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The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of Does it Matter?

2,245 words French translation here Alan Watts Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality New York: Vintage, 1971 Does it Matter? is one of my favorite Alan Watts books, to which I have...

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Remembering Alan Watts: January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973

1,500 words Alan Watts is one of my favorite writers. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, Watts was raised an Anglican, but became a Buddhist at age 15. In 1941, while Watts was living in New York...

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Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

1,598 words Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, 1885–1921, photographed in 1921 Translated by Greg Johnson Czech translation here Translator’s Note: The following text, published in...

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Recollections of Ungern-Sternberg

4,492 words Editor’s Note: Ferdinand Ossendowski, 1876–1945 The following two chapters from Ferdinand Ossendowski’s Beasts, Men, and Gods give a good sense of Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von...

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To Re-Read Hesse

Hermann Hesse, 1877–1962 474 words Translated by Alex Kurtagic Unfortunately, the deep writer and poet Hermann Hesse was falsified and vulgarized by a world in decline. He needs to be re-read today by...

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The King of the World

4,316 words Editor’s Note: The following chapters constitute the concluding Part V of Ferdinand Ossendowski’s Beasts, Men, and Gods. CHAPTER XLVI THE SUBTERRANEAN KINGDOM “Stop!” whispered my old...

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Podcast no. 14Interview with Charles Krafft, Part 1

time: 56:15 / 7,643 words To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Michael Polignano: Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio! I’m your host,...

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Baron von Ungern-Sternberg

1,076 words English original here V polední době se objevila spousta spisů o postavě, o níž se, i přes její mimořádný význam ve vřavách první světové války, ví jen málo: mluvím o Romanu Mikolaji...

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Remembering Sven Hedin

2,071 words Editor’s Note:  We are presenting the following excerpts from Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews in honor of the birthday of the great Swedish explorer Sven...

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Initiatic Centers & History

Nicholas Roerich, “Tibet, Himalayas,” 1933 2,150 words Translated by Cologero Salvo Given the confusions that abound in this area, it is opportune to clarify first what we mean, in general, by...

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The “Mysteries of Woman” in East & West, Part 2

2,963 words Part 1 of 2 Translation anonymous, edited by Greg Johnson Editor’s Note: The following essay was originally published in English in East and West, vol. 9, no. 4 (1958): 349–55. This is...

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The Right to One’s Own Life in East & West

Peter Paul Rubens, “The Death of Seneca,” c. 1615, Museo del Prado, Madrid 3,577 words Translation anonymous, ed. Greg Johnson In these short notes I shall not attempt to deal with the question of the...

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Zen & the West

Crow Screen, Japan, 17th century, Seattle Art Museum 3,639 words Translator anonymous, ed. by Greg Johnson Zen may be regarded as the last discovery of Western spiritualistic circles in sympathy with...

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Spiritual Virility in Buddhism

4,415 words It is the fate of almost all religions to become, so to say, denatured; as they spread and develop, they gradually recede from their original spirit, and their more popular and spurious...

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Oriental & Mediterranean Ancient Erotic Symbolism

3,188 words The theme of an original duality or polarity related to that of the sexes occurs in the traditions of almost all cultures. This duality is sometimes expressed in purely metaphysical terms,...

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The Japanese Hara Theory & its Relations to East & West, Part 1

4,045 words Part 1 of 2 On first receiving Karlfried Graf Dürckheim’s book, Hara: Man’s Terrestrial Center,[1] we had thought of writing one of the usual reviews, calling attention to it as an...

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D. H. Lawrence on Idealism & Evil

B. J. O. Nordfeldt, “D. H. Lawrence and the Three Fates” 4,086 words The Origin of Evil D. H. Lawrence believed in the reality of evil, but he believed that its source lay in the human soul....

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The Pursuit of HappinessAn Overview of the Course

28:24 / 154 words To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Beginning in August of 1999, I gave a series of eight lectures on...

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Le materialisme spirituel d’Alan Watts

2,615 words English original here Alan Watts Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality New York: Vintage, 1971 Edition française : Matière à penser Denoël, 1975 Does it Matter ? [Est-ce...

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There & Then:Personal & Memorial Reflections on Alan Watts (1915-1973)

7,833 words Alan Watts–Here and Now: Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion Ed. Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012 “It is the peculiar nature of my...

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