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Wise words

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:04:15 GMT

From Egon Fischer (summarising Christian Köhlert):

Oft geht es nicht um die Information selbst, sondern darum, wie das gesamte Inkarnationssystem eines Menschen (Psyche, Verstand, Gefühle, Körper) darauf reagiert. Die Manipulation erfolgt dabei nicht durch den Informationsgehalt, sondern dadurch, dass das Inkarnationssystem eines Menschen in einen Zustand versetzt wird, in dem er leicht steuerbar ist
[Often it is not about the information itself, but rather about how the entire system of incarnation of a human (psyche, mind, feelings, body) reacts to it. The manipulation arises as a result not through the information's content, but rather through that the system of incarnation of a human is placed in a state in which it is easily steerable.]

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My current all time bestsellers - top 10

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:39:21 GMT

Werner Sombart's Modern Capitalism I (paperback)
Etteilla's Book of Thoth
Werner Sombart's Modern Capitalism I (hardback)
Werner Sombart's Modern Capitalism II (paperback)
Karl Kolb's The Rebirth
Carl du Prel's The Puzzle of Humanity
Paul Keller's Forest Winter
Johann Baptist Krebs' Paths to Immortality
Werner Sombart's Modern Capitalism II (hardback)
Johann Baptist Krebs' Key to the Spirit World

And the lowest sellers (tied at #47): Georg Engel's The Rider on the Rainbow, and the same author's Tales of the Forbidden.

Hermann Stehr's bestseller is #11 The Account of Peter Brindeisener.
Georg Engel's bestseller is #12 Kathrin: Raising to Love.
Immanuel Kant's Lectures on Psychology comes in at #21.

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New Publication

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:23:26 GMT

The latest work of Johann Baptist Krebs (aka J. B. Kerning) to be published will be The Student - available from 7 November 2025.

Krebs, Johann Baptist. The Student or Secure Foundations for the Formation of Soul and Character. Whanganui: K A Nitz, November 2025. ISBN: 978-0-473-76526-2

A translation of Der Student oder Sichere Grundlagen für die Gemüts- und Charakterbildung (first published 1837 under the pseudonym J. Kerning).

A young man goes off to university with a set of promises to his father that he must fulfil. In the tumultuous world of the university, these promises prove more troublesome than expected.

Conditions under which his father gave him permission to attend university:

1. You shall visit church every Sunday and feast day, for high mass, with unforeseen hindrances at least attending a mass.

2. You shall be alone with closed doors and windows every day for one hour, but you shall not occupy yourself with your usual studies, but rather thinking about yourself, about your relationship to us, to nature, to God and to humans, and remember each time your mother.

3. You must not enter into any political associations, whatever name or goal they may have.

4. You must not duel under any circumstances. Self-defence is allowed, for which learn to fight, ride, and everything which seems helpful to you for that. Self-satisfaction is an intervention into the laws which turns the infringer into a state criminal.

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Indifference as moderation

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:51:08 GMT

Just as virtue is the midpoint of two vices, so too are support and opposition bisected by indifference. Thus the 'opposite' of support should be indifference rather than opposition, as support and opposition are mirrors of one another and to oppose is to direct energy at something just as much as to support is, whereas indifference is to withhold energy.

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Food for thought

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:53:53 GMT

Should we be trying to:

become better humans, or
better at being human, or
better at becoming human.

(This was inspired by Jack Donovan's distinction between being a better man and being better at being a man.)

This could also be adapted to other things. For example:
Should druids be trying to:

become better druids, or
better at being a druid, or
better at becoming a druid.

(Or all three? Considering the distinctions is a good topic for meditation.)

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Last Rose of 2024/25

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:32:21 GMT

Almost a fortnight after the Winter Solstice too.

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Governance

Fri, 09 May 2025 21:09:26 GMT

The latest post by New Zealand political commentator Chris Trotter has an interesting footnote:

The use of the word governance – as opposed to "government" – by liberal democrats is deliberate. It denotes not decisive power, but rational administrative process. Governance is what happens when the possibility of radical – i.e. system-threatening – change has been taken off the table.

