The Poet's Protégé

Show Notes

1. Inspiration from E025: Ezra Pound.
2. Follow up with his biographer: Eustace Mullins, Conversations with John F Kennedy.
3. Two themes: metaphysics and personal instruction.
4. Primacy of consciousness: humanity is asleep.
5. Life is a sort of Purgatory (not an absolute notion).
6. Collectivist groups.
7. Paradoxical nature of groups, their activities and results. Institutional values of “the good”.
8. Man requires for survival “the unremitting hostility of others”.
9. Personal instructions: People seek unreality -- but escapism only creates more and greater problems.
10. Is killing off your goals equivalent to suicide?
11. “The individual” is a highly unique concept in itself.
12. Man must be reminded of his own nature. 
13. The life work of both the poet and his protege arrives at principles with strong parallels in Neville, Buddhism (Alan Watts’ view), and Fourth Way.

Note:
One should take critically epithets levelled at Ezra Pound and Eustace Mullins in conventional online sources. One must check the facts, notably that Pound and Mullns were condemned by, respectively, Alger Hiss and Dr. Otto John, two confirmed traitors. 

Hiss was found guilty of perjury regarding his treasonous activity in spying for Soviet Russia while working in the US administration. Intelligence chief Otto John burned the first edition, 10,000 copies, of Mullins' book on the Federal Reserve. The book burning took place in liberated (post-WWII) West Germany, shortly before the perpetrator Otto John defected to the Communist East.
 
It was indeed their pioneering work (Pound as mentor and outspoken critic, Mullins as researcher and author) in exposing the precise origins, goals and activities of the Federal Reserve that earned them the wrath of the authorities.

RESOURCES

Mullins, Eustace Conversations with John F Kennedy