text:
Here is this week's Update for period Thursday, September 22 - Wednesday, October 5
L'Shanah Tova
Lulav and Etrog
Order your LULAV and ETROG for the first day of Sukkot: October 17. If you would like a Lulav and Etrog set for Sukkot services, please contact Carole Clarke no later than Wednesday, September 28 at 646-0460. The cost is $46.00 for each set.
SAVE THE DATE!!!
Invite your friends who play
Learners Welcome
Lunch, Door Prizes, Raffle
More details to follow
Roth Center for Jewish Life on
Sunday, October 9 at 4:00PM,
Sponsored by Dartmouth College Hillel, Classicopia will perform "JEWISH JAZZ" on Sunday, October 9 at 4:00 at the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth College. General admission is $20 and Congregation members are only $15. Cost for Dartmouth students is $10 and children 18 and under are free. Tickets will be available at the door. Discounted seats are available in advance at www.classicopia.org. For more information, call Daniel Weiser at 802-369-0856 or email at daniel@classicopia.org.
Do you know someone under the weather? How about bringing them some kosher HOMEMADE CHICKEN MATZO BALL SOUP. Bet they would really appreciate it.
Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund
Our Holocaust is a novel narrated by a nameless child of Holocaust survivors. The book tells the story of relatives who are "collected" by virtue of the fact that they themselves have no one to call their own family since many of their parents, children, brothers and siblings were murdered during the Holocaust. The relatives operated under the "Law of Compression,"
wherein fellow neighbors were turned into uncles, cousins and even grandparents.
Sundays @ 10:00 at the Roth Center.
Thursday, September 22 - Wednesday, October 5
Kiddush: Heather Salon and Adam Weinstein in celebration of their son, Simon as he becomes a Bar Mitzvah
7:00 pm Selichot Service
12:00 pm Hebrew High School
12:00 pm Torah Study I with Rabbi Boraz
4:00 pm Hebrew School - Grades 3-7


These are be that as it can surely, similarly a magnificent means for investigating the most up and coming styles and rages for wedding functions which are inside the arranging point. Feel the manner in which she really is thinking about, see the focuses she is seeing, appropriate what she will likely do all things considered I'm in the perfect area at the ideal time and additionally realize the best time to request photographs so when just to try to avoid panicking and procedure the activity of chronicling your day since it spreads out. Coupled these accumulations, acknowledging what the most current winning pattern or chaos is intended for table embellishments for example guarantees that if my few have finished their furnishings like that I really don't pass up the exceedingly basic downplayed factors inside the shots I take.
Similarly, it is valuable for me to acknowledge what precisely is exceptionally hot and what precisely isn't when orchestrating my supporting texture so if I need to make my wedding service gives seem like and end up made making utilization of financial balance overlays then my women will relate with them given that they could be thinking about these for their requesting. It is really superb to remain in connect with. It very well may be furthermore incredible to stay in connect with and edified high on exactly how the wedding photographer territory wedding photographers advance is seen by most females being cases of feel sorry going to your better half's to end up to get who might scrutinize this submit for suggesting on the women by the by I see not a few grooms on the social gatherings and handle not very a great deal of grooms on the enquiry sort out. In this manner I was to some degree sad, or even stunned, to see one present this week on the champion among the most outstanding dialog posts.
Not all that essentially in past occasions among just a bunch few sensibly approximated arrangement creators lost everything. It had a huge pound on impact all through the wedding photographer toronto showcase. Not explicitly could proficient photographers who gave less expensive groups not get the specific decisions the substitution adaptations they can get might cost more. Where this lady computerized photographer could have figured she could worth the wedding function at realizing she could buy a disgraceful determination on her shopper after this business wound up bankrupt then she had no cushion set up to be fit to offer an option without losing impressively more pay. There need to show up a position obviously there do consequently the presentation from the shop the place you in a general sense ought to surrender whipping and stop losing cash. This young lady was truly left with no choice other than to help make this furious move despite the fact that it likely than not been awfully disturbing for the lady in the hour.


text:
Канелас има више значења:

 Канелас (Чинипас), насеље у савезној држави Чивава у Мексику
 Општина Канелас (Дуранго), општина у савезној држави Дуранго у Мексику
 Канелас (Канелас, Дуранго), насеље у савезној држави Дуранго у Мексику
 Канелас (Леон), насеље у савезној држави Гванахуато у Мексику
 Канелас (Ескуинапа), насеље у савезној држави Синалоа у Мексику

