new men, strange faces, other minds.” — from Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Rudolf Hess April 26, 1894 - August 17, 1987 From his final statement at Nuremberg, and the greatest political statement of the post-1945 era.

#ScienceSaturday No. 92 Scientists May Have Discovered the Pathway to Element 120—the Holy Grail of Chemistry “For decades, scientists have predicted the existence of an ‘island of stability’ in the extended catalog of elements, and their isotopes. Titanium 50 has 22 protons plus 28 neutrons, and is very stable. Using a beam of titanium-50 to irradiate a sample, could point toward the elusive ‘island of stability’ for even heavier nuclear elements—and show researchers a route to create the next feasible element, number 120.” — from the article https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61711013/scientists-discover-pathway-element-120-holy-grail-chemistry/ “The involution of the matter of the Demiurge began to quicken.” — Miguel Serrano