Pagan Resurrection: A Force for Evil or the Future of Western Spirituality?

by Richard Rudgley

Far from being just a New Age fad, paganism is fast becoming a major spiritual, intellectual, ecological, and political force across the globe. This study puts forward a fascinating and controversial idea—namely that it is the pagan god Odin and not Christ who is the single most important spiritual influence in western civilization. This study investigates the strange world of modern pagan cults and the beliefs that underpin important parts of modern culture, such as Lord of the Rings and the highly pagan counterculture that sprang up in the 1960s that now offers an attractive alternative spiritual vision to millions alienated from Christianity. It explains the ancient idea of the Web—a cosmic field of energies that encompasses time, space, and the hidden potentials of the human organism—and shows that this is a pagan equivalent to the eastern tradition of the Tao. Our civilization, our belief systems and attitudes, and indeed our psyche have been formed by Odin, whereas the influence of Christ has been relatively recent and shallow.

Genres: Paganism, Spirituality, Religion

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Cwn_annwn_13 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up from the library fully expecting to hate it. What I got was book that at times had me wanting to throw it out the window and at times was very thought provocking and interesting.

Rudgley bases the whole premise of this book on Jungs Wotan essay and a snippet from a personal correspondence of his later in his life. Jung saw National Socialist era Germany as being possessed by Odin and in the correspondence Rudgley talks about Jung thought this would occur again, except on a global scale. Predictively Rudgley equates this with genocidal mass murder, Hitler part 2, global evil, etc but on the other hand he doesn't seem entirely against the idea of white people returning en masse to their real Gods. He just seems to think its potentially a very dangerous thing. I would agree with him in the sense that its the globalists, or New World Order, or whatever you want to call thems worst nightmare. But is that a bad thing given what the globalist scumbags are doing to destroy more or less EVERY culture on the planet?

Like I said there is some interesting history and food for thought in this, along with some utter nonsense. He actually includes garbage chapters about the Protocols of Zion, claiming in a roundabout way the Protocols is more or less the only reason people have had issues with the Jews the past 200 years. He also has a whole chapter where he entertains the ideas of some lunatic that wrote a book claiming white serial killers were a manifestation of the Odin archetype! He especially uses the one eyed retard Ottis Toole as an example. So like I said there is some real trash in this book along with the good stuff. He could have stood to have edited out about a third of the chapters in this.

I have to repeat something I have said elsewhere here but White people lost their true culture, heritage and folk soul when Christianity was accepted in Europe. We had a religion with Gods of honor, courage, knowledge, even a sense of humor. They had a reverance for, and connection to animals and nature. All the male Gods were warriors. All the female Gods were loving, family oriented and were as noble and virtuous as the male Gods. We went from that to a religion that revolves around a self debasing Jew that teaches pacifism, that to seek knowledge is "Satanic" and that the Gods of our own Aryan pantheon were demons of the Jewish Satan. Besides that all you have to do is take a casual look at history and see that Odin could never hope to have the amount of blood on his hands that Yahweh does.

[Joni Stevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

" A Folk with no heritage, no proud past, is lost in the present amd does not consider a future. in such a society, the population is far easier to control give them booze, porn and other material trappings and they will never seek to rise beyond that. "

[5 pound poi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is useful in that it name drops loads of important authors, books, painters, philosophers, etc that are prominent and fascinating contributors to any form of "pagan resurrection", however this book is also jam packed with absolute irrelevancies.

Essentially: 1/3 references to better works, 1/3 journalism style reporting on various white nationalists, 1/3 wikipedia level information.

[Tim Pendry · Rating 3 out of 5]

An odd book which contains some useful material on 'irrationalist' thinking in general and on the extreme Right. The book cannot seem to decide whether it approves of Odinist thinking as a sound response to universal archetypes or as harbinger of something much darker. The truth is probably somewhere inbetween. Most Heathen pagans are not right-wing nutters though they are equally unlikely to be socialist collectivists and the implicit association of the radical Right with Heathenism is (in this book) a trifle confused. A relatively easy read, worth a quick run-through but not in the 'Hutton' category by any means.

[Ryan Kriste · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant. I really enjoyed it and read it twice as a result.

[Elentarri · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can't decide if I like this book or not, but in any event, it is stuffed full of interesting information and some "funny stuff".

[Mike Stuchbery · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bonkers. But the good kind. Maybe a little bit of truth in the idea that we can gain a lot from Odinic religion.