The Web of Wyrd continues to spin.
And what an interesting couple of weeks it has spun.
I lived in the Twilight Zone between life and death with my Grandpa in his final week on earth.
I learned tales of my Grandpa after his death which made me even more proud of him than I was.
I watched the reactions of family members and my own to his devastating loss.
And to cap it all off I took a one day Spiritual Sojourn to the Windy City, in which I drove through the first Dust Bowl in over 90 years.
The Fate of the Sojourn has yet to be determined.
In all that time, with its many strange occurrences too numerous and odd to recount here, something very interesting stuck out to me…
It was the words of a man coming from the little black box that lives inside all of our pockets…
MEET THE RENAISSANCE MAN
I’ve had a long-standing interest in Jason Reza Jorjani for a long time.
He’s a real-deal scholar, and not some kind of whacky quack influencer that the internet is full of these days. In fact, he’s had quite a few academic and political experiences similar to mine!
What’s more, he’s a Renaissance Man who can combine the wisdom of many different disciplines…
A rare feat in today’s compartmentalized, “Division of Labor” inspired academia where scholars only look at their little cog they produce, never at the machine.
And while Jason Reza Jorjani and I have different worldviews and goals, I’ve got to give it to the guy…he knows how to think.
And when somebody can do that, it makes me sit up and listen!
AN INTELLIGENT BLEND
Last month, Danny Jones released a 3 ½ hour podcast with Jason Reza Jorjani entitled “Nuclear War on Mars, Time Travelling Nazis & The Techno Apocalypse”.
He had been brought back on the show by popular demand, after his previous podcast with Danny, “God, Aliens, & The Secret Behind All World Religions” had proven such a hit with audiences.
I had listened to the earlier one in August of 2024, and despite the seemingly sensational veneer, I was deeply impressed with the underlying content: how Jason could intelligently blend the world of Science and Mythology.
You see, I’m a Traditionalist. My brain stopped in about 1899. It’s how it works.
Consequently, understanding the Mental Model of 20th-21st Century Science, specifically Physics and Biology, has always been a tough one for me–much to my chagrin!
You see, it’s like learning another language…
CALL IN THE TRANSLATOR
The Mental Model of the Traditional World that Evola describes (which is what more mainstream people would call “Western Civilization”) describes phenomena in one language.
Meanwhile, 20th and 21st Century Science of Physics and Biology describes the same phenomena in an entirely different language!
And while I may think the Scientific Language of today is inferior to the Traditional Language, I have to be able to speak the Scientific Language.
This is because it’s what Modern Man speaks in every arena…and not just in the Scientific arena, but in the Religious and Spirituality arena too. The Spirituality arena especially!
That’s how much dominance 20th and 21st Century Science and Physics has over our minds today.
Furthermore, Inductive Research on the world around us is being conducted and explained in this language.
So if I want to be abreast of these developments and be able to interpret them, I have to be able to have at least a passing familiarity in the research’s native tongue.
And in Jason Reza Jorjani’s “God, Aliens, & The Secret Behind All World Religions” podcast, he provided that translation for me.
That’s because he’s Spiritually Bi-Lingual…he can speak both languages.
So when I saw his new “Nuclear War on Mars, Time Travelling Nazis & The Techno Apocalypse” podcast had dropped, I knew I would be in for a treat…
And I was not disappointed.
SEAT BELT SURVIVAL
The most interesting thing Jason discusses begins at the 1 hour and 47 minute mark, hyperlinked as “Morphic Resonance and Aliens”. It is at this time stamp that Jason explains the true plight of our Modern World.
Here, Jason takes us a trip back in time, way back when…to the era of Plato and Aristotle…the World of Tradition.
He explains that the Aristotelian, Traditional view of the world consists of Four Causes.
Just what are Causes, you ask?
Causes, sometimes called Casualty, are all about why something is the way it is…we can see the Effect, but what is the Cause.
Surviving a car wreck is an Effect. The seatbelt you were wearing to keep you from flying through the window is the Cause.
Causality is all about what is the Cause in Cause and Effect.
And Aristotle has four of them.
WHAT ARISTOTLE KNEW
Just what are Aristotle’s Four Causes, you ask?
They are:
- The Material Cause
- The Formal Cause
- The Efficient Cause
- The Final Cause
“Great,” I can hear you say. “Those don’t tell me anything!”
Well, let’s take a look at each one in turn.
The Material Cause is all about the Matter a thing is made of. Flesh, Blood, Bones, Genes. Material stuff all around our world that we can feel and touch.
