Ride the Tiger by Julius Evola and books recommandations

This book has true power. It can change your life for the better.

What is THE book that changes you to your core ?

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Explain the book plz

Lazy fuck
Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution

• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age

• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation

The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory.

Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human capable of “riding the tiger,” who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation. He offers hope for those who wish to reembrace Traditionalism.

Obviously this is correct, but I think Revolt might be more life changing. It's been a few years since I've read it so I have to go through it again.

Obviously you want to go through Evola's mystical works.

As for other authors, I find Hesse's works, particularly Demian and Steppenwolf to be truly powerful works. Same with Wilson's Prometheus Rising, even though it is wrong in many places.

Changed my life, pulled me back from the path of becoming a right-wing idealogue. Everyone on Sup Forums should buy it

nietzsche’s will to power, specifically the section on “the will to power in science.” once you have broken ground there, a grand transvaluation of all “truth” takes place and the topsy-turvy world finally starts to make sense. Nietzsche eviscerated morality in this work, explained the true dynamics of power (dissimulation is power), and taught an ancient life-affirming principle that belies all of the rootless nihilism which today rules over most men. essentially, the noble ones are biding their time and will emerge from this age stronger than the devil. my only gripe is that Nietzsche attributes a lot of ancient Teutonic teaching and principles to the Italians, which was his perceived escape from the narrow Germanic romanticism / nationalism of his time.

I read Revolte just a few weeks ago and I don't understand why Sup Forums likes it so much
Please explain how it changed your life

What books should one read before Revolt and Ride the Tiger?
Peterson's great the only issue is he fails to see the necessity of right wing collectives in the face of marxism and immigrant hordes. Individualism is great but it won't hold a candle to groups who want you gone.

Did you pay for his personality test?

If I remember correctly, it sets the foundation of the world of tradition and how it contrasts with the modern world. It's kind of like pulling a mask off your face.

The reason it might not seem as personal as Ride the Tiger is that Evola doesn't refer to the reader directly (The Differentiated Man). With that being said, I find both works to be essential to one who wants to go beyond their physical limits.

Unless you've read his other works, you wasted your time. It's impossible to comprehend Revolt unless you're familiar with his previous ideas, as he does not review them in great detail.

Agreed. However, if you’re not familiar with Evola, it can be difficult to understand. I would actually suggest starting with Men Among the Ruins or if you can read french or Italian The Bow and the Club (l’arco e la clava). These two are also very instructive but more approachable for noobs. Revolt Against the Modern World and his works on eastern philosophy and religion are probably the least approachable. Definitely do not start with those ones.

how did julius evola get the scar?

Nah and I was only kidding about it changing my life, it is a good read though. It's a shame he's become known as le political meme man instead of getting due credit for trying to make youngins think metaphysically.

Existentialist theories are ultimately arbitrary, including Nietzsche
Society may be fugged but that doesn’t mean you can’t live a life of direct mystical experience, which can include participating in or making use of apparently degenerate behaviour
You can still participate in this world without being of this world
You don’t have to be memed
I interpret it as the ability to see god in even the fallen forms of today. To, just as a pagan once saw god through trees or rocks, see god through signs, streetlamps, rubbish and to make use of studies of ancient esoteric doctrines in life

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Witnessed

not ironic

I like JP but like with anything I think people are very impressionable and want him to be their father/Guru all in one

good to know, i just got this in the mail. should i read revolt first?

Honestly I just jumped into Revolt. You may want to read up on some basic philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Marcus Aurelius) and some basic religion (book of Genesis, the four gospels, Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, as well as some Hindu texts. His references to Islam are rather straightforward.) That should give you plenty of background to go into it if you are hesitant to just jump right in.

The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner

>I think Revolt might be more life changing
Evola regretted writing that book because he realized there truly is no more hope for collective actions. That's why he wrote rite the tiger

The Sacred Scriptures the church fathers and the lives of the saints

The cool thing about Evola is his evocation of Buddhism and spiritual practice like Shivaism.

5 years ago I red a lot about Buddhism and Neo-Advaita stuff without knowing Evola at all. And i was kind of surprised to saw how Evola is using some methods from these doctrine religion. Is it coincidental ? I don’t think anymore.

Sorry, for some reason I thought you meant men among the ruins. There's nothing wrong with revolt

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That it's actually a really good way to sum it up. Thanks buddy.

>it's all there

This is now a stirner thread

Thanks m8
There’s a good kulturkampf podcast where I think survivethejive is making similar points

Also Evola «Ride The Tiger» is the first book I read from him and it kind of summarizing all the stuff I was into before knowing him. His writing and his style is a bit déconcerting you have to be focus to read him but it’s absolutely fascinating and I don’t know how but it changes you physically. Something biologically magic can happen inside of you after that...can’t really explain...

this

Stirner and anarchism for destroying, Dostoyevsky and Evola for building

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I read this and found it to be extremely shitty and boring. I'll admit that I could have been wrong, but seriously what is it that's so great about this book that it makes Sup Forums keep recommending it?

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Will look into it. Thanks.

It's cool, don't worry about it. People always shill Men, but I was never really able to get into it as much as I could with his other works. It's too earthly I think and it is missing the mystical aspect of the previous ages.

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This one. It's the next level after Evola.

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Keep reading philosophy, including other books of Nietzsche. Then go back to it every once in a while. Itll have more meaning as you get more knowledgeable about his life. It's almost a cross between his philosophy and autobiography

Imperium by Yockey

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I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life
and see if i could not learn what it had to teach
and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived

Read the birth of tragedy before Zarathustra and have worked my way up through Kant, Hegel Schopenhauer, Plato etc.
Is it somewhat more related to Nietzsches other works? Like Will to Power and such?

I thought the Birth of Tragedy was great and I admit that Zarathustra mostly threw me off because it was so extremely boring.

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wow all those words just to say 'kill the jews and your problems will be over.' fuckin plebs

Isn't it just the history of the iron guard?

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It's also a huge redpill against ((((democracy)))) and ((((cabals)))).

Basically the meeting with agent Smith in The Matrix.

The life with the rebels is too much for you? You miss the taste of chicken? Don't worry, read this book and we will put you back in the Matrix.

If swallowing all the redpills made you bitter and you know you can't do anything to change even your small community then read the book and everything will seem unimportant. Just go with the flow and let things happen.

Convincing hoardes of retards to vote for them is quite similar to convincing world leaders to make deals.

Nothing wrong with Democracy, assuming the voting population has an average IQ above 95.

>Nothing wrong with Democracy
lol

There is no change without action

>Nothing wrong with Democracy

So i'm going to hell as a non-white Christian who believes in Christ and practices his values? K

one-sided people like you aren’t meant for subjects with complexity like these. you should know your place and keep your nose out of affairs that don’t concern you. take your orders and keep your mouth shut, brownshirt

War is a racket by smedley m buttler.

>Nothing wrong with Democracy

Thoreau was a bit of a modern day neet. He purchased all his food from society in the town and then went to just live on the outskirts of the town in the cabin. He wasn't exactly in the middle of nowhere and surviving.

The book also lists his purchases/food stuffs and is it a bit boring.

Rene Guenon's "The Crisis of the Modern World"

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I can highly recommend the "a very short introduction" series published by Oxford University.
The ones I've read so far were quite intressting. Espacially the one on intellegence (which was recommended to me on Sup Forums)
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I recently read Steppenwolf and it just got me depressed. But I'll give Hesse a second chance with Demia or Siddhartha or Narziß und Goldmund.

I honestly think Nietsche is one of the best autors/philosophers aroung, however I'm having a really hard time to understand his books. I've read Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra so far and both took me an eternity to read since he's so complex. Nevertheless, I'm a big fan of his "Übermensch" theory.

> worked my way up through [...] Plato etc
Many will argue that one should read the greeks before starting with Nietzsche. And once I've realised how many times he referred to the greeks I think I realised that this would be a good idea.
I only read Plato (Politea) but it somehow fascinated me. His cave parable is an awesome read.

>I recently read Steppenwolf and it just got me depressed.

I think Hesse predicted this effect with his book and I think his inclusion of Herr Mozart at the end telling the Steppenwolf to stop being so dour is actually Hesse telling the reader to not think of his as being depressing, but rather to just laugh at everything in life. To laugh into eternity.

But have fun with others, I don't think they are as depressing except maybe the middle part of Narziß und Goldmund with its bittersweet ending.

>black pill time
Its a good emotional counterpart to ride the tiger. No kidding had my cryin on the pages like a bitch. I still think about the man and his son, dad trying to protect his son from the horror show world he was born into.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Also:
> just laugh at everything in life. To laugh into eternity.

Reminds me of the comedian from watchmen which I would consider to be one of the best books ever written even though it is a comic. You'll find yourself in a inner conflict about your morals or at least your understanding of morals which is pretty epic.

It took me two tries to read this, couldn't help imagining my son in that situation.

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RTT is goat but blood meridian is good

It is a shame that Dominique Venner is not known outside of France, great author
One of the spiritual teacher of the identitarian movement.
a great mix between paganism, identitarianism, fascism and ecology

stimer is a spook

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Yeah, it's a good way of looking at life. I think it might be originally a Nietzscheian concept, but I've only read Zarathustra and Twilight of the Idols. If I remember correctly, eternity was a recurring concept in the former. (Though I may have just made an unintentional joke with the eternal recurrence.)

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.

Not tradion but Tradition

Any Jared Taylor book is a must read for a pol users.

anything from a pagan is good to read

Honestly 1984 or Brave New World. I know its pretty basic stuff, but I read them when I was about 15 and really influenced me. Next in line would be Atlas shrugged which I read in high school as well.
My politics now have changed but those books were milestones.

Evola called Guénon a master of their school of thought, so I am starting from the latter. Already read 'The crisis of the modern world', which is kind of a preview, so to speak, of the matters considered by Traditionalism. Clicked on many levels.
Now I'm trying to get through 'Introduction to the study of the Hindu doctrines', ain't easy tbqh.

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I'm in the middle of Mein Kampf and it has reawoken my passion for knowledge.

For me was The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler. Made me lose all my hope in humanity and in much of my ideals but was inspiring and invigorating at the same time.