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Escaping the Brave New World
by David Gosselin
The world is in need of a Renaissance, not a Reset. We're committed to offering the kind of content that breathes life into these efforts across the Western (and beyond). Art and culture have and always will be the fount for new ideas. Contrary to the cynical Huxlian Brave New World outlook, which imagines a world where people have become so hyper-sensualized that they no longer care about the sacred and deep things that characterize truly creative civilizations, we know this view to be axiomatically flawed. For, as Western civilization has witnessed an increasingly decadent, decaying, and hyper-sensualized society unravel before its eyes, we can observe that the desire for Beauty, Truth, and Goodness has only grown.With our many productions, including our literary and cultural outlets dedicated which serve as a sanctum for new and bold works of creative genius, classical beauty, and timelessness in all its myriad forms, we exist for the purpose of feeding precisely that innate human
Episodes
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1963: The Chaining of Prometheus
The trailer for our follow-up to The Devil at Woodstock, 1963: The Chaining of Prometheus, has arrived. What ideas took root during the 1960s and how have these ideas continued to shape Western society? Who were those individuals behind the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s and what…
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Theremin and Tripping the Light
Theremin Many who hear it picture outer space—in that uncanny, almost human song,the sound of all that’s alien to us. But no, that’s not quite right. The void is silent—our utter opposite, devoid of voice.This is something else. Closer, stranger. A poor soprano’s ghost betrayed and...
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The Window
No glass is pureOr vacant of a scene.My window showsA robin’s red and knowsThe sky, serene,Blue, broad, and sure. Glass is not still,But dapples, sways our sightOf lead limbed tree,It’s panes not blank, nor free,But quick with light;Light’s note and trill. So sacral glassAdmits the infiniteAnd...
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Lilacs in the Rain
I. One morning, I found lilacs in the rain:The sun was mute, the birds had ceased their song,The skies were dimmed by gaunt and graying clouds—The lilacs shivered in the dawn. Each one seemed too sweet to outlive the morn,Thickening the air with its dying breath;I thought of all the beauties May...
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Interview with the Delingpod
In this latest interview with author and journalist James Delingpole, we have have very wide-ranging and unconventional conversation on the lesser-known corners of cultural control and psycho-spiritual warfare playing out in the world of arts and culture. At a certain point, the question of the...
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Elegy and Sequence for T.D.
Dark Current: for Terry, Who Died on May 9, 2023Nuestras vidas son los ríosque van a dar en la marque es la muerte...IToday the first crepe myrtle burns to whiteOn slender stems and languid, drooping sprays.The sun’s exsanguinating shower of lightDrains the soft, purple blooms. And as the…
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"I AM everything that was, that is, and that will be - no mortal man has lifted my veil"
A preview from the latest in our Reclaiming the Mysteries series. Stay tuned for Part III, where we follow the thread of the ancient Mysteries into the modern world, where science, magic and the mysteries lead to a fundamental transformation in Western civilization. Watch Part I & II Dialogue…
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Now Available: Reclaiming the Mysteries 2.0—Mystery Babylon
Our full film is now publicly available on YouTube for all viewers. From the mysteries of Babylon, Greece and Rome to the mystery that is the modern world, Reclaiming the Mysteries 2.0 takes viewers behind the scenes of Western civilization’s official story. What happens when we lift the veil?…
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Cassandra
Cassandraby Friedrich Schiller I.Joy resounded through the TrojanHalls as the songs of lutes swelled;Hymns were chanted by the drunkenSoon before the towers fell.Weary heads now calmly rested,Tears no longer plagued their eyes;Peleus was soon expectedWith his noble bride to rise. II.Troops with...
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The Mission of Moses
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit ageofmuses.substack.com They therefore found it better to make the new, dangerous truth the exclusive property of a small, closely-knit society, to recruit among the masses those who showed the necessary propensity for it and to admit...
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Genius
Schiller entreats a spirit of Genius from a distant age to enlighten him about the path to true wisdom and happiness. The spirit refers him to a “Great Golden Age” where the eternal and divine was still equally clear and equally hidden to all men. But despite the fallen age which the narrator...
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Friday Nights at the Bowling Alley
In the days of cigarette vending machinesand pinball arcades, I spent many Friday nightswith Dad and his Shriner friends – By day, and even some nights, my dad worked on furnaces,but once a week, he took off his work boots,slipped into a pair of bowling shoesand let loose to have a few beers,eat...
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Israfel
And the angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures. —KORAN In Heaven a spirit doth dwell “Whose heart-strings are a lute”;None sing so wildly wellAs the angel Israfel,And the giddy stars (so legends tell),Ceasing their hymns, attend the...
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Imperatives for a New Chapter
“For who has despised the day of small things?” Zechariah 4:10a Avoid self-loathing before breakfast. Trot out your anxieties before noon.Wear them out and put them down for a napto afford you some afternoon peace. Fend off the habit of catapultingyourself into someone else’s head.It’s like...
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Prayer at Solstice
Blessed is the road that keeps us homeless.Blessed is the mountain that blocks our way. Blessed are hunger and thirst, loneliness and all forms of desire.Blessed is the labor that exhausts us without end. Blessed are the night and the darkness that blinds us.Blessed is the cold that teaches us to...
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28 Upper Terrace & Lake
28 Upper Terrace To me, the house is still the same.The kitchen wallpaper, coal firesmoke stained,waiting to be re-dressed with fourrolls of floral pattern my grandmotherwould hang, using a flour paste,over the old paper, just in time forChristmas, and ready for thearrival of family visitors who...
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Nefertiti
Ah, Nefertiti! I had no idea that you were Right here, as I wandered the streets of Berlin, And suddenly needing antiquity older than Sophie Charlotte, I entered the darkness Where you lie there smiling across the millennia. And though I’ve seen many a beautiful woman, The moment my eyes saw the...
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Watch Now: Edgar Allan Poe's Final Mystery: A Tale of Two Murders (Full Film)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit ageofmuses.substack.com I’m proud to finally share our newest feature film, “Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery: A Tale of Two Murders.” Made in collaboration with the Rising Tide Foundation’s Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret, this film will...
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From Tragedy to Comedy: Trance-forming Our Lives Through Art
I returned to William Ramsey Investigates to discuss the latest documentary, “The Devil at Woodstock,” and my related book, A Renaissance or New Middle Ages: Magic, Mystery and the Trance Formation of the West. William Ramsey has done a lot of research and conducted countless interviews with...
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Interview: A Renaissance or New Middle Ages with William Ramsey Investigates
One of the greatest affronts to modern Western civilization is the centuries-long effort to reverse the revolution unleashed by the European Golden Renaissance. From the development of modern scientific method and rebirth of classical art to the advent of the modern nation state, the rejection of...
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Documentary: The Devil at Woodstock (Part II)
Watch on YouTube and subscribe to our channel We are proud to announce the full public release of “The Devil at Woodstock.” We explore the question of culture as both a tool and a weapon using a series of case studies, including the uncensored history of the 1960s counter-culture and its…
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Harper's Song: Tomb of Intef
Featured in our latest issue of New Lyre Spring-Summer 2025 Here lies a happy princebecause death is the kindest fate. One generation passes, another remains:so it has been since our eldest ancestors. Now those who were once "gods" rest in their sepulchersalong with other noblesand those who…
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Pity the Beautiful
Pity the beautiful,the dolls, and the dishes,the babes with big daddiesgranting their wishes. Pity the pretty boys,the hunks, and Apollos,the golden lads whomsuccess always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs,the tens out of ten,the drop-dead gorgeous,the great leading men. Pity the faded,the...
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I Marvel
I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in their hands, even though they know their connection is about to end. I marvel at the tiny salty thunderstorm of miso in my cup. I marvel at how birds can fly but...
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The First Snowfall
The snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl,And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl. From sheds new-roofed with Carrara…
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Petrarch: "What the world loves most is but a dream"
Sonnet I Oh, you who hear in soft and scattered lays The strains and sighs on which I fed my heart In my less learned and unwise earlier days, When my youth bade me play a different part. Weeping and reasoning in varied styles, And vacillating over hope and pain, To those with knowledge gained...
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The Lost Garden
If ever we see those gardens again,The summer will be gone—at least our summer.Some other mockingbird will concertizeAmong the mulberries, and other vinesWill climb the high brick wall to disappear. How many footpaths crossed the old estate—The gracious acreage of a grander age—So many trees to...
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Late Summer
Late summer, and the silvery undersidesOf the leaves shimmer in the hazy air,And the cicadas’ song wells up in tidesThat wash over my soul, and everywhereThe world seems as if in an opium dream,Or born along on some enchanted stream. Soon will these leaves feel autumn’s first cold bite,And lie in...
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Schiller Against the Savages and the Barbarians, or the Art of Republics
“It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom”—Friedrich Schiller In the third of three lectures for the Rising Tide Foundation’s July 6th event in Montreal, I gave a presentation on the work of Friedrich Schiller and his letters on the aesthetic education of man. Having had high hopes for…
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We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise,In counting all our tears and sighs?Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the...
