Dharma Slums and the Esoteric-Exoteric Struggle by J. R. Sommer. The march toward a future that already confines us, as people are loosing their inner power. The teachings of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder and esotericism

 

It would be better to be infected with typhus ... than to be infected with this blindness which prevents you from understanding HOW you are undermined...

— Ezra Pound

March 15, 1942

We won’t ever overcome the reason for our being here. Meaning is not something we define; it is something we realize and embody — unless we don’t. Most people do not and cannot: It is not their fate to not undermine themselves. All are born for a specific reason — even if that reason has nothing to do with one’s individual existence: We are part of a transcendent unfolding that surpasses us in every way and demands that most never rise to its level of knowing. This is our dharma, and our approach turns the world to slums.

Fate is fate and will is will — each happens of its own accord. Who will be the first to overcome his existence as a vessel for fated will’s unfolding? Whoever he be and if you discover him, ask him about God, for he will be the first to find him. He is the “big medicine” inoculated against typhus and blindness; he will have understood what it means to not undermine himself.

Meantime, we’re adrift and wandering, if not wondering. We wonder at the tall tales arising from the unembellished, primordial core. What does it mean to walk on water or see the infinite cosmos in the mouth of Krishna if not the overcoming of fate?

The Vedas/Vedānta, which present the core Indo-Āryan tenets, predate the popular stories by centuries, if not millennia. That is, the popular, more accessible stories arose out of an ancient, likely prehistoric philosophy — a cypher. For instance, there is no Krishna-Avatāra in the Vedas¹ — his incredible stories came much later. Likewise, there was no embodiment of the Word (logos) at the beginning; this came later. In the beginning was the Word — but few can relate to this, so time reifies the inaccessible.

For many people, ancient — core — philosophy can be quite difficult to understand. Its abstract metaphysics, having been developed by esoteric gatekeepers, is not meant for all. The top of a mountain is not meant for those unable to climb, and sick limbs fall from trees. Not all are equal, despite the bastardized tales woven for lesser ears. The Indo-Āryan gatekeepers were the Brāhmaṇas (“priests,” philosophers) and Kṣatriyas (kings/queens/warriors). What they divined through intense effort was not intended for laypeople (Vaiśyas [skilled workers] and Śūdras [unskilled workers]) — i.e., it was not intended for those without the means of exercising such effort. But — the word spread of its own accord; not only did some in the lower castes take very naturally to the abstract philosophy, its diffusion was also fostered for social cohesion; that is, the philosophy became a religion. Creative (and sometimes manipulative) people transformed abstruse philosophy into accessible tales to nurture its growth (i.e., to mold society). Since most people don’t naturally take to abstract philosophy, the stories became the culture. This is exotericism predominating over esotericism, which always and inevitably happens.

The core philosophy still exists, as it has for millennia; but primordial philosophy is not outward facing (exoteric), and so it does not become cultural in the same way that incredible stories and images do. People often relate to what is most accessible. This corresponds to the Indo-Āryan idea of “caste,” wherein the vast majority of people are not the intended targets of the esoteric message (knowledge/gnosis, jñāna).² This is why Vivekananda (d. 1902), for instance, says that love (devotion, bhakti) is different from union (knowledge/gnosis, jñāna). Love is wonderful, but it does not lead to liberation, which comes only from union. This idea is Vedāntic, which is to say, it is a very ancient idea; but this is something that is unrelatable for most people. Thus, if people cannot reach liberation, at least they can be decent (via love). Exotericism (story, culture) is meant to engender love and decency (devotion). Esotericism (the core philosophy), on the other hand, is meant to reveal the union (liberation).

Core philosophy, not matter its character, is exclusivist, which is to say, it is not meant for all people. Not everyone can be liberated (or “enlightened”) since this goes against Nature and the essence of metaphysics. The masses understand meta-physics through quaint stories: Man doesn’t defy fate — he walks on water. This is part of what makes religion so charming. For Indo-Āryanism (Hinduism), its plurality makes it meaningful for all — if you don’t reach liberation in “this life,” don’t worry — you’ll get another chance! It’s a nice message.

A nice message, but the Word becomes dogma and man misses the point; he undermines himself. No matter what he does, man undermines himself, for this is his fate.³ Esotericism all but dissolves and we are left with uninspired (i.e., devoid of primal meaning) exotericism — dogma — wherein truth and its imposition become obligatory. Man misses his humility, which was ever the inspiration for sacred knowledge. Instead, in or out of religious contexts, we end up with a profane, divinely mandated will-to-dominate. The rest is history and its end, which is to say, the Kali Yuga.

∞ • ∞

All these people — they all got white-tiled toilets and take big dirty craps like bears in the mountains, but it’s all washed away to convenient supervised sewers and nobody thinks of crap anymore or realizes that their origin is shit and civet and scum of the sea. They spend all day washing their hands with creamy soaps they secretly wanta eat in the bathroom.⁴

Japhy Ryder, the hero of Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums, said this. Ryder, of course, is Gary Snyder, the great poet and environmentalist. Snyder was concerned, above all, with humility, which is to say, with esotericism. It is inconceivable that, collectively, we could ravage the Earth if we had even a shred of humility. But our lack of humility is our profanity. Ancient philosophy was born out of the ancient heart, which, in turn, was born out of ancient land. And now man wants nothing more than to destroy his creator — for profit. This is secularism, in or out of religious contexts — the ritual destruction of self. Man’s fate is to technicize himself into oblivion, that he might better stomach his existence with indoor plumbing, hair plugs, cosmetic surgery, camera filters, air fresheners, “strong men,” and Western suits.

We hear more of Snyder (Ryder):

[Kerouac:] Ah, Japhy — you taught me the final lesson of them all: You can’t fall off a mountain.

[Snyder:] And that’s what they mean by the saying, When you get to the top of a mountain keep climbing...

[Kerouac:] Dammit that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I ever heard in my life. I wish I’d a had a tape recorder to take it down.

[Snyder:] Those things aren’t made to be heard by the people below, says Japhy dead serious.⁵

When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing. When you think you have mastered anything, look again — have humility — know thyself. Know that, in fact, your mastery is mere rationalization or technicization. You are not the backward God in Dogma. Nevertheless, we think, God is on Our Side; so we relentlessly pursue dominion. We must forget self at any cost (imposition). We live it up with so much winning: “Look at the party the other night,” Snyder tells Kerouac, “Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.”⁶ But a little alienation never stopped anyone in his pursuit of an accessible mastery of the imponderable.

Kerouac nonetheless imagines Snyder, later in life, separate, alienated — not through blind adherence to a gigantic misapprehension of self, but through his determination to live with a humility that can only arise out of defiant connectedness to sacred principles.

But there was a wisdom in it all, as you’ll see if you take a walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of on wheels. You’ll see what I mean, when it begins to appear like everybody in the world is soon going to be thinking the same way... Only one thing I’ll say for the people watching television, the millions and millions of the One Eye: they’re not hurting anyone while they’re sitting in front of that Eye. But neither was Japhy. I see him in future years stalking along with full rucksack, in suburban streets, passing the blue television windows of homes, alone, his thoughts the only thoughts not electrified to the Master Switch.⁷

Snyder did (and does) remain separate — at least as much as anyone can in this Kali Yuga. But Kerouac was wrong about this: the millions glued to the One Eye do indeed hurt ... everyone. This is the cosmic miscalculation that fate demands. Why monoculture through mass media? Why the will-to-dominate in a profane windfall of modernity? Why the mass covering of sight and scent with meaningless appurtenances? Because exotericism arose out of esotericism — Because laymen were given sledgehammers instead of keys — Because Sherpas and horses carry lame feet high:

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people’s backs and heads!

