Rediscovering rootedness | 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
Number 105 In this issue: 1. Impact, Zimpact! by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) For several years now I have been warning about the threat to our freedom from “impact investment”. I have described this as “the new weapon of exploitation being launched against 99.9% of humankind by the tiny gang of ultra-rich … Continue reading The Acorn – 105| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) The embrace of our belonging to nature is an important step in restoring a sense of the sacred to our world, as we saw in my last essay, but it still does not go far enough. To achieve full withness in relation to our place in the … Continue reading Becoming what we are meant to be| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) “The only hope, or so it seems to me, lies in a reenchantment of the world”, writes Morris Berman in his book thusly titled. [1] “Some kind of holistic or participatory consciousness and a corresponding socio-political formation have to emerge if we are to survive as a … Continue reading The reenchantment of our world| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Because the magic in our lives has been deliberately removed by the industrial slave-system, because our all-round withness has been deliberately stolen from us, we are obliged to take deliberate steps to bring it back. One such practical initiative with which I have been involved in recent … Continue reading Coming back to life| 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) Over recent months I have been writing a lot about our belonging both to nature and to the living organism that is the cosmos. I have described some of the ways in which humans have traditionally expressed their awareness of this belonging and how we can sometimes … Continue reading Exposing the life-hating criminal conspiracy| winter oak
by W.D. James Heroes are willing to give their lives, and in the old tales usually do, to protect their homes and loved ones. Their deaths are literally salvific. Beowulf suffering his mortal wounds acquired in destroying the dragon saves the people of his homeland. Of course, the archetype here is Jesus Christ whose death … Continue reading Death and Poetry (The Myth of Philosophy 7)| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Over recent centuries we have, as Mircea Eliade points out, witnessed “a gigantic transformation of the World taken on by industrial societies and made possible by the desacralisation of the Cosmos under the effect of scientific thought and, above all, by sensational discoveries in physics and chemistry”. … Continue reading The Invisible College and the plan for our enslavement| 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 W.D. James Socrates had a demon. Or, to avoid misunderstanding, he had a daemon, to stick to the Greek which does not have the negative connotation that the English word derived from it carries. Socrates and the divine In this series we have been tracking how Socrates, as the representative of philosophy, is portrayed … Continue reading Socrates’ Demon (The Myth of Philosophy 6)| 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 W.D. James From what we have learned of Socrates thus far in this essay series, it might sound odd to speak of ‘Socrates’ doctrine.’ After all, he had claimed that any wisdom he possessed was kn…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Our ancestors enjoyed not just a very different way of living to ours today but also a very different way of being. Morris Berman writes of the supposed…| winter oak
All the following books are available as free pdfs: The Global Gang Running Our World and Ruining Our Lives by Paul Cudenec (2024) Physical book on sale here. The Single Global Mafia by P…| winter oak
We have just (belatedly) learned of the death of French dissident philosopher Jacques Camatte, at the age of 90, and by way of tribute are sharing this profile from the Organic Radicals website. Ja…| winter oak
by W.D. James In this series we have been exploring how in his Apology, Plato presents his mentor Socrates as a new sort of hero. Heroes fight monsters and previously we looked at who the monsters …| 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 W.D. James What could a businessman ever want moreThan to have us sucking in his storeWe owe you nothing, you have no controlYou are not what you own – Fugazi, Merchandisei As we saw in th…| winter oak
This new article is by our friend Mees Baaijen, author of The Predators Versus the People. Mees will be giving a talk on the book at Real Left’s meeting in Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK, next S…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec Russian thinker Alexandr Dugin (1962-) is often presented in Western media as being “the most dangerous philosopher in the world”, a radical critic of modernity. For tha…| winter oak
by Mike Driver “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two y…| 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
Updated 9/9/22 Charles the Great Resetter Global goals Impact imperialism Powerful players Banksters, cheats and spooks The bringer of light? Neo-colonial land-grabbing Shaping history 1. Charles t…| winter oak