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
import * as React from "react";
import { FCReturn } from "../../../typings/shared";

export interface HeaderMenuProps<RP = {}> {
    "aria-label"?: string | undefined,
    "aria-labelledby"?: string | undefined,
    children?: React.ReactNode | undefined,
    className?: string | undefined,
    menuLinkName: string,
    ref?(element: HTMLElement): void;
    renderMenuContent?: React.ComponentType<RP> | undefined,
    tabIndex?: number | undefined,
}

declare class HeaderMenu extends React.Component<HeaderMenuProps> { }

declare function HeaderMenuForwardRef<RP = {}>(props: HeaderMenuProps<RP>): FCReturn;

export default HeaderMenuForwardRef;

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
FaithDispatches
England is reckoning with a clerical sex abuse crisis. Again.
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.December 03, 2020
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, is pictured in a Feb. 24, 2014, photo. An inquiry into the Catholic Church in England and Wales released Nov. 10, 2020, criticized Cardinal Nichols and the Vatican for failing to show compassion or leadership in the fight against child abuse. (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
Editor's note: This article contains descriptions of child sexual abuse and trauma.
On the night before her confirmation, Sue Cox was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at a convent where she was attending summer school to improve her catechism. She was 10. When she was 13, the same priest again raped her in the bedroom of her own home.
"My mother caught him and told me to pray for him and to offer it up," Ms. Cox, who is from Warwickshire, England, told America. Listening to the advice her adoptive mother gave after she walked in on the priest, "I felt sacrificial," she said.
"We were told that he could do no wrong," and that he had "sacred hands," said Ms. Cox, an award-winning addiction specialist and acupuncturist. "Worse than that, we were told that priests were next to God—that they were ontologically changed at ordination."
Ms. Cox, who is 73 years old and today describes herself as an atheist, said that this was the belief that her "fiercely superstitious Catholic family" ingrained in her as a young child. "Well," she added. "I can tell you that a child is ontologically changed when she is abused at that age."
She was in her fifties before she finally broke the silence about her abuse, around the same time that Pope Benedict XVI visited the United Kingdom. "It's not something that I could talk about when I was a little girl," Ms. Cox said. She began engaging in compulsive self-harm. "When other girls were forming friendships, I was hiding my broken arms and scratched body and nightmares," she remembered. "When they were all starting to have boyfriends, I couldn't talk about my experiences because they were dirty secrets."
"My mother caught him and told me to pray for him and to offer it up." Listening to the advice her adoptive mother gave after she walked in on the priest, "I felt sacrificial," Sue Cox said.
Ms. Cox described the devastation her abuser unleashed on her life. "I managed to run away from home to get married when I was 17," she said. "I married somebody very violent because I was making poor choices. I was already an alcoholic; I was an addict. And, it got worse and worse and worse."
Ms. Cox said it is essential to understand the crippling consequences that child sexual abuse often has for survivors. It is an experience that "completely destroys lives," she said. By the time Ms. Cox was 29, she already had six children. For their sake, "It was necessary to get sober," she said. "I managed to get free from drink; free from any kind of mood-altering chemicals—and it's 45 years this year since I had a mood-altering chemical."
Ms. Cox is one of the abuse survivors who provided evidence to a government inquiry into the sexual abuse of children in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. The inquiry has identified significant and ongoing failings in the church's safeguarding of children and in decision-making among its highest leaders.
Published on Nov. 10, the same day the Vatican released its internal report into decades-long sexual abuse by Theodore McCarrick, a former U.S. cardinal, the inquiry into the Catholic Church in England and Wales reports that the church's "moral purpose was betrayed over decades by those in the Church who perpetrated this abuse and those who turned a blind eye to it."
It is essential to understand the crippling consequences that child sexual abuse often has for survivors. It is an experience that "completely destroys lives."
Survivors of sexual abuse continue to receive inadequate pastoral and therapeutic support and church leadership is lacking at all levels, according to the report. It concludes: "The Church's neglect of the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of children and young people in favour of protecting its reputation was in conflict with its mission of love and care for the innocent and vulnerable."
The inquiry found that the church's mismanagement of sexual abuse is not merely a historical problem but one that persists today. "Since 2016, there have been more than 100 reported allegations each year," investigators said. "Across the entire period of nearly 50 years covered by this inquiry, the true scale of sexual abuse of children is likely to have been much higher."
Government investigators add that they experienced significant resistance from the Vatican in providing evidence sought by the inquiry. According to the report, "'[t]he Holy See's limited response on this matter manifestly did not demonstrate a commitment to taking action. Their lack of cooperation passes understanding."