Thou hast mounted, however, on horseback? Thou now ridest briskly up to thy goal? Well, my friend! But thy lame foot is also with thee on horseback!

When thou reachest thy goal, when thou alightest from thy horse: precisely on thy height, thou higher man, — then wilt thou stumble!⁸

And so we stumble; and so we undermine ourselves.

During the events of The Dharma Bums, Snyder was in his mid twenties (those “beat and evil days”⁹). Yet, as Kerouac foretold, Snyder stayed separate from the vain and veiled masses throughout his life, carrying rucksacks of a different kind past the dull, blue-tinted multitude: he carries the burden of humility.

In their practice of killing and eating with gentleness and thanks, the primary peoples are our teachers: the attitude toward animals, and their treatment, in twentieth-century American industrial meat production is literally sickening, unethical, and a source of boundless bad luck for this society.

An ethical life is one that is mindful, mannerly, and has style. Of all moral failings and flaws of character, the worst is stinginess of thought, which includes meanness in all its forms. Rudeness in thought or deed toward others, toward nature, reduces the chances of conviviality and interspecies communication, which are essential to physical and spiritual survival.¹⁰

It takes humility to give a damn about another. The hubristic wide world — emboldened by their possession of “the word” they couldn’t possibly begin to apply — could care less, of course. Instead, many feel glee at the misfortune of others and pride if they can inflict it.¹¹ It is notable that Snyder highlights ill attitudes and behaviors as sources “of boundless bad luck” for us. Indeed, they are! What could be more inauspicious than man’s inevitable drive to undermine himself, through imposition, through hubris? Moreover, Snyder marks thought — this simple, yet largely ungraspable act — as the forerunner to freedom (liberation, union). Freedom, of course, is survival in this Kali Yuga; but this cannot happen, lest one commune with the hidden God.¹²

Elsewhere, Snyder laments the (again inevitable) corporate-state¹³ predating its people and unwittingly cannibalizing itself: “When [deprived of their means of subsistence] ... the villagers must buy energy, lumber, and medicine at the company store, they are pauperized.”¹⁴ When governments enslave (pauperize) their people, how can they hope to be free? Corporate states are devoted only to expanding profit margins — a bhakti [or a devilish kama] toward material prosperity. This amounts to a loving-toward-death, a cosmic disunion that is unencumbered by a modicum of thought or — humility. “Eventually,” Snyder rightly predicts, “our complicated industrial capitalist/socialist mixes will bring down much of the living system that supports us.”¹⁵ Political machinations (driven by economic rapacity and profound spiritual ignorance) leave man-as-being in the lurch.¹⁶ Mass application of sacredness [so visible in churchs and sects in USA ]has rendered sacredness meaningless and stripped us of any guiding principles. Whim directs us now, not thought; though this whim is of another and not born of what we imagine to be our will. “That older human experience of a fluid, indistinct, but genuine home region was gradually replaced — across Eurasia — by the arbitrary and often violently imposed boundaries of emerging national states,” Snyder tells us.

These imposed borders sometimes cut across biotic areas and ethnic zones alike. Inhabitants lost ecological knowledge and community solidarity. In the old ways, the flora and fauna and landforms are part of the culture. The world of culture and nature, which is actual, is almost a shadow world now, and the insubstantial world of political jurisdictions and rarefied economies is what passes for reality. We live in a backwards time.¹⁷

On the contrary, we live in a radically forward time — a time of relentless undermining — a time of the dharma slums, the inescapable Kali Yuga [Dark or Iron Age]. We march toward a future that already confines us. Slums and Lords of the future will undoubtedly throw away the key for subsequent Gary Snyders and Ezra Pounds, and all will embody fantastical stories of the stifled self. “We’ve lost the knowledge of how to use the power that’s in us by an overreliance on powers outside of us”¹⁸ — It takes humility and thought to find the primordial knowledge of the earliest bums in the slums. Alas, our devotion to the eternal other will win out in the end.»

 

1 Viṣṇu, however, is mentioned in the Rig Veda — as a solar deity who crosses the heavens in three steps. Compare this imagery with the ancient triskelion — three “steps” (e.g., Isle of Man flag) or suns (Neolithic symbol) reminiscent of the most ancient of sun signs, the svastika.
2 Sommer, “Knowledge, Gnosis, and Jñāna: The Path to God,” Arktos Journal (January 2026).
3 This fate is something I exhaustively detail in my Arktos trilogy: (1) The New Colossus (2025), (2) The Electric Will (2026), and (3) Supreme Being (2026, forthcoming).
4 Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (1958), Ch. 6.
5 Ibid., Ch. 12.
6 Ibid., Ch. 29.
7 Ibid., Ch. 13.
8 Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, “The Higher Man.”
9 Kerouac, On the Road (1957), Ch. 11.
10 Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (1990), “The Etiquette of Freedom.”
11Sommer, The New Colossus, Part I, §11.
12 This notion, alluded to above, will be developed in Supreme Being (2026, forthcoming).
13 Sommer, The New Colossus, Part II, §1.
14 Snyder, The Practice of the Wild, “The Place, the Region, and the Commons”
15 Ibid.
16“Being” as a metaphysical concept is developed over my Arktos trilogy.
17 Snyder, The Practice of the Wild, “The Place, the Region, and the Commons.”
18 Snyder, SUNY Writers Forum, November 8, 1972.

Kenneth Schmidt on America’s war with Iran and the path towards collapse, crisis, and global fallout.

 

Published on Multipolar Press, an interesting article of Kenneth Schmidt on "America’s war with Iran and the path towards collapse, crisis, and global fallout", as the gigantic ego of the megalomaniac and zionized Donald Trump has no empaty and humbleness to admite his errors, and is probably already in devil's hands....

«Our country finds itself in a terrible position. Our president has embroiled the United States in an unwinnable war. He knows he needs to extricate this nation from this conflict, but doesn’t have the guts to do the right thing because doing the right thing would make him look like the foolish and irresponsible leader he is. The entire world is held hostage to his gigantic, narcissistic ego.

The harebrained scheme to overthrow the Iranian government by mere air power was a gigantic miscalculation. The Iranians have proven themselves to be well-organized, flexible, well-armed and creative opponents. They placed all their bets on rockets, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones as the future of warfare and they won. I’m sure that many of Trump’s military advisors, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kaine, who advised him not to go to war, had been watching the conflict in Ukraine over the past four years, where drones, missiles and rockets have dominated the war and knew that the US was not quite ready for that type of warfare.

This ham-handed attempt at regime change in Iran has turned out to be the Dien Bien Phu for the US empire. Trump and his moronic henchman, Hegseth, would have done well to follow the advice of our first President, George Washington, who warned future leaders of the dangers of “inordinate affection” for other countries in his Farewell Address; in this case, Israel. I’m sure that Trump made promises to the Jewish billionaires that he would try to conquer or destroy Iran in exchange for the multiple millions he got from repulsive figures like Miriam Adelson for the 2024 election. He went from being a typical pro-Israel US politician to a crazed, fire-breathing neocon in the matter of a few months.

The US has been defeated in this war. Trump is just going to have to cede control of the Persian Gulf to the Iranians or there will be terrific suffering in the United States. The rise in fuel prices will certainly cause a recession. There will also be terrible shortages of petroleum-based fertilizers and this will cause limited crop yields, causing huge rises in food prices. These effects will have worse effects in nations overseas. Starvation will stalk the planet.