This is perhaps the best explanation of the use of the word 'governance' that I have seen yet.

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Epitaph

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:03:37 GMT

I want my epitaph to be:

He was a lifelong immortal.

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The Kingdoms Within You

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:31:00 GMT

Thinking more about my earlier post Valhalla is within you, and the ideas of both Kerning/Krebs and Immanuel Kant that not only is the "Kingdom of God" within you, but also Hell, I have been meditating on the idea that the mansion of the father has many rooms.

This can be looked at from different directions. On the one hand, the many rooms could indicate many individuals who each are carrying their own room in the mansion of the father - i.e. their own individual heaven (and hell). On the other hand, it could indicate that their are many rooms or "realms" within an individual. That is, not only in the "Kingdom of God" and Hell within you, but also all the realms of all the virtues and vices. (This also brings to mind Robert Heinlein's novel Job and its underlying premise that each individual faces the afterlife they believed in during their life.) On the third hand, you could argue for each room being a lifetime and the lessons that lifetime is meant to teach you.

Taking the second option, the idea of Valhalla is within you could fit into this, but so too could the third option fit into this Valhalla. That is, each day of fighting in Valhalla represents a lifetime in the physical world. The feasting afterwards represents the time between lifetimes. The people who went to Hel (not the Christian Hell, but the heathen round of Hel where people who did not die nobly in battle went) could be seen as people who were directed to a different set of virtues in their life - the virtues that would be needed after Ragnarok.

Note that this approach to Christian literature is not Christian in the sense of worshiping Christ as the son of God, but rather Christian in the sense of drawing from the teachings and life of Christ (a more Odinic approach of emulation over adoration), who in my view was a son of God, in the same way that we are all children of God, where God to me is the divine spirit within us.

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Definitions

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:36:05 GMT

Love this definition from RuneSoup blog:

‘science communicators’ (95 IQ technocrat propagandists)

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The Pattern Recognition Era manifesto

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:34:19 GMT

https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-pattern-recognition-era-a-manifesto

"If you are stuck in a framework where an idea feels unthinkable, you are already controlled."

Worth reading and meditating on.

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Just saying

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:16:15 GMT

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-claimed-without-evidence-that-22-makes-4-not-so-fast-experts-say

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Attitudes to your own past

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:52:53 GMT

From Egon Fischer (with my translation afterwards):

Viele Menschen verurteilen sich selbst wegen ihrer Vergangenheit. Das bindet sie aber an das, was sie verurteilen und ablehnen und erschwert das Auflösen und Abheilen alter Wunden. Wenn ein Mensch über einen längeren Zeitraum immer wieder sich und sein Leben und Wirken mit einem großen Mitgefühl und Verständnis wahrnimmt, lockern sich langsam die Blockaden, die Einstellungen und Muster werden elastischer und Veränderungen fallen leichter.
[Many people condemn themselves on account of their past. But that binds them to that which they condemn and reject, and it makes difficult the resolving and healing up of old wounds. When a human over a longer period of time perceives himself and his life and actions again and again with a great sympathy and understanding, the blockages slowly loosen, the attitudes and patterns become more elastic, and changes occur more easily.]

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Presidential Numerology

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:10:58 GMT

One of Kristina Hazler's throwaway remarks in her latest post concerned the numerology of the numbering of the current (45=9 & 47=2) and previous (46=1) presidents of the USA. She suggests 9 represents completion and integration of all other qualities, and relates to loosening shackles and breaking out of well established circles; and 1 represents beginning of a new chapter, and farewell from the old.

