Inlägg, 24 februari 2024

Lyss, lyss till profetens röst...

De mytiska krafterna regenereras...

Vad stort sker, sker tyst...



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Preachment 1: Veteran of the Psychic Wars

Greetings, disciple. This is my preachment. Beginning February 2024.

Om shânti om...
Om shânti om...
Om shânti om...

Triple time...

Like Odin, Vili, Ve...

Like Har, Jafnhar, and Tridji...

Like Künstler, Genie, und Held...

Like Panzer, bomber, panzer...

You get the drill... 1-2-3, rock around the clock...

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O shânti om...

Om bhûr bhûvah svaha...

Sambhâvami yuge yuge...

Yuga after yuga, I return...

Year after year, month after month, week after week, I return to this blog... to preach...

So welcome, my disciples... I am Magus Maestro...

I lay down the rhythm, and you are bound to follow it...

I create magic... I shape reality by my very being... by osmosis...

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I write and publish... and the ensuing book becomes a magical object...

Like this one... Astral War of 2023... a very pertinent example of my magic endeavour...

But I do more than preach and teach in my books...

I am also a story telling shaman... giving you works like this novel... Third Reich... panzer--bomber--panzer... holy, holy, holy...

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The magical forces are regenerated...

Stellar Storm approaching... brainstorm, psychic storm... your soul is the battlefield... as you all know...

Elite soldier of the psychic war... a warrior cherishing the psychic storm, the brainstorm... the prospect of propaganda war 24/7... if you only know that it's raging, you can have a field day... in your innermost being unperturbed, just watching the forces of nihilism combating each other... and at the end of the day the new elite steps in... the Aristocrats of the Soul... cavalcare le tigre.

Tomorrow's slave, shudra, and serf, will be the atheist nihilist.

Tomorrow's ruler, aristocrat, and king, will be the mindful magician.

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There you have it.

Live like a Hadean flower under Burning Magnesium.

Fight the Astral War with dedication and verve.

Don't be afraid of insanity.

"You're seeing now a veteran -- of a thousand psychic wars"...!

This I preach today -- 23 Februay 2024.

Says Svensson... story-telling shaman, MC of magical realism, jester of the new infinities.



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A presentation of this blog

C. D. Friedrich. The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808–1810)

Poem: "I'm still alive"...

Poetry time...

When Curt Cobain died Eddie Vedder sang,
“I’m Still Alive”...

A celebration of life in a time of despair.

In the same way, when my brother died,
I was – after receiving the news,
ruminating over it,
internalizing it – glad to be alive.

“I’m a survivor”...

And, “Angie, ain’t it good to be alive”.

That feeling, the sadness at someone’s death
and at the same time, a quiet
joy of being alive oneself.

“To exist is nothing insignificant,” as Frithjof Schuon said.



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I spent some time browsing the internet for “authors having
killed themselves” – this leaving me in the same state – of sadness –
and also a quiet joy – of being alive. An oxymoron.
Not arrogance, not haughtiness, not vindictiveness,
not smug self-satisfaction. Just a mixed sense of
sadness and serenity.

Sylvia Plath, gassing herself to death because of depression.

Virginia Woolf, drowning herself because of depression.

Karin Boye, taking an overdose of tranquilizers because of depression.

Vilhelm Moberg, drowning himself because of depression: he went “to seek
the waters,” “jag går att söka sjön”...

Hemingway, shot himself because of depression.

Otto Weininger, shot himself because of his magnum
opus Geschlecht und Charakter not having made an impression.

David Foster Wallace, hung himself because of depression.

Stig Dagerman, gassed himself to death with car engine exhaust
because of writer’s block and depression.

Norwegian writer Leonard Borgzinner:
he shot himself, hard to know why... He even said
in 1980 that his only ambition was to live another ten years.

The list of authors killing themselves goes on and on.

Writing is a high-risk occupation.

Angie, oh Angie, ain’t it good to be alive...