Trump is going to have to admit, at least subtly, that the war against Iran was a mistake. This is going to be hard for him, if not impossible, with his colossal ego. He is going to have to tell his unofficial envoys Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, AKA Jared Kushner and Steve Witcoff (probably Israeli spies), to stay home and send some real State Department types to negotiate an end to this thing. The Jewish lobby is going to be furious and might even send assassins to kill him. However, doing the right thing to save the country (and the world) from penury is the only truly moral choice.

Десять вечных афоризмов духовного пути для наших дней. Ten perennial aphorisms of the spiritual path, for our days.

     

                                             Aphorisms

1- Even the spirit, a most subtle mystery, manifests itself according to rhythms, that we do not know so much.

That is, although the spirit is supra-temporal in certain aspects, determined by human counts and dependence on sunlight, it manifests in us with periodicity, and also according to combinations of energies, rays, and deserved influences.

2. Patience in the valleys is a condition to reach the mountains.

That is, we must endure the adversities, pains, delays, efforts, and oppositions with calmness in order to deserve to ascend the mountain of the spirit and the Divine and become more exposed to His Light.

3- Internal development requires training, concentration, effort, perseverance, but the spirit blows where it wills.

That is, you have the right and duty to work, practice, and pray, but the effluents of spiritual and divine grace only come through the free gift or grace from Above.

4- The responsibility of teaching is very great and is generally ignored.

That's why there are so many people selling worthless goods as if they were valuable, sometimes even with negative consequences for those who get caught, generally driven by the need to make money or to boost their ego. So many people fanatized, politically or esoterically, limited and deceiving others...

5- Shake hands, see, listen, and receive the information or teaching from those you truly trust.

We should only learn and receive from those we feel know, are worth it, are, and with whom we have affinities and intuit that there can be a mutual deepening of truth. Otherwise, you are poisoning yourself.

6- Unless you are competent to judge a matter, do not criticise, do not claim.

Avoid increasing the general confusion and the negative critical spirit. Try to convey the criticisms as pleasant contributions or at least clear ones to the truth.

7- The Pythagorean aphorism "1, 2" means that perfection only exists in the spiritual world and that duality is the condition of the psycho-physical world.

You are therefore prepared for all kinds of conflicts and struggles, learning to endure attacks and detach yourself from what is happening, while striving to give, generate, and receive the best you can.

8- One of the secrets of prayer is to create an image of what you want and wait for the spiritual world or divine providence to bless it, but without evaporating that mould with doubts.

Faith, trust, hope, and not doubting that what we ask for deserves to happen or be received. Think and Act for the good of Humanity and not for a group, elite, or race...

9- Do not fall into sentimental and imaginative exaltations or repulsions, but rather let your emanations arise from a lucid, simple, and healthy inner self, or even the divine fire of love.

That is, have your interior centred in the heart and tinged with the colours that characterise you and that you receive in your meditations. Embrace the people in that aura and in the dialogues they engage in, let love, wisdom, and strength emanate, so that they dissipate the darkness of evil, now so visible in the Zionism and imperialism that aggress against sacred Iran and its neighbouring peoples.

10- Purify yourself daily, reconnect vertically, and knock on the door or open your heart with aspiration and faith.

Wash yourself, cleanse yourself, and purify yourself with the coloured and merciful water, breathe deeply and harmonise yourself, strive and ignite yourself with the fire, pray, meditate, and contemplate, help and sacrifice yourself, aspire, bow down, and worship, and your spiritual body will awaken, and you will align yourself with the messengers of the High, with the Spirit, with the Divinity...

                            

                                         Афоризмы

1. Даже дух, самое тонкое из тайн, проявляется в ритмах, которые мы не знаем.

То есть, хотя дух в определенных аспектах является вне-временным, определяемым человеческими расчетами и зависимостью от солнечного света, он проявляется в нас с периодичностью, а также в зависимости от сочетаний энергий, лучей и заслуженных влияний.

2. Терпение в долинах — это условие для достижения гор.
То есть, мы должны с терпением переносить невзгоды, боли, задержки, усилия и противодействия, чтобы заслужить восхождение на гору духа и Божественного и стать более открытыми к Его Свету.

3- Внутреннее развитие требует тренировки, концентрации, усилий, настойчивости, но дух дышит, где хочет.

То есть, у вас есть право и обязанность работать, практиковаться и молиться, но потоки духовной и божественной благодати приходят только через свободный дар или благодать свыше.

4- Ответственность за преподавание велика и обычно игнорируется.

Вот почему так много людей продают бесполезные товары, как будто они ценны, иногда даже с негативными последствиями для тех, кто попадается, обычно движимые необходимостью заработать деньги или поднять свою самооценку. Так много людей фанатизируются, политически или эзотерически, ограничены и обманывают других...

5- Пожмите руки, смотрите, слушайте и принимайте информацию или обучение от тех, кому вы действительно доверяете.

Мы должны учиться и принимать только от тех, кого мы чувствуем, что знают, стоят того, являются таковыми, и с кем у нас есть родственные души и интуиция, что может быть взаимное углубление истины. В противном случае вы отравляете себя.

6- Если вы не компетентны судить по данному вопросу, не критикуйте, не утверждайте.

Избегайте увеличения общей путаницы и негативного критического настроя. Старайтесь передавать критику как приятные вклады или, по крайней мере, ясные в отношении истины.

7- Пифагорейский афоризм "1, 2" означает, что совершенство существует только в духовном мире, а двойственность является условием психо-физического мира.

Таким образом, вы готовы ко всем видам конфликтов и борьбе, учитесь терпеть атаки и отстраняться от происходящего, стремясь давать, создавать и получать всё самое лучшее.

8- Один из секретов молитвы заключается в том, чтобы создать образ того, чего вы хотите, и ждать, пока духовный мир или божественное провидение благословят его, но не разрушая эту форму сомнениями.

Вера, доверие, надежда и отсутствие сомнений в том, что то, о чем мы просим, заслуживает того, чтобы произойти или быть полученным. Думай и действуй на благо человечества, а не ради группы, элиты или расы...

9- Не впадайте в сентиментальные и воображаемые восторги или отвращения, а пусть ваши излучения исходят из ясного, простого и здорового внутреннего я, или даже из божественного огня любви.

То есть, пусть ваш внутренний мир будет сосредоточен в сердце и окрашен в цвета, которые вас характеризуют и которые вы получаете в своих медитациях. Обнимите людей в этой ауре и в диалогах, которые они ведут, пусть излучаются любовь, мудрость и сила, чтобы они рассеяли тьму зла, ныне так видимую в сионизме и империализме, которые агрессируют против святого Ирана и его соседних народов.

10- Очищайся ежедневно, восстанавливай вертикальную связь и стучись в дверь или открывай свое сердце с устремлением и верой.

Омой себя, очисти себя и очисти себя цветной и милосердной водой, дыши глубоко и гармонизируй себя, стремись и зажигай себя огнем, молись, медитируй и размышляй, помогай и жертвуй собой, стремись, преклоняйся и поклоняйся, и твое духовное тело пробудится, и ты соединится с посланниками Высшего, с Духом, с Божеством...

Dez aforismos perenes do caminho espiritual, para os nossos dias.

                                                   

                                       Aforismos

1- Mesmo o espírito, subtilísimo  mistério, manifesta-se segundo ritmos, que desconhecemos. 

Isto é, embora o espírito seja supra-temporal, em certos aspectos,  determinados pelas contagens  humanas e a dependência da luz do sol, ele manifesta-se em nós com periocidade, e de acordo ainda com combinações de energias, raios e influências merecidas.

2. A paciência perante os vales é condição para se chegar às montanhas.

Isto é, temos de sofrer as contrariedades, dores, demoras, esforços, oposições com calma  para merecemos ascender na montanha do espírito e do Divino e ficarmos mais expostos à sua Luz. 

3- O desenvolvimento interno exige treino, concentração, esforço, perseverança mas o espírito sopra quando quer.

Isto é, tens o direito e dever de trabalhar,  praticar, de orar mas os eflúvios da graça espiritual e divina só chegam pela livre dádiva ou graça do Alto.

4- A responsabilidade de ensinar é muito grande e em geral é ignorada.

Por isso eis tanta gente a vender mercadoria fraca como valiosa, por vezes até com consequências negativas em tantos que são apanhados, em geral movida pela necessidade de fazer dinheiro, ou de engrandecer o ego. Tanta gente fanatizada, política ou esotericamente, limitada e enganando o próximo...

5- Aperta a mão, ve, escuta e recebe a informação ou o ensinamento de quem confias mesmo.

Só devemos aprender e receber de quem sentimos que sabe, que vale, que é, e que com quem temos afinidades e intuímos poder haver um trabalho de aprofundamento mútuo da verdade. Senão estás a envenenar-te.

6- A menos que sejas competente para julgares um assunto, não critiques, não clames. 

Evita aumentares a confusão geral e o espírito crítico negativo. Tenta transmitir as críticas como contributos agradáveis ou pelo menos claros para a verdade.

7- O aforismo pitagórico "1, 2". significa que a perfeição só existe no mundo espiritual e que a dualidade é a condição do mundo psico-físico.

Está portanto preparado para todo o tipo de conflitos e lutas, aprende a suportares os ataques e a desprenderes-te do que se passa, embora esforçando-te pelo melhor que possas dar, gerar, receber.

8- Um dos segredo da oração está em criares uma imagem do que queres, e aguardares que o mundo espiritual ou a providência divina  a abençoe, mas sem estares a evaporar tal molde com dúvidas.

Fé, confiança, esperança, e não duvidarmos de que o que  pedimos merece acontecer ou ser recebido. Pensa e Age pelo bem da Humanidade e não por um grupo, elite ou raça...

9- Não caias em exaltações ou repulsões sentimentais e imaginativas, e antes seja dum lúcido, simples e são interior que brotem as tuas emanações, ou mesmo o fogo amor divino. 

Isto é, tem o teu interior centrado no coração e tingido das core que te caracterizam e recebes nas tuas meditações. Acolhe as pessoas nessa aura e nos diálogos  que travarem deixa que o amor, a sabedoria e a força emanem, para  que dissipem as trevas do mal, hoje tão visíveis no sionismo e imperialismo agressores do sagrado Irão e dos outros povos vizinhos. 

10- Purifica-te diariamente, religa-te verticalmente e bate à porta ou abre o coração com aspiração e fé.

Lava-te, limpa-te e purifica-te com a água colorida e misericordiosa,  respira fundo e harmoniza-te, esforça-te e inflama-te com o fogo, ora, medita e contempla, ajuda e sacrifica-te, aspira, curva-te e adora e o teu corpo espiritual despertará, e alinhar-te-ás com os mensageiros do Alto, com o Espírito, com a Divindade... 

Teachings from the Al Qadariyah tarika, given by the sheik Shah Muhammad Badi-Ul-Alam. Bengal, 1914.

                                                    

Human nature is so subtle, complex, diverse and  mysterious in its intimacy or bottom, causality and dynamism, that it is difficult to categorise it with precision but, over the centuries, many proposals have been formed, and we can mention the most easily accepted ones: animal, human, and psychic nature. Or physical, psycho-animic and spiritual, each person having developed more or less of each. Or still, physical, subtle, spiritual and divine.

A Bengali spiritual teacher, Shah Muhammad Badi-Ul-Alam, from the Iranian lineage of the Qadariyah order (founded by Abdul Qadir Jilani), being a disciple of Mouland Muklisar Rahman and his son Moulana Muhammad Abdul Hai, presented in a very substantial book printed in Bengal in 1914, a division worthy of consideration: animal, satanic, angelic and divine, which almost reminds us of Pico della Mirandola in his "Oration on the Dignity of Man" (which the unforgettable portuguese master of Humanism and Utopia, J. V. Pina Martins so appreciated and cited, and the way he characterises those levels is quite instructive. Let's listen to him:

«The nourishment for the development of Animal Character lies in eating, sleeping, lighting and killing, and in satisfying other animal propensities. If you think that you are only an animal and have no other functions to discharge, then your plain duty is to keep yourself engaged, day and night, in satisfying these animal cravings, i. e. in eating, sleeping and fighting to your heart's content &c.
The nourishment for Satanic Character lies in cheating, intriguing and doing evils to others. If you think that you are originally a satan, then your plain duty is to remain, day and night, engaged in doing mischief to other creatures of God, and in misguiding the world by your intrigues ; and to make yourself the commander of the army of Hell, so that you may reign there. [So visible in our days specially in Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, Benjamim Netanyahu and Givr.]
The nourishment for Angelic Character lies in remaining constantly engaged in submissive prayers and dutiful services to God (or Allah), and in the blissful vision of that vast, beautiful and etherial creation, known as "the Spiritual Region." Anger, avarice, lust and other animal passions and evil propensities, and the intrigues of Satan, have no existence in that pure and peaceful sphere. If you think that you are originally an angel, then your plain duty is to pay no attention to the cravings of the two preceding characters ; but to keep them under proper control and subjugation, and to try always to revive the Angelic Character by means of peaceful prayers and faithful services, so that you may enjoy the blissful and enchanting vision and companionship of the Spiritual World, called the Behesht (paradise). And the nourishment for Divine Character lies in acquiring Divine attributes which are classified in the ninety-nine attributive names of Divinity, called Asmad-i-Sifat or Asmad-i-Husud and in the love for, and in charming vision and companionship of, the Great Allah or Divinity Himself. 

Animal, Satanic and Angelic characters have no access to that Holy, Sublime and Divine environment. If you think that you have come from that Divine Personality or Essence, then your plain duty is to pay no attention to the three preceding characters, but to keep them under proper control, and find out the way to the acquirement of the knowledge of the Divine Being, the Great Allah, in his three spheres or stages of existence: (1) Af, al, actions, (2) Sifat, Attributes e (3) Zat, Essence. 

By such a knowdlege you will be able to enjoy the vision and companionship of the great Allah (or God) and to acquire His attributes. On this point a poet saint says: "Put your first step on your own self (by renouncing your personanlity) nad next step in the streer of your Friend (Allah)"»

Let's strive to further develop angelic qualities and divine attributes and be creatively and corageously on the spiritual path towards the Spirit and the Divine Being!

Easter: The Central Event of the Spiritual Realm. Alexander Dugin on Logos, Faith, Iran, and the collapse of Western strategy. With some annotations by...14-4-26.

                                      

Easter: The Central Event of the Spiritual Realm Alexander Dugin on faith, Iran, and the collapse of Western strategy. 14-4- 26.

Conversation with Alexander Dugin on the Sputnik TV program Escalation.

Host: Yesterday we had a great and beautiful celebration—indeed, more than one: we marked Cosmonautics Day and another of the brightest holidays of the year. I suggest we begin with this very topic. Let us talk about the importance of these events and their impact, including on the global level.

