Gus diZerega – Page 3 – SPIRIT | NATURE

Seeing and Feeling Energy Fields

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Some otherwise sympathetic readers will suspect my description of Sacred amounts to wishful thinking. The world really is meaningless. Ultimately everything is simply an object in relation to other objects. So it seems to many minds thoroughly socialized by the … Read more

Science and the Feminine

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

In the seventeenth century, Henry Oldenburg, secretary of the new English Royal Society, wrote the society sought “to raise a Masculine Philosophy . . . whereby the Mind of man may be ennobled by the knowledge of solid truths.” [1]… Read more

Neoconservatism’s Paradoxical Origins

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Neoconservatism has a complex parentage, partly home grown and even more European. It originally grew out of tensions internal to many liberals who made up a crucial part of the Democratic coalition Franklin Roosevelt had created, a coalition that had … Read more

Mythos and Time

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

Mythos and Time

Albert Einstein was asked by a friend “Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?” Einstein answered “Yes, it would be possible. But it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning – … Read more

Masculine Boundaries: a bar fight

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

The masculine emphasis on boundaries helps clarify classically male behavior many women say they find inexplicable and many men have difficulty explaining. To take an example from my own life, during the 60s I was active in organizing protests against … Read more

The Highway to Serfdom

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 by Gus

COSMOS + TAXIS | Volume 8 Issue 1 2020

Gus diZerega

Abstract: F. A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom argued central planning in lieu of market economies inevitably resulted in a new ‘serfdom.” A similar dynamic arises within the capitalist variant … Read more

What is “Left Hayekianism”?

Posted on March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 by Gus

Words like “left” and “right” no longer have any clear meaning. But if there is a central theme, historically, people “on the left” have focused on issues of inequality of power. This has been interpreted in many ways, sometimes contradictorily, … Read more

Looking Deeply: NeoPagans, Domination, and the ‘Woke’

Posted on February 24, 2020November 15, 2022 by Gus

Our community is divided over issues of sex and gender, often to the point of truly poisonous communications directed towards those with other points of view. In a way this division seems strange. Sex is a biological category. Gender is … Read more

Power, Evil, and the Crisis of Our Times: an animist view

Posted on January 31, 2020January 11, 2022 by Gus

Gus diZerega

Presented at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, Jan. 25-6, 2020

Auschwitz guards and staff on holiday.1944

In 2013 I published Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine. Written largely in 2010, … Read more

Samhain and Day of the Dead, 2019

Posted on October 14, 2019April 7, 2020 by Gus

With Samhain just around the corner, its relation with Day of the Dead is an issue of some importance to many Pagans. Taos, where I now live, is famous for the ubiquitous presence of decorated Day of the Dead skulls … Read more