The government-mandated Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church in England and Wales revealed that along with systemic sexual abuse, the church rushed more quickly to save its image than it did to respond to the plight of survivors. According to the report, over a half-century, the Catholic Church in England and Wales had received complaints alleging more than 3,000 instances of child sexual abuse against 936 people associated with the church, among them priests, vowed religious and volunteers.
"The account given in the [inquiry's report] of abuse known to be inflicted on children in the Catholic Church in England and Wales in the past 50 years is shocking and overwhelming," the bishops of England and Wales wrote in a statement released on Nov. 20.
"At our meeting this week, we Bishops have stood together in profound shame," they added. "We express our sorrow and contrition before God." The bishops accepted the inquiry's recommendations in full and vowed to make sweeping changes, including the appointment of a new bishop to deal specifically with the safeguarding of children and a complete overhaul of the church's child protection systems.
"Nothing will cause us more despair," survivors said, "than to hear more of the same, with a future inquiry a few years from now."
The bishops thanked survivors "who have come forward, not only to lay before us their experience of abuse," they said, "but to help us understand the depth of their pain." They also asked "anyone who has experienced abuse to come forward, no matter how long ago the abuse took place" and promised to "to listen more intently to those who have been abused so as to learn from them and benefit from their wisdom."
For many survivors, the bishops' renewed commitment and promises ring hollow.
"The report clearly shows the Church's lack of willingness and ability to change of its own accord," survivors of child sexual abuse wrote in an open letter published in The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine in the United Kingdom.
"There should be no crocodile tears from the Church hierarchy, calling this report a 'wake-up call.' The Catholic Church has been here before, with the Nolan report in 2001 and the Cumberlege report in 2007, both followed by broken promises and shocking inertia," they said. "We believe there is clear evidence that there must be mandatory safeguarding reporting laws and an independent body responsible for the oversight of safeguarding. Without this, there is little hope of meaningful change, when the Church has repeatedly failed to regulate itself, with catastrophic consequences.
"Nothing will cause us more despair," survivors added, "than to hear more of the same, with a future inquiry a few years from now."
Similar to the conclusions of the McCarrick Report, the inquiry into the Catholic Church in England and Wales found "weaknesses in leadership were significant in the failures to address child sexual abuse. The responses of Church leaders over time were marked by delay in implementing change as well as reluctance to acknowledge responsibility, to hold individuals to account or to make sincere apologies."
The report added, "Failure in some of these areas contributed to more children experiencing actual abuse and many others being exposed to the risk of sexual abuse."
Ms. Cox is also the co-founder of Survivors Voice Europe, an organization of survivors of Catholic clergy abuse. She believes that the church has historically done little to remedy its past abuses except when it is "cornered." She argues that "anybody who has really strong affiliations with the church cannot be part of that process [of reform]."
"'Sorry' is pointless, unless it has actions as well. I think they need to be open to scrutiny. I think they need to recognize the severity of the crime and I think they need to compensate people accordingly."
"They can't be part of the solution because they are the problem. And they've shown time and time again that they cannot police themselves."
David Greenwood, an attorney who has represented survivors since 1998 and is legal adviser to Minister & Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors, another survivors group, joined the video call with Ms. Cox. From his perspective the church has made some progress, but he characterized its efforts as half-hearted and inadequate.
"They did implement, in quite a hurry, some improved procedures, lots of documents that even safeguarding officials or experts felt were almost impenetrable," he said. "And they have spent more money on diocesan safeguarding advisors."
Among the most sharply criticized by the inquiry is Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. "He did not always exercise the leadership expected of a senior member of the Church," investigators concluded, "at times preferring to protect the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and in Rome."
The inquiry notes a statement made by the cardinal following its earlier June 2019 investigation into child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, where Cardinal Nichols served as archbishop between 2000 and 2009. At the time, he "humbly" asked for the people's forgiveness on behalf of all bishops, "for our slowness and defensiveness," he said, "and for our neglect of both preventative and restorative actions."
Despite the cardinal's apology, the inquiry points out that one of the recommendations the church had been slow to act on—calling for the creation of a centralized national body to address all safeguarding matters—had been made 13 years ago in the Cumberlege Commission Report. It had even been included 19 years ago when the 2001 Nolan Report pushed for "a Church-wide commitment to one set of policies and procedures."