Alexander Dugin: You know, as I stood at the solemn liturgy and the Paschal matins, I kept thinking about the content of what we celebrate. Seeing so many people in the churches, inspired by this joy, I found myself asking a strange question: do we even understand—ordinary people who come to have their Easter cakes blessed—the meaning of this feast today? Do its meanings truly reach us?
I decided to listen closely to every sung and proclaimed word, setting aside my theological knowledge and philosophical concepts. And I began to feel somewhat uneasy. We hear: “Christ has overcome death.” Yet death still exists. We hear: “Christ has brought peace.” Yet humanity wages war just as it did two thousand years ago. We hear about truth, yet delusions only grow more rigid.
It turned out that all these messages are addressed to a person who, by default, is supposed to possess a deep spiritual culture and an understanding of a reality that extends far beyond the body. The Good News of Christ consisted in the fact that the spiritual world is structured differently from how Old Testament humanity understood it. But why was this such a shock two thousand years ago?
Because the Jewish tradition also shaped a spiritual world, yet it was governed by different ideas about the fate after death. It was believed that the souls of all people, including the forefather Adam, inevitably entered Sheol, into hell. The distinction between God and the world seemed insurmountable, no matter how one might strive. And this image of a closed spiritual world was pierced and overcome by the coming of Christ. One reality gave way to another—an open one. And this realization is extraordinarily important for us today.
Everything we encounter in the Church is connected precisely with this: with the fact that, through Christ, His suffering on the cross, and His resurrection on the third day, another spiritual world was opened to us. This is a revolutionary religious revelation, yet it is addressed to people who are not merely aware of the existence of this world, but who feel at home in it with confidence and maturity. To those who understand what it can be and rejoice that, through Christ’s sacrifice, it has become precisely that for us.
However, looking at the beautiful people in the church—young people, those of middle age, the elderly with open eyes and hearts—I realized one thing. With the exception of a rooted, practicing flock possessing spiritual skills, the majority present hardly understands the essence of what is taking place. Even if everything were explained in modern Russian, one would have to begin from the very basics. To understand what is being sung in the Paschal service, why we “drink the new drink,” and why and where we go “with joyful feet,” requires an enormous spiritual culture. In the past, its foundations were given even to the simplest estates, to the peasantry, whereas today we have largely lost this culture. We have lost the ability to grasp even the basic meanings of this great feast. [Older times there was not also so much more understanding of deeper levels, or to be more precisely, experience of the subtle levels of te spirit and of the Christ.]
                            

I had hoped that in his Paschal message His Holiness the Patriarch would attempt to bring these meanings closer to the people. We are now at a turning point in history: people are increasingly turning to religion, to questions of God, the soul, immortality, and the end of the world [Probably few people think in the end of the world, only the ones more zealots]—especially when there is so much death and suffering around us. And although the messages were written with great spiritual elevation, they were texts of theologians for theologians. The image of “spring in the spirit,” proposed by the Patriarch, is beautiful, but what does it mean for the ordinary person? [I think it has still very deep energetic and awakening ressonance in the unconscious colective soul.]
For a churched individual, whose daily life is filled with prayer, this message is meaningful. Yet for the modern Russian person—post-Soviet, shaped by the liberal era—this theological layer does not resonate automatically. We often ignore it in sermons or confine ourselves to proper moral instruction. I do not condemn anyone, but I saw a vast deficiency in our existence: the absence in society of an adequate understanding of the spiritual world. [Indeed, even if  outside the Church many esoteric groups have it, and work it.]

Host: Allow me to suggest: perhaps many people come to church and listen to the service, as it were, beyond words. That is, they do not focus on the specific meanings of what is being said, but perceive the very melodiousness, the calm that is conveyed through these prayers, the voices of the priests performing the chants. Perhaps it is not always about the words, but about an inner sense of this very melody?

Alexander Dugin: Yet precisely in the Gospel read at Pascha it is said that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and through this Word all things were made. In the Greek original, this is the Logos. So how can we, considering ourselves Christians and coming to the Church of Christ, which is built around the incarnation of the Word, be content merely with melodies, intonations, or kind facial expressions? There is a deep contradiction in this. [No, because Logos is also rythm, harmony, love] The Logos is thought, the Logos is spirit, and God is spirit.
When we are told about love, it is a particular kind of love connected to the spiritual world. In the Greek original, the term used is agape, which in the Christian context can never be applied to carnal love. [May be it can: carnal love can be also sacred, agape...] This word denotes an entirely different level of relationship; therefore, even the very concept of “love,” which constantly resounds in the church, requires special interpretation.
Of course, it is good that people come, that they enter the church at least once a year to affirm their faith, even if it is still in its infancy.[Strong statement...] This is very important, and I do not criticize anyone. I only want to speak about the enormous void in our lives where the spiritual world ought to be. For the entire Good News, the traditions, the sacraments, the sermons, and the prayers—all of this is addressed precisely to it.
Many today are entirely unaware of the existence of this world, or no one has reminded them of it. How are they to listen? How are they to apply it? One can, of course, say: there is no need to interpret or understand anything, simply come—and that is already good. And I agree with this. It is better to go to church and listen to the truth proclaimed by the priests in the most uncritical manner. Even if you do not understand it at all, accept it as absolute truth and follow it with minimal reflection.[Even if you don't understand it at all levels, what indeed very difficult, accept it in what make sense to you, and  better if you reflect a bit, meditate it a bit.], 
However, the nature of the human being is to be a rational soul, unlike, for example, a monkey, a blade of grass, or the flowers now in bloom. Perhaps Christ is addressed to them as well, [Perhaps the Logos passes through them also..] but first and foremost He calls to the thinking soul—that is, to us. Even if we consider ourselves simple people, we are still thinking souls. Man was not conceived and created as an idiot: he bears within himself that dimension to which the message of Christ is addressed at its deepest level. This message is intelligent; it is bound up with immense realities of the spiritual world.
And this spiritual world, from which the Church begins, [May be the johannite church, the mystical church...] has receded into the shadows. It has not disappeared anywhere; it remains primary, but in our everyday life it plays almost no role. We manage to reduce all the events of life to rational, material causes and effects, overlooking what is most important. Now is the time to return constantly and everywhere to this spiritual dimension. Without it, we will explain nothing: neither in politics, nor in society, nor in the economy. Everything will fall apart. The spiritual world is what connects people with one another; it binds the people and the authorities, time and space, generations and families. [Here Alexander Dugin should have given more aspects of his propedeutic to the spiritual world.]
If marriage has no sacred meaning, no one will respect it or consider it indissoluble. Only when we understand that the family is a sacrament, and explain how it is connected with the soul, with God, and with the resurrection of the dead, do the priest’s words—“the two shall become one flesh”—acquire power. Without this explanation, our society will lose its persuasiveness. We will not be able to explain what we are fighting for, what civilization we represent, and what we are struggling against. The understanding of the spiritual world in Christianity is ceasing to be something optional or secondary.
This is not an ideology or an artificial intellectual construct. What we are speaking about is the recollection of a vast and decisive reality that we have forgotten and lost. It lives within the Church, and it is vital for us to restore it. Easter takes place regardless of whether we understand it or not—that is its greatness. Yet in order to be fully human within a fully realized state, we must accept the will of God and acknowledge the invisible world with its absolute and eternal foundations. This is absolutely essential.[This seems very intelectual: who knows exactly the will of God? And more than "acknowledge the invisible world with its absolute", we must feel it, see it, understand it, the little that our spiritual organs or senses can.]

Host: You emphasized the great significance of Easter. In that connection, and within the broader discussion of geopolitics, I would like to ask: how does the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ affect relations, for example, between Orthodox Christians and Catholics? How do they conduct dialogue in this context? Do we see any kind of de-escalation or rapprochement at such moments, or, on the contrary, does the divide deepen because of differences in calendars and traditions of celebration?

