Category: Science
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Remembering the Dead
Note: This translation of Charles Maurras’ “All Soul’s Day” originally appeared in Taki’s Magazine. On All Soul’s Day, we honor the memory of the dead, especially those closest to us in our hearts and mind. Charles Maurras refers to this as “the universal cult of the dead, of all the dead, of those who had…
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Galileo: Stop the Presses
Somewhere in Italy, in the 17th century. One beautiful morning, Giovanni is sitting out on his patio, sipping on some espresso and reading the newspaper. His wife comes out of the house and begins hanging up some clothes to dry. “Listen to this, Maria,” said Giovanni. “On the front page, they say that this fellow…
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Nuclear Energy, Evolution, the Unconscious
When science changed its methodology from the description of phenomena, to the search for occult causes, it then made its three most significant discoveries of modern times. These are Nuclear Energy in Physics, Evolution in Biology, and the Unconscious in Psychology.
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Science at a Standstill
Science seems to be at a standstill after centuries of revolutionary developments. Physics is stuck with incompatible theories – Relativity and Quantum Mechanics – and remains far from a unified theory. Biology is no closer than Darwin to explaining the origins of life and the actual mechanics of the evolution of the species The last…
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The Seven Enigmas of the World
The physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond proposed seven riddles of the world that science cannot answer and most likely never will.
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Social Facts and Group Control
Far from exhausting itself in a naturalism — as today only the ignorance or the tendentious falsification of some people are able to present it — beyond knowing the ideals of virile overcoming and of absolute liberation, in the pagan conception, the world was a living body, suffused with secret, divine and demonic forces, with…
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Berdyaev and the Mirage of Progress
The myth of Atlantis may serve as a warning to us. Rather than being the pinnacle of human evolution, modern man is more likely the degenerate, fallen, and weaker product of something much greater.
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Law of Social Dynamics
Auguste Comte proposed the Law of Social Dynamics where humanity passes necessarily through the three states of theological affirmation, metaphysical critique, and positive science or religion. In point of fact, from a historical perspective, not every society has passed through those three stages; furthermore, Comte has not demonstrated that every society is even capable of…
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Instinct, Consciousness, Science
Corresponding to the three stages of the consciousness of the individual as described in Julius Evola’s The Individual and the Becoming of the World, there are three stages in the self-understanding of the social group: Instinct Consciousness Science Instinct A healthy society is based on healthy instincts. Families are strong, children are valued, elders are…
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The Dawn of the Gods
We all know about the Twilight of the Gods and how they have abondoned us, but few dare to ask where they came from in the first place. Auguste Comte proposed that humanity has progressed from belief in polytheism to monotheism, then to an all embracing metaphysical or ideological principle, and finally to positivism. While…