Warhorse

The practicality of relationship management and inner equilibrium surface as recent themes and continue in episode 18. We stake out a new (but is it?) Mexican restaurant and take a close examination of recent nuances in the meta-narrative. The grinding away continues at the interpersonal level. Few notice. 

Practicality reigns in hour two as we pick up where we left off with sorting contradictions in the interface between emotional and reasoning centers. The Criminal of Purpose, anarcho-primitivism, outline for fathering a mannerbund, and a mini-review of Bowden's Blood Orchid build out the episode. 

In hour one we do what no survival/tactical-minded/guerilla podcast ever has---we discuss relationship templates, tactics, and strategies in the context of both The Collapse and The Collapsing. As well: The Mannerbund, knives, and Orthodox Mystagogia. 

Hour two brings us to the door of the practical where we take the position of the penitent knife wielding man and segue into a Criminal of Purpose discussion where we pile on the extreme esoteric survivalism--smuggling vs. road trips, "one step off," and some social engineering chat. 

At least we weave in a minor exegesis on the Goldengoatguild logo, some backstory and commentary on creativity. 

In the first hour of this very merry Christmas break episode of The Warhorse we examine the value and use of memento mori in the form of the new Peregrine Precision high-end urns. As well, we skirt the edges of the ongoing Collapse and while poking the beast make the observation that while the Plague is being dialed-down the next assault is already being prepped for roll-out. Standard issue. 

In hour two we pick apart a few of the recent, highly dramatic implosions on the general area of The Right (whatever that means)--mass murder, pretense, lies, absolute degeneracy. There's too much fetid material not to investigate briefly vis a vis Hoffman's contention that a great deal of The Spectacle is really about shame, humiliation, and the creation of mass-despair by way of general degradation. "You're stupid and you'll never win." 

As ever, we mix up this foul brew, perform our own alchemical turns and reformulate things into a positive. Deploying the Warrior's Way to clarify--both The Way and current considerations--we draw a few distinctions, avoid saying "I told you so" about said implosions, and finish up on a cozy Criminal of Purpose chat. 

Returning to the full-moon battlefield once again--undefeated, unappreciated, and unimpressed with my enemies--we launch immediately into an only partially-hinged rant pertaining in at least some general sense to The Collapse, the rapidly degenerating social landscape, and our options for mounting a response. 

Hour two finds us stabilized, barely. Things are getting weird, even in a weird context. We continue, with more clarity, to clean up the wreckage of the rant before shifting over to equal segments on nutrition/Nourishing Traditions, The Criminal Purpose, and The Plan To Have No Plan aka Doing Nothing. 

It's an intense, compact episode for the start of the Christmas week. More soon!

Thanks, as always, for your continued interest and support. 

Hour one opens with a brief discussion on the recent Truck Ruck/Gear dump for subscribers. For reasons of precise clarity and abysmal behavior in demand of correction, we launch into a fiery improvisational rant excoriating the idea that dogs are gear. In need of cooling, we pivot to a recapitulation/QRD on the primacy of yoga and breath work. Minor intro, admonishment to explore earlier episodes. With an eye towards practicality in this podcast epoch, we boil down the reasons we use Stepwise Collapse in lieu of CW2, 4GW, etc. Winding this segment up with some meaty and nutritious exercises in The Criminal of Purpose sets all things right back on track. 

Hour two: four or five notes of further clarity (working the Trivium, separating out contradictions) pertaining to dogs again, diaphragmatic breathing, breaking routine, and dry fire practice. From here we cover the latest on the Winkler Knives collaboration---looking good--and then jump off the cliff into areas of personal power and fatherhood. 

Continuing in this ongoing chapter of the Warhorse audio-novel-podcast-expermient devoted to the practicalities, exigencies, and contingencies orbiting the broad and shifting topic of The Collapse, we pick up with gear in the first hour--specifically, Hill People Gear Kit Bags, holsters and Back Up Guns. Detours and digressions include: commentary on the potential, but fanciful, proposition that traditional Japanese clothing is just simply superior to Western if we consider the well-being of the individual, the useful narrative innovations of Roberto Bolano (novel 2666 in particular), and the evolving utility of the tactical bicycle. 

We serve up a might addition to the exercises filed under the broad aegis of The Criminal of Purpose. The Guerrilla begins to edge his way into the conversation! The metaphysical potentialities of walking get concretized treatment. The power of the pruning shears shines through. We drop some substantial insights into E&E from the skilled tracker's POV. 

In the subscriber's segment we swing high and low touching on the deep torment of The Collapse, as well as the utilitarian approach we must begin to adopt regarding the various step-wise downward phases of this experience. LaFond shows up to describe The What-If game. A miserable visit from characters out of McCarthy's The Road. The advantageous power of avoidance, creating and maintaining distance. Anxiety. Minor digressions into the twisted nature of modern publishing. Sayings of the modern Orthodox Fathers.