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Poem, 22 February 2024

Greetings, dispciple.

We will today give you a poem. A short one.

The shortness aside, the poem says everything about the situation today.

Here it is.

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Living in Dharma Town, looking down on Clown Town,
faith is like a tower, for those who believe...



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Painting by Robert Svensson

Lästips februari 2024 -- en-radsrecensioner

In Swedish. -- Det har åter blivit dags för några snabba lästips. Idag är de extra snabba; de består bara av en rad per bok.

Bengt Abrahamsson. Avfällingen – Lawrence efter Arabien. Lund: Celanders, 2015. – Denna boks porträtt över Lawrence kan sammanfattas som: ”det var synd om honom”... en överpsykologiserad studie alltså, läs den ej; läs istället Lawrence' egen Vishetens sju pelare eller se David Leans film.

L. Ron Hubbard. Dianetik – hur tanken påverkar kroppen. Köpenhamn: New Era Publications, 2007 (orig 1950). -- Diverse kan sägas om denna bok -- som att det var en av de första Hubbard skrev i ämnet mindfulness -- och att den än är relativt läsbar -- och positiv i tonen: människan är god, psykosomatiska sjukdomar kan lätt botas liksom neuroser och psykoser... och för att bli clear krävs bara att man avlägsnar spärrar såsom engram, dvs. kodordsliknande präglingar som styr vårt undermedvetna.

Thede Palm. T-kontoret. Några studier till T-kontorets historia. Luleå grafiska, 2007. -- Roligt i denna bok var t.ex när Palm berättar hur han förbjöd sina anställda att när pensionen nalkades skriva sina memoarer... han gav stilistisk motivering, de var inte tillräckligt bra skribenter för att skriva nämnvärda memoarer, ”det skulle ha blivit journalistisk lekskola”... så man kan säga att detta var en elegant parering av ett stående problem: medarbetares önskan att skriva memoarer (= mänskligt perspektiv) visavi det betänkliga när detta sker inom den hemliga u-tjänstens domän (operativt perspektiv).

Prousts Récherche au temps perdu... påminner en del om Huysmans À rebours, som skildrar en liknande typ: hyperkänslig pedant som ägnar oändlig möda åt trivialiteter av det estetisk-emotionella slaget -- en platt materialist alltså -- bögig nonsens som älskas av dagens mainstream.

Rolf Jonsson. Mahabharata - ett urval (H-ström, 2013). – Jonsson har översatt ur sanskritoriginalet till detta mäktiga epos; vi bjuds 18 kapitel med alltifrån mytiska scener i himlen till mänsklig dramatik och inskjutna legender... synnerligen läsvärt... i stort sett läsbart också... fast jag retar mig på Jonssons term "maktglans" som han anser måste till för att täcka betydelsen av skt. tejas -- helt onödigt, ty "glans, strålglans, karisma" räcker bra som översättning av detta begrepp.



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Bild Robert Svensson, min framlidne bror

Creating a face

Good morning, adept of magical realism. Today's lesson is about creating a face.

1.

Let me begin by quoting Halévy's Nietzsche biography.

It is about an event in 1886. Nietzsche was then at the height of his creativity. The Zarathustra book had been published some years before. He was in high spirits. He was, in short, approaching supermanhood.

Halévy paints the scene thus. Nietzsche's comrade Paul Lanzky was meeting Nietzsche in Ruta, near Genoa:

Paul Lanzky rejoined Friedrich Nietzsche at Ruta. Not having seen him for eighteen months, he was struck by the change which he observed in him. The body was weighed down, the features altered.

In other words, Nietzsche is becoming superhuman.

And it shows in the face. The face is a sign of the ultimate opus, the alchemical work, the statement of being “more than what you are”.

And a similar instance can be seen in the life of Carlos Castaneda.

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Castaneda's doctine per se is rather pertinent for a superman primer. It is about memento mori. About raising yourself with selfless action. And about going to knowledge as you go to war – wide awake, with fear, with apprehension, and with absolute determination.