The Formal Cause is all about the Form of a thing…it is the Blueprint, what the Thing is supposed to be. It’s what gives Matter its shape so that it is not an amorphous, meaningless blob of raw material.
The example Aristotle gives is that Bronze is the Matter, meanwhile, and Hercules is the Form.
When you shape the Bronze into the Form of Hercules, you get a Statue of Hercules…Indo-European Warrior Caste Hero par excellence, I might add!
The Efficient Cause is whoever shapes the Material into its Form, as well as the action you take to shape the Material into Form itself. You shape the Material of your life into the Form you want it to be, and you take action of shaping to do it.
You’re the sculptor who brings the Material of Bronze to life into the Form of Hercules by sculpting away at the mass of bronze…creating an awesome statute that everybody will love.
And just as we are the Efficient Cause of our own lives, the one who chooses the Form to bring Matter to life and then takes the action of sculpting that Matter into Form, both God and his action of Creation is our Efficient Cause of us.[1]
Finally, we have the Final Cause, or the Telos…it’s the thing’s reason for existing, it’s goal, aim, or purpose.
The reason we shape the Material of Bronze into the Form of Hercules is so our statute will inspire ourselves and others great actions and deeds of daring-do.
When you break it down, it’s not so hard to understand at all! In fact, everybody has an instinctive understanding inside them…it’s what we mean when we say “Common Sense”!
But unfortunately, some of our smartest minds shaping society are willfully ignorant of these facts…causing us disastrous results bringing us to the precipice of disaster.
PINBALL MACHINE FROM HELL
Jason explains that the field of Modern Physics has a big problem…it rejects three out of four of Aristotle’s Four Causes!
It gets rid of Matter, Form, and Final Goal…and all it’s left with is the Efficient Cause…who or what process made everything around us.
When we get rid of these Three Causes, we don’t have a full understanding of what kind of Matter we’re dealing with. We also have no idea what we want to make this Matter into so it’s not a blob of nothing.
And we don’t even know why we would do such a thing in the first place!
This leads to Nihilism…if all we are worried about is who or what process made everything, but we don’t know what everything is, or what we can do with it, and for what reason…
Then we become like a pinball bouncing around in a pinball machine.
Sure, somebody or something shot the pinball into motion…but from there, it is random, chaotic, meaningless…
Bouncing around, thrown from here to there with no ability to change course or take up its own destiny.
And it all comes from getting rid of three out of the four Aristotelian Causes.
Specifically, the Cause of Form.
A FURTHER FAILURE
While Physics only accepts the Efficient Cause in Aristotle’s system, Biology has attempted to pick up the slack with its understanding of Matter.
In the last 35 years, the study of DNA and the Genome has gone through the roof.
However, it hasn’t solved very much. And it hasn’t explained everything that it promised to.
That’s because we have gotten rid of the Cause of Form.
And geneticists themselves admit that there are many things that cannot be explained by Genetics alone.
So consequently, they have created a field of study to fill in the gaps known as Epigentics…which means “Above Genetics”.
However, they’re still not sure what the cause of these Epigenetics are!
Physics has failed to explain things with the Efficient Cause alone, and Biology has likewise failed to explain things with its vaunted Material Cause
Enter in the World of Form…
WHAT THE ENGLISHMAN KNEW
Rupert Sheldrake is quite a cat.
An Englishman through and through, he’s got credentials out the wazoo.
He’s a modern-day biochemist and cellular biologist, as well as being an Anglican Christian, who’s spent a significant amount of time sojourning somewhere East of Suez in Kipling’s Magic India…
Living amongst Benedictine Christian Monks and Hindu Holy Men alike!
His Spiritual pursuits do not keep him from the world of Matter however. In fact, they help him to explain the unexplainable in the world Biologists look at and Physicists have no framework to understand.
Looking at a wide variety of empirical data from a vast variety of fields, he has found that the world of Form is indeed the only explanation for a wide variety of phenomena.
He’s even given the world of Forms a modern day scientific update with a new name…“Fields of Morphic Resonance”.
And it exposes all our failures in the 20th and 21st Century.
SCRATCH THE SURFACE
The emphasis on the Efficient Cause in Physics and the Material Cause in Biology, at the expense of the Formal Cause, explains why we have failed at nearly everything we have turned our hand to in this century and the last.
First, the whole Efficient Cause obsession from Physics describes the meaningless debate that has taken place between Science and Christianity over the past 35 years…did God make the Universe, or did the Big Bang?
