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| Author | Collin Cleary |
|---|---|
| Full Title | Summoning the Gods: Essays on Paganism in a God-Forsaken World |
| Binding | Softcover |
| Publisher | Counter-Currents (2011) |
| Pages | 220 |
| ISBN | 9781935965220 |
| Language | English |
| Short Description | Neo-paganism is the attempt to revive the polytheistic religions of old Europe. But how? Can one just invent or reinvent an authentic, living faith? Or are modern neo-pagans just engaged in elaborate role-playing games? In Summoning the Gods, Collin Cleary argues that the gods have not died or forsaken us so much as we have died to or forsaken them. Modern civilization - including much of modern neo-paganism - springs from a mindset that closes man off to the divine and traps us in a world of our own creations. Drawing upon sources from Taoism to Heidegger, Collin Cleary describes how we can attain an attitude of openness that may allow the gods to return. In these nine wide-ranging essays, Collin Cleary also explores the Nordic pagan tradition, Tantrism, the writings of Alain de Benoist, Karl Maria Wiligut, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Patrick McGoohan’s classic television series The Prisoner. Cleary’s essays are models of how to combine clarity and wit with spiritual depth and intellectual sophistication. |
| Praise | “The writings of Collin Cleary are an excellent example of the way in which old European paganism continues to question our contemporaries in a thought-provoking way. Written with elegance, his work abounds in original points of view.”
-- Alain de Benoist, author of On Being a Pagan “Jung compared the absence of the gods to a dry riverbed: their shapes remain, but devoid of the energy and substance that would make them live among us as they used to. What we await is the energy and substance to flow once more into the forms. The words of Collin Cleary, his thoughts and ideas, constitute the kind of fresh and vital energy that is needed to effect the renewal of the gods in our contemporary world.” -- Dr. Stephen E. Flowers, author of The Northern Dawn |
| Table of Contents | Introduction by Greg Johnson Neo-Paganism 1. Knowing the Gods 2. Summoning the Gods: The Phenomenology of Divine Presence 3. Paganism without Gods: Alain de Benoist’s On Being a Pagan Nordic Paganism 4. What God Did Odin Worship? 5. Philosophical Notes on the Runes 6. The Missing Man in Norse Cosmogony 7. Karl Maria Wiligut’s Commandments of Gôt Among the Ruins 8. Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner 9. The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| About the Author | Collin Cleary, Ph.D. is an independent scholar living in Sandpoint, Idaho. He is one of the founders of TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, the first volume of which he co-edited. A Master in the Rune-Gild, his writings have appeared in TYR and Rûna. This is his first book. |
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