Newsletter 2

 Just arrived in the mail today, and it exceeds my expecations although my expectations were great.  In our trajectory and the challenges we have volunteered for, the wisdom of a Rune Master is sometimes required to engage in the fight.  Don't fight.  Win!  

Adequate skill with my word-hoard is hard to find in expressing my appreciation for what Christopher Alan Smith has created for our lore into the future.  But the point is that my skills for life-purpose and expression WILL arrive as promised by our foundational myth.  If you have hit a plateau or have been side tracked by inevitable challenges, this book is the antidote.  This book returns the reader to the original and best of his purpose in studying our ancient ways.  

The VEGVISIR introduction addresses the general malaise, misdirection, and subversion of the modern world but only rests there for a moment.  A solution is offered.  A soulution.  Immediately there is the reawakened call that says, "We were meant to be more."  The dilegently focused mission of Chistopher Alan Smith is a call to action throughout this authentic book.  In the introduction, a quote by Colin Wilson shows us that this work is eclectic and erudite.  I haven't decided yet if the main readership should be grizzzled veterans like myself who've let our runic dedication slide a little, or enthusisiastic beginners who demand authenticity.  Authentic history and purpose has always been a hallmark of this runemaster from England, so if you are going to learn a Northern mystery as a beginner or advance your magecraft this compact quality tome(248 pages) is crucial.  

BTW the runic power of the book images themselves emanate an amplified power.  Appendix 5 has Galrastafir.  The Vegvisir appears there with a description. Chapter 10 describes the stave endings which forms the tridents, bars, and curves you see on the cover image.  Look at the cover image before I mention Smith's assessment.  When I did that it spoke of personal and clannic power with the ability to find my way or the way being shown.  Since this is a book review (and high recommendation), I will quote the description from appendix 5.  " Signpost (Vegvisir) carry this stave on you and you will not get lost in storms or bad weather, even though in unfamiliar surroundings."

I think that is a helpful force to have so as not to get lost in the horrific and unfamiliar surroundings created by the machinations of modern times.   

THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG

THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG by David Joseph Schwartz.  1959.  Foreword by Melvin Powers for those who remember back in the day.

A classic that might be even more relevant today.  We have some big challenges that will be met if our thoughts be big.  "Luck will often enough find a man if his courage hold"  (paraphrase of 13th Warrior and Norse lit)

The world of America, Canada, New Zealand and many others are passing away into nostalgia.  What is implied in the very etymology of 'nostalgia' is a longing for home but also the tonic of homecoming.  It might seem that the end of the trust in government with respect for their controls means the end of the West.  But we know the West is a creation of thinking and doing by real people. My long memory recalls that fearful times were  also grand times.  We  won against fearful odds.  We didn't KNOW we would win in that state of
induced fear and weak obedience by the masses.  But we did suspect we would win when sensing ethical action and making concerted ethical actions.  

Today, I see people leaving the 'civilization' of draconian controls and starting over with brave land-taking in new and unfamiliar regions.  I also see those regions speaking to the hearts and minds of the new arrivals with a winning response to their hard work.  Alternative culture as a return to what's right is gaining ground by the new efforts of those who seem to have given up on governing bodies but are taking control of their own trajectory as a business endeavor.  Formerly militant and politicized sub-cultures are now eschewing nihilism and complaint by taking their actions into the worlds of business endeavor.  They seek to over rule the established order by BECOMING the ruling order in charge of economics, city council, and markets. 

Entrepreneurial education is a vital function by those banned from more staid publicly funded arms of compliant national governments and U.N. or WHO regulated administrations.  The Millerman School of Michael Millerman and the Woodharrow Institute of Stephen E. Flowers are examples.

It's a tall order requiring the magic of thinking big.  

Some of my geezer guidance from my roads not taken - - ignoring the message of thinking big cost me success, or at least a fair run at it.  I read Schwartz's work while starting in partnership business in a field that did not guarantee success.  Yet the collectible and antique market burgeoned to a lucrative field.  My own section of book sales lagged because I did not risk with capital and inventory.  Selling a few books that would make small changes in everyday lives seemed like enough.  And it was satisfying but this was about 1994 when Bezos was starting Amazon as a book selling platform.  

Later in my cosmic career I started a prediction site - - which is still up today.  I limited myself to a few verifiable binary hit-or-miss predictions in selected sports events, stock market trends, politics, and world events.  Limited scope at different times that I could analyze and report easily.  Now here is a predictive site that shows how a market can more accurately predict trends than committees of 'experts.'  This site requires big thought about how to facilitate a large 'faculty' and clients makings bets on futures.  Fascinating big thinking.

https://insightprediction.com/
Not an endorsement of this company, or Amazon, or any existing endeavor.  You have your own program to kick in gear.  

  
I don't want to denigrate small initial efforts because action is more important than theory.  We have to start somewhere but we don't have to stop before thinking big.   

 ukrainian trident

 RESUMING MY AMATEUR HEIDEGGERIAN ADVENTURE 

I'm my own favorite blogger.  At least when I look at works when I was younger and had the chops.  Not that long ago. 

Which works to resurrect and 'where to from here?' was a complicated situation until I ASKED.  Divination, don't you know.  

Divination guided me to resuming working on a book in progress, MY AMATEUR HEIDEGGERIAN ADVENTURE.  Along my adventure I found Michael Millerman. A translator of books and professor at Toronto University until their mandatory wokeness banned him.  Philosophy is more important to him than PC existence.  Millerman is who I consider the top Heidegger expert of our times.  By all means take a course in the Millerman School but he has volumes of introductory study.  Here is a good one on "Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn5SBPPuiY
The Philosopy of another beginning was where I left off in working on my book which may or may not get to publication. "Anfang" as another beginning showed great promise when I started this two part blog series.  But we saw it coming that the prospect of Ukraine being goaded and coerced into going against Tradition would mean that their resistance to EU and Nato would not register in the world 'community.'  Putin was challenged by midgets and the results have been catastrophic.  Let us hope that Another Beginning can also be found in geo-politics of Schmittean honesty : before it is too late.  
Part One : https://myalternativetostandardizedmedia.blogspot.com/2020/11/respecting-illiberal-awakening-of.html
Part Two : https://myalternativetostandardizedmedia.blogspot.com/2018/10/heideggers-another-beginning-in-united.html

There is an excellent website called "Eiregnis" which gets it's name from this new beginning.  

Alan