The Empire Never Ended

Boris begins a new series looking at the remarkable journey of Michał Goleniewski, the Cold War Polish spy whose 1961 defection to the West made him one of the CIA's top assets, until his subsequent fall from grace and claim to the Romanov throne found him at the center of a network of far right lunatics. Part 1 will cover his life and career in Poland up to the defection. Music Credits: Breakout...

Rey starts off a new series on Anthroposophy, an even more racist spin-off of Theosophy, by examining the race theories of founder Rudolf Steiner, who is best known today as the creator of the holistic Waldorf educational system. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE has a very nerdy conversation with historian Stefan Gužvica about the history of Balkan communists in the 1920s, their relationship with various nationalist movements and the Comintern, and why Vienna was significant in all of this. Check out Stefan's work here: https://stefanguzvica.su/ --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/...

In part two, Boris explores the odd biography of the mosque's co-founder; respected nuclear scientist, US Army colonel, and Sufi Sheikh Asaf Duraković who had dark connections to Ustaša war criminals and right-wing extremists. They follow the progression of the mosque from the Cold War to the 90s, when its designation changed from Croation to Bosnian. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod...

In this two part news update, Boris and Rey discuss the recent state funeral for Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić. In part two, we are joined by returning guest Peter Korotaev of the Events in Ukraine substack to discuss the shootout in Kyiv between two factions of the Ukrainian intelligence services over a member of Neo-Nazi paramilitary Russian Volunteer Corps. Check out Peter's substack h...

Boris examines the strange backstory behind a Toronto area mosque founded by a former member of the Waffen SS and a Sufi Sheikh nuclear scientist as a bridge between the Islamic world and Croatian emigre extremists. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod  

TENEpod is joined by Andy from This Wreckage podcast to talk about sports and his recent book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team . Did Theosophists invent baseball? This and more on TENE sports hour. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod    

Rey thinks he figured out what the Order of Nine Angles really is. Alternatively, he is having a mental breakdown. It should be fun either way. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey wraps up the Theosophy series by alking about the extraordinary life of Jiddu Krishnamurti, from his days as a "child prophet: adopted and indocrinated by the Theosophical Society, to his later days as a part of California elite society and a world teacher...on his own terms. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE & friend take a look at David Myatt's latest attempt at humor, check up on the tradcath world as well as suffer through Steven Crowder's new idiotic love affair with fascism and Pinochet. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE takes a trip to Polaris, Lemuria, and Hyperborea to try and make sense of Helena Blavatsky's "Root Races," a fundamental component of Theosophist cosmology and Blavatsky's totally-not-sketchy contribution to evolutionary theory. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris takes a look at the biographies of two Orthodox priests from Pennsylvania and Ohio whose activities during WW2 earned them medals from Tito, and got them into hot water with the US Government as dangerous reds. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod  

Taking a break from the usual cast of characters, Boris examines two Yugoslav-American anti-fascist publications published in the US in the 1940s. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Near the end of the Theosophy series, Rey examines the strange lives of Peter Ouspensky and John G. Bennett, who were followers of Gurdjieff, but also gurus in their own right with many followers of their own. They struggled with the legacy of Gurdjieff in different ways, but both were in pretty sad states by the end of their lives.

Courtesy of Elon Musk, Uwe Boll goes on a paid vacation to Croatia where he enjoys restaurants, the nightlife, and also films a movie starring Armie Hammer about how it's cool and based to murder immigrant families because of woke. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

George Gurdjieff was never formally a theosophist, but his "doctrine" contained a very similar backstory, and many of his followers were former theosophists. Gurdjieff was a practice-oriented despotic cult leader, whose follwers believed him to be one of the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood described by Helena Blavatsky.

In the fourth episode of our series on Theosophy, Rey talks about the founder of Anthroposophy, Austrian guru Rudolf Steiner. Steiner started started out as a Theosophist, but was much too ambitious and much too German for that movement. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The story of the Theosophical Society takes a dark turn, as we examine the malignant influence of Charles Leadbeater, how he took an Indian boy from his family, and together with James Wedgwood formed the Liberal Catholic Church and proclaimed himself a Bishop. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod  

The TENE crew zooms out from Bovino's attendance (among others) at the recent far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal and follows the various threads and shadows of recurring characters on the show, who are unfortunately very real. Music Credits: Kaleidoscope - Girmitiya --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The TENE crew zooms out from Bovino's attendance (among others) at the recent far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal and follows the various threads and shadows of recurring characters on the show, who are unfortunately very real.

In the second part of the Theosophy series, Rey talks about Helena Blavatsky's turbulent relationships with Anna Kingsford and Emma cutting, as well as the harmonious relationship she had with Annie Besant, her heir. --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE is rejoined by Amanda (Ms. Entropy) to discuss the recent shooting at the San Diego Islamic Center, the lingering Legacy of Tom Metzger, and neo-Nazi accelerationism.

Rey started reading a book (Madame Blavatsky's Baboon by Peter Washington) on the very influential Theosophical Society, which was in many ways the starting point for Western Occultism in the 19th century. Music: Arthur Pryor's Band - Dill Pickles Rag (1909 version) --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Andrew Palella studiously went through the corpus of the Order of Nine Angles writings known as the "Labyrinthos Mythologicus" and published a 100 page peer reviewed article on it (fuck you, David Myatt). Andrew joins us to discuss his article and explain the O9A worldview, terminology and appeal for certain kinds of people today. Music Credits: Haus Arafna - Colony Collapse (A Sign for You) --- S...

Legacy media is at it yet again, cutting free propaganda pieces for the Far Right so they don't have to! The TENE Crew checks out the 60 Minutes segment featuring Rob Rundo, discusses NATO Troll Günther Fehrlinger's fantasy war, and more! --- Subscribe to   https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod