Was TK considered a "new ager" at all? As in someone that believed in odd theories such as flat earth and whatnot? I ask because I was going back over his list of books that were in his cabin and the two volumes of The Zetetic struck me as very odd for him to have. He must have had some kind of interest because he had both volumes and they were written at least a year apart.
No see www.unazod.com for background on Ted.
He had no religious beliefs. He had some interest in Norse myths. He was broadly interested in knowledge, history, engineering and various subjects.
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No see http://www.unazod.com for background on Ted.
He had no religious beliefs. He had some interest in Norse myths. He was broadly interested in knowledge, history, engineering and various subjects.
Odd…those 2 books are all about new age skepticism. Truzzi, the author, even stated that the original newsletter was for research of occultism. Check them out when you can. I just find it odd that he had both if there was no interest, and he doesn’t strike me as the type to keep them around for no reason.
The first one has a lot on dianetics.
I mean Ted loved to read. He had books on Germany, Egypt, history, war, space, Norse myths, even one on the Bible. He was known to go to bookstores a lot and also buy books at garage sales and second hand stores. It is interesting what you found, but I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on any one or two books he had, as I say he was an avid reader on many subjects. I also believe he adopted false personas, such as Christian fundamentalist, which might explain the Bible book.
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If I’m not mistaken he made a point (in his manifest) of not having his brand of thinking confused with leftist or treehugging or back-to-nature philosophies of any kind. I can imagine he would be interested in new-age stuff for the same reason he would read up on other subjects he didn’t particularly sympathize with.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see Marx on the shelf of a die-hard capitalist theorist – quite to the contrary, one could even say.
If I’m not mistaken he made a point (in his manifest) of not having his brand of thinking confused with leftist or treehugging or back-to-nature philosophies of any kind. I can imagine he would be interested in new-age stuff for the same reason he would read up on other subjects he didn’t particularly sympathize with.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see Marx on the shelf of a die-hard capitalist theorist – quite to the contrary, one could even say.
That is right. He considered most of the environmentalists, nature spiritualist and their ilk as soft, spacey and not willing to do the hard cruel things that must be done in a real revolution. Earth First leader Judi Bari epitomized these new age, hippie, peaceful, non-violent environmentalists, and he despised her. He said she "emasculated" the radical environmental movement.
I don’t think it is a coincidence that he had a car bomb suitable ball trigger in his cabin, the same type used to blow up Judi Bari’s car. Ted had books about the Bible, Marxists and New Agers for precisely the reason you stated. To study his enemies and/or mimic them to impersonate them in letters to bring trouble upon them.
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