Alexander Dugin: Our relations with Catholics and Protestants can only be described and properly understood if we begin by examining the very nature of our faith—its essence. This is not a matter of conventions, nor of one side inventing one ideology and the other inventing another. In reality, the schism of the Church in the eleventh century effectively predetermined the existence of two antagonistic civilizations whose paths diverged irreversibly.
To explain who Catholics and Protestants are—or what the modern anti-Christian West represents as a whole—we must first understand who we ourselves are. These are not accidental developments. Originally, we were all parts of a single Greco-Roman Christian civilization. After the division, however, we sought to preserve the original orientation, a fidelity to the sources, even if something was lost along the way. The Western world, Western Catholicism, and Western medieval civilization, by contrast, turned away from that path.
Moving in a different direction, Western civilization began to undergo a kind of mutation. At first, this manifested at the level of religious doctrine; then came the Reformation, which ultimately distorted the original understanding of Christianity. In modern times, the very principles on which the West was once founded began to be directly dismantled. Beginning in the sixteenth century—through the Enlightenment, materialism, and the Great French Revolution—everything Christian was simply cast aside by this so-called “Christian” West.
Today, a profound civilizational abyss lies between us and the modern West. When we say, “We are Orthodox, they are Catholics or Protestants,” we must first understand that contemporary Western civilization has become anti-Christian. The status of Catholics and Protestants within their own societies today differs radically from what it once was.
This historical path that has separated us from the West is a kind of spiritual map, a sacred history. It is no less important than the history of the Old Testament or the Early Church. We must be historical beings. When we call ourselves Russian Orthodox people, we must see before us the entirety of our civilizational journey. And we must perceive it not as a matter of chance or historical accident, but as a manifestation of the providence of the eternal God—the God of the Trinity, Jesus Christ — concerning our people and other civilizations.
All of this demands serious study [multireligious...] which today has become an absolute necessity. Without understanding this path, we will not be able to comprehend our place in the world or the responsibility that has been placed upon us.

Host: We have spoken about religion, and of course one must ask: what is happening with this in the West? We see that Donald Trump increasingly turns to religious themes. At times groups of pastors come to him; at others, individual preachers. At the same time, there has been unexpectedly sharp criticism of the Pope, who is reproached for failing to support U.S. actions in Iran. And most unexpectedly of all, there was a post on Truth Social in which Trump was portrayed almost in the image of Jesus Christ, raising the dead. [Interesting vision or hermeneutic of the host...]  How should all of this be understood?

                                 

Alexander Dugin: This is, of course, an absolute scandal. At first it was said that the image was Iranian propaganda. But I conducted my own investigation, consulted artificial intelligence tools, and was provided with links to the original post from Trump himself. What is most striking about the image is that he stands in a blasphemous, sacrilegious pose, while horned demons fly above him. This is not simply an appeal to religion—it is an appeal to something directly opposed to Christianity. [Very interesting hermeneutic of Dugin, seeing horned demons where I see more be airplanes and bombs]
Many have now recalled that during his second inauguration Trump did not place his hand on the Bible. People have begun to look more closely at his circle: these are far from being merely pastors, but representatives of a specific current within Protestant fundamentalism—dispensationalism. These individuals believe that the purpose of America is to follow completely the interests of the State of Israel. At the core of their interpretation lies the idea of the chosenness of non-Christian Jews.
Add to this the practice of so-called glossolalia—“speaking in tongues.” The head of Trump’s religious office, Paula White [a snake oil womanseller] cries out like someone possessed in a non-existent language, claiming that a spirit speaks through her. Traditional Christians, who were initially part of Trump’s coalition—particularly Catholics such as Carrie Bolles [Carrie Prejean Boller] —reacted with alarm, withdrew, and left his circle of advisers.
Instead of uniting Western Christians around himself—and we are not even touching on Orthodoxy here, which is a separate matter—Trump has in effect launched a confrontation with Catholicism. The Pope condemns actions in Gaza, Lebanon, and the war against Iran, and Catholics simply cannot accept the infernal imagery that Trump and his circle disseminate on social media. Around him there seems to be a spreading “black stain” that repels the traditional Christian environment.
From our Orthodox perspective, Catholics themselves have moved far from tradition. Yet even they have not gone as far as Trump’s current circle. It is difficult to describe: whether this is parody and buffoonery, or open possession, or merely a publicity stunt. What we are dealing with under the mask of “Christianity” in the White House is a complete catastrophe.

 I do not know whom they are addressing. Even among evangelicals, Baptists, and Calvinists, this current is an absolute minority. A small, completely deranged Christian Zionist dispensationalist sect has seized influence over Trump’s administration. It is pushing the world toward absurd actions—geopolitically, religiously, and from the standpoint of basic reason. This is not a return to Christianity; it is its complete inversion—a substitution of God with His opposite. [So true. How much Trump is aware of that, and joins the devil, of the zionist-dispensationalists?]
Those demons above Trump, depicted in the image of the Savior—this is something blasphemous. Perhaps they consider it amusing, believing that a “comic-book” format will bring them closer to younger audiences, but I doubt it. What we are dealing with are profound distortions, a final degeneration of Western society. For a long time, they were materialists and atheists, and now they supposedly turn toward faith—but in what form? Everything is inverted, everything is counterfeit. Worse than atheism is outright satanism, which is becoming ever more visible through the American elites.

Host: Incidentally, here satanism has been officially recognized as an extremist movement, which is an important clarification.
But let us turn to geopolitics. We all remember how, just last week, the world stood literally on the brink of the first nuclear strike since Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the end, the parties did sit down at the negotiating table.
These negotiations lasted twenty-one hours and, to put it mildly, ended unsuccessfully: no consensus was reached. There are even rumors—almost conspiratorial—that Jared Kushner [the cold ultrazionist] nearly came to blows with Iran’s foreign minister. Perhaps this is an exaggeration, but the level of tension was clearly extreme. The most intriguing aspect is Trump’s decision following the meeting: he ordered the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Many people immediately asked a logical question—how can one block something that Iran itself has already effectively blocked? [Possible, and blocks in both ways and will force the explosion...]

Alexander Dugin: As for the negotiations, the first thing to understand is the context. The Americans and the Israelis eliminated Iran’s legitimate leadership and committed a horrific crime in Minab, where 170 innocent schoolgirls were killed. After something like that, no self-respecting country could treat them as a credible party. The fact that Tehran nevertheless agreed, in a rational manner, to hold a meeting was absolutely the right move, and the positions they put forward were nothing short of brilliant.

 The Iranians took a position of strength: “You have committed a crime and must face punishment. We are prepared to discuss a ceasefire, but we will not surrender a single position; on the contrary, we will expand them, since we are the victims of your aggression.” The American side in Islamabad had no choice but to leave empty-handed. It is already remarkable that the Iranians did not carry out their judgment on the spot against Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who are reasonably accused of involvement in these crimes.[Two monsters] After all, it was they who, during the previous round of negotiations, distracted the Iranian leadership while treacherous strikes were being carried out.
With figures like these, any means become acceptable. Now the only options are either to wait for them to collapse on their own or to find ways to stop them. One thing is clear: this is not a partner with whom agreements can be made or whose commitments can be trusted. In this situation, Iran has demonstrated itself as a true superpower and a genuine builder of a multipolar world. After all the suffering it has endured, the Iranian people have become an embodiment of courage and a moral compass for all humanity. This is a fact that can no longer be ignored.
Morally, they are prevailing. As long as the Iranians hold firm, they only strengthen the moral legitimacy and dignity of their position.
As for Donald Trump: he threatened a nuclear strike, hinted at some kind of “great reset,” and Israel also declared its readiness to use nuclear weapons. Yet Iran remains unyielding, and Trump now has no option left but to attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz from his side.
Washington’s plan is a clever one. In order to reach the open ocean, ships must first pass through an Iranian “customs” regime, which collects fees in rials or yuan. The Americans have now decided to introduce a second layer of blockage: vessels that have already paid the Iranians will be subjected to equivalent American charges upon exit. If the Iranians allow someone through free of charge, the Americans will do the same—but if you have paid Tehran, you will be required to pay the exact same amount to Washington. In theory, this is feasible, since the waters at the exit of the Gulf can be controlled by American naval forces.
In effect, the United States is saying: “If you, the Iranians, intend to control global oil and gas trade, we will block your control.” This is no longer about nuclear weapons, but rather a military-economic maneuver. Let the global economy collapse, let the price of oil soar to $200 per barrel—the Americans do not care, as long as Iran is prevented from taking a key position. This is certainly no Solomon-like decision. In my view, it reflects the logic either of outright aggressors or of geopolitical perverts.

