Daemonia Nymphe – Daemonia Nymphe [Ancient Greek Music]
Dead Can Dance – Aion [Neoclassical Darkwave]
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis [World Music]
Dead Can Dance – Dead Can Dance [Gothic Rock]
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus [World Music]
Dead Can Dance – Spiritchaser [World Music]
Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg [Neoclassical Darkwave]
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun [Neoclassical Darkwave]
Drudkh – Songs of Grief and Solitude [Ukrainian Folk]
Eberhard Weber – Pendulum [Meditative Jazz]
Eivør Pálsdóttir – Bridges [Nordic Folk Pop]
Eivør Pálsdóttir – Room [Nordic Folk Pop]
Eivør Pálsdóttir – Slør [Nordic Folk Pop]
Ensemble Kérylos – Musique de l'antiquité grecque [Ancient Greek Music]
Ensemble Mare Balticum – Ice and Longboats: Ancient Music of Scandinavia [Ancient Nordic Music]
Enya – The Celts [Ambient]
Estampie – Musik von Troubadours und Flagellanten [Medieval Music]
Estampie – Zeit und Vergänglichkeit im Mittelalter [Medieval Music]
Forndom – Dauðra Dura [Nordic Folk]
Gjallarhorn – Ranarop [Nordic Folk]
Harold Budd – Lovely Thunder [Ambient]
Harold Budd – The Pearl [Ambient]
Harold Budd – The White Arcades [Ambient]
Hedningarna – Hedningarna [Nordic Folk]
Hendinganra – Trä [Nordic Folk]
Horslips – The Book of Invasions [Celtic Progressive Folk Rock]
Horslips – The Táin [Celtic Progressive Folk Rock]
Irene Papas & Vangelis – Odes [Greek Folk]
Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik – Hugsjá [Nordic Folk]
Joculatores Upsaliensis – Skogen, flickan och flaskan [Medieval/Renaissance Folk]
Kalenda Maya – Medieval and Renaissance Music [Medieval/Renaissance Folk]
Kalenda Maya – Norske Middelalderballader [Medieval Folk]
Krauka – Bylur [Nordic Folk]
Krauka – Stiklur [Nordic Folk]
Lisa Gerrard – Departum [Ethereal]
Loreena McKennit – Elemental [Celtic Folk]
Loreena McKennit – Parallel Dreams [Celtic Folk]
Loreena McKennit – The Visit [Celtic Folk]
Loreena McKennit – To Drive the Cold Wind Away [Celtic Folk]
Musica Sveciae – The Sounds of Prehistoric Scandinavia [Ancient Nordic Music]
Myrkur – Mausoleum [Nordic Folk]
Of the Wand & the Moon – The Lone Descent [Neofolk]
Popol Vuh – Brüder des Schattens – Söhne des Lichts [Ambient]
Popol Vuh – Die Nacht der Seele [Ambient]
Popol Vuh – Hosianna Mantra [Devotional Music]
Popol Vuh – In den Gärten Pharaos [Krautrock]
Popol Vuh – Nosferatu [Ambient]
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra [Electronic Music]
Tangerine Dream – Poland [Electronic Music]
Tangerine Dream – Rubycon [Electronic Music]
Tangerine Dream – Stratosfear [Electronic Music]
Tangerine Dream – Tangram [Electronic Music]
Torulf –Västerled [Nordic Tribal Ambient]
Ulver – Teachings in Silence [Ambient]
Ulver – The Norwegian National Opera [Electronic Music]
Wardruna – Runaljod - gap var Ginnunga [Nordic Folk]
Wardruna – Runaljod - Ragnarok [Nordic Folk]
Wardruna – Runaljod - Yggdrasil [Nordic Folk]
Wolcensmen – Songs From the Fyrgen [Anglo-Saxon Folk]
Wolcensmen – Songs From the Mere [Anglo-Saxon Folk]
Recommended Films
The following is a list of recommended films with philosophical, religious, historical, and artistic themes which are relevant to the content of this book. Note that in many cases a recommendation does not necessarily imply endorsement of the entire film.
