Excellent video! This is a topic that needs to be discussed more. "The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination" by Richard Rudgley, and especially "Walpurgis Night" by Thomas Sheridan discuss this concept. All gods exist on a vibrational scale: they have an extremely postive aspect, an extremely negative aspect, and everything in between. How we experience the gods is a function of how expanded or limited our consciousness is, individually and collectively. I think HItler was a byproduct of a lethal overdose of Christianity. Roman Imperial Christianity (which is all that survived into the modern age) was so successful because it supressed and destroyed cultures, thereby disempowering the conquered peoples and turning them into codependent authority worshipers. Christianity feminized the German mind, meaning the Germanic people lacked the ability to take individual initiative to be their owns saviors and restore their old culture without being (mis)led by a messianic figure. I use the term "feminized" from an energetic and psychological perspective. Psychologically, crowds and groups of people are feminine, they share a collective consciousness in which the will of the individual is lost. By comparison, the psychology of individualism is masculine: it runs contrary to the satiation of the collective. As a result of this feminization of the Germanic mind, philosophers like Goethe professed the need for a "Freiya Christes" who would come to redeem the Germanic people and restore their culture for them; a conflation of Germanic spiritualtity and Christianity. Through Hitler, a very dark, destructive aspect of Wotan. I think the modern Western world is possessed by the same dark, destructive aspect of Wotan. The Trickster is part of the Wotan archetype. When we are egotistical, lazy, violating natural law, or not pursuing a genuine life path, this archetype teaches us painful lessons. To me, Woke is the new Reich and the Rainbow flag is new Nazi flag. Christianity is extremely Woke because there are no individual boundaries; each individual's personal business is the business of the collective. Collectivism is a total disaster.
Interesting. I can totally see what you're saying about the woke & rainbow flag being repeated by others in the future, especially in America, when they think about other things after the election.
@igorslocks You're totally right - it's going to be very interesting. One of the circumstances surrounding the Nazis' rise that is never discussed is how they were a reaction to the devastating spread by the Bolsheviks over Germany. At war's end in 1918, Bolsheviks from Russia descended hope the German cities to declare Soviet republics. They made the most headway in Munich, in Bavaria. The Boksheviks executed not only people who disagreed either them, but also socialists who were too moderate for their tastes. They also destroyed Munich's economy to the point where starvation was widespread. A faction of the German aristocrats and industrialist who were Thule Society members funded the Freikorps, private armies of WWI veterans led by Rudolf Hess. They traveled down to Munich and kicked the shit out of the Bolsheviks. The Thule Society and the Freikorps later became the early members the National Socialist German Workers Party (NASDP, AKA Nazi). The Bolsheiviks gave the Nazis a reason to exist. Hopefully history doesn't repeat so exactly.
The guy on this channel of a good friend of mine. His perspective on Wotan is very different from the dry regurgitations of academics. ruclips.net/user/livehWsOhJKLuPw?si=Dp6u6acgyOTcyIPP
This was super interesting.
Excellent video! This is a topic that needs to be discussed more. "The Return of Odin: The Modern Renaissance of Pagan Imagination" by Richard Rudgley, and especially "Walpurgis Night" by Thomas Sheridan discuss this concept.
All gods exist on a vibrational scale: they have an extremely postive aspect, an extremely negative aspect, and everything in between. How we experience the gods is a function of how expanded or limited our consciousness is, individually and collectively.
I think HItler was a byproduct of a lethal overdose of Christianity. Roman Imperial Christianity (which is all that survived into the modern age) was so successful because it supressed and destroyed cultures, thereby disempowering the conquered peoples and turning them into codependent authority worshipers. Christianity feminized the German mind, meaning the Germanic people lacked the ability to take individual initiative to be their owns saviors and restore their old culture without being (mis)led by a messianic figure. I use the term "feminized" from an energetic and psychological perspective. Psychologically, crowds and groups of people are feminine, they share a collective consciousness in which the will of the individual is lost. By comparison, the psychology of individualism is masculine: it runs contrary to the satiation of the collective. As a result of this feminization of the Germanic mind, philosophers like Goethe professed the need for a "Freiya Christes" who would come to redeem the Germanic people and restore their culture for them; a conflation of Germanic spiritualtity and Christianity. Through Hitler, a very dark, destructive aspect of Wotan.
I think the modern Western world is possessed by the same dark, destructive aspect of Wotan. The Trickster is part of the Wotan archetype. When we are egotistical, lazy, violating natural law, or not pursuing a genuine life path, this archetype teaches us painful lessons. To me, Woke is the new Reich and the Rainbow flag is new Nazi flag. Christianity is extremely Woke because there are no individual boundaries; each individual's personal business is the business of the collective. Collectivism is a total disaster.
Interesting. I can totally see what you're saying about the woke & rainbow flag being repeated by others in the future, especially in America, when they think about other things after the election.
@igorslocks You're totally right - it's going to be very interesting.
One of the circumstances surrounding the Nazis' rise that is never discussed is how they were a reaction to the devastating spread by the Bolsheviks over Germany. At war's end in 1918, Bolsheviks from Russia descended hope the German cities to declare Soviet republics. They made the most headway in Munich, in Bavaria. The Boksheviks executed not only people who disagreed either them, but also socialists who were too moderate for their tastes. They also destroyed Munich's economy to the point where starvation was widespread.
A faction of the German aristocrats and industrialist who were Thule Society members funded the Freikorps, private armies of WWI veterans led by Rudolf Hess. They traveled down to Munich and kicked the shit out of the Bolsheviks. The Thule Society and the Freikorps later became the early members the National Socialist German Workers Party (NASDP, AKA Nazi). The Bolsheiviks gave the Nazis a reason to exist. Hopefully history doesn't repeat so exactly.
The guy on this channel of a good friend of mine. His perspective on Wotan is very different from the dry regurgitations of academics.
ruclips.net/user/livehWsOhJKLuPw?si=Dp6u6acgyOTcyIPP
Before I watch this, I'll say no
He stood up for Germans when they were viciously exploited