The order of things result in another podcast available for all, subscribers and non-subscribers. *We forgot to address the constitutional Criminal of Purpose exercise, so a private addendum for subscribers will be surfacing soon to cover bases and few other items of interest.*

The opium-like effects of the Thanksgiving Holiday just beginning to wear off lead us into a cursory examination of the guerrilla's gear: principles related to selection, Musashi's maxim, and a philosophical detour or two. 

In hour two we return to tie up loose threads on the Axe and Ghille Hood before taking flight in the much-requested topic of The Collapse. Approached from several angles, we get in pretty deep, take a few swipes at celebrities, propose several operations (cognitive and otherwise) to keep the eyes peeled for, and drag Seraphim Rose into the discussion. 

Too much to contain in two hours, we take a quick break and blast forward into the treachery of social media vis a vis The Collapse and keep close tabs on Anton Chigur as he brings his maxim into play. The weakness of external validation, the illusion of external hierarchies, the absolute mastery of Maximus The Confessor and a great deal do we bring to bear on this extra-long discussion, the type of which you'll find nowhere else. 

Huberman Labs and the CIA combine to provide us all the fodder we need to substantiate the reality and importance, not only of The Warrior's Way explication (episodes 8, 9, 10), but also of the extravagant structure and decade of multifarious work informing King of Dogs. 

How's that work? 

We employ a new study, as analyzed and summarized by Andrew Huberman, regarding the stunning relationships between narrative and the human heart/CNS to make yet grander connections between quantum weaponry-- as smuggled between reader and writer, The Warrior's Way, unofficial logoi, and the structure of the Universe (to say nothing of man's experience in said Universe). 

As well, for the flip side, the laggards, and the sheer oddity of it all we dissect the recently released CIA/Fort Meade documents pertaining to their exhaustive study on the Monroe Institute/Gateway Process. Quickly pulled apart in Hoffman's terms, we put things back together by removing a few contradictions and reconfiguring certain elements to more appropriate means. 

Orthodox perspectives, Dale Cooper's omnipresence, The Two Davids, a new sponsor, Hoffman's razor hand, McCarthy's near omnipotent literary genius, and a few nutritious detours make this an episode so worthy of sharing that we opened it up for everyone. 

Notes: 

CIA Report on Gateway Process; Robert Monroe; Monroe Institute

Andrew Huberman; Huberman Labs 

Michael Hoffman; Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

Nous; Orthodoxy

Aristotle, David Mamet

St Gregory of Nyssa; St Maximos The Confessor

David Milch; Robert Penn Warren; Yale; Deadwood, NYPD Blue

Joseph Campbell, Hero With A Thousand Faces; Hero's Journey

Dream and The Dreamer

Our concern is to approach by many oblique angles the elusive topic of The Master and we so while hunted, at war on the cognitive level, with the homunculi and various lesser minions at our heels, and all the while cast in the lunar light thrown out in the highly-charged, and oat-milk infused auspices of the great Beaver moon 2021. 

Episode 10 finds us absconding with cosmic power every which way. Treasure is taken!

The slow-rolling thunder of the witchy world is stolen out from under the honey-masque noses of the many yoga-covens. Fair play. We store it in deep recesses and the few stunned onlookers only shake their heads as it's shuttled off, sequestered, smuggled seemingly into the dark of night--but cached securely far from the roiling strange anti-flesh of The Mold to fuel the unrelenting forward rumble of the Warhorse. 

Healing modalities, the relationship with the father (both more and more simple than one may assume), the nature of genius as aether fire trapped temporarily in vessels both mystical and accessible---to some. We drop some gear tips, detour with care to harp on Sorge, build out the permeable realities of the triune structure of the Warrior's Way and ultimately return to our old pal, and the archetypal detective, Mr. Dale Cooper. 

As the show-trial of Rittenhouse comes to a close under the full moon we see fate or destiny, the many enraged Furies of myth, and sense the quickening of the realms. You're a fool to ignore it, and we are fools to bind ourselves to the media cycle.

Pivoting up and out of the Loop and landing on firm ground for some serious practical exercises, we are mercilessly yanked back out of the comforting embrace of familiarity, and rocketed through the tentacular grasping of the Spectacle, only to land back in the enchanted, though deeply austere territory of The Warrior's Way. 

In hour one we provide several unique and highly fortifying exercises for both the yogi and the Criminal of Purpose. We examine honor in a world lacking the same, and the potential true nature of genius. We admit: yes, it'd be nice if God stepped in soon. An introduction to personal power. 

Hour two, the trains rolls on into electric eels, the smuggling of Quantum Weaponry and surreptitious transfer of the Way. Musashi makes an appearance. Personal power, in Toltec and modern terms is analyzed in full. Ramifications may be forthcoming.