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I sit down with Ken from the Right Where You Are Sitting Now podcast for a deep exploration of Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on Western esotericism, modern occultism, and radical self-transformation, examining how Nietzsche’s rejection of Christian morality and conventional metaphysics — through ideas such as the will to power, Dionysian mysticism, and the Übermensch — shaped magicians, mystics, and modern Left Hand Path traditions, not as abstract theory but as a lived philosophy of self-overcoming.

This week:

- Nietzsche as a formative influence on modern occult thought

- The death of God and the spiritual crisis of modernity

- Will to power as metaphysical principle and magical analogue

- Amor fati as a discipline of self-mastery

- Eternal recurrence as mystical ordeal and existential test

- The Übermensch as a model of self-overcoming and transformation

- Determinism, fate, and the occult problem of free will

- Slave morality, guilt, and the psychological origins of sin

- Dionysus, ecstasy, and pagan currents in modern philosophy

- Why Nietzsche became central to modern esoteric culture

Right Where You Are Sitting Now Links:

https://sittingnow.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/@sittingnow

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/right-where-you-are-sitting-now/id1515119253

https://open.spotify.com/show/7kNDgrfgBKReEZ1r02dzVP?si=81416615c86e4416

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Here's a Spotify playlist of the tracks I recommend in series 1 of the Will to Joy podcast in the order I recommend them. Each invokes some variety of Dionysian feeling for me. I hope they can do something similar for you:

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