HEROIC TRADITION. NEW THOUGHT MINDSET. MAZDAN STUDIES. MANOSPHERE
[This post was originally for my Paranormal blog. It will still appear there because the implications and benefits of advanced human ability are an important aspect of this work. However, statistics and protocols are secondary to just plain living well. How we live in a way that is practical transcends any 'science' as a limited field. Living well is the best paranormal.] Here is a version of that essay. Thomas Carlyle's advocacy of the heroic in our culture is no longer mentioned in our schools. In fact few teachers, much less students, know who Carlyle was. Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) was a contemporary and friend of the American transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. I believe that to a student in the mid-1960s Carlyle was still known in literature until his banishment at some later time. His heroic standards for the West seems to have been too much for our emerging Liberalism. But this is not a grievance study. I'll leave that to others.