WOMAN AS POWER: THE “DURGA” QUALITY

New Substack article exploring the abyssal nature of the feminine, prompted by a question from a reader

https://open.substack.com/pub/PhilosophiCat/com.philosophicat/p/woman-as-power-the-durga-quality?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

It has been brought to my attention that Inner Traditions, publishers of many of Evola’s most important works, has come under attack by SJWs for publishing his 3-volume Intro to Magic set.

If you are on Facebook, please go support them (civilly) in the comments on their page: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/3gxnzKqHRd3kV2f4/?mibextid=PkCAf5

Or better yet, buy the books! The boxed set of three hardcovers would be a nice addition to any bookshelf.

Inner Traditions is still coming under attack by the SJW mob for publishing Julius Evola’s books.

They are under attack on Instagram as well and would appreciate a show of support on that platform. If you have an IG account, please go leave them a supportive comment.

They have also informed me that they have no intention of bowing to the mob.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzERwRquqcY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

𝐀𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐭 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬

I have been working for over a year on the research and writing for the next Revolt Against the Modern World episode, "The Soul of Chivalry". The script is in excess of 14,000 words and will be our longest episode yet. By comparison, our previous longest episode was "only" 6700 words. I expect it to be over 2 hours long!

To be fair, this is a long chapter in the book and one that is filled with all kinds of interesting points that deserve to be developed more thoroughly. We'll be covering knighthood, symbolism surrounding themes like horses and women, the Holy Grail, the Knights Templar, what it takes to be a chivalric hero, and more.

I want to give a big thanks to those who have continued to support this project, whether that be through Patreon or SubscribeStar, becoming a YouTube channel member, subscribing to my Substack, or by sharing the content. I appreciate that so many have stuck by, despite the fact that it must seem like I've done very little in the way of content this year. It's been over a year since the last episode, after all, and I couldn't fault anyone for wondering if the project had been abandoned.

The reason is both that this is a massive project that required prioritisation, meaning any additional content had to take a backseat, plus just having to work a LOT this year and not having as much free time. But things have still been happening behind the scenes! And the silver lining is that since the last episode, a number of new artistic tools have become available to us to make this the best looking and best sounding episode yet.

It will still be a few months before the episode is ready for release, but I think you'll find that it was worth the wait. If you're new to the series or you have some episodes to catch up on, now is the time to do so. The Soul of Chivalry will certainly be enjoyable as a standalone video, but it does build on previous concepts, so you'll enjoy it more if you've watched the other episodes.

All episodes can be found here at this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQhWiiSrOiNp_k79baRYgFzbNEvl41tH8&si=tEyOSFyTNYlO9XwO

Coming soon in the Spring of 2024: Revolt Against the Modern World, Episode 14: The Soul of Chivalry

A two-hour deep dive into the transcendent quest of knighthood, the legend of the Holy Grail, the Templars, the meaning of esoteric symbols such as the woman or the horse, what it meant to be a hero, and the political and religious intrigue that caused the final break with the World of Tradition in the West.

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NEW SUBSTACK ARTICLE
An excerpt from the upcoming Revolt episode, The Soul of Chivalry

https://PhilosophiCat/com.philosophicat.substack.com/p/the-making-of-a-hero

Julius Evola on the Solar Masculine and the Lunar Feminine

A discussion with Academic Agent in which we discuss the symbolism of the solar and the lunar, the metaphysical masculine and feminine principles, how these things manifest throughout the cycle of ages and in men and women, and many related tangents, such as initiation, Atlantis and Hyperborea, matriarchy, the afterlife, modern examples and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vEoiPagOW8

You were probably told by your schoolteachers that the ancients were dumb because they believed the earth was the centre of the cosmos, but actually it was your teachers who were suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Here’s why the ancients used a geocentric model of the universe, instead of a heliocentric model:

https://open.substack.com/pub/PhilosophiCat/com.philosophicat/p/from-empiricism-to-the-empyrean?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Knightly Virtues for the Modern Man - new Substack article

Branching off from one of the topics we’ll be looking at in the next Revolt episode, here we consider what the knightly virtues of prowess, loyalty, and honour have to offer us as an antidote to the poison of modernity

https://open.substack.com/pub/PhilosophiCat/com.philosophicat/p/knightly-virtues-for-the-modern-man?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

ANNOUNCEMENT: Our fourth annual Writing Competition is now up!

