Turning helix
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I chose active thinking. I chose Love. This was the resurrection of the self, the victory over death. And the multiplicity became mine to behold. John Dunn
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Love and creativity
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The real and only meaningful opposition is between those whose banners bear the symbols of love and creativity and those devoid of love, life and humanity who would have us return to the One, the ‘amorphous state of pre-Eros, pre-Love and pre-Being’. John Dunn
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Evola and right thinking
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Freedom is a kind of transcendence. The higher self should transcend the lower self and the state should encourage this impulse. This is the transcendence that results from a rising up out of the vegetative ‘One life’. John Dunn
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Evola - formless to formed
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Transmutation – stated Evola – must always proceed from ‘formless universality’ to ‘formed individuality’ and not the other way around. John Dunn
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Endeavour is all
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Our potential for freedom lies in our successful reinstatement of the active, creative and intuitive “I” back into the process of thinking, and so back into the otherwise dead world around us. John Dunn
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Rudolf Steiner on Man in our epoch
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Man has the ability to perform an act of freedom and reject the easy path of Ahriman, to find the more difficult one of Christ. But he can't find Christ if he first does not know the reality of the world. John Dunn
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Silesius prompted thoughts
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All history, all present, all future is the forest. No tree falls there unless man sees. John Dunn
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Nature: a beautiful virus
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Swinburne presents life as a violent symphony of meeting and killing, encounter and destruction of equilibria. Nature, chaos, is a virus. John Dunn
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'Violating 0', '1=0', 'New life v 0' and 'Violation comes first'
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'Violating 0' For to break free is a coming to being, with the implication that not to break free is to exist in a state of non-being, or locked in the closed circle of 0. John Dunn
'1=0' Without man’s powers of distinction, i.e. the ability to distinguish one thing from another, there would be the polar-opposite of biodiversity, or any diversity for that matter; there would be a return to amorphous oneness; nature would be one viscous soup. John Dunn
'New life v 0' A race stands culturally distinct, or it is nothing. An individual emerges as a self or does not rise above the animals. John Dunn
'Violation comes first' Man, in the image of the first Violator, is the proof of God. John Dunn
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Flowering Rifle
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An on-going passsage-by-passage reading of Roy Campbell’s epic poem of the Spanish Civil War. He is an exultant nationalist and celebrates not only feats of arms but achievements of organisation, making live poetry out of the economics and agriculture of Franco's Spain. John Dunn
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The Mythology
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First in the Mythology is Love: variously Logos, God, the Word, the Cosmic Jesus, living thought. John Dunn
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About encounter
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...a gentle breeze ripples the veil of Sais. John Dunn
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Scaligero
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The writer who fused the thinking of Giovanni Gentile, Julius Evola and Rudolf Steiner and went beyond each of them. John Dunn
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Influenced by Giovanni Gentile
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The work of Giovanni Gentile continues to feed into the development of my own writing, and, no doubt, will do so too into my next published book. John Dunn
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