("I'm thinking we might build a list of these sorts of singular figures. Something akin to what JMG did here with occult history, and is doing now with his lineage. If we had to create a list of a dozen or two dozen masters, from around the world, whose work would inspire a parallel society, who would they be? I am nominating Chadwick as the first suggestion. Who else gets to join the crew?")
I can suggest some works worth reading that seem pertinent to determining what's required to become parallel. Ernst Jünger's "Forest Passage" and Vaclav Havel's "Power of the Powerless." Both have something to say about what is needed on inner levels to determine the needs of outer parallels.
Of course, the dead horse I've beaten before shall be flogged again here: I think it's worth looking at the Amish as a current example, though it may be that the state recognizes that the Amish are no threat to it and that's why they're pretty much left alone?
When I'm feeling very bleak (like the middle of last night), and I think we're all going to "be happy owning nothing," I take solace from wandering mendicants and mystics, and from Peace Pilgrim, and the guy who eschewed cars and talking for 20 years and did just fine on his long wander. There's also the "Three Mules" who have come through my town now and again, and Aaron Fletcher and his sheep.
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Re: What might be possible - inspiration
Date: 2022-11-21 05:42 pm (UTC)("I'm thinking we might build a list of these sorts of singular figures. Something akin to what JMG did here with occult history, and is doing now with his lineage. If we had to create a list of a dozen or two dozen masters, from around the world, whose work would inspire a parallel society, who would they be? I am nominating Chadwick as the first suggestion. Who else gets to join the crew?")
I can suggest some works worth reading that seem pertinent to determining what's required to become parallel. Ernst Jünger's "Forest Passage" and Vaclav Havel's "Power of the Powerless." Both have something to say about what is needed on inner levels to determine the needs of outer parallels.
Of course, the dead horse I've beaten before shall be flogged again here: I think it's worth looking at the Amish as a current example, though it may be that the state recognizes that the Amish are no threat to it and that's why they're pretty much left alone?
When I'm feeling very bleak (like the middle of last night), and I think we're all going to "be happy owning nothing," I take solace from wandering mendicants and mystics, and from Peace Pilgrim, and the guy who eschewed cars and talking for 20 years and did just fine on his long wander. There's also the "Three Mules" who have come through my town now and again, and Aaron Fletcher and his sheep.