PH2T3R The Journal of Solar Culture

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/

Jack Donovan sits down with three members of The Order of Fire who have children to discuss fatherhood from a solar perspective. Austin Kimball wrote a children's book titled Solar Son, which you can purchase through Amazon.com. https://a.co/d/gzY6alUYou can listen to the audio version on Instagram here. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjV11s3ARoZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkCoach Josh Wood is a trainer who currently lives in Tasmania https://www.instagram.com/coachjoshwood/C.B. Robertson is an electrician and the author of several books, including The Hero and the Man.  https://a.co/d/608ZSke https://www.instagram.com/caffeineandphilosophy/To find out more about The Order of Fire, visit PH2T3R.com https://ph2t3r.com/

Jack Donovan explores the concept of the serpent (or sorcerer?)Vṛtra from the Rig Veda with Order of Fire member, Ed, who has spent many years studying Sanskrit and Vedic texts in India and America. The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns from pre-Hindu India, but as we read through it, you'll see that it contains some of the most high-test language you'll find in ancient literature and what seems like a fantastic Robert E. Howard storyline about a powerful hero who goes to war with a greedy snake cult made up of sorcerers and slaves.

An Essay from Jack Donovan on the conflict between the dragon of chaos, symbolizing non-differentiation and the void, and the solar, ordering forces of life and virility. Read the essay here: https://ph2t3r.com/2021/08/23/the-name-of-the-dragon-is-negation/

Jack Donovan, author of The Way of Men and Fire in the Dark, reads his manifesto that defining Solar Culture -- meant to inspire a new wave of visionary art that draws from the masculine mythologies of the past and gestures toward a integrated culture for men of the future. Read the essay on PH2T3R.com.