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Man With Three Faces: Politics, Pathology, and the Modern Selves

Most of the time, everyone believes they’re talking about the facts, the “what’s happening” level of conversation, but sometimes they’re really talking about something deeper.

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The Fraud of Diversity and Inclusion

"Diverse" means "outside of the culturally hegemonic viewpoint," and "Inclusion" means "including and protecting counter-hegemonic perspectives and the people who promote them."

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Decolonization is Violence

Host James Lindsay reads through French Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre's famous summary of Fanon's Wretched of the Earth and shows that decolonization is little more than a Gnostic rebirth ritual perpetrated through murder.

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Dispositions on Being

In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions toward being: the Prison of Being, the Tragedy of Being, the Comedy of Being, and the Miracle of Being.

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The Gnostic Temptation

Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It's not because Gnostics go around telling people they're wrong. It's because they go around telling people they're limited.

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Cult Language of Woke

Woke Marxism is a cult. In being a cult, it operates like an "initiate society," and the initiation into the cult is largely but not wholly accomplished through its deliberate misuse of language.

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As Below, So Above

In the Esoteric Religion known as Hermeticism, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It’s often worded “As above, so below,” but this is only half of the principle.

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The Gnostic Parasite

In the second lecture in his “Secret Religions of the West” series, Lindsay explains that these “philosophies,” including Marxism, are actually mystical Esoteric cult religions posing as science, economics, and politics, and that their success in infiltrating our religions, societies, and institutions is down to their intrinsically parasitical nature.

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The Negation of the Real | James Lindsay

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The Negation of the Real

If you want to impose a totalitarian system, you have a problem on your hands: reality. The real is in your way and will eventually veto your project.

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Feminism is Feminist Gnosticism

In Simone de Beauvoir's famous work The Second Sex, she wrote one of the most famous lines in feminist thought: "One is not born but becomes woman."

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Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism

What in the world is "Christian Nationalism," and how in the world is it supposed to work?

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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism

Marxism is a theology, and its religion is Communism.

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The Queer Gnostic Cult

Queer Theory is the doctrine of a cult. Strange as this gender ideology may seem, perverse as it is, it can only be understood in terms of the esoteric cult religious structures called Gnosticism and Hermeticism.

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Gnosticism in the Modern West

In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay clarifies the term "gnosticism" and unmasks what amounts to a huge "New Age" movement in the Middle Ages as the source of a thread of Gnostic cult belief that has shaped every facet of the West for at least the last three hundred years.

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