Reviews for Zen The Religion of the Samurai

The average rating for Zen The Religion of the Samurai based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-26 00:00:00 Michael Burwell All of Evola’s books are an attempt at recovering the traces of an ancestral Path of Awakening common to all ancient traditions (for they were all once one single Aryan mythos). The spiritual road to unearth l’individuo assoluto, an impersonal, virile, warrior-like ideal of man, is presented in its diverse accidental exterior forms assumed in various cultures. Evola dismisses the idea of a personal God, Heavenly Father, Creator of all things, ultimate transcendent being. The Transcendent is a Form of superior existence, the result of a via ascetica, a state of absolute freedom, reached through an internal struggle for dominion over the lesser faculties of the mind and spirit. This road to Power over Oneself is not without exterior consequence. The ideal political community, referred to as Imperium, depends on an aristocracy of the soul to govern it, an élite destined to exercise power through an organic hierarchy of individuals in the same measure as they are able to exercise dominion over themselves. Evola’s forma mentis is toxic to today's prevalent spiritual and intellectual common sense: feminine neopaganism, liberalism, materialism and radical egalitarianism. It is, nevertheless, like today's common sense, based in a satanic metaphysics. Two rivers of poisonous waters rising under the same Mountain of Doom.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-07 00:00:00 Richard Houser Ward seeks to dismantle the case against religion presented by prominent scientists, sociologists, and psychologists. He traces the development of religion from the ice age to the information age, clarifying what it is, how religions develop, and how and why they differ. He argues that, while religion is one of the few ways to solve modern problems, it requires a new vision more inclusive of different world faiths.