PH2T3R The Journal of Solar Culture

🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 on Amazon: here Or order direct through the Order of Fire store: orderoffire.shop 🔥C. B. Robertson, author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, and Letter to Anwei, shares insights his blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. Explore his thoughts at caffeineandphilosophy.com 🌐 Co...

🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 on Amazon: here Or order direct through the Order of Fire store: orderoffire.shop 🔥C. B. Robertson, author of The Hero and the Man, Holy Nihilism, and Letter to Anwei, shares insights his blog, Caffeine and Philosophy. Explore his thoughts at caffeineandphilosophy.com 🌐 Co...

This week's tragic events had us thinking about what it means to have "a good death." All men die, and men have struggled with this reality since the days of Gilgamesh. Your life is a story. How any story ends is important. How do you want yours to end? Do you have to die tragically or in battle to be a hero? CB Robertson ‪@caffeineandphilosophy‬ (FiA Noustor) wrote a Substack this week titled "Th...

⚡THE ADVENTURE COLLECTION⚡ During this episode, we mentioned The Order of Fire's new Adventure collection, featuring a Stay Solar cap and stylish safari shirt designed by Jack Donovan. Check out the collection here . 🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 on Amazon: here Or order direct through the Order of Fir...

⚡THE ADVENTURE COLLECTION⚡ During this episode, we mentioned The Order of Fire's new Adventure collection, featuring a Stay Solar cap and stylish safari shirt designed by Jack Donovan. Check out the collection here . 🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube at 10:30PM PST on Sunday, Sep 7th. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 on Amazon: here Or ord...

⚡THE ADVENTURE COLLECTION⚡ During this episode, we mentioned The Order of Fire's new Adventure collection, featuring a Stay Solar cap and stylish safari shirt designed by Jack Donovan. Check out the collection here . 🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube at 10:30PM PST on Sunday, Aug 31st. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 on Amazon: here Or or...

⚡THE ADVENTURE COLLECTION⚡ During this episode, we mentioned The Order of Fire's new Adventure collection, featuring a Stay Solar cap and stylish safari shirt designed by Jack Donovan. Check out the collection here . 🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube at 10:30PM PST on Sunday, Aug 24th. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 on Amazon: here Or or...

PH2T3R LIVE: Episode 0... ⚡THE ADVENTURE COLLECTION⚡ During this episode, we mentioned The Order of Fire's new Adventure collection, featuring a Stay Solar cap and stylish safari shirt designed by Jack Donovan. Check out the collection here . 🔥 This conversation was streamed live on YouTube at 7PM PST on Dec 26th, 2024. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 02 o...

No, we're not trying to get on the naughty list or call out Santa (who is literally real). But Santa is a springboard for talking about "myths we live by" vs. the "myths we must believe are literal truth" frame of Christianity. Parents around the world bring the myth of Santa to life every year for their children in a ritual fashion. (I'm 50 years old and my mom still sends me packages marked "fro...

Curtis Yarvin has been a provocative thought leader in a number of dissident spaces, and co-host ‪@caffeineandphilosophy‬ has been following his work for years. In this week's show, we'll be discussing themes from Yarvin's new book, Gray Mirror: Fascicle I, Disturbance, from Passage Press. CB Robertson has cited statements by Yarvin in various shows. Some of Yarvin's ideas seem smart and extremely...

Some have called Trump's election a "bro-revolution." Football players and MMA fighters doing the Trump dance, Trump going on Rogan and walking into UFC to cheering crowds... After decades of tolerating a hen-pecked mainstream culture, there's been a palpable vibe shift toward a return of the bro. When I asked ‪@caffeineandphilosophy‬ what we should talk about this week, he thought I should explor...

This episode closes out our read-through of Homer's Odyssey with books 21-24, which include the climax and the aftermath of the tale. Jack will be in Tasmania with members of The First Men, so one of our top men, Mark, will be sitting down with CB Robertson to discuss the final chapters of the series and then talk about the works of Homer as a whole. Mark is part of CB's ongoing Homer study group,...

In this short episode (recorded in advance as our normal time was Thanksgiving night in America), we go through Books 17-20 of the Odyssey. Most of these chapters, as CB Robertson says, are "one long string of dramatic irony." The real "bro" moment is in the "bum fights" chapter, where the suitors encourage two beggars (one secretly Odysseus) to duke it out for their amusement. Jack Donovan will b...

Finally! Asleep in ITHACA... After years of struggle, Odysseus has returned to his homeland, but the battle is far from over. Books 13-16 show that returning home is not just about arrival—it’s about reclaiming order, forming alliances, and confronting chaos. Odysseus reminds us that patience and loyalty are as essential as strength. ⚡Recommended supplementary reading: The Hero and the Man: Langu...

James Lindsay made a persuasive case for why "wokism" is a kind of gnostic Marxist religious movement, and we've incorporated his thinking into many of our discussions on and offline. Recently, Lindsay has been talking about the "woke right" and we had to go watch his video about it to see what he was talking about. He seems to see "woke right" as a descendant of the "alt-right." Lindsay warns tha...

In this third episode of our read-through of Homer’s Odyssey, we’ll be exploring Books 9 through 12. Finally Odysseus begins telling the story of his ill-fated journey home from Troy. We'll discuss the city he and his crew sack like pirates for no good reason, the island of the Lotus-Eaters, and the story of Polyphemus the Cyclops. And that's just book 9. We'll have a lot to discuss in our 42nd LI...

In this second episode of our read-through of Homer’s Odyssey, we’ll be exploring Books 5 through 8. These chapters begin Odysseus’ long-awaited journey home as he finally leaves Calypso’s island. Battling storms sent by Poseidon, he washes ashore in the land of the Phaeacians, where Princess Nausicaa offers him help. At the court of King Alcinous, Odysseus reveals his identity and is honored as a...

I sat down with Dr. Dilanka during a recent Order of Fire event to talk about his recent trip to Gabon, where he participated in an Iboga ritual with the Bwiti. Watch the video here 🔥 Buy PH2T3R - The Journal of Solar Culture Vol. 01 on Amazon: here Or order direct through the Order of Fire store: orderoffire.shop 🔥 Jack Donovan is founder of The Order of Fire and PH2T3R . He is the author of Th...

This is the first in a series of discussions about Homer's Odyssey, meant both for a general audience and for new members of The Order of Fire's First Men. In this show, we'll introduce the Odyssey in context and discuss the first four books of this tale of a "man of twists and turns driven time and again off course." ⚡Recommended supplementary reading: The Hero and the Man: Language, Truth, and...

The monster defines the hero, but to what extent is the Striker also defined by his weapon? In this LIVE show, ‪@caffeineandphilosophy‬ and ‪@JackDonovan‬