M. Antonioni – Red Desert
G. Axel – Hagbard and Signe
F. Baldi – Massacre in the Black Forest
I. Bergman – The Hour of the Wolf
I. Bergman – The Virgin Spring
I. Bergman – The Seventh Seal
R. Bresson – Lancelot of the Lake
M. Cacoyannis – Electra
M. Cacoyannis – Iphigenia
Arnaud des Pallières – Michael Kohlhaas
C. T. Dreyer – Day of Wrath
C. T. Dreyer – Ordet
S. Eisenstein – Alexander Nevsky
G. Ferroni – Coriolanus
R. Fleischer – The Vikings
P. Flinth – Eye of the Eagle
R. Fricke – Baraka
R. Fricke – Chronos
R. Fricke – Samsara
Á. Guðmundsson – Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli
S. Gunnarsson – Beowulf & Grendel
H. Gunnlaugsson – When the Raven Flies
A. Harvey – The Lion in Winter
W. Herzog – Aguirre
W. Herzog – The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
W. Herzog – Fitzcarraldo
W. Herzog – Heart of Glass
W. Herzog – Nosferatu
G. Hessler – The Golden Voyage of Sindbad
M. Kobayashi – Harakiri
S. Kubrick – Spartacus
A. Kurosawa – Dersu Uzala
A. Kurosawa – Ran
A. Kurosawa – Rashomon
A. Kurosawa – Seven Samurai
A. Kurosawa – Throne of Blood
F. Lang – Die Nibelungen
S. Parajanov – The Colour of Pomegranates
S. Parajanov – The Legend of Suram Fortress
S. Parajanov – Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
A. Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev
A. Tarkovsky – Nostalghia
A. Tarkovsky – Solaris
A. Tarkovsky – Stalker
T. Vinterberg – Festen
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[1]R. Guénon, East and West (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2001), p. 25.
[2]Book of Leinster, quoted in: P. Berresford Ellis, The Druids (London: Constable, 1994), p. 169.
[3]R. Guénon, Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 2004).
[4]Physicalism is a doctrine stating that everything is physical, and that everything in the world can be reduced down to matter and energy.
[5]Bhagavad Gita, 2.44.
[6]M. Green, Animals in Celtic Life and Myth (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 42.
[7]Milligan, Seaton F., The Ancient Irish Hot: Air Bath., The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, vol. 9, no. 81, 1889, pp. 268–270.
[8]Tacitus, Germania, 22.
[9]Y Gododdin is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of elegies for the men of the Northern Brythonic kingdom of Gododdin, who died fighting the Angles at the disastrous battle of Catraeth. The poem contains one of the earliest possible references to the semi-legendary King Arthur.
[10]J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999), pp. 178-179.
[11]Ibid., 211-214.
[12]Ibid., 264-267.
[13]B. Cunliffe, Iron Age Communities in Britain (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005), p. 534.
[14]Polybius, Histories, 2.28.
[15]Appian, Celtica, 1.3.9.
[16]For a more detailed discussion of this subject see: J. Evola, Metaphysicsof War (Arktos, 2011).
[17]Artificial Paradises is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the effects of the intake of opium and hashish.
[18]J. Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1995), p. 89.
[19]Such as Manusmriti (The Laws of Manu).
[20]The principles of karma yoga are expounded in Chapter Three of the Bhag
avad Gita.
[21]D. Frawley, Ayurveda and the Mind (Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Press, 2007).
[22]More on this in my essay on concentration.
[23]Nicholas Roerich (1874 – 1947) was a Russian painter, philosopher, and archaeologist known for his majestic depictions of the Himalayas.
[24]Cicero, Philippicæ, v. 11.
[25]Bhagavad Gita, 16.
[26]T. Carlyle, Signs of the Times (1829).
[27]J. Evola, Meditations on the Peaks (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1998), p. 23.
[28]The Old Norse name for Sweden.
