![]() There were different versions of Gnosticism, but the consensus is that they shared the same structure - ancient knowledge as a pathway to transcendence. What is the concept of reality that is being expressed? We're after the underlying structure that the ideas are built on. The historical details are unclear but this isn't the point. These have connections to ancient Jewish and Christian communities but were rejected as heresy. Gnosticism is a 17th-century term for some occult beliefs that appeared in the late Roman Empire. It is important to remember that these are general categories made up by the Band for observable occult patterns. The next three posts will look at a trifecta of occult ideas that are uncovered in Jordanetics The issue is one of patterns - common conceptual structures that recur in occult thought are central here as well. This is not to say that Peterson openly advocates occultism, though leaning on Jung to any extent in the 21st century certainly doesn't rule it out. What was most striking about this was how closely it conforms to central concepts in occultist thinking. Each chapter can more or less stand alone, but they work best together, slowly revealing a pattern beneath what on the surface appear to be allusive ramblings. Following this the book systematically examines the sources and "logic" of Peterson's thought, compliling a mountain of errors, evasions, and incoherence that is to extensive to summarize.ĭay's critique is so effective because it relies so heavily on Peterson's own statements. These become a bit repetitive, but as a group they work as a proof of concept. The book is a devastating critique that begins by setting up the context - laying out the reasons for the book, then providing extensive comments documenting the cult-like behavior of those threatened by it. Jordanetics is the culmination of an investigation that began with calling out a small lie about IQ scores, only to find layer upon layer of deception and madness like a decaying onion. No one had looked as closely at the Peterson's actual words as Vox Day. Ignorance and demagoguery have little appeal to the Band so there was no incentive to look deeper. His sudden fame made him impossible to miss completely, but the handful of times that the Band caught some interview or clip, the impression was underwhelming - chains of superficial associations between poorly-understood concepts delivered in strained, almost stream-of-consciousness bursts that make the exchange of ideas associated with a conversation impossible. At the time, he appeared to be one of a crowd of purportedly anti-leftist voices popping up on the internet in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, although he quickly eclipsed the rest in popularity. The Band payed little attention to Peterson after he appeared on the scene a few years ago, riding some ginned up outrage about pronoun use that, when you look back on it, amounted to nothing. ![]() ![]() This post is the first of three that will use Jordanetics as a way of exposing some core occult patterns, and hopefully discourage others from starting down this dark path. When the occult principles that had been under consideration all turned up in this book, it seemed serendipitous. The reason why the Band started the shorter occult posts was to reveal the underlying structures and patterns in this type of thought, and to show why it is nonsensical, dyscivic, and ultimately evil. T he connection between this critique of famed public intellectual Jordan Peterson and the occult isn't obvious on the surface, but the further we read, the stronger that familiar smell of brimstone became. ![]() The Band had been thinking about some posts on occult principles when a book called Jordanetics by Vox Day, a political philosopher and author among many other things, turned up.
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