PH2T3R The Journal of Solar Culture

​What is goodness? Is a universal definition of good even possible? If not, what of badness and evil? What would good and evil mean to Solar Idealists?@JackDonovan and @ChristopherRobertson sat down with fellow Order of Fire member Dustin to talk about the nature of goodness (and perhaps the nature of badness or evil) in this special face-to-face podcast at the Order of Fire's 2023 Autumn Equinox event -- somewhere in a Nevada desert. C. B. Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineand...Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoff...https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Jack Donovan is joined by Order of Fire members Coach Josh Wood (Tasmania) and Kyle Brickell (British Columbia) to discuss hiking and mountain climbing. Josh and Kyle met in Canada years ago and later planned a trip to Nepal where they spent 16 days hiking above 5000m on the Three Passes Trek and over to Everest Base Camp. You can find a video of some of their journey on Coach Josh Wood's YouTube Channel: • Hike Nepal: Everest Base Camp and Thr...  To learn more about Coach Josh Wood and his coaching expertise, visit https://www.coachjoshwood.com/Or check out his Instagram athttps://www.instagram.com/coachjoshwood/Like Josh, Kyle Brickell is one of the OG members of the Order of Fire, and Donovan interviewed him for PH2T3R about his music project, Anahata, here:https://ph2t3r.com/2021/05/14/anahata...You can find him on Instagram athttps://www.instagram.com/solarus_cas...Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoff...https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Jack Donovan and C.B. Robertson discuss Donovan's latest project, a powerful 5-minute speech set to original music titled "Invocation of the Storm." Invocation of the Storm has been released on X and YouTube, as well as Spotify, iMusic and various sound-streaming platforms. You can watch the full video here:https://youtu.be/CD3btj2nyUw?si=MAzzdwgC1vv2Mv_YOr listen to it on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/track/7G2wulq9kj0VDOaQ99Urln?si=f10744024ef744d9Christopher Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineand...Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Jack Donovan and Christopher Robertson continue a discussion about the pros and cons of anthropomorphizing or personifying gods, and they are joined by Order of Fire member Ed Hamann -- who studied Vedic and Hindu material for many years in India -- to add some eastern perspectives to the discussion. Christopher Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineand...Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Jack Donovan and Christopher Robertson begin a discussion about the pros and cons of anthropomorphizing or personifying gods. Some of the most beautiful figurative art in the word depicts gods or religious themes. Other religions forbid the depiction of gods.Is it better to imagine a humanoid figure or to speak of gods and ideals in terms of broad concepts and natural phenomena? Topics, books, and links discussed include:On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlylehttps://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Hero-Worship-Heroic-History/dp/B09NCCQVZL/Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzschehttps://a.co/d/9R4URmVFire in the Dark by Jack Donovanhttps://amzn.to/3nOUvVwPlato's Republichttps://a.co/d/c7ke4jfChristopher Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineand...Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Vic Verdier has been living an adventurous, nomadic life for decades. He's been to 76 countries and 46 of the United States. After years in the French navy, he became a scuba diving instructor in Tahiti, and has traveled the world teaching diving. He has done some of the world's deepest cave dives -- descending up to 700 ft. Today he teaches kettlebell, movement, and combatives courses, and coaches men over 40 to help them maintain strength and vitality. We talked about everything from the benefits of travel to meditating for hours under water to his visits to Cambodia and his thoughts on torture. Vic is one of the members of the Order of Fire who constantly reminds us all how much adventure we can squeeze into life if we get out of our comfort zones, and this conversation is a great follow up to our recent podcast with Bronson Lee Norton in India. You can find more about Vic Verdier at his web site -https://vicverdiercoaching.com/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/vicverdiercoaching/Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Jack Donovan and C.B. Robertson continue their philosophical discussion about magic, exploring a rough taxonomy of magic, the power of symbols, and more.Topics, books, and links discussed include:Runeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futharkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_poemhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rune_poemsThe Chapel of Sacred Mirrorshttps://www.cosm.org/L'Acephale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ac%C3%A9phaleChristopher Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineandphilosophy/Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Bronson Lee Norton is one of the original members of The Order of Fire, and he joined Jack Donovan to talk about living abroad in India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand for the past year. Bronson's stories and insights from the trip are fascinating, from dealing with rabid monkeys and earthquakes to attending ancient rituals and meeting strange gurus. Bronson and Donovan discussed spirituality, rituals and what makes them powerful, as well as Bronson's advocacy of adventure and his experience of gratefulness.Bronson Lee Norton runs the Moss and Blood brand.https://www.mossandblood.com/https://www.instagram.com/mossandblood/https://www.instagram.com/bronsonleenorton/Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

Jack Donovan and C.B. Robertson discuss what Robertson calls "the myth of modernism" and the way in which it relies on "magic" or "sorcery."Sources Mentioned:- How to Do Things with Words by J.L. Austen- The Oresteia ("Eumenides" especially) by Aeschylus- Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of the Witches") by Heinreich Kramer- The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche- Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard- The Republic by PlatoOther directly subject-related books :- The Phenomenology of Spirit and Introduction to the Philosophy of History by Georg Hegel (the magic that ordered 19th-century political thought forward)- Counter Wokecraft by James Lindsay and Charles Pincourt (a modern Malleus Maleficarum)- SJWs Always Lie and SJWs Always Double Down by Vox Day (another modern Malleus Maleficarum)- The Machiavellians by James Burnham (explaining the importance of political formulae)- The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (the shield of Achilles in Iliad book 18 and Athena's intervention to end the blood feud in Odyssey book 24)- The Anger of Achilles by Leonard Muellner (Importance of "menis")- The entirety of James Lindsay's YouTube channel (tying all of these themes together, in relation to Hermeticism and Gnosticism)Christopher Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineandphilosophy/Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoffire/https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/

A discussion about running as a spiritual pursuit. Jack Donovan is joined by C.B. Robertson and Bronson Lee Norton to talk about why more men should run, why they avoid distance running, and why running isn't about "running away" or "being chased."C.B. Robertson is the author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, Letter to Anwei and more. He writes for PH2T3R and his own blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/https://www.instagram.com/caffeineand...Bronson Lee Norton runs the Moss and Blood brand.https://www.mossandblood.com/https://www.instagram.com/mossandblood/https://www.instagram.com/bronsonleen...Jack Donovan is the author of The Way of Men, Becoming a Barbarian, A More Complete Beast, and Fire in the Dark. His is the founder of The Order of Fire and the PH2T3R project. https://www.jack-donovan.com/sowilo/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starttheworld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ph2t3rTo find out more about the PH2T3R project, visit PH2T3R.comhttps://ph2t3r.com/To learn more about joining The Order of Fire:https://ph2t3r.com/theorderoffire/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theorderoff...https://www.instagram.com/ph2t3r/