Church officials "can't be part of the solution because they are the problem. And they've shown time and time again that they cannot police themselves."
In July 2019, three months before the inquiry began its public hearings, the bishops commissioned Ian Elliot, a safeguarding expert, to chair yet another independent review of the safeguarding structures and arrangements within the Catholic Church in England and Wales. In its final report, released 10 days after the inquiry, the review recommended a new body "providing a central point of accountability, policies, procedures, and support." In the wake of both the inquiry and the review, the bishops of England and Wales have now announced that a new "Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency" will replace existing church safeguarding structures.
America has reached out to the cardinal for a response to the report but has not received one. In a video statement released alongside publication of the inquiry's findings, Cardinal Nichols again apologized "to all victims and survivors who have not been properly listened to, or properly supported by us."
"Child sexual abuse is a crime," the cardinal said. "It is a crime that requires committed vigilance and strict procedures to ensure reporting to the statutory authorities. This is the Church's policy. It is also why our safeguarding work needs to be continually reviewed and improved. Where there have been failings and inconsistency in the application of our safeguarding procedures, we acknowledge these and commit to actions which will bring about improvement."
Calls for the cardinal's resignation quickly followed the release of the report. In an interview with the BBC, he explained that he had tendered his resignation to the pope days before the release of the report upon reaching the age of retirement. "His answer has come back very clear, very unambiguous," the cardinal said. "He wants me to stay in post, so I will stay because that's where my orders come from, that's where my mandate comes from. I'm going to stay and continue to work wholeheartedly at these matters."
On Nov. 20, a week after the report and following the bishops' meeting, the cardinal made a personal statement. "To each and every one, I express my profound sorrow and apologies," he said. "I have spent many hours listening to survivors. I have sat and talked with them, shared meals with them and wept with them. Nothing removes from my soul the horror of what has happened to them. I will continue to listen to survivors: hearing them is a humbling and learning experience for me."
An open letter to the bishops, from a young Catholic who's only known a church in scandal
Molly Cahill
Ms. Cox has so far found the response from bishops less than satisfactory. "If they were entering into a 12-step program, they would be drinking, they would be using because they would not be sober," she said, "because that is not the way to make amends.
"'Sorry' is pointless, unless it has actions as well," she said. "I think they need to be open to scrutiny. I think they need to recognize the severity of the crime and I think they need to compensate people accordingly," she added. "I think our lawyers need to be given teeth."
Mr. Greenwood said that the church might begin to make amends for its historical abuses by showing seriousness now; being honest about abuse when it comes to light; recognizing that it is not above the law as an institution; and submitting itself to prosecutors when wrongdoing is found among its clergy or laypeople.
When dealing with the sexual abuse of children, "we're in a dark place, and have been for a long time," Mr. Greenwood said. "But, there's got to be hope," he added. "I'm hopeful that together governments and prosecutors and legal establishments around the world, hopefully in conjunction with the churches and different organizations, can work out a much better way of protecting children."
"It's an ugly subject, but it's a lot uglier when we don't talk about it," said Ms. Cox. "And it's a lot more ugly when the church won't talk about it."
Correction, Dec. 5, 2020: Originally, this article incorrectly referred to the "United Kingdom," "U.K." and "British." Neither the Catholic Church in Scotland or Northern Ireland were investigated by the independent inquiry; they each belong to different bishops' conferences than the church in England and Wales. The article has been corrected to reflect these distinctions. We regret the error.
Read more from America:
Read: An exclusive essay by Pope Francis on a 'personal Covid,' his exile in Argentina
Rep. Joaquin Castro: It's time for a Latino secretary of agriculture
Tell us: What should President Joe Biden's first 100 days to look like?
More: International / Sexual Abuse / Europe
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
Ricardo da Silva, S.J., is an associate editor at America Media and an ordained Jesuit deacon from South Africa.
@ricdssjrdasilva@americamedia.org
Show Comments ()
Join the conversation: Login or create an account
Before you can comment, you need to update your profile to include your first and last name, as required in our comments policy. Then reload this page and you'll be set up for commenting. Update your profile
Jim McDermott
The Catholics for Choice basilica stunt was shocking. Sacrilege often is.
It is appalling to see an organization that claims to be Catholic project pro-abortion messaging onto a structure that celebrates the conception of the Mother of God. What am I supposed to take from this?
J.D. Long-GarcíaJanuary 21, 2022

