Right Wing Mysticism

This blog is going to be as careful as I can muster from something meant to act merely as a repository for my thoughts on a schema, or pattern, which I seem to bear witness to.  I am unsure, but it seems to me this pattern is becoming more distinct, and stronger in the US and perhaps internationally.  The individuals I use as examples below are just waypoints... they represent types of components in the system that I will be describing.  If only those cases I mention exist, then my model fails... but if there are many more like them, then it is apt.

Let me present first a brief exposition of biases I had when younger, at that point in history when I was first pondering these issues.  Put quickly, I associated new age ideas with mysticism in general, and liberalism of a sort with this new age perspective.  An inclination toward Dr Cayce or Dr Kellog was likely also an inclination to Dr Spock and the modern liberal modernism of liberalism... ...

I was well aware of the ancient components, but these I thought had always been part of the underground, with the mainstream superstructure eschewing mysticism with the related phenomenon of superstitious dogmatism. I had little idea as a child that conservative notions did not get more and more severe the further back in time you went.  I had no idea that not only was this not the case, but the very idea of what was conservative always changed radically over large periods of time.

Specifically, however, was this notion that a conservative was culturally conservative, that this really was related to conservative ideology, and that the result would be, in the west, that, as we had seemed to long witness, any western conservative mysticism would be of a purely Christian sort, and not of the sort I will discuss below, in which new age and antique revivals reign... spectral dynamics, EST, numerology not of biblical origin, and so on.

As I say, this was mere bias and does not at all understand the situation. It was, rather than an observation, a received opinion I inherited as a child of the United States. What perhaps most leadly put the lie to this crude notion for me was studying the nazi phenomenon. This broke the trivial manufactured barriers on this subject.  The naxis were indeniably right wing, it seems to me, and if not, their nationalist socialism named a populism with a conservative, tradition-glorifying, bent.  Whatever it is called it's different from a communist populist, which relies on modernism in battle with traditionalism as opposed to modernism which is supposedly the contemporary expression of a great people. Both are dangerous, but the danger of communist populism is well aired in the west, and I speak of right wing populism... which if not more dangerous, was for me as a youth more unknown, virtually unspoken of.

The Nazis were populist, and they were very mystical.  The swastika itself they stole from the Hindus. It was a very nice symbol and they ruined it, just as Hitler's mustache was a very good mustache for comedy (e.g. Charlie Chaplin made good use of it), but was almost entirely ruined for that general purpose by the Nazis, or in particular in that case, by Hitler himself. I had as a young american child not realized that populism and mysticism played such an important role in Nazi Germany, and had been told it was merely racism that generated such a situation.

Thus I learned the dangers of populism through the examples of right wing populism, and got the sense that mysticism was in it's service.  The mysticism is used, I conjectured, to support the irrational conclusions necessary to justify their extreme methods, goals, and utopianism.  Many of the principles well illuminated turn out to apply to left wing populism, with a modernism as the local mysticism, relatable in the abuse of fear and biases common in the people, the public, the populous, thing common in res publica.

As it happens, I tend always to subscribe to a few mystics, espousing 2012, or spectral dynamics (?), numerology, and other traditional or novel mysticisms.  In spite of my esposure to right wing mysticism, I have found it a rare element in the US.  That is, it's available in trace amounts everywhere, but rarely concentrated.  Generally it is after much talk I hear someone's right wing mysticism.  I have found a surprising amount when talking philosophy with the homeless.

But of youtube mystics I would expect to find, and generally have, a liberal leaning to the mystics present.  I do not know if it is a trend, but I suspect an increase in right wing mysticism.  When it is inflamed in a more or less liberal mystic, it makes them less liberal, and more conservative.

At any rate, I have come to ponder in detail two cases, the guitoist, and MorningMayan.  First MorningMayan. She is a positive person that seem to have health and wellness as her angle... she's open to raiki and various things like this, and she is an author (have no idea how successful or not) in such subjects.  She seemed to me to take mysticism as a solvent ---- I will always use a lot of chemical metaphors when discussing ideas --- which softens the facts so that she can more easily form them into a "think positive" message put thusly  "keep positive vibrations within and around you".  While such mysticism is likely polluted with a lot of nonsense, it also is not uncommon that the nonsense cancels out to enable a positive message, and all is well enough, at worse an inert waste of energy, at best a means for people to obtain a  positive idea by which they might do positive actions, and yielding a material benefit.

But then once she surprised me... she took a right wing reactionary approach to the Trayvon Martin case... when rebuked in her comments she relented and reacted with "I didn't know that part".  It seemed to me she was tuned into right wing memedom, the scope of her information reflected a perfect image of that meme industry's output on the early Trayvon Martin disputes.

Subsequently she started praising Alex Jones, and it turned out that she worked for Info Wars for a time, but had some falling out she prefers not to relay (having made a video on the subject and deciding it was not the sort of vibration she wanted to go with). I find this all odd, but it seems to be a result of conspiracy theory and mysticism... it's as if when mining for mystical "facts" one strikes veins of paranoid mysticism, and this recipe leads to a right wing mysticism.  Such movements will generally be populist, that is, praising the people, but are ultimately elitist, as it is the mystical elite that actually know what is "best" for these people.  Thus rarely are populist movements democratic in the end, though they use democratic rhetoric to justify themselves.

The other case, a person I have watched more closely I suppose, is the guitoist.  He is a numerological, astrological, worshiper of nietzsche and has integrated an effigy of him into a pantheon of astrologically foretold prophets, seers, and keys of fate, my phraseology. He has long irritated me greatly, for while I find numerology amusing, and appreciate it's relationship to mathematics, and I find astrology similarly amusing and know it's relation to astronomy, I also appreciate Neitzsche.  In the video I have just watched, motivating me to write this essay, he presents himself as a worshiper of Nietzsche.  Please note, the phrase "worshiper of Nietzsche" is an absurdity at best, a blasphemy at worst, for Nietzsche himself claimed to have taken great pains to make such a thing impossible.

He advises repeatedly that a student is only a good student if they overcome the limitations of their teacher, and that even he himself, in writing, is merely describing a step he is taking on a never ending staircase, and it would be absurd to presume he would stop forever on that step and declare it thereby the effective top of the staircase, and that even no others should pass.

And worse, he speaks of Nietzsche as a metaphysical thing, his soul a part of the same metaphysical realm of events that foretell and fulfill the coming of other prophets such as Jesus Christ.  He defends this with astrology and numerology.  This drives me nuts.  Nietzsche would be rolling over in his grave.  I don't say this because I think I have a subtle handle on how Nietzsche thought, but because of big glaring, oft repeated points of view on metaphysics.  Nietzsche is the source of the best logical as well as emotional (will based) arguments against metaphysics available in the west, at least that I know of.  He is where I finally understood the methods by which metaphysical theory en masse is provably irrelevant to any matter at hand.

Claiming to worship him while rejecting those things most clear in his philosophy to me seem symptomatic of the worst kind of mysticism, and worse, is specifically something the Nazi's did.  And now the guitoist is speaking also of Alex Jones, is in fear of his guns being taken away.

I find this is not only bothersome to me, but also a social danger, the bellweather is ringing, this the recipe for madness, which any number of historical events can show you.  Burma, Cambodia, Germany.... remember the moderates of Germany at first laughed off the Nazis because they were laughable... but that was not the best approach.  Remember that madmen too can follow Ghandi's prescriptions for a movement.