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INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLES:
WRITINGS ON POWER, SCIENCE AND
AND MYTH
By Mark Koslow
This section of the website is unfinished. These writings were done between 1992 and the present. These writings are explorative and are concerned with areas that relate in one way or another to questions about power, religion, science and human rights. They are difficult pieces in many cases, reflecting the conflicts and struggles that inspired their writing. Because they are long meditations on problematical issues I don't recommended these to many people. These are really records of battles I have fought and sides I have taken for or against ideas and tendencies I have encountered. After 1997 I became much more concerned with science and nature's rights, and admire 'citizen science' akin to social history. I am not done editing most of these. So there are many mistakes and things in need of correction. Please forgive these and notify me if there are errors of fact.
2.Black Elk, Joseph Epes Brown and the Schuon cult
3.a. Frithjof Schuon's Primordial Gatherings and Other Evidence (short version)
Book Length works
1. Empire of the Intellect and Its Victims
( 1997)
( this is a book length work, about 290 pages.
This book is dated and there are things in it I disagree with now, but I have
not had the time to rewrite it, but it is full of interesting research and
questions)
2.
Varieties of Religious
Delusions and Fictions:
Ruminations on Theofascism, Totalistic Systems
and Traditionalism
Evolving and Random Essays
These are also dated and thre are
things I knwo longer agree with in them. I have been an evolving thinker and now
cast in concrete and my views cahnge, a fact that I conduiser a virtue.
1.Deconstructing the Great Books (1993)
2.Inside out of Plato's Cave (1993)
3.St John and Apocalyptic Gnosticism 1993
4.The Transition from Medieval to Modern and the Role of the Eucharist (1994)
5.Christianity, Cannibalism and
Capitalism (1994)
(Toward and Anthropology of Knowledge/Power)
6.Unraveling Sufism and other Transcendentalist Chimeras
(Vision fo the Veil) (2006)
7, Chomsky's Cartesian Speciesism and his Failing Linguistics (2013)
8. The Drawings of Marilyn Szalay (2013)
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Traditionalism, Theofascism
and the Pathology of Power
soon :1.Varieties of Religious
Delusions and Fictions:
Ruminations on Theofascism, Totalistic Systems
and Traditionalism
Includes Review of Guenon's books and essay on Schuon's politics and many
other chapters (in process)
2.Black Elk, Joseph Epes Brown and the
Schuon cult
3.a. Frithjof Schuon's Primordial Gatherings (short version)
the following are not up at the moment:
b. Sexual Delusions of Grandeur: Photos of Frithjof
Schuon
c.Frithjof Schuon: Evidence of the Cult leader.
d.Frithjof Schuon's Primordial Gatherings (long version)
e.
Heidegger with the Nazis
( see the above essay on the Varieties of Religious Delusion for a discussion of Heidegger,
the Traditonalists, Fascism and nazism)
LINKS
Two of the best writers unafraid to employ critical thinking towards right wing
traditionalisms of various kinds are Victor and Victoria Trimondi
see their site at:
http://www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/index.html
see also Jonathon Miller's excellent BBC production called A Brief History of Disbelief there are a number of this in parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVsb0lxv_Kg
