Tag Archives: Western mythology

Resting in the Heart

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier on his security blog: Living in a Code Yellow World references something Jeff Cooper wrote back in the 1980s about self-defense and how your mind works. Quoting Schneier’s summary: In White you are unprepared and … Continue reading

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You Aren’t Going Crazy

You can’t teach a society; you can teach yourself. I suppose it’s one of the biggest jobs we face in our ministry here at Kiln of the Soul: We strive to help people understand that the prevailing social mythology is … Continue reading

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Secret Insanity

I’ll repeat a fundamental principle: Reality is variable. I could as easily had said that Creation is living, active and has a will of its own. You’ve probably experienced and dismissed it in the past because our society places the … Continue reading

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Heaven, Hell and Here

This isn’t theology, as if God and His revelation could be subjected to human reason. This is doctrine in the sense of teaching that serves to characterize my limited understanding. Teaching is pulling down out of my heart the moral … Continue reading

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Heartless and Perverse Society

Most folks don’t get quite what we mean by characterizing Western social mythology as bizarre. It has a thousand bogus and immoral features, but I’ll pick out one that seems to represent the worst of it: one-way attachment. In Ancient … Continue reading

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Heart: Awake and Clear

We have two concerns when we study how the Hebrew and other ANE cultures took seriously the heart as a superior intelligence. First, we have a massive barrier in the form of Western Civilization. It’s not enough that the West … Continue reading

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The False Norse God

The sheikh of the clan expected it, could feel it coming. Some decision he made for the welfare of the whole family didn’t go as one of his nephews had hoped. The younger man came storming in and bellowed like … Continue reading

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Plotting against Divine Sovereignty

There is the message, and then we have the methods and means of that message. Were our world not so hostile to heart-led living, we wouldn’t have to waste so much time and effort explaining it. Every blog post holds … Continue reading

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The Demon God of Sexual Fantasy

Westerners suffer a serious sexual psychopathology. Western mythology has destroyed countless lives. It’s not so much a single thread as a collection of false dichotomies, the standard binary logic that makes Western Civilization damnably dangerous to Christian morality. If you … Continue reading

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Indistinguishable

Let’s talk quantum morality for a moment. Are you reading the news? Lots of stuff that isn’t really all that interesting, but confirms much of what we suspected long ago. What difference does it make if everyone you could conceivably … Continue reading

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