"Whatever voice the gods once had, whatever remains of it still, must now only be heard as it is forced through the painted image-mask of mankind." A piece on the consequences of the religious developments of Homer: anthropomorphism, personal ego, and the problem of evil.

@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. Read below:

"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:

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".

"Experience cosmically!"—an unpublished command of Nietzsche.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".

"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:

@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: