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In this second installment, I asked Austin Pogioli to elaborate on the historic relationship between esotericism and Kung Fu.

As part of ongoing discussions here, about misunderstandings surrounding occultism, I asked Austin Pogioli to elaborate on the esoteric side of martial arts. Since the occult could be characterized as the advanced aspects of any art form, aspects which inevitably involve an inner discipline of mind and energy, Chinese occultism is particularly interesting in its

Greg in red. Adam in black: Do your occult theorists have any reasons that can be distinguished from tastes? Traditional occult philosophy is metaphysics; it is overdetermined by foundational principles.  Traditionalists are exactly those fighting against liberal relativism in the name of tradition and guiding principles.  What philosophy doesn’t have standards, goals, reasons and values?

On this one, we lost our main microphone on the video segment. We are still mostly audible and we had a good preliminary discussion with the good microphone for those interested. We are still getting the hang of this. Great discussions as always with these wonderful folks! Preliminary talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EUMZ2X341UQaQ4z0Pz_LbxTg-qtE2hka/view main segment:

Here are some issues extracted from a conversation embedded in the previous letters: Greg in red and Adam in black: On Deleuze’s concept of the body without organs:   “Bodies without organs, without emotions, without desires, without any reactive and potentially disturbing physical buttons others might push, and, most especially, without any plausible reason to

Gregory Desilet in red. Adam Pogioli in black:   I think you are right to suggest we are talking past each other. Nevertheless, I find what you say stimulating. So, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.  There are so many ways to enter into all you say below that I feel I

Gregory Desilet in red. Adam Pogioli in black:   As for “my” ideas about the occult, they are not really my ideas. It is a definition I derive from the work of Wittgenstein. And I think it has merit with regard to explaining why so many people (scientists in particular) are not persuaded by many