The psychopaths in power | winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) There can hardly be a more blatant and ubiquitous symbol of the industrial-imperialist domination of our world than the roads it keeps on building and enlarging. They scar the landscape both natural and human, cutting through forests, hillsides and communities, as well as allowing the extraction of … Continue reading Leviathan’s Law and the occupation of our lands| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) What can we do when our societies have been taken over by a gang of murderous psychopaths who, rather than stalking the corridors of power, should be confined in padded cells in high-security mental institutions? The first step is to tear away the mask of respectability, even … Continue reading Breaking the evil spell| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) All of us suffer, on a permanent basis, from the evil inflicted upon this world by the psychopaths in power. [1] It is in the very air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the society in which we are caged. But most of … Continue reading The reign of the beast| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) “Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense…| winter oak
Number 106 In this issue: 1. The Occupation by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) A lot of very clever people – economists, historians, sociologists and so on – spend their lives devising very clever theories about why our society is the way it is today. But none of their analysis will ever get … Continue reading The Acorn – 106| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Has the external form of the Christian Church long been taken over by dark forces? This is the provocative suggestion made by the French philosopher Jacques Ellul, himself a Christian, in his 1984 book La subversion du Christianisme. He warns: “There exists a demonic and infernal power … Continue reading Christianity and the forces of evil| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Last weekend I spent a night in the heights of the Cévennes mountains, near to the source of the Vidourle. As I gazed up at the great swathe of the Milky Way and marvelled at the sparkling infinity all around, my mind went back to other moments … Continue reading The night sky and the truth| winter oak
Paul Cudenec presents his latest book (and reads his words here) I have long been fascinated by the way in which the dominant system tries to restrict our thinking on so many levels. We are always …| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) The Ford Foundation of New York City presents itself as a “progressive” and left-liberal entity. It says it is “a $16 billion internat…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) It is not our belonging to nature that has been stolen from us by the industrial system, but our awareness of that belonging. The distinction is an impo…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) If it was a certain kind of religious thinking that paved the road to this modern hell, then it was a certain kind of scientific thinking that pushed us…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) In recent essays I have been looking at the divine magic of this world and the ways in which this has always been recognised and celebrated in tradition…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) As the bulldozers of power and control progressively destroyed organic folk customs and beliefs across the world, some areas held out for longer. One su…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec with photos by Ibraar Hussein [Audio version] “In the time when gods, spirits and human beings lived together in nature with the plants and the animals, everyone communicated,…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A gr…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec I have always had a rather uneasy relationship with the “socialist” and “communist” left. On the one hand I have been deeply inspired by many thinkers and re…| winter oak