So lets dig into them using the list on Wikipedia:

George Washington, John Tyler (10), Rutherford B. Hayes (19), Woodrow Wilson (28), Richard Nixon (37), Joe Biden (46)
John Adams, James K. Polk (11), James A. Garfield (20), Warren G. Harding (29), Gerald Ford (38), Donald Trump (47)
Thomas Jefferson, Zachary Taylor (12), Chester A. Arthur (21), Calvin Coolidge (30), Jimmy Carter (39)
James Madison, Millard Fillmore (13), Grover Cleveland (22), Herbert Hoover (31), Ronald Reagan (40)
James Monroe, Franklin Pierce (14), Benjamin Harrison (23), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32), George H. W. Bush (41)
John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan (15), Grover Cleveland (24), Harry S. Truman (33), Bill Clinton (42)
Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln (16), William McKinley (25), Dwight D. Eisenhower (34), George W. Bush (43)
Martin van Buren, Andrew Johnson (17), Theodore Roosevelt (26), John F. Kennedy (35), Barack Obama (44)
William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant (18), William Howard Taft (27), Lyndon B. Johnson (36), Donald Trump (45)

I can't see many real commonalities that are consistent.

Though for 1, George Washington as the end of monarchy might make sense, given that he refused to stay on at the end of his term, and Nixon and Biden both point to the end of public trust in the leadership. Tyler became President when Harrison died (he had been VP), and had a troubled presidency with all his cabinet resigning on him, and he was the first president to have his veto overridden by congress. The election of Hayes was disputed (he did not win a majority of the popular vote) and was worked out by a backroom deal which resulted in the end of reconstruction. Wilson segregated the federal bureaucracy (ending what was apparently one of the few sources of good jobs for African Americans up until then) and introduced the federal reserve and income tax (which will condemn him in the eyes of many Libertarians).

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Make yourself great again (MYGA)!

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:43:53 GMT

Kristina Hazler's latest (paid - in German) substack as an intriguing idea in it.

The new US administration has announced the aim of removing all illegal immigrants and sending them home.

What would it mean if we did the same to ourselves? That is, remove all the spiritual parasites from our environment/bodies and send them packing?

Now let's think about the other policies being espoused, and how they could be applied personally.

Removing false stories about ourselves
Stripping out pointless and harmful internal expenditures of energy
Stopping the expenditure of energy on other people's pet projects that are not of benefit to us and in many ways harmful to our interests
Expecting others to pull their weight
Stop outsourcing responsibility for your own development

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Antipodean Geopolitics

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:26:29 GMT

Scarily enough, I've made a post on this subject on substack.

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Thoughts on Learning

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:03:18 GMT

From Kristina Hazler's book Bewusstseins Coaching 1: Das menschliche Paradoxon (2016, 29; my translation)

The human is simply a "creature of habit"; once learnt, learnt forever, he often thinks. For him it is hard to understand that what he has learnt today is only a part of the whole. Not that someone is withholding the rest from him, but in accordance with his momentary situation he is not capable of seeing further, of understanding more, of perceiving more. This momentary understanding serves for nothing else but to lead him to the next and the following step, to further discoveries. When the human isolates what he has already learnt as a rigid, fixed realisation or even as unalterable fact, he thereby blocks himself off in his own further development and makes no headway until something happens which helps him to look differently at the thing or himself or the position in which he is stuck, and the reason why he is making no headway.

Looking at this from the Odinic perspective of learning as sacrificial becoming and following on from a comment I made on J. P. Russell's blog, it is a further reminder that learning is not a one and done. You can't just make the one big sacrifice and get all the benefits in one hit.

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Solar plexus note

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:01:45 GMT

In reading http://iapsop.com/ssoc/1907__towne___just_how_to_wake_solar_plexus.pdf I was meditating on the solar plexus (plaited formation of the sun) and decided to look up its various names.

In German: Sonnengeflecht (lit. tangle of the sun)
And in every other European language I checked it is essentially the same. Even Hungarian napfonat breaks down into nap = sun and fonat = braid.

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Our place in the world

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:42:34 GMT

Wir dachten, wir sollen auch großartige Wesen werden, ohne zu verstehen, dass wir diese bereits waren. Wir glaubten an unsere Berufung, uns Techniken anzueignen, um die Welt zu retten, ohne zu verstehen, dass die Welt sich selbst retten kann und dass wir selbst die großartigste „Technik“ für diese Welt sind.