Host: Am I right in understanding that this can already be described as a war of attrition? If at the beginning we observed a hot phase aimed at destruction, are we now seeing attempts to isolate Iran as much as possible, with Washington being completely indifferent to the consequences?

Alexander Dugin: For now, that is exactly how it appears. At the same time, there is nothing to prevent us from assuming that the Americans are using this pause to build up forces in the region—in Qatar and especially in the United Arab Emirates. Their objective would be either to launch a ground operation or to force Iran, by military means, to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. There can be no trust in the United States or Israel: any ceasefire will be used solely in their own interests. [So true, so treacherous, so devilish are USA and Israel governments, reaaly the evil on earth]

Trump’s decision has caused fear and panic among the overwhelming majority of people around the world. Not only did Iran close the strait in response to aggression, but now the Americans have also sealed off those few routes that Iran was willing to leave open in order to ease the energy crisis. It is important to remember that initially Iran imposed no duties at all, and free trade agreements were respected. But after the Americans struck Minab, killing children, and eliminated the country’s military leadership without any justification—simply because Trump wanted to personally control Iranian resources—Tehran had no choice but to defend itself. [The evil of Israel and USA, their criminal nature, has no limits...]
The Iranians began striking at sensitive points: the global economy and U.S. allies in the region. And they achieved results: they began to be taken seriously, they began to be approached with requests. Japan, for example, whose economy critically depends on energy imports, has already agreed to pay Iran in yuan for the passage of ships. And then Trump appears and declares that whatever manages to pass through Iranian barriers will be shut down again. The result is that Europe and the rest of the world—apart from the United States itself—have virtually nowhere left to obtain oil. This amounts to a deliberate escalation toward global economic collapse.

Host: In fact, the situation in Europe is becoming no less dramatic than the Middle Eastern crisis. The energy crisis, which Trump is effectively pushing to a boiling point, is now intersecting with tectonic shifts in European politics. Events in Hungary are already being described as historic: yesterday, April 12, 2026, marked the end of the sixteen-year era of Viktor Orbán.
In elections with a record turnout of nearly 80 percent, the opposition party Tisza Party won, and its leader Péter Magyar secured a constitutional majority. This is a key moment for the entire architecture of the European Union. On the one hand, Magyar has already spoken of “bringing Hungary back to Europe” and of unblocking EU decisions that Budapest had previously stalled, including aid to Ukraine. On the other hand, the reality of resource dependence imposes its own constraints: even the most pro-European politician in Budapest cannot ignore the fact that Hungary’s economy—and the heat in people’s homes—depends directly on Russian energy supplies.
How should we interpret this shift? Péter Magyar is a complex figure: a former ally of Orbán who knows the system from the inside. His rhetoric now balances between loyalty to Brussels and pragmatism. The media note that he promises “caution” on the Ukrainian issue and is in no hurry to sever energy ties with Moscow completely.

Alexander Dugin: All of this must, of course, be placed within the broader context we discussed earlier. First of all, consider this: if the Americans now impose their own second layer of blockage in the Strait of Hormuz, then in practice the maritime delivery of oil to Europe and Asia from the Arabian Peninsula will cease. It will fall either to zero or to negligible levels. At the same time, Russia could be the primary supplier of energy resources to Europe. But here EU sanctions and pressure from Trump come into play, discouraging the purchase of Russian oil, along with Europe’s own abandonment of a rational approach.
In this regard, the most clear-headed politician was Orbán. He insisted that without Russian oil, there would be no economy at all. He was a pragmatist—not necessarily a great supporter of Russia, but a conservative who approached us without prejudice and understood that Hungary needs oil from somewhere in order to survive. And now it simply is not available. Moreover, the Ukrainian regime has already carried out sabotage attacks on Russian pipelines, causing a scandal in an earlier phase, and intends to continue doing so. Recently, Ukrainian operatives were caught attempting to blow up the TurkStream. Their aim is to deprive Europe entirely of energy supplies from Russia. At the same time, painful strikes are being carried out against our energy infrastructure and ports.
As a result, Russia may either be unwilling or technically and legally unable to supply resources. Oil from the Middle East is effectively disappearing from the global economy. Russia is being blocked—both by its own decisions and by external pressure: if war is being waged against us, why should we continue to supply them? And then Trump comes forward and says: “But we have plenty of oil.” I recently read a serious analysis: the United States does indeed have substantial oil reserves, but they are barely sufficient to meet its own needs. For America to take responsibility for other economies—for Europe, Japan, India, or China—and say “buy from us,” it would need a surplus. That surplus does not exist.
The United States itself may suffer less than others, but it does not have the volumes required for global trade. Moreover, rising oil prices will inevitably disrupt processes within the American economy, which are already under strain. Trump is now effectively undermining not only the global system, but also the foundations of his own prosperity. The question arises: why? Does he not have advisers capable of explaining that U.S. resources are sufficient only to cover domestic demand? If we add to this Iran’s resilience and the situation in Venezuela, it becomes clear that we are witnessing a massive, fatal, and unstoppable collapse of the global economy in the broadest sense.

Host: Returning to Hungary: what will fundamentally change with the rise of Péter Magyar? If we were to summarize it in a few key points, what shifts in the country’s policy will be most decisive under current conditions?

Alexander Dugin: It is difficult to give a definitive answer. In fact, if one closely examines Magyar’s campaign, he did not differ all that much from Orbán in his basic principles. Incidentally, he was quite critical of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and spoke directly about the need to maintain relations with Russia. However, he was elected primarily because of his pro-European orientation.
For now, I would refrain from drawing final conclusions. Magyar will inevitably disappoint either his voters or the European elites who supported him. He will certainly let someone down, and at that point a political crisis in the country will resume with renewed intensity.
It is impossible to predict the outcome in advance: either he will betray the expectations of those who voted for a continuation of a pragmatic line toward Russia and Ukraine (albeit in a different form), or he will disappoint the forces within the European Union that saw him as a compliant instrument of Brussels. His position is extremely unstable.»
Translated from the Russian, for Alexander Dugin substack, and transcribed from there for this blog. 15/4/26. Much light and love, or Logos in everyone and all.

Alexander Dugin: Uma Civilização contra si própria. A Civilization Against Itself. USA. Português, English.

 Mais um valioso texto do notável filósofo e geo-estrategista, em que desenha os contornos dinamicos do conflito actual e os grupos e poderes essencias e inteligências, com suas aspirações e dominações em luta. Com grande lucidez e claridade, Alexande Dugin tira um bomretrato dos USA e a da União Europeia e da luta de morte da hegemonia impiedosa que pretendem manter contra a humanidade multipolar que, liderada pelo Irão, a Rússia, a China, Cuba, Burkina Fasso, entre outros,  tenta libertar-se de tal opressão da elite epsteiniana, trumpista, sionista.... 

