Time for a review of another book by Shani Oates, this time In Search of Odhinn. Once again, I admired the breadth of evidence she brought to the table and her consideration of fine details, but was frustrated with her thoughts not being better organized or easy to follow. Let me know what you think!

As I mentioned last time, I'm going a bit out of order here, with my new review of Paths to Immortality by Johann Baptist Krebs, which not only came out before The Rebirth, but was written by its author's teacher.

At any rate, what I found most helpful here was its depiction of a skeptic becoming a believer, not through a sudden opening of the heavens, but through stubborn hard work at the direction of a trusted friend.

Let me know what you think!

A shorter one this time, as I continue to work my way through Kvilhaug's big book. This chapter was basically two transcripts of a youtube videos with an intro, so it's not the most informationally dense we've dealt with, but there's a couple of interesting ideas. Check it out here.

I'm also trying something new: a mailing list. Basically, DIY substack. There's a link in the new post, as well as at the top of my Webstead, to sign up, but it's literally just an email to me saying "sign me up," so if you'd like to get my blog posts as emails, you can use one of those links or just let me know in a comment here.

I've gotten to one of the juicier bits of Decline of the West - the "Soul Image" that defines different Great Cultures. Here's the post.

I've started a (hopeful) series on some of the big ideas in Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, which is first and foremost a way for me to settle what I've learned from the book, but will hopefully also be helpful to some other folks.

You can find the post here.