So basically I'm becoming a far-right nutcase, but I'd like to at least be an erudite one. I know of Evola, Guenon, Schuon, and Eliade, but I'm wondering which of them (if any of them) syncretized esoteric traditions in a way which was not completely "LARP". Nobody ever answers these messages, though, so I don't know why I am wasting my time.
Esotericism
Landon Nguyen
Jose Cook
Crowley
Jose Rivera
Jason Reza Jorjani
Cooper Edwards
Where to start?
Seems too "LARP".
John Clark
>Although he had contempt for most of the British aristocracy, he regarded himself as an aristocrat and styled himself as Laird Boleskine, once describing his ideology as "aristocratic communism".
Keke, this seems like a riot.
Elijah Allen
Guenon and Coomaraswamy are your best bet. Evola is worth reading but more so for his writing on society and practical spiritual stuff, he occasionally makes some amateur mistakes about eastern metaphysics. Schuon was a megolamaniac nutjob, some of his writing is not bad but it's all thrown out the window by his personal behavior, Sedgewicks book especially shows how unhinged he was. Eliade is just Guenon et al but watered down and made palatable to "academics".
Guenon and Coomaraswamy I don't consider to be larping, they actually do a good job of showing how there is a thread of non-dualism running throughout many (but not all!) traditions. Guenon is comparatively sparse on the citations but still knew his shit, Coomaraswamy's writings on metaphysics have like 20-30 citations and quoted primary texts per pages. Don't just read them and call it quits though. You are hardly better off than where you started if you read them and then don't read a bunch of primary eastern writings afterwards, Guenon and Coomaraswamy's writings are an invitation or call to read the actual texts of the thinkers they reference. If you want to see why the both of them wrote the things they did about perennialism, then after reading them read through the works of Adi Shankara, beginning with his shorter Upanishad commentaries. Advaita Vedanta forms the central reference point of both their visions and should be studied if you want to understand why they reference it so often in relation to perennialism, although they supplement it with Taoism, Sufism, Neoplatonism, Christian mysticism etc which are all worth studying too in addition.
Anthony Ortiz
>aristocratic communism
Seems interesting. There are not levels of the elite, just the elite.
Carter Miller
Where to start with C? Something as general and historical as possible would be good.
Elijah Bell
'Hinduism and Buddhism'
Levi Sanchez