[29]A. Hambartsumian, The Sacred Aryan Forest in the Avestan and Pahlavi Texts, Iran & the Caucasus, vol. 13, no. 1, 2009, pp. 125–130.
[30]For more detailed information about this classification, please refer to the paper: F. Kelly, Trees in Early Ireland, Irish Forestry Journal, Nov. 1999.
[31]Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, 6.31.
[32]Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 16.95.
[33]Aulus Gelius, Noctes Atticae, 5.6.12.
[34]Ovid, Fasti, 1.608.
[35]J. G. Herder, Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (London: Hansard, 1803), p. 18.
[36]J. Evola, The Youth, the Beats, and Right-Wing Anarchists (1968).
[37]Henkel, L. A., (2014). Point-and-shoot memories: The influence of taking photos on memory for a museum tour. Psychological Science, 25(2), 396-402.
[38]L. Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, 7-8.
[39]J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, chapter 5.
[40]Homer, The Iliad, X, v. 465-514.
[41]Beowulf, v. 702.
[42]J. Rowland, Early Welsh Saga Poetry: A Study and Edition of the Englynion (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990).
[43]M. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (London and New York, 1958).
[44]J. L. Spalding, Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 155.
[45]Rheged was a post-Roman Brythonic kingdom located in what is now Galloway and North Cumbria. It existed from the late 5th century to the early-mid 7th century.
[46]Taliesin was a semi-legendary Cumbric bard living in the 6th century.
[47]Madigan S, Browne D, Racine N, Mori C, Tough S. Association Between Screen Time and Children’s Performance on a Developmental Screening Test. JAMA Pediatr. 2019;173(3):244–250.
[48]Bhagavata Purana, 12.2.4.
[49]From Revolt Against the Modern World: “let us leave modern people to their truths, and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.”
[50]D. T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (New York: Grove Press, 1964), p. 122.
[51]More on this in my essay on concentration.
[52]A. David-Néel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (New York: Dover Publications, 1971).
[53]One can read more about this technique in the aforementioned book Magic and Mystery in Tibet. Naljorpas (dwellers of remote caves) use this method, in order to raise their body temperature significantly. This allows them to endure severe, freezing winters on the snow-covered slopes of the Himalayas. I may add that a Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof has invented a set of breathing exercises inspired by tummo meditation. Those who are interested in taking cold showers should definitely look it up.
[54]R. Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World (Varanasi: Indica Books, 2007), p. 114.
[55]Guénon perceived history as a downward devolution from Quality toward Quantity. His magnum opus The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times is a criticism of modernity from such perspective.
[56]V. Woolf, The Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions, 2007), p. 359-360.
[57]Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, II, 7.
[58]A. Gazzaley, L.D. Rosen, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-tech World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016).
[59]Bhagavad Gita, 6.6.
[60]R. Sheldrake, Science and Spiritual Practices (London: Coronet Books, 2017), pp. 23-49.
[61]L. Johnsen, Lost Masters: Sages of Ancient Greece (Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, 2006).
[62]R. Kaplan and S. Kaplan, The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
[63]J. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, v. 1005.
[64]Seneca, On Anger, 1.5.2.
[65]This introductory paragraph refers to Dún Aonghasa – a prehistoric promontory fort located on the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. The fortress consists of four concentric walls made of dry stone. It is built on the top of a rocky cliff towering above the sea. Manannán mac Lir was the sea god in Irish mythology. His attributes include a magical boat or chariot known as Scuabtuinne ("wave sweeper") and a sea-borne horse named Énbarr ("froth"). The limestone slabs in question are a network of defensive stones (chevaux de frise) located outside of the middle wall of Dún Aonghasa. The fort had been inhabited since at least 1100 BCE. Those interested in learning moreabout the site and its curious history can read A Study of the Fortof Dun Aengusa written by the famous Irish antiquarian T. J. Westropp.
[66]Caesar, The Gallic War, translated by Carolyn Hammond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 86.
[67]J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991), p. 185.
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