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Many people, desperate for a drop of spiritual nourishment, turn to the East, either seeking it in the rich dharmic religions or through cultural sampling of hidden tribes. But the spiritual destiny of Western Man does not lie in the East.

The more we find in the East, the more it makes us inwardly divided, homeless in our own lands. We simply become cultural hitchhikers and spiritual beggars. The solutions we find there may offer us useful tools on our quest, but do not provide the ultimate and fundamental answers to our existential predicament.

Westernkind chose a Faustian path for itself. We left the path of the eternal Sun and so our destiny is to chase the setting Sun beyond the western horizon.

And this is at the core of the spiritual tradition that lies buried at the very roots of Western civilisation. Not Christianity, not even the folkish paganism of Europe, nor the solar traditions of Egypt, but even further back- a primordial Ur-religion. And it laid the foundations for all of the disciplines that made the West remarkable: chemistry, biology, astronomy, physics, rhetoric, logic, etc.

At the heart of it is the art of dying. Because we all die, in this realm of Becoming where death is both master and the only way off this ride. And this is what it means to follow the path of the setting Sun. To go into underworld and be resurrected. To be twice-born. To be TRANSFORMED.

And for this task, ultimately the East cannot help us with it. It is not their path or destiny. If we are to heal our spiritual malaise, we must make contact with this ancient tradition again. There is no other way forward. We don’t need to look outside ourselves- everything we need is lying dormant at our own roots, just waiting to be awakened.

But there is a price to paid for that contact with our roots and it’s because for so many generations people were not willing to pay that price that we now find ourselves in a spiritual wasteland. And that price is what it has always been: ourselves and our willingness to be transformed.

This was Odin’s “sacrifice of himself to himself”, in order to gain the wisdom of the runes. It is Purusha’s eternal sacrifice to create the universe. It is the sacrifice of one’s lower nature to their higher, an alchemical transformation. Nothing less will pay the bill that has come due.

This tradition didn’t exist merely to enlighten or amuse or even to inspire. It existed to call us home. It is the path of our RETVRN, for we cannot go back the way we came. Lost Hyperborea sings the Minnelied in our blood and we must listen.

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Many people, desperate for a drop of spiritual nourishment, turn to the East, either seeking it in the rich dharmic religions or through cultural sampling of hidden tribes. But the spiritual destiny of Western Man does not lie in the East.

The more we find in the East, the more it makes us inwardly divided, homeless in our own lands. We simply become cultural hitchhikers and spiritual beggars. The solutions we find there may offer us useful tools on our quest, but do not provide the ultimate and fundamental answers to our existential predicament.

Westernkind chose a Faustian path for itself. We left the path of the eternal Sun and so our destiny is to chase the setting Sun beyond the western horizon.

And this is at the core of the spiritual tradition that lies buried at the very roots of Western civilisation. Not Christianity, not even the folkish paganism of Europe, nor the solar traditions of Egypt, but even further back- a primordial Ur-religion. And it laid the foundations for all of the disciplines that made the West remarkable: chemistry, biology, astronomy, physics, rhetoric, logic, etc.

At the heart of it is the art of dying. Because we all die, in this realm of Becoming where death is both master and the only way off this ride. And this is what it means to follow the path of the setting Sun. To go into underworld and be resurrected. To be twice-born. To be TRANSFORMED.

And for this task, ultimately the East cannot help us with it. It is not their path or destiny. If we are to heal our spiritual malaise, we must make contact with this ancient tradition again. There is no other way forward. We don’t need to look outside ourselves- everything we need is lying dormant at our own roots, just waiting to be awakened.

But there is a price to paid for that contact with our roots and it’s because for so many generations people were not willing to pay that price that we now find ourselves in a spiritual wasteland. And that price is what it has always been: ourselves and our willingness to be transformed.

This was Odin’s “sacrifice of himself to himself”, in order to gain the wisdom of the runes. It is Purusha’s eternal sacrifice to create the universe. It is the sacrifice of one’s lower nature to their higher, an alchemical transformation. Nothing less will pay the bill that has come due.

This tradition didn’t exist merely to enlighten or amuse or even to inspire. It existed to call us home. It is the path of our RETVRN, for we cannot go back the way we came. Lost Hyperborea sings the Minnelied in our blood and we must listen.

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