The Three Gunas
Click the image above to view the full graphic. Yogic philosophy says if you eat sattvic food, you will become a sattvic being. If you eat rajastic food you become rajastic (ambitious, temperamental,...
View ArticleXenophon on Home Economics
The world’s first text on home economics gives an idea of its great import. Xenophon, an Athenian, was born in 431 B.C. and was a pupil of Socrates. He fought with the Spartans and was exiled from...
View ArticleThe Timeless Wisdom of the Brahmin Diet
“Whatever you do, make it an offering to me–the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.” ~Bhagavad Gita, 9:27 There’s a diet that has been promoted by sages of...
View ArticleTom Wolfe on Why Modern Architecture Is So Awful
Have you ever wondered why in the so-called “Dark Ages,” a cathedral like Notre Dame was constructed . . . but after hundreds of years of innovations in engineering, technology, and construction...
View ArticleDistress Tolerance: DBT for Depression, Anxiety, and Anger at the Modern World
No matter what circles I frequent—the New Right or occult—I run into a high percentage of people who suffer from depression or anxiety, or who are highly sensitive people. These are some of the...
View ArticleHygge: The Nordic Art of Happy Living
Hygge is a Danish word for finding happiness in the little things in life. More specifically, it’s a way of taking ordinary events and making them cozy and comfy. It encompasses everything from comfort...
View ArticleFrith: The Norse Art of Peaceful Families and Communities
Frith is a northern European concept that’s almost exclusively discussed in the realm of Asatru. It’s such an important value that it’s time to bring it out of the pagan fringe and back into mainstream...
View ArticleMinimalism: A Traditionalist Aesthetic
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris When people think of a design style of Traditionalism or the New Right, what’s likely conjured up in...
View ArticleEmotion Regulation: DBT for Making Yourself Less Vulnerable to the Modern World
This is another post in my series on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), some of the most useful techniques I’ve found for being happy in the modern world. Emotion regulation is simple—it’s about doing...
View ArticleHow the Left Abandoned the Environment: Veganism
This month Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Green New Deal, a plan for eliminating U.S. carbon emissions and halting human-caused climate change. The...
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