Castaneda, as a disciple, embraces all this. Then, in the exam as a nagualist shaman, he has to jump off a precipice and, via the so called “assemblage point” on the astral body, assemble a new world, so as not to be crushed to pulp at the bottom of the gorge. – This is an elaborate shamanic test and it has to be done with firm guidance by a guru – or two, actually, as it was in this case. Conversely, to simply jump off a cliff and expect “magic” to ensue is said to have led one reader of Castaneda’s books into certain death. He jumped from a bridge and of course couldn’t assemble a new world, since he had no shamanic guru around to coach him (the source for this tragic episode is Wallace 2003).

However, Castaneda, for one, managed to jump of his cliff and not land at the bottom of the vale – no, in mid-flight he assembled a new world – several, in fact, in succession – before he ended up in his Los Angeles apartment.

Castaneda has told of the “jumping off a cliff” and what followed in several books – like Tales of Power and The Second Ring of Power. The below version is based on The Active Side of Infinity (1999).

After the event he was, of course, a little surprised to be alive. But he gathered himself, got out of bed, went to the bathroom. And sat in the bathtub for a long time, water from the shower besprinkling him while he was “recalled to life,” so to speak.

And “the face”? What has this got to do with “creating a face”?

I’ll come to that.



2.

Having recovered body and soul Castaneda finally went out for a bite. He went to the usual diner nearby and had a meal. Then a drifter he recognized from before entered the restaurant. And after a while he went to Castaneda’s table. But when he saw Castaneda he screamed and ran away.

In Castaneda’s own words, this is the story:

When he [= the hobo] entered the restaurant, he sat at his usual place, and then he looked at me. Our eyes met. The next thing I knew, he had let out a formidable scream that chilled me, and everyone present, to the bone. ... The man jumped off his stool and ran out of the restaurant, tuning back to stare at me while, with his hands, he made agitated gestures over his head.

[Castaneda 1999, p. 271-272]

Castaneda runs after the man, overtakes him in the street, asking him what made him scream. But the man just covers his eyes and screams again. So Castaneda leaves him and returns to the diner – and the waitress asks him what happened and Castaneda says he just went to see a friend. A friend, really? she says but he means it, musing that this guy was someone who had “seen through the veneer that covers you and knows where you really come from” [p. 272]

The hobo had seen something in Castaneda. Probably his altered features. The features of a superman.

For, magic practices aside, the exact “way to do it” – if you have jumped off a precipice and survived, ending up some hundred miles from where you started – then you are superman.



3.

We shall say a little more about the magical way to supermanhood.

We don’t teach magic per se. No ceremonies or such. But it has got to be said that the magician approaches the superman role.

For instance, they say that among Etruscan magicians there were some called “fulguriators”. They let themselves be struck by lightning (Lat. fulgur) and thus became changed into something more than ordinarily human. The event of course was preceded by “Hyperborean initiation”. You had to have will-thought united in your being, and be prepared to die, before letting lightning struck you. But with the right mindset, and right condition, you could let the thunderbolt hit you and then end up as a supreme being. As a shamanic superman.

And as for the mere possibility of surviving a lightning strike, it is said to be about 90%.

Thus, the fulguriator practice is a probable usage.



4.

You needn’t jump off a cliff or be struck by lightning to raise yourself. You can test your strength in other ways.

You can go to war. You can go hiking in some strenuous way. You can fast, live on a limited diet for a while. You can meditate, focus your mind on the Absolute.

There are many ways of skinning a cat. There are, beyond the basic initiation, many ways to supermanhood. All of them might, in the end, lead to a change in your appearance – a different face, a face exuding both “innocence and experience”. Your face will change, have an appearance like it is made of metal – not iron, in this case, but bronze, the bronze of a statue, come alive by the different shades and highlights given by the shifting sunlight during the day.