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The Phoenix - Philosophical Vignettes
It was upon a quiet nightAs graying clouds raced past the moon. A sage and pupil made their wayInto a deep and darkened wood. Among a sea of silent pines,They traveled the uncertain trail. But after wandering the night,They finally settled for rest. They found a grot and set up campAnd made a…
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The Art of Breaking Spells: Exposing the Magicians with Coffee and a Mike
In this latest interview on Coffee with a Mike we open the spell books and explore how modern entertainment, culture and intellectual discourse are often manipulated by skilled “magicians.” After initially disabusing people from the general culture of pessimism and demoralization pervading…
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Easter: Reflections on the Primal Word
Poet Daniel Leach reflects on Easter in his home state of Texas. The poet meditates on the sacred Word which works through us all—often without our ever really knowing why or how. Today we celebrate that mystery. Here, where winter never really comes,How so, this vast profusion of…
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Celebrating the life of Robert Frost, March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the…
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The Tyger
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art,Could twist the sinews...
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Exiting the Cave: Philosopher Kings and the Gardens of the Sacred Muses Today
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ageofmuses.substack.com/subscribe Whence will the philosopher kings arise in 2024 and what roles will they assume in ushering Western civilization out of its current dark age?…
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The Eve of St. Agnes
St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in 4th century Rome. The eve falls on 20 January; the feast day on the 21st. The divinations referred to by Keats in this poem are referred to by John Aubrey in his Miscellanies (1696) as being associated with St. Agnes' night. This is a…
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Exiting the Cave: The New Aristocrats
What kind of education befits a new generation of true Aristocratic and Philosophical souls? Join Dr. Quan Le and David Gosselin as they revisit Plato's Republic and explore how the timeless forms Beauty, Truth and Goodness may be reawakened and brought forth within our twenty-first century time...
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The Climb - Philosophical Vignettes
Who goes there, wanderingAbout the mists and the rains? Among the alpine crestsAnd mountains’ crystal streams? A Chinese mountain manTreks up the steep defiles. And with him follows closeHis pupil short of breath. They walk among the pines,Which rise from every crag. The rustling of the worldIs...
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The Last Man of K---
A young scribe working in a remote village encounters a strange traveler with an even stranger story. The last citizen of a once glorious civilization recounts the story of how his beloved city and people met their final fate. I will never forget that day – many years ago now – when the stranger...
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The Devil at Woodstock
I was a mere sixteen that Summer dayWe all piled in a beat-up car and droveTo Woodstock, or someplace we had been toldThat a great spectacle was to occur—An earth-shaking event where all the starsThat lit a generation’s sky would beTogether, like an astronomicalAlignment—all their energies would...
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Escaping the Brave New World: Apollonians, Dionysians, Prometheans and Epicureans
In this episode of Escaping the Brave New World, the Confucian doctrine of the “Rectification of Names” and the current attempt to deconstruct Western civilization are explored in depth. In the Analects of Confucius, the philosopher says: “A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows…
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Escaping the Brave New World
Watch with video here. How did western civilization lose its connections to the historic moral and philosophical traditions that imbued it with a love of progress, respect for the past, and sacrifice for the future for centuries? In this discussion between poet and host of Escaping the Brave New...
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The Foggy Trail - Philosophical Vignettes
A master and his student stoodBefore a foggy mountain trail;They thought about their lives and allThe mysteries of Earth’s dark veil. “I long to make discoveries,I long to know the truth of things—To capture wisdom of my own—And all the joy such treasure brings.” These were the young man’s true...
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The Climb - Philosophical Vignettes
Who goes there, wanderingAbout the mists and the rains? Among the alpine crestsAnd mountains’ crystal streams? A Chinese mountain manTreks up the steep defiles. And with him follows closeHis pupil short of breath. They walk among the pines,Which rise from every crag. The rustling of the worldIs...
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The world is in need of a Renaissance, not a Reset. We're committed to offering the kind of content that breathes life into these efforts across the Western (and beyond). Art and culture have and always will be the fount for new ideas. Contrary to the cynical Huxlian Brave New World outlook, which imagines a world where people have become so hyper-sensualized that they no longer care about the sacred and deep things that characterize truly creative civilizations, we know this view to be axiomatically flawed. For, as Western civilization has witnessed an increasingly decadent, decaying, and hyper-sensualized society unravel before its eyes, we can observe that the desire for Beauty, Truth, and Goodness has only grown.With our many productions, including our literary and cultural outlets dedicated which serve as a sanctum for new and bold works of creative genius, classical beauty, and timelessness in all its myriad forms, we exist for the purpose of feeding precisely that innate human
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