                         

Alexander Dugin
Uma Civilização Contra Si Mesma

Por trás da loucura de Trump, podemos ler o plano B do globalismo: a destruição da humanidade como o preço a pagar para se manter o controle pela elite ocidental. Abril 09, 2026

A luta dos evangélicos dispensacionalistas (administração Trump) contra a Igreja Católica é a fase final da Reforma radical.[ Dugin preveu o ataque de Trump ao Papa Leão X] Muitas pontas soltas que não foram resolvidas no século XVII reaparecem agora. Quinta Monarquia [Um projecto inglês e judaico, semelhante ao V Império. Ferando Pessoa trabalhou muito o V Império, a partir do sonho de Daniel mas refere também a Quinta Monarquia, e ambos são formas de dominio total de uma religião ou ideologia]. Essa é a chave. E Sabbatai Zevi [1626-1676, um falso messias turco judeu], claro.

O socialismo tornou a empatia e a compaixão obrigatórias, muito formais. Mas se não tiveres essa qualidade,  não és humano. A ironia calvinista de Elon Musk sobre empatia é moralmente repugnante. Em Trump, vemos como o egoísmo e o narcisismo são malignos, cruéis e horríveis. [Dois sociopatas, na sua falta de empatia e fraternidade, com as consequências terríveis que podem ter nos outros ao serem milionários poderosos]

Ayn Rand [1905-1982, filósofa anti-religiosa e anti-altruísta] e sua "filosofia" são puro satanismo. É o manifesto das elites de Epstein. Mas não é algo marginal. É a própria essência do capitalismo ocidental (principalmente anglo-saxão). Werner Sombart (1863-1941, economista, sociólogo] explicou minuciosamente a gênese do capitalismo e sua ligação com a usura.

Cada vez mais é evidente que os EUA precisam urgentemente de um terceiro partido (movimento, corrente). Nem o globalismo liberal de esquerda [isto é, a esquerda do Partido Democrata que tem algo de uma mera social democracia mas ao serviço do imperialismo], nem o trumpismo satano-calvinista [televangelista de Paula White e &] e sionista [bem patente no zelota ou fanático impiedoso Pete Hegset, que até o Papa Leão X teve de o criticar; e que diferença de vibrações entre estes...]. Com ideologia, filosofia, sociologia, história das religiões, moral e economia especiais. [Uma magna tarefa, impossível claramente...]

O cristianismo no Ocidente é apenas uma dor fantasma [ainda que haja ainda dinamismos fraternos e altruístas fortes na juventude]. Foi obliterado há muito tempo com a Modernidade baseada na ciência materialista, no ateísmo, no individualismo, na democracia e no capitalismo. A Modernidade transformou o Ocidente em uma civilização não cristã e anti-cristã.

Há uma espécie de plano geopolítico nas sombras do óbvio delírio da América trumpista. É a estratégia para salvar a unipolaridade [ou opressiva hegemonia do capitalismo ocidental do Fórum Económico Social, de George Soros, dos Rothschild] pelos meios mais drásticos: genocídio em massa, Terceira Guerra Mundial, armas nucleares, múltiplas intervenções, provocando guerras regionais simultâneas. [Tão evidentemente perpetrado pelos USA e NATO...] Outros meios estão esgotados.

Por trás da loucura de Trump, podemos ler o plano B do globalismo: a destruição da humanidade como o preço pago pelo controle da elite ocidental. É a lógica do globalismo duro, impiedoso [hardcore]. O liberalismo foi esmagado por causa de sua «empatia» (hipócrita) e obsessão wokeista [não há identidade, nem nacionalidades, nem géneros, nem religiões, nem tradições: globalidade por baixo...]

Tudo está estruturado em torno do dilema da unipolaridade versus multipolaridade. O Ocidente sacrificou a sua identidade, cultura, tradições e valores por uma coisa: o poder global. Teve isso durante o momento unipolar (1989-agora). Mas começou a rachar.

O Ocidente considerou que ainda poderia ter o poder global sacrificando cada vez mais sua identidade (plano globalista liberal). O plano de Trump/Israel é reafirmar a identidade ocidental (sionista/sionista cristão) com uma luta desesperada para conservar sua força e hegemonia. Ambos Impossíveis.

A multipolaridade é a única e exclusiva saída para a situação. Você poderia conservar a América e/ou a Europa apenas compartilhando o poder global com outros Polos. Vocês não podem ficar com tudo para vocês. Não mais. A Terceira Guerra Mundial é sobre isso.
Os EUA estão nas mãos de um louco cruel. A UE é a junta de globalistas depravados e insanos. Os líderes pró-Ocidente são palhaços, loucos e maníacos patéticos. O retrato coletivo do Ocidente actual é realmente um desastre total. Nada atraente. Repulsivo. E o futuro promete piorar.»

                                       

Alexander Dugin

A Civilization Against Itself

Behind Trump’s madness we can read the plan B of the globalism: the destruction of the humanity as the price paid for the control of the western elite.
abr 09, 2026

The fight of the evangelicals dispensationalists (Trump’s administration) against Catholic Church is the end stage of the radical Reform. Many odd ends that weren’t solved in 17 century reappear now. Fifth Monarchy. That is the key. And Sabbatai Zevi of course.

The socialism made the empathy and compassion obligatory, too formal. But if you have no such quality you aren’t human. The Calvinist irony of Elon Musk about empathy is morally disgusting. In Trump we watch how evil, cruel and horrible the egocentrism and narcissism look like.

Ayn Rand and her “philosophy” is pure satanism. It is the manifesto of Epstein elites. But it is not something marginal. It is the very essence of the western (mostly Anglo-Saxon) capitalism. Sombart has explained thoroughly the genesis of the capitalism and its link to usury.

More and more it is evident that the U.S. badly needs third party (movement, current). Neither left liberal globalist, nor satano-Calvinist and Zionist trumpism. With special ideology, philosophy, sociology, history of religions, moral and economy.

The Christianity in the West is just a phantom pain. It was obliterated long long ago with the Modernity based on the materialist science, atheism, individualism, democracy and capitalism. The Modernity has transformed the West into non-Christian anti- Christian civilisation.

There is some geopolitical plan in the shadow of the obvious delirium of trumpist America. It is the strategy to save the unipolarity by the hardest means: mass genocide, WWIII, nuke, multiple interventions, provoking simultaneous regional wars. Other means are exhausted.

Behind Trump’s madness we can read the plan B of the globalism: the destruction of the humanity as the price paid for the control of the western elite. It is hardcore globalism rationale. The liberalism was crushed because of its (hypocritical) «empathy» and wokeist obsession.

Everything is structured around unipolarity versus multipolarity dilemma. The West has sacrificed its identity, culture, traditions, values for one thing global power. It had it during unipolar moment (1989-now). But it began to crack.

The West deemed that it could still have the global power sacrificing more and more its identity (liberal globalist plan). Trump/Israel plan is to reaffirm Western (Zionist/Christian Zionist) identity with desperate fight to conserve its strength and hegemony. Both Impassible. [Or, surely, Impossible]

The multipolarity is the unique and only exit of the situation. You could conserve America and/or Europe only sharing the global power with other Poles. You can’t keep it all for yourselves. Not anymore. The WWIII is about that.

The U.S. is in the hand of cruel madman. EU is the junta of deranged pervert globalists. Pro-Western leaders are clowns, crazy and pathetic maniacs. The collective portrait of the actual West is really total disaster. Nothing attractive. Repulsive. And the future promises worse.»