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Persistant Fictions:
Or
Varieties of Religious Delusions:
Ruminations on-Mytho-politics, Anti-Science,
Deceptive Ideologies and
Totalism
1996-2017
IN THREE BOOKS, not quite finished still needs some editing
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books or table of contents of each book, below that:
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Book 1......The Political Nature of the Religions:
(Defining Theofascism: in Evolution, Cults,
Religions, , Institutions,
Fundamentalism
and Traditionalism.)
Table of Contents
---- Introduction:
.Roll over, William James
: Ruminations on Reactionary Religion and Why I am Writing about it:
Examining Theories of Religion
a. My Involvement in Religion
b. William James’ Theory of Religion
c. Darwin, Pascal
Boyer and the Evolutionary Theory of
Religion
d. Richard Dawkin’s Theory
of Religion
e. Religion as a Mistake of Language.
f. Failure of the Traditionalist Theory of
Religion
g. Answering Religion with Science
3.Religion is Politics.
a. The
Question of Theofascism
b.
Romanticism and the Origins of Fascism:
On
Eliade, Heidegger, Campbell and others
c.
Definitions of Totalism
and Ur-fascism in Roger Griffin
and Umberto Eco
d. Umberto
Eco’s “Ur-Fascism”
e.
Religion as Social Control: Theofascism, Totalism and R.J Lifton
f. Julius Evola
’s Theofascist Politics
g How Fascism Becomes Traditionalism and Corporate Culture
Develops after World War I
h.
Nietzsche, Traditionalism and
Hierarchies of Hate
i.
The Theofascism of Martin Lings and his
Endorsement of
Franco
j.
Frithjof
Schuon’s Theofascist Politics
k.
Critics of
Schuon: His “Marriages” Lying and Polygamy
l.
Metaphysical Misogyny and Nature Hatred in Tantra,
Buddhism, Christianity etc.
m.
On
Mark Sedgwick’s book Against the
Modern World
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n. On Education:
Manufacturing Religion in
Universities
Book 2......The Paranoid Fictions of Rene Guenon and his Followers:
Trampling Rights and History under Ideology
Table of Contents
1.Critics of Guenon
2.Creating Theofascist Fictions:
Guenon in Relation to
Action Francaise, Blavatsky, Liebenfels and the Knights Templar.
1.
Guenon, Action Francaise and the Pivotal Year
of 1927
2. The Craft of Spiritual Charlatans: Guenon’s Rivals:
Blavatsky, Lanz von
Liebenfels,
and Encausse
3. Selling the Big Lie: Innocent the III and Fairy Tales of the
Knights
Templar
3. Traditionalist Executioners: The Violation of Human
Rights in De Maistre, Guenon, Schuon, Krishna, and Khadir
4. Rene Guenon and Alexander Dugin
: Destroying Human Rights and Creating a
“Super-Auschwitz”)
5. Traditionalism in Decay: Some Notes on
Fringe Traditionalists
6.
Rene Guenon, Reign of Quantity and other Romantic, Paranoid Histories in
the 20-21st Centuries
7.
Rene Guenon’s Reign of Quantity: a Review of a Paranoid Text
Book 3......Persistent Illusions:
in History, Anti-science, , Classical Studies, Linguistics and Corporate/Religious
Art
Table of Contents
1.The Dead Hand of Plato: on Plato’s Theofascism
2. On Aristotle, Lucretius
and the History of Science
3. Hypatia,
Pseudo Denys and the Killing of
Classical Science
4.
Praxiteles: Making the Myth of Praxiteles and the Misuse of
Scholarship
5. The Myths of Jesus and
Muhammad and the War between Christianity and Islam
a.
The Myth of Muhammad
b.
The Myth of Jesus
c. Manufacturing Myths and Visions in Religions.
6. The Transition from the
Medieval to Science and the Role of the Eucharist
Preface: Rama Coomaraswamy and I and Repulsion at Eating the Dead God
1.The Eucharistic Myth of Paul
2.Constantine, Charlemagne and Napoleon
3.General Observations on the Eucharistic Controversy.
4. Innocent the III and the Universal Church
5.Plato, Aristotle and the Realist-Nominalist Controversy
6.The Transition from Eucharistic ‘Truth’ to scientific truth
7. Some Observations on Cannibalism and Conclusions
7.
On Those Who Hate Science and
Reason:
Anti-Science
and Irrationalism in Guenon,
Wolfgang
Smith and Other Creationist Reactionaries.
1.Science
verses Religion in History
2. Reality is not a Construction
3.Science defeats
Fundamentalism and
Traditionalism
4.Corporate Science
5.Louis Agassiz, Ananda
Coomaraswamy and the Spiritual Fiction of “Virgin Nature”
6.Darwin’s
Triumph over Religion and Anti-Science
7.Wolfgang Smith and Creationist Anti-Science.
8.Quantum Quackery and
Fictional Essences
8. Chomsky’s Cartesian Speciesism and the Failure of his Linguistics
9.
Beyond the Dead
End of Traditionalist and Modernist Aesthetics: Restoring Intelligence to
Art.
10. Conclusions and
Overview….
Index.
A few selected essays from the books above, --- (earlier, unfinished Versions):
From Book 2
Rene Guenon’s Reign of Quantity: a Review of a Paranoid Text
(See book 2 above, the last two essays)
From Book 3
The Dead Hand of Plato: On Plato's Theofascism
Chomsky's Cartesian Speciesism and the Failing of his Linguistics
Misuses of Scholarship in the Making
of the Myth of Praxiteles
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