http://hindes.blogdrive.com/ hindes Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:05:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Spirituality Occult Alternative Medicine http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/43.html Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:00:33 GMT Reposted from my personal blog (Daniel Hindes' Blog) Once upon a time I came across a site that annoyed me. It had a wealth of material on esoteric subjects, details that were available nowhere else on the web, and in some cases nowhere else at all. The only problem was that not one piece of it had any citations, and that made it essentially useless for my purposes. It is standard scholarly practice if you are talking about something that happened 300 years ago to describe the sources upon which you base your conclusions. Other scholars such as myself can then go back to the sources and... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=43 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/42.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:40:56 GMT 2007 was a good year, and I wrote a number of interesting product reviews. A recent article I wrote was a list of lens bargains for the Sony Alpha (formerly Minolta Maxxum) lens mount. The article was titled Sony Alpha (Minolta Maxxum mount) lens bargains. I also wrote a review of my main wide-angle lens, the Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM. And predictably review was titled Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM Review. A couple years ago I wrote an article called How Ebay profits from software piracy, based on my experiences with one transaction. Those are the most recent articles on ... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=42 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/41.html Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:45:04 GMT Turning now to paragraph 8 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism': Peter Staudenmaier writes in Paragraph 8: Steiner dedicated ten years of his life to the theosophical movement, becoming one of its best-known spokespeople and honing his supernatural skills. He broke from mainstream theosophy in 1913, taking most of the German-speaking sections with him, when Besant and her colleagues declared the young Krishnamurti, a boy they "discovered" in northern India, to be the reincarnation of Christ. Steiner was unwilling to accept a brown-skinned Hindu lad as... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=41 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/40.html Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:43:13 GMT Continuing my commentary on paragraph 7 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism': Staudenmaier's footnote does not actually have directly to do with the statements in this paragraph; it refers to a chapter called "The Occult Origins of National Socialism" in the book The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism by George Mosse. If this is as much as Staudenmaier has read on the issue of Theosophy as presented by Blavatsky (as his footnotes imply) then he is indeed woefully unprepared to discuss the subject knowledgably. An unsubstantiated... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=40 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/39.html Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:35:32 GMT Turning now to paragraph 7 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism': Peter Staudenmaier writes in Paragraph 7: In 1902 Steiner joined the Theosophical Society and almost immediately became General Secretary of its German section. Theosophy was a curious amalgam of esoteric precepts drawn from various traditions, above all Hinduism and Buddhism, refracted through a European occult lens. (On the connections between theosophy and the Nazis, see George Mosse, "The Occult Origins of National Socialism" in Mosse, The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism,... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=39 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/37.html Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:08:19 GMT Continuing my examiniation of paragraphy 6 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism':: Further, only one example of Steiner's flip-flopping is given, an apparent reversal on the topic of Christianity. This question has been written on at some length by a number of people, though you wouldn't know it from this piece*, and Steiner himself commented on it in his autobiography . Writing in The Course of My Life (New York 1951, page 274) he said: “Individual assertions regarding Christianity which I wrote or uttered in lectures at this time appear to be contrary to the... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=37 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/38.html Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:10:34 GMT Continuing my examiniation of paragraphy 6 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism':: It is stated that "Steiner changed his mind on many topics in the course of his career." This accusation is hardly new, and Steiner repeatedly addressed it during his lifetime. Writing in, An Outline of Occult Science (Hudson 1972, p. xxxii - Preface to the First edition, translation by Maud and Henry B. Monges, and revised by Lisa D. Monges) Rudolf Steiner said: “ Many kinds of possible criticism could still be cited. There might be critics who have read the earlier... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=38 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/36.html Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:05:15 GMT Continuing my examiniation of paragraphy 6 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism': Staudenmaier's obvious contempt for his subject is quite evident in his calling Steiner's various activities before age 36 "dabble[ing] in a number of unusual causes.” Steiner's seven meticulous volumes of Goethe's scientific writings completed while officially in the employ of the Goethe Archives were universally praised by the scholars of his day. On leaving the archives, he was praised with the following words: “His work, which combined critical... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=36 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/35.html Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:40:36 GMT Continuing my examiniation of paragraphy 6 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism': Steiner consistently maintained that his intellectual development was a gradual evolution. Steiner's view that his intellectual development represented a gradual evolution is demonstrated in the following: "Anyone who has found my writings and lectures may gather all this from them; and I would not especially mention this matter were it not repeatedly said in error that I have departed from all that I wrote and said formerly and turned to the views represented in the works of... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=35 http://hindes.blogdrive.com/archive/34.html Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:39:16 GMT Continuing my examiniation of paragraphy 6 of Peter Staudenmaier's 'Anthroposophy and Ecofascism': Among the 95 works Steiner published during his time in Weimar was a book on Nietzsche, which Staudenmaier makes a great deal of later in this article. This period comprises about a quarter of Steiner’s autobiography that Staudenmaier will make a big deal of in a follow-up piece. (See Rudolf Steiner, The Course of My Life, New York, 1951. Chapters X to XXIII - chapters 10 through 23 of 38 total) deal with this period – pages 119 to 249 out of 358.) These were arguably very... (more) http://hindes.blogdrive.com/comments?id=34