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


With over 30 years of staffing experience and an extraordinary reach to thousands of qualified candidates. We can truly call ourselves the "Best" in the industry.
Finding a job just got easier! Best Hire Career Fairs brings it's 30 years of hiring and recruiting experience to help you on your way to a better career. We are dedicated to finding the cities top hiring companies and bringing them together for an unforgettable hiring experience. Land your dream job by registering for one of our events and interview with companies looking to hire candidates immediately. Don't wait, register today!
BEST HIRE CAREER FAIRS produces the best hiring events in the country in the best cities in the country. We help Americans gain new employment everyday.


text:
Mistake will haunt ex-ESRI chief 'until he dies'
The ESRI's former lead researcher said its declaration in May 2008 that the economy was fundamentally sound is a mistake that will stay with him until the day he dies.
Speaking at the Oireachtas banking inquiry, Professor John FitzGerald said that in the absence of in-house expertise on the banking sector his organisation relied upon data from international bodies, none of which were predicting a global financial crash.
On this basis and despite being conscious a problem existed, the ESRI made a call that Ireland would escape a ruinous collapse which Mr FitzGerald repeatedly admitted was a huge mistake and entirely wrong.
Relying solely on data provided by the likes of the IMF and OECD was a "cop-out" on his behalf though. Had he looked at the bank's balance sheets, it would have been obvious that a problem existed and would not have taken much expertise to come to that conclusion, he said.
"We should have seen the problem. We were conscious of the fact that there was a problem out there but we made a call that Ireland would probably escape it and we were totally wrong," Mr Fitzgerald said.
The economist who retired from the institute late last year said "the mistake was 2008, for six weeks", in reference to his claim that the publication of the Medium Term Review in May of hat year which failed to diagnose the economic ills of the country was an aberration after years of warnings.
Having made strong remarks highlighting the pitfalls associated with a construction sector crash in an RTÉ documentary aired in 2007, Mr FitzGerald was asked why he didn't repeat the warnings a year later.
He said that after years of warnings, he felt the institute was campaigning on the topic which went against its independent nature and as such drew back from the issue. Mr FitzGerald said he felt isolated and frustrated by the apparent disinterest of those in political circles to heed the warnings.
Refuting any suggestion that political interference may have resulted in the ESRI censoring its report, Mr Fitzgerald replied: "It was my choice and I made a mistake". He added that he felt house prices had turned a corner.
He admitted however, that in 1999 while he was in Warsaw and "a nervous Nelly" in the Department of Finance "had been jumping up and down" over the ESRI's medium-term review, an employee amended the report against his instructions.
It was only after returning from Warsaw that Mr Fitzgerald realised his contention that the comments he deemed to be "political" had been ignored and the report changed. He described the event as highly unusual.
The former ESRI head also said he was furious when a senior official in a public body other than the Department of Finance sent a letter on a separate occasion saying the institute had "committed treason" for suggesting corporation tax should be increased, and called on the official to withdraw it.
Mr Fitzgerald said he didn't consider stepping down in the wake of the 2008 report as he felt he had done a reasonably good job in his career and had not seen anyone do better in the run-up to to the crisis.
He said concerns raised in 2006 over Irish banks' potential exposure as a result of investors seeking to buy Polish property met with an unsatisfactory response from the regulator.
← Strategic fund's investments stall
Ban on hedge fund loans →


Camp Guernsey – MKK Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Camp Guernsey, a 78,000 acre camp consisting of maneuver area, training ranges, and state-of-the-art facilities, is Wyoming Air National Guard's Premier Joint Training Center. Several buildings were renovated, including office and classrooms, and dormitory spaces. Upgrades included adding high efficiency water systems, lighting, and additional showers for the dormitories, all while maintaining the historic integrity of the existing buildings.


A great addition to our vanilla range, opening with zingy lemon zest and layered with creamy buttermilk, vanilla bean and a hint of amber and musk.
Loved this scent straight away! Literally smells like cheesecake.YUM and FUN.
I love lemon, but this smells like cheap pre-made lemon pudding. Sorry, I so wanted to love this.


