Wandervogel

Journal publishing high-quality essays and radiocasts on nature, philosophy, and religion.

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"Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully." —Goethe

A free 1.5hr radiocast on elements of paganism in the inspiring thoughts and beautiful art of the German Romantics, and implications for today:

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@istvaeonic returns with a second installment of his series on ancient views of nature and rejection of "supernaturalism", with a novel application of Walter Otto's works on Greece to the Germanic pantheon and worldview.

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@istvaeonic returns with second installment of his series, "Against Supernaturalism in Germanic Heathenry". In it, a novel interpretation of Otto's "The Homeric Gods" to the gods of the Germanics gives insights into ancient views of nature.

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"Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully." —Goethe

A free 1.5hr radiocast on elements of paganism in the inspiring thoughts and beautiful art of the German Romantics, and implications for today:

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"Romantic Paganism": A free 1.5hr radiocast

On the image of the Greeks in German Romanticism, the beginning of a new religion...

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For the Greek, madness was superior to sanity, for only the former comes from the gods.

The third and final part of a series on ecstasy and religious experience, on the irrationality of the Greek and his statements of daimons & psyche; a presentation of "the Ecstatic Principle".

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"Experience cosmically!"—an unpublished command of Nietzsche. But what was meant? One word unlocks the key, and it was well-spoken in German art and philosophy: Rausch.

Part II of series on "ecstasy" and religious experience, investigating Nietzsche's Dionysian "intoxication".

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"Ecstasy—not morality, not reason, not tradition—is the ruling principle of all that is religious."

The first of a short series in a phenomenological investigation of religious experience, beginning with "participation" in animism and the masks of Greek tragedy. Please enjoy:

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"Ecstasy—not morality, not reason, not tradition—is the ruling principle of all that is religious."

The first of a short series in a phenomenological investigation of religious experience, beginning with "participation" in animism and the masks of Greek tragedy. Please enjoy:

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https://t.co/fftuBjAwEe

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@istvaeonic begins series on Germanic heathenry with a critique of the "supernaturalism" of Semitic religions, which must be contrasted with the immanent natural religion of man's organic past.

In first installment, he investigates ancient meaning of "nature"... enjoy: