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In the 1970s, Timothy Leary, high priest of LSD, starting preaching a new gospel. He become obsessed with the idea of a hierarchy of different genetic castes spread throughout the Earth, at different levels of evolution, culminating in a super-caste of Californians destined to leave Earth and continue their evolution in space. He preached selective breeding to enhance intelligence, and even suggested Hitler was ahead of his time in his plan to breed ubermenschen.

Spiritual EugenicsJules EvansOctober 6, 2022spiritual eugenicsComment

Nazi spiritual eugenics (III): Blood and Soil

In 1879, in Breslau, a group of idealistic young Germans gathered round an oak tree at midnight to swear an oath. They swore to do everything they could to return the German race to the glories of its Teutonic past, and to found a utopian commune. A young man called Alfred Ploetz, 19, was chosen to be its future president.[1]

Nazi spiritual eugenics, Spiritual Eugenics, NazisJules EvansJune 10, 2022Nazis, Nazi ideology, Spiritual eugenicsComment

Nazi spiritual eugenics (I): the German occulture

In previous chapters of the spiritual eugenics project we have ambled down relatively unpopulated lanes of historical research. Now, we emerge onto a daunting autobahn: Nazism. No topic has been more pored over by historians. And there are no more awful events in human history than the Nazis’ programme of mass murder.

Spiritual Eugenics, NazisJules EvansMay 27, 2022German occulture, Spiritual Eugenics, Nazis, Nazi ideologyComment

13) The Huxleys and the intellectual aristocracy

This is the latest entry in my Spiritual Eugenics project, which looks at the overlap between New Age spirituality and eugenics. For a definition of these terms, an intro to the project, and preceding chapters, go here.

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