Our theme for this year’s writing contest is “Thinking about Rome.” We are looking for stories and poems about the perennial nature of human experiences, whether they happened yesterday or two thousand years ago, as well as the intersection of our struggles today and those of times long past. Submissions can be about the echoes of the classical world in modernity, the shadow of modernity in the classical world, or even about the inspiration one draws from those that came before them. The prompt is not limited to these ideas; we wish to keep the topic broad so as to encourage a wide array of ideas. And life is full of ups and downs, so the mood need not be limited to themes of victory and triumph, but can also cover pensiveness, heartbreak, or anything else.

There are two submission categories: Poetry (of any style) and Short Story (fiction).

Two $600 prizes for best in each category
Two $400 prizes for the runner-up in each category

Submissions open on March 1st - spread the word!

More information: https://antelopehillpublishing.com/competition/

By now you will have heard that my husband Sam Melia was sentenced today to two years in prison for his intentions behind publishing stickers that the prosecution said were both lawful and truthful.

The sentencing guidelines gave the judge the option of choosing anywhere between 2 years and 6 years, and the minimum was given due to the lack of seriousness regarding the offence. The judge could’ve suspended the sentence (and sent Sam home) at two years, however he chose not to and said the reason why was because he wanted the sentencing to act as a deterrent to other people with the same beliefs.

Before today, Sam met with his Probation Officer who said that Sam was no risk to the public and there was no chance of reoffending, and recommended a community order. The judge chose to ignore this.

The worst case scenario is that Sam will serve 12 months in prison. Potentially, he could serve 6 - 8 months. He is considered low risk and could therefore be on day release from as early as in a few months.

If you take anything from this, let it remind you why we do what we do. We live in a country where our people are attacked by the anti-White state for advocating for their own safety and interests.

I don’t want cuddles and condolences. I don’t want thoughts and prayers. I want you to join me in filling the void that Sam leaves for the next few months. There are no excuses. Not everybody has to be on the front line. There is plenty you can do behind the scenes.

Sam should hold his head up high knowing that he put his head above the parapet when many others dare not. He didn’t back down at any point over the last three years, nor did he take any offer they offered him. He remained defiant for us, and now it’s our turn to repay his sacrifice by carrying his flame until he is back.

Mark Collett has organised a fundraiser for Sam and Laura here: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia

New track, "We Won't Fight For You", a collaboration with Jody Kay, now live on Odysee:

https://odysee.com/@xuriousmusic:2/We-Won't-Fight-For-You:9

Later today I’ll make my appearance on Lambda’s game show, where he challenges guests to discuss a hodgepodge of impromptu topics.

We don’t know what the topics will be before going on and just have to riff on the spot about whichever wild card topic we get and then get points for how well we did.

So hit the notification bell on his channel, it premieres at pm Eastern.

https://www.youtube.com/live/GWzkpK2GNzE?si=YXnI7lbO6FZ4kgOu

One of the biggest barriers to shadow integration is the over-identification with an idealised image of ourselves.

The shadow is a Jungian concept and this is a place in our unconscious mind where we tuck away all the parts of ourselves that we reject. We impose a “blind spot” on parts of ourselves so that we can label certain qualities as “not me.”

As a result, we are then no longer aware of those qualities within ourselves, but they are still there stuffed away in the shadow. Without any conscious awareness of that part of ourselves, they become autonomous from our conscious personality and control or manipulate us invisibly. (Invisibly to us, anyway— other people around us can often spot their presence easily!)

Shadow work is about making these parts of ourselves conscious again and reintegrating them back into the whole.