[We thought we too should be magnificent beings, without understanding that we already were. We believed in our calling for appropriating technologies in order to save the world, without understanding that the world can save itself and that we ourselves are the most magnificent "technology" for this world.]

From Kristina Hazler (my translation).

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Krankheit als Kommunikation

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:59:51 GMT

From neuesbewusstsein.substack.com/p/matrix-und-der-gottliche-korridor:

Krankheit ist vor allem eine Art Botschaft, eine Kommunikation an uns, dass etwas aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist. Sie ist nicht das Übel, sie ist nicht das, was geheilt werden muss. Was geheilt werden muss, ist der Mensch, sein Denken und seine Überzeugungen, seine Traumata, seine Verletzungen und/oder die Umstände, die zu dieser „Krankheit“, dieser Verzerrung, diesem Ungleichgewicht geführt haben. Der Mensch sollte sich also fragen, ob er wirklich die Heilung der Krankheit will, oder ob er sich selbst heilen, gesund werden will. Das sind zwei verschiedene Ansätze und Wege!

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Food for thought

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:57:04 GMT

Watching a youtube video discussion with Gary Brecka at www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjuRrISRnWU and I was struck by one comment:

"Aging is the pursuit of comfort."

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Against the Canon?

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:12:09 GMT

From www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2024/10/07/rose-horowitch-and-the-obsession-with-belief-over-empiricism/ a great takedown of The Atlantic's recent article on students not being able to read full length books:

That last flippant comment for why students don’t read every line of The Iliad actually points to what I think Horowitch is truly concerned about: It’s not that students don’t read books cover to cover, it’s that they don’t read the right books.

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More food for thought

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:27:38 GMT

From mikecernovich.substack.com/p/47

A Brazilian Jiu Jitsu expert, Jean Jacques Machado, said in an interview that, “The more I learn the less I use but to be able to use less you have to learn more.”

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Future archaeology

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:43:12 GMT

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

My parents just dropped off some old possessions of mine. Included amongst them was an old cheap camera (the sort that took film) - worthless and essentially useless now. But it got me thinking about the change from printed photos to digital and the impact this could have on future archaeologists.

Let's say in some distant future time when our times are ancient history, archaeologists are looking at the relics. Let's also assume that computer technology is lost. For the period up to about 2000 they have faded photos and negatives and cameras. Then personal photos seems to disappear quite suddenly from the records. Magazines and books still have photos in them, but photos of family life, snapshots etc, largely disappear with the exception of the odd ink-jet printed photo or those print-on-demand photo albums. So the archaeologist will see a change from chemically produced photos, which most families have access to, to only photos in publications or the odd surviving ink-jetted photo which on closer examination would look like a sophisticated pointillist painting.

If we then look at other tangible things that have shifted or are shifting to the digital, the first one that comes to my mind is money. A shift in some countries to no longer having checks and significantly reducing the use of cash in favour of ATM cards and credit cards will mean that with the loss of digital records (especially with a lot of accounts now only being filed digitally) there will be a marked reduction in evidence of a money system. It will look like a drop off in the use of money and a contemporaneous increase in the number of plastic cards that do not seem to have any indication of value on them (but do have expiry dates).

Without knowing about computer storage, what would the archaeologist conclude about our state of technology? And our economic system and situation? If they know about computers only from a random sample of printed publications that survive, what would they think?

Which then leads to the thought: what knowledge might we be missing about past civilisations because of ephemeral technologies?

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Grummet

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:56:42 GMT

On reading about the five stages in the Illuminatus! trilogy, I decided to look up the meaning of the German name for the fifth stage: Grummet - given as aftermath in the text.

In German it has the meaning of aftermath, but not the usually understood modern meaning of aftermath (i.e. consequences of an event), which would be Nachwirkung, rather the older meaning of hay obtained from a second or third cutting in the same year (i.e. it derives from 'after mowing').

I learn something new each day.

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