So I have read 12 Rules for Life and liked it a lot, though it is by no means the ultimate guideline to live by as some people have made it out to be. Next stop in my journey: Julius Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World.
The further I read his view on Tradition, which is admittedly difficult to follow, the more I see Peterson's thoughts on religion popping back into my head. Though I believe Peterson never explicitly mentiond Evola as one of his inspirations or sources in his research into the meaning of religion and tradition, it is obvious to me he has at least read Evola and it seems highly likely that he even concurs with him on a number of topics. What is Jow Forums's view on this? Is JBP /evola's guy/ or am I completely wrong in this regard? Also, what should I read after Revolt Against the Modern World?
Peterson is closer to (((Sam Harris))) than he is to Evola. He's actively helping with the collapse of Europe and the Americas.
Josiah Sullivan
Outside of the “Evola trilogy” everyone knows about (Men Among the Ruins, Ride the Tiger, Revolt against the modern world), one must really read the following to grasp the true depth of Evola’s esoteric knowledge and philosophy:
the hermetic tradition la traditione hermetica
Imperialismo pagano Pagan Imperialism
Razza e Cultura Race and Culture
Sintesi di dottrina della Razza Synthesis of a Doctrine of Race
Storia segreta delle societa segrete Secret History of Secret Societies
La dottrina del risveglio The Doctrine of Awakening
Autodifesa Self Defence
Anthony Adams
This and this /thread
Tyler Robinson
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan is a great read.
Kayden Jones
and before Americans hop onto Amazon to buy Race and Culture, be warned that Evola has a very different idea of race than you do and race to him stems from the physical, the soul, and the spiritual, with the physical part being the least important to him.
Blake Walker
in theory the physical is the least important, he likens it to obsessing over the pedigree or breed of animals. However most spiritual "aryans" are to be found inhabiting racially "aryan" bodies, and so on. Despite this, there can be a population of racial aryans who are more or less spiritually aryan than they were centuries ago, or there can be segments of, say, a negro population that is spiritually aryan, etc. He doesn't dispense with physical race altogether, but transcends and encompasses it within the spiritual.
Colton Moore
but with that said, Evola outlined a “jewish soul” as well that was obsessed with economic gain and materialism. The Aryan soul was the one of nobility.
These types of souls resided in all of us according to him and we learned to embrace/control them (the Aryan soul being what he desired most in all)...and again his version of Aryan doesnt come from German ideas but the sanskrit word “Arya” which means noble or honorable.
Michael Miller
Woke French Evola user... Have you read Yoga of Power and what's your opinion on it?
indeed, the Jewish soul being telluric and nocturnal, characteristic of earth-worship and numerology, whereas the Aryan soul being solar and diurnal, seeking source, and demonstrating itself in action, whereas the Jew demonstrates himself through thought and theory.
Bentley Johnson
also one fact some people dont know:
Evola didnt like going into bunkers during the Vienna bombings by Russians during because he wanted to observe fate’s plan. Until one day he got bombed and it shattered his spine and he becme paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life until 1974.
He died in his Rome apartment sitting upright in his weelchair after he requested to be wheeled to his apartment window facing the Janiculum: a famous hill that the mythical god Janus (the two headed god who looked onto ourworld and the after world) had built as his tower.
Carter Young
yeeeeee
Ian Turner
Someone post the """men""" against Peterson pic
Xavier Nguyen
>Comparing Peterstein to Evola Absolute state of this board
Jose King
oh and he wanted to die upright as its a heroic tradition (like Roland dying while leaning against a tree)
Eli Walker
>when you operate on such a transcendent supra-personal level that you don't even need to say more than "yee"
It's quite though to read his books unless you studied Italian for years because he oftens uses old and uncommon terms and phrase structures. Plus from what I've seen posted on here the English translation is good
Nice responses to this thread (most of you). But really though, I do not believe in the "(((JQ)))" nazi bullocks so dismissing Peterson just because he does not buy into really low quality racial propaganda is just cheap and lazy in my opinion. From what I have gathered reading Revolt and which is also expressed by our woke French user in this thread is that Evola's ideas of race and the soul go beyond the lazy "your parents were Jewish you must be subhuman vermin who wants to destroy white people"-ideas. I do not believe in such conspiracy theories, because they give the laziest and obviously wrong and even hypocritical answers to sometimes legitimate questions. It is exactly what BLM-protestors in America do but vice versa. Lazy, wrong, hypocritical and quite frankly pathetic.
Furthermore, it is obvious that Peterson and Evola are politically very far apart and that was not the reason why I compared the two. I meant to say that in their views towards tradition and religion I see clear similarities, However, it seems like Evola goes a lot deeper in this regard. Peterson sticks mainly to Christian teachings while Evola invokes traditions stretching from Mexico to China. However, he clearly focuses (in this book at least) to Ancient Greece, Aryan India and Iran and seems to deny Christianity its place in Tradition, whereas Peterson digs deeply into Christianity and finds many aspects that transcend their superficial meanings and seem to indicate sources in a more ancient narrative. However, I seem to be alone in this regard and like I said, I am still in the process of reading Evola so my understanding of this will undoubtedly change.
Also, thanks for the reading material. I think I will followup with Men Among the Ruins after this.
Nathaniel Carter
Carl Jung has influenced Peterson the most. Detractors calling Peterson a Jew have gotten it wrong, as Peterson's thought is a gateway drug to esoteric Hitlerism.
Anthony Walker
We are just waiting for the Kalki avatar to arrive.
Blake Gutierrez
Traditionalists like Evola couldn't be more different than Peterson. A good way to understand it would be to read what Evola's teacher René Guénon's wrote about Carl Jung in "The confusion of the psychic and the spiritual" chapter of his book The Reign of Quantity, and his harsh condemnation of psychoanalysis in general as a fundamentally evil and dangerous practice.
Jordan James
Thanks!
Matthew Scott
Evola was a schizoid larper, so basically like half if Jow Forums
Gavin Reed
He is likely inspired by more traditionalist, fascist thinkers like Evola, but he is too strategic to reveal it. Evola espoused some views that are beyond politically incorrect these days. Bannon was often lambasted for citing Evola as influences. JP knows better than to reveal that Evola has influenced him.
Julian Rogers
peterson is a kike rat
Charles Howard
He's wall-to-wall Nietzsche and Jung, so no Evola wouldn't even be able to take him seriously.
Lincoln Russell
Thats a fantastic pic you posted there. I'm gonna save it whether you like it or not.
Peterson is controlled opposition and a gatekeeper to stop white men from going rightwing, and he has specifically said so on Twitter. Anyone who still "follows" him at this point instead of regarding him as a tangential figure is literally a cultist.
Landon Reyes
I should already know the answer, but could you provide a gentle introduction to esoteric hitlerism?
Dylan Walker
Hitler was an avatar of the hindu deity Vishnu who is the lord of the universe and destined to destroy all mankind at the end of this yuga, bringing the next golden age... If you don't get it then you have a small brain.