text:
- Counter-Currents Publishing - https://www.counter-currents.com -
James O'Meara reviews TYR, vol. 4
Posted By James J. O'Meara On October 27, 2014 @ 12:02 am In North American New Right | Comments Disabled
[1]2,057 words
TYR: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4 [2]
Ed. Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan
North Augusta, SC.: Ultra Press, 2014
Finally receiving the new issue of TYR, one feels torn between wishing that each volume could appear more frequently, or at least more regularly, and on the other hand, appreciation for the time and attention devoted to bringing out such unparalleled collections of articles, interviews and reviews of books and music devoted to the "Myth – Culture – Tradition" of the North by Messrs. Buckley and Moynihan.[1]
This modern world — our world — is sick, the editors tell us, and everyone knows it. But they also have the answer:
[T]he resacralization of art and culture, of work and play, of the tribe and the community and the family and the home, of food and drink, of sex and the body. . . . Our task is to take these "human, all too human" things, and to make them sacred once again.
Hence the varied contents of TYR; such a task requires a consideration of just about everything, from ancient myth to the latest in Black Metal music, from "Garden Gnomes and House Spirits" (Claude Lecouteux) to "Traditional Time-Telling in Old England, and Modern" (Nigel Pennick).
With access to work of such wide variety and high quality, TYR is not afraid to lead off with big guns blazing: two substantial essays by Alain de Benoist and Collin Cleary.
Benoist's "What is Religion?" (translated by our own Greg Johnson) outlines the main psychological, sociological, and, most popular these days, biological explanations of the phenomenon of religion, ultimately dismissing them all as attempts to reduce religion to a mere function, whereas "religion by definition exceeds any functionality," being "undoubtedly what exceeds any functionality by managing gaps, uncertainties, otherness" (as Benoist quotes from Jean-Paul Willaime). He offers, "with much diffidence," his own definition, which foregrounds religion as not only a "set of beliefs and practices" but also as, "[A] socially established worship which structures individual and collective existence by placing it in a universe of meaning, in a symbolic universe governed by an intangible reality."
The lack of this, of course, is the cause of the social sickness the editors have called to our attention. Benoist goes on to discuss three characteristics of the current religious situation: religion no longer plays a public role, religion has been reduced to individual beliefs, chosen ad hoc and à la carte, and finally that religion has, paradoxically, attained a new "public" role, as just one special interest demanding attention from the state along with the rest.
Benoist concludes that the modern world is far from the gods, and it is questionable whether such a world is livable; as for answers, he modestly offers none, aligning himself with Heidegger's despairing "Only a god can save us."
Perhaps that god is . . . us? Collin Cleary, in "What is Odinism?" asks us to reflect on the uniqueness of the Northern tradition, in which the chief god, Odin, is not so much wise as a seeker of wisdom, who is consequently not worshipped himself but imitated: "[T]o be an Odinist is to be a lover of wisdom . . . Odinism is the path of divinization — the Odinist seeks to become "God" (supreme, all-powerful, all-knowing) just as Odin did."
Dr. Cleary then embarks on a sweeping, Hegelian survey of the metaphysical underpinnings of such a task — man is the universe, the Whole, coming to self-awareness — as well as the practical steps involved, pointedly directing our attention to the controversially Traditional work of Baron Evola, as well as the decidedly un-Traditional work of Gurdjieff and some modern teachers of the practice of self-awareness as Red Hawk.
After such a bravura performance, the reviewer may feel a bit like a child interrupting the conversation of his elders. The reader may sense, however, some disconnect between the sections of "What is Odinism?," the theoretical and the practical, or, in terms of the essay itself, the sprit that produces Wagnerian operas, space shuttles, and toasters, and on the other, the spirit that seeks, well, the Spirit; is there a Faustian spirituality, or is the Faustian precisely the non-spiritual, as is the world produced by it, the modern world that the editors of TYR proclaim to be sick?
Since Evola has been brought in to aid the seeker, we might cite Evola's own judgment on Spengler's Faustian idea in his autobiography, The Path of Cinnabar (which itself receives a typically erudite and fair-minded review within by Joscelyn Godwin):
[T]the 'Faustian' impulse — along with the drive towards exploration and unlimited expansion that manifested itself in the rise of Humanism and the Renaissance — [is] the consequence of an external and 'horizontal' projection of the metaphysical tension which had previously been directed upwards.
Or, as my own spiritual master, the Rev. Jesse Crawford of the MC5, would exhort us: "You must choose, brothers and sisters, you must choose!"
As Dr. Cleary points out, the Odinic tradition is unique in having a chief god who is not wise, or the personification of wisdom, but a mere seeker of wisdom; a philosopher, in short. But while this can be interpreted positively, as Cleary offers us — see, our mythology sets us a task, gives us a divine seeker to emulate! — historically, wisdom has been very low on the scale of Western values. The Gothic kings were proud to be ignorant of reading and writing, leaving that to their Greek slaves or clerics (another socially low caste, fit for weaklings and extra sons — an attitude still common among our own "elites" of the Bush family sort). As Cleary mentions, but does not elaborate on, Odin himself is mocked as womanish and effeminate. Even among the Greeks, it was proverbial that Thales was mocked for falling down a well whilst star-gazing, a story Hegel repeats and that I expected Cleary to do so as well, when he mentions Odin's one-eyed view of mundane reality. Plato has a hard time defending the philosophic life in the Symposium or Phaedrus, and look what they did to Socrates!
The lights Cleary steers by, Schelling, Hegel, Eckhart, as well as my own dear Plotinus, are rare summits poking up now and then in the midst of the dull horizontal plane of Western thought, mocked and abused in their time, and then as now treasured by only a few Seekers. As Guénon observes, when presented with the kind of practical methods leading to enlightenment or immortality that Cleary outlines in his final part, the Western man (like the "New Atheists" Benoist discusses) demands "proof" of the reality of the "mythical" higher dimension first, rather than simply following the methods and seeing for himself: "The substitution of a theory of knowledge [philosophy!] for knowledge is the characteristic perversion of the Western mind."