Literature
Castaneda, Carlos. The Active Side of Infinity. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1999
Halévy, Daniel. The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. London: T. Fischer Unwin, 1911
Wallace, Amy. Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life With Carlos Castaneda. New York: North Atlantic Books, 2003



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Mina engelska böcker på Bokus

Mina engelska böcker finns på Bokus.com.

Jag har en del böcker utgivna av Manticore Press. Ett australiskt förlag, internationellt verksamt. Och med engelskspråkig utgivning, inget annat.

Jag är sedan 2014 utgiven av Manticore. Det är närmare bestämt åtta böcker. Och alla finns till salu i Sverige, på Bokus.com.

Priserna är högst rimliga. Vad sägs till exempel om SF Seen from the Right, på 378 sidor, för 299:-?

Alla mina åtta böcker på Bokus finner du här.



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Vintage pod: The Hero's Journey

A pod episode still online after six years, that's rather unique. I am talking about this one.

In March 2018 I was interviewed by Henrik Palmgren of Red Ice Radio. Here it is. The first hour is free, the second hour needs membership of Red Ice.

In the interview we talked about my then latest novel, Burning Magnesium. Then the discussion segued into a look at another book of mine, Actionism. For, they do have things in common, the war novel and my personal philosophy. Like action as being, movement as a state, memento mori, and all that.

This was my second interview at Red Ice. In 2017 we talked about my essay on sf. It, too, is still online.

So I'd say, check them both out for a closer look at my preachment.



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How to embrace MMM = the Memento Mori Mindset

Towards an understanding of death... that's the subject of this post. It's NOT about becoming a necrophile. No. It's about being a living, exuberant person having an integral respect for death.

My philosophy of life is partly about acknowledging death.

I discussed it in this post.

It is the "Memento Mori Mindset" = MMM.

The philosophical basis of MMM is the gist of that post.

Even more so: MMM is one of the key factors of my philosophy of life, Actionism.

Actionism is about having willpower-and-vision in your life. But before you go on to create wonders in that way you must meet "the Dweller on the Threshold"... equal to "death, the fear of death". You must come to terms with death.

It is all very simple. But the simple is difficult. As Clausewitz said.



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Good Reads, January 2024

Howdy.

Hereby some reading tips.

The common denominator is "Absolute Svensson"... books that are symbolising the world of me.

And here they are:

. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy. -- Elegantly readable survey over alchemy and its spiritual meanings. A little reductionist but not overly so.

. Guénon, The King of the World. -- The swastika is a polar symbol, and Hyperborea is the fatherland for us all. Melchizedek, the Gral, Agartha and Shambhala. All this, and Three Wise Men, in a succinct study, under 100 pages.

. Brandes, Friedrich Nietzsche. -- Also a succinct survey, this time over FN by the Dane Georg Brandes. Brandes was a little superficial and unspiritual, but you must give him that he was the first to see the grandeur of Nietzsche. Contains heartbreaking correspondence between GB and FN, FN both seeing some recognition of his opus and also, at the end, going mad.

. The Mahabharata, translated by John D. Smith. First published in 2009 it comprises all of the epic, in about 800 pages. This means that half the text is summary text. But to get all of this epic into one volume you have to make sacrifices. This is a decent compromise.



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Pronunciation of Sanskrit: some remarks

Sanskrit was spoken in Agartha and Hyperborea. And this whole legacy is coming back. Therefore everyone should know Sanskrit.

Sanskrit is the way of the future. Many greats have had some knowledge of it: Guénon, Evola, Simone Weil...

And as for the pronunciation of Sanskrit, hereby some remarks.

For instance, in the Sanskrit grammar I had as a student, it was stated that the stress should never be on the last syllable of a word. And a Western person speaking Sanskrit should remember this. But the Indians themselves speak with a rather monotonous accent, all syllables having approximately the same stress (this may remind you of the pronunciation of Chinese and Japanese).