And did God do it fast or did the Big Bang do it slow?
Nobody cares!
Second, the fact that Christianity has fallen into the terms that Physics has set for the debate is telling about how far Traditional Religion has slipped in society’s ranking.
We’re the red-headed step-children begging for a seat at the adult’s table, promising to play by the adults’ rules if only they’ll let us join them at dinner.
Third, it also explains why no major chronic diseases have been cured since the introduction of 20th Century Physics and its Biological cohorts. In fact, no major crises have been solved at all.
Crime has soared and the nation has been divided. Nearly all of our wars in the West have been lost, despite our massive disparity in technological prowess that 20th Century Physics has granted us.
Art has degenerated, and Classes and Races and Genders have been at each other’s throats and they have been all over the world since the 1990s, finally coming to a head in the West in the 2020s…
But for some reason, we’re not allowed to talk about Biology’s vaunted Genetics in these above fields of Class, Race, and Gender, much less Epigenetics that point to the world of Form!
Suicides have soared, as has drug addictions and broken homes. Mental Health is in the toilet, worse than it’s ever been, even though we are the most educated and affluent society in history.
In short, we supposedly have everything on the surface, but scratch it just slightly and a deeper look reveals we have nothing…and we are hurtling towards disaster fast!
THE CHOICE IS YOURS!
The root of the problem is this:
This supposedly superior system of Physics, and its little Biological brother, were sold to us on the promise of banishing the dark superstitions of the past and ushering in a bright new age of the future. No Forms necessary.
But we have been sold a bill of goods.
If we really want to usher in this Bright New Age that we were promised, then we’ve got to go back to the Past.
We’ve got to go to a place that’s more real than real, that banishes Chaos and provides Order to all the Matter of the world…for good or for ill, however we choose.
We’ve got to go back to the World of Form.
And we’ve got to go on a Quest to find it!
Will you pick up the Sword in this Magical Realm?
Or will you stay mired in the Chaos and Confusion of the Modern World?
The choice is yours…and yours alone!
Sincerely,
Richard Barrett
06-14-2025
Written at 10:34 PM, somewhere in the USA…
Updated on 09-09-2025, at 3:26 PM…see the note in Footnote [1] below.
Sources Cited
[1] Note: the original line I penned above on 06-14-2025 was: “The Efficient Cause is whoever shapes the Material into its Form. You shape the Material of your life into the Form you want it to be.
“You’re the sculptor who brings the Material of Bronze to life into the Form of Hercules…creating an awesome statute that everybody will love.
“And just as we are the Efficient Cause of our own lives, the one who chooses the Form to bring Matter to life, God is our Efficient Cause of us.”
This was changed on 09-09-2025 at 3: 26 PM to read: “The Efficient Cause is whoever shapes the Material into its Form, as well as the action you take to shape the Material into Form itself. You shape the Material of your life into the Form you want it to be, and you take action of shaping to do it.
“You’re the sculptor who brings the Material of Bronze to life into the Form of Hercules by sculpting away at the mass of bronze…creating an awesome statute that everybody will love.
“And just as we are the Efficient Cause of our own lives, the one who chooses the Form to bring Matter to life and then takes the action of sculpting that Matter into Form, both God and his action of Creation is our Efficient Cause of us.”
This reflects important new research and understanding based off of connections I made on 09-07-2025 a few days before.
Essentially, this reflects Aristotle’s dictum that the Efficient Causes includes both an Actor and the Action he takes. The Actor is the Being, the Subject in Grammar, and is a Form.
The Action is the Action itself, called Motion by Aristotle. This also corresponds to the concept of Agon in proto-Indo-European and Kavash that I have discussed before.
Thomas Aquinas choses to focus solely on the Actor in the Efficient Cause, downplaying the importance of the Action. He believed this gave greater glory to God.
Rene Descartes and Sir Isaac Newton chose to emphasize the Action, the Motion of the Efficient Cause, which is what modern Physics is solely dealing with today.
As Alfred Rosenberg noted, this emphasis on the Action aka the Motion of the Efficient Cause is fine…as long as we have Forms. Then we can understand where the Action is coming from, where the Motion is coming from.
If we get rid of Forms, we are in a world of trouble, as we are today.
This is very important, and as such warranted a revision of this article along witha. necessary timestamp showing the evolution of my understanding,.
The implications of this will be expanded upon in a future piece.
Sincerley,
Richard Barrett
09-09-2025
Written at 3:35 PM, somewhere in the USA…
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