And the ultimate product of the Faustian West is science, which, as Benoist says, canonizes "the primacy of method . . . over knowledge." Or in Zen terms, mistaking the pointing finger for the moon.
Of course, at this point, the Zen master, if not Dr. Cleary himself, would whack me on the back with his stick and shout "Stop talking, just practice!"
Perhaps the uniqueness of the West lies here: a people by nature sufficiently detached from spiritual concerns to find it more or less easy to throw aside their own autochthonous traditions in favor of a foreign creed — though Steve Harris might demur here; in "On Barbarian Suffering," he discusses the ways that both Pagan and Christian sought to understand suffering by reference to a mythological context. The result, as Benoist says, is that
Christianity generated, in spite of itself, a society that can now leave it behind — a unique case in the history of humanity — and one cannot exclude the possibility that by doing this, it has completed its historical course, fulfilled its time.
In the same book, Evola gives his final accounting of Christianity; while Guénon and other Traditionalists sought to find, or re-activate, a supposedly lost spiritual current (to be found in some monastery or among Gurdjieff's hidden schools), Evola ultimately denied it ever had one, being a spiritual imposture from the start, offering a fake initiation in the form of the white bread and de-natured wine of the so-called Eucharist, a substitution which Western man either couldn't discern or didn't care about one way or another.
Some, such as Michael Hoffman, might suggest that even the practical methods of work on self that Cleary recommends and outlines so clearly are themselves only a shadow of the real, "rockily practical" (as Alan Watts liked to say) methods of entheogenic shamanism.
To see what was lost, or thrown away, in our pagan ancestors rush into the arms of the priests and their creeds, Christian Rätsch, the world-renowned ethno-pharmacologist, discusses "The Mead of Inspiration," while for the modern perspective Carl Abrahamson and Joshua Buckley interview a pioneering psychedelic explorer — the German-born Ralph Metzner, who, unlike the faux-Tibetanism of Leary or the Hindu guru-tripping Ram Dass, "feels a powerful personal connection to the myths and traditions of the North," especially "the ultimate proto-shaman himself: Odin," the "true psychedelic wanderer into the outer reaches of inner space."
There's much else here, but I must hurry on to mention the substantial sections devoted to book reviews and, a particular feature of TYR, music reviews. To revert to the Zen master again, I suspect he would think that reviewing reviews is "painting legs on a snake," but I must give you some idea of the wealth found here, a useful combination of "I wonder what they'll say about that well-known book" and "I never heard of this guy before."
In addition to the aforementioned review of Baron Evola, Prof. Godwin also reviews John Michell's How the World is Made: The Story of Creation According to Sacred Geometry, where he makes the fascinating point that
Unlike Perennialists in the Guénon-Schuon line, to whom religious revelation is the important thing, Michell puts the geometrical revelation first, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism . . . are authenticated by geometry, not the other way around.
Interesting in itself, one recalls Gwendolyn von Taunton's suggestion, in "The Primordial Tradition" (in the first issue of Aristokratia, the only journal that might be compared to TYR in scope and quality) that insight into the unity of religions is an aesthetic, not metaphysical, experience, as well as the recent publications of the so-called Illuminati Conspiracy, advocating higher mathematics as the replacement for both religious faith and scientific materialism.
Godwin himself is reviewed, around his survey of Western esotericism, The Golden Thread, as is the Western esoteric historian Arthur Versluis (The Mystical State). The no-nonsense academic work of Ronald Hutton on The Pagan Folklore of the British Isles is faced up to, while Joshua Buckley exposes the hysterical "epidemiology" of Christopher B. Kreb's New York Times-friendly attack on Tacitus's Germania. There's also German Appalachian folklore, and Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage.
Of equal size and importance to the books — and even coming first in order — is the music coverage. Although this is one of TYR's most important services, I can't say as I can really serve as a guide here; readers of some of my previous work may agree that I am no expert on music, especially what the kids are making. Why, even though I have several of Sequentia's early music CDs in my collection, Joshua Buckley's interview with Benjamin Bagby, "Finding the Voice of Our Germanic Ancestors," revealed that I knew very little about Bagby's long and extensive work as teacher, scholar, and performer (including memorized bardic performances of Beowulf). I was familiar with Ian Read and Fire + Ice's heartfelt invocations of the Germanic tradition, without either sub-Tolkien twee-ness or "pretentious totalitarian bombast." But as for the rest, I can only look forward to exploring the Lithuanian rituals of Kulgrinda, the non-metal metal of Agalloch, and the metal/neo-folk fusion of Australia's Ironwood.
In the end, I can only hint at the challenging, thought provoking and inspiring work collected here; this is an essential purchase for anyone even remotely interested in the Northern tradition or the survival of the West.
1. The publisher, Ultra, announces within the availability of the three previous volumes in deluxe hardcover edition, including an ultra-limited slip-cased edition; well worth considering for those whose paperback copies, elegantly typeset and illustrated, are, like my own, riddled with notes and other marks of having deserved careful and frequent reading.
Article printed from Counter-Currents Publishing: https://www.counter-currents.com
URL to article: https://www.counter-currents.com/2014/10/james-omeara-reviews-tyr-vol-4/
[1] Image: https://cdn.counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TYR-Volume-4-for-webview.jpg
[2] TYR: Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol. 4: https://www.counter-currents.com/tyr-vol-4/
Copyright © 2015 Counter-Currents Publishing. All rights reserved.


