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  • The Lying Game

    Counter Currents - Dec 8th 2021 1:14pm EST

    3,437 words Every Cretan is a liar. I am from Crete. — attributed to Epimenedes Tell me lies.Tell me sweet little lies. — Fleetwood Mac We live in an age of lies. We are fed daily Potemkin truth, a manicured version of reality intended to deceive, deny, and degrade. The trickster god Obama claimed that […]

  • The Secret Destiny of America – Manly P Hall Analysis & Critique – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Sep 28th 2021 1:10pm EDT

    Jamie gives up a book report on her latest read – the well known classic text from mason Manly P Hall which gives the US a secret, force of “democracy’ destiny with an esoteric twist. Learn how Atlantis and Plato’s Republic form the basis for the sacred religion of democracy and its revolutionary faith underlie […]

  • Roman Catholicism, Islam & Greek Philosophical Presuppositions – Montana Lecture – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Aug 4th 2021 2:17am EDT

     This is the first half of the Montanica Lecture I delivered covering the similarities and patterns in the divine simplicity doctrines of Roman Catholicism, Islam and Eunomius. We look at Actrus Purus, the divine ousia as seen in Eunomius Vs the Cappadocians, the doctrine of the energies and more! The full talk is available […]

  • What Does the One Ring Represent?

    Amerika.org - May 6th 2021 8:02am EDT

    Literature moved from warning about coming modernity, to bemoaning it, toward a fusion with science fiction where writers began visualizing a world outside of modernity. Leading this charge were the Inklings, including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. In Tolkien, much of the analysis of modernity concerns itself with a ring of power, which like technology, […]

  • Icon & Incarnation: The Reality of Symbolism – Jay Dyer (Half)

    Jay Dyer - Apr 22nd 2021 8:55pm EDT

     Today we will do the icon stream on the philosophy and reality of symbols: type, prototype, archetype and the ultimate reference point for Orthodox philosophy.  The symbolic world of correspondences in our worldview is much more than mere analogy, similitude or metaphor: For us the symbolic is directly grounded in the logical (logoi), and […]