But the barrier is the idealised image we have of ourselves, the egoic clinging to the parts of ourselves we’ve labelled as “good”, while pushing away the parts of ourselves we’ve labelled “bad”, and worse, denying they are a part of us.

Of course we all want to be the more idealised version of ourselves, but there are no inherently good or bad parts of ourselves. They are fundamentally neutral and can be expressed in positive or negative ways. However, when pushed into the shadow, they are more likely to express negatively and cause us to behave in unhealthy ways.

Two things happen when we push parts of ourselves into the shadow:
1) it creates a split within us that produces shame around that part of ourselves
2) it disconnects us from anything positive that trait could have offered us

This is why over-identifying with the “good parts” becomes a barrier to integration.

It’s important to hold space for all aspects of ourselves honestly. When we push those parts away, we just become blind to how they are showing up in our lives. We haven’t actually achieved a state of goodness, but just built a facade for our ego.

Splitting yourself into good and bad parts takes us you of alignment with wholeness.

You’re only taking what your human mind considers to be the good and the human mind has a very limited understanding of what is good or perfect. What is already ideal and perfect is exactly how God made you, warts and all.

When you over-identify with goodness, you trade in the perfect wholeness of yourself for a very shallow and flawed understanding of what is perfect or good or ideal. Our idea of what’s ideal is usually just what serves us the best, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into wholeness.

The idea that you should be something other than what you are is where you run into problems.

Shadow integration isn’t about “fixing” those things, but just becoming more whole, more consciously aware of the objective reality of yourself. It’s like a form of radical self-acceptance, of just meeting yourself where you are at, not where you wish you were.

That doesn’t mean we need to express our shadow qualities in detrimental ways, it’s not permission to act like a jerk. But it is a taking stock of where you’re at and then dealing with it honestly.

To give some examples, let’s say you find selfishness in your shadow. Look at where that comes from, without labelling it as good or bad. Maybe it comes from feeling like no one else will look out for your needs so you go to an extreme in trying to look out for yourself and end up trampling on others. Now that you’re aware that, you can find more constructive ways of managing it.

Often there will be some kind of splitting of opposites where we label one quality as good and its opposite as bad. Maybe we decide that masculinity is good and project an idealisation onto it, while labelling femininity as bad and demonising it. But someone could just as equally hold the opposite view, idealising the feminine and demonising the masculine. These splits are always very subjective, since you could project goodness or badness onto any quality.

When you polarise like this, you end up overdoing the “good” quality to the point that it becomes a hindrance while also being unable to draw anything useful from its opposite. (This can be the result of shame around certain qualities.)

One way to deal with this is to flip the script or try a reframe.

Suppose you think being aggressive is “bad” and as a result end up being so passive that everyone takes advantage of you and you let people violate your boundaries because you’re so invested in being chill.

But even though you’re not expressing aggression outright, you would probably still have anger swirling around inside you where you can’t see it as a result of allowing to be mistreated. You just can’t access the tools that would allow you to stand up for yourself because you’ve decided that is “not me”.

But what if instead of thinking of standing up for yourself as “aggressive” and therefore “bad”, what if you thought of it as assertiveness and came to a more balanced position? Ask yourself, what good things could this quality bring?

Being polarised is never a healthy position to be in, so if you want to know what might be in your shadow, ask someone close to you to describe your worst qualities. The ones that elicit a defensive reaction from you would be good places to start. If someone you trust says, “sometimes you’re X”, and your immediate reaction is “No, I’m not!”, you may have just found something in your shadow.

We are quickly approaching the finish line for the next Revolt Against the Modern World episode, “The Soul of Chivalry”.

If you have financially supported this project over the last 18 months (even if you are not a current supporter), and you would like your name to appear in the credits, please get in touch with me to let me know how you would like your name to appear.

This applies to anyone who has donated via Patreon or SubscribeStar, who is a YouTube channel member, or who has sent in any one-off donations for the project.

We greatly appreciate those of you who have helped out in this manner and we would love to be able to acknowledge you.