text:
"Today was awesome … Thank you for opening my eyes and sharing your beautiful stories."
"I was so, so thankful for your level of openness … Your story moved me."
"Excellent." "Fantastic." "Beautiful."
Want to hear people saying these things at your next event?
Email caroline [at] awishcomeclear [dot] com to request a keynote, breakout session, interview, or presentation.
Speaking at TEDxBirmingham's 2016 All Star Salon; photo credit Kate Rexrode Smith Photography
Caroline Garnet McGraw is the author of You Don't Owe Anyone: Free Yourself from the Weight of Expectations (Broadleaf Books, April 2021). She's also a speaker and coach who helps women who are really good at doing what they're supposed to do, to start doing what they're MEANT to do. She's the creator of A Wish Come Clear, a community of thousands trading perfectionism for possibility.
Caroline is represented by literary agent Angela Scheff of The Christopher Ferebee Agency. Caroline's writing has been featured on the front page of HuffPost Women (where her essay went viral), as well as on Momastery and other major websites.
Caroline has given two popular TEDx talks with 20,000+ views, as well as keynote presentations across the country. She's the creator of The Clarity Course Series and The Confidence Course Series, featuring top speakers such as Adam Grant, Amy Cuddy, and Samantha Arsenault Livingstone.
In addition to coaching with private clients, Caroline has coached for HeartCore Business, one of INC 5000's fastest-growing companies. She also coaches for acclaimed composer, conductor, and recording artist Deborah Hurwitz of Cobalt Coaching.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle says of Caroline's work: "[It's] totally freaking beautiful … Goosebumps. You are a SERIOUSLY good writer, sister. It's my favorite- simple, clean, raw, kind and brave. LOVE."
Past Speaking Engagements & Praise
Click here to view a full list of Caroline's past speaking engagements and praise; you may also visit CarolineMcGraw.com.
Most requested keynote and workshop topics include:
How to trade perfectionism for possibility
How to make progress on your purpose
How to gain clarity
How to support autism families and siblings of individuals with autism
As a recovering perfectionist, what are your top tips for others who are terrified of making a mistake?
How do you define perfectionism?
What are some common misconceptions people have about perfectionism?
How can perfectionists grow their confidence and stop playing small?
In your work as a coach, you help people make progress on their purpose. How do you help them get unstuck and move forward with their dreams?
How did you come up with the name, "A Wish Come Clear"? What does it signify?
You talk about Native American artisans who weave small, purposeful mistakes into their blankets. Why does this metaphor have profound meaning for you? How do we apply this idea to everyday life?
Many of your pieces focus on the idea of spiritual homecoming; what's your spiritual background, and how does that inform your writing?
You've written a great deal about your brother, Willie, and how having a sibling on the autism spectrum and behavioral challenges has influenced you. What would you say to parents who are concerned about providing support to siblings such as yourself?
What would you say to someone who thinks, "I can't trust myself, I'm not good enough" … ?
Sample Video: Caroline's TEDx talks
Keynote Presentation, Heart of L'Arche Fundraising Breakfast
April 25, 2018; over $135,000 raised to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
A Wish Come Clear Video Trailer
As Seen In …