Indian pronunciation of Sanskrit differs somewhat from Western school pronunciation. Of course by birthright the Indian way is of some importance, but to imitate it to the letter is not something that a European Indologist needs to do. School pronunciation, and with a Latin accent, is considered alright. However, to additionally listen to Sanskrit texts like the Bhagavad-Gītā chanted on Youtube, by a Hindu, gets a fair image of how it should sound.

Sanskrit has no difficult sounds as I see it. No “ach-laut,” no phonetic absurdities. Sure, “vocalic r” (ṛ) may be a bit difficult, but it sounds something like “ri”. Then we have the retroflexes, like ṭ, ḍ, ṇ. They are, to me, “typically Indian”. See for instance the Peter Sellers sketch “birdie-nam-nam” in the film The Party from 1968. Retroflex pronunciation: this means that the tongue should be bent back (= retro-flex) towards the palate.

As for the pronounciation of consonants in general, they are rather similar to English tongue. K, g, t, and d – no problems there. And the Sanskrit “j” sound is for instance pronounced like the “j” in English judge. And ñ sounds like “ny” in “canyon”. Further, I find the following advice by John D. Smith in his Mahābhārata translation are spot on, giving us some useful guidance:

[N]ote that c is always pronounced like the ch of English chip. The letter h is used in combination with many consonants to indicate aspiration; this [along with retroflex pronounciation, LS] is another feature that few Westerners can master (the Sanskrit consonant gh is not like the sequence found in English hog-house), and they should probably ignore the h in kh, gh, ch, jh, ṭh, ḍh, th, dh, ph and bh. Thus th and ph are not pronounced as in English thin and phone, but are similar to t and p.

[Smith p. ix-x]

Regarding sibilants we have this: “[Ṣ] should be pronounced like the sh of ship, not the s of sip. An acute accent on an s (ś) represents a second, slightly different (non-retroflex) sh-sound.” [ibid p. ix]

As for the three wovels coming in a long and short variety, they are a, ā, i, ī, u, and ū. According to Whitney they are, respectively, to be pronounced as in the English words far, farther, pin, pique, pull, and rule. The long vowels e and o are pronounced as in they and go. The diphthongs ai and au are pronounced as in aisle and how.

The anusvāra (ṃ) is a nasal, sounding like the “n” in French bon.

Finally, the visarga (ḥ), is an aspirate sound, a “breathing” sound. Given as “aḥ” it should be pronounced “aha”. Given as “iḥ” it should sound like “ihi”. Paramahamsa, for his part, says that this attention given to visarga pronunciation is important. For in it lies God. The thing of it is, a visarga in a metric verse does formally destroy the meter, it kind of interposes an extra syllable. But, those who know how to chant can cram in that little extra “pseudo-syllable”. It has to be there. For it is divine.

There you have it. Now you have the fundamentals of Sanskrit pronunciation. Now you're on your way to archeofuturist excellence.



Sources
Smith, John D. The Mahābhārata. An Abridged Translation. London: Penguin Classics, 2009
Whitney, William Dwight. Sanskrit Grammar (orig. 1879). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1989



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Evola and Leone

Howdy. -- Edit May 2025: the below text is now part of my Evola biography, published by Manticore Books.

Julius Evola was the Sergio Leone of 20th century thought.

Like his compatriot in the film industry Evola brought gravitas, dignitas, and contemptus to a public who knew very little about this.

I'd say: in the post-1945 order of things you were regaled with chattering heroes, babbling clowns, incessant music and laughter in all genres of art and thought.

But the Italians in question, Evola and Leone, by their very nature, by their very presence, brought a different mood to bear. The mood of empty plazas, funeral music, “long-lasting gazes, and long-lasting silence”.

The quote is from Evola’s Pagan Imperialism. And it is the perfect band between him and Leone.

Evola wanted an alternative to the modern world of chaotic cacophony and flickering impressions. And Leone lets the silence speak in many of his scenes. His films have a special focus on silent faces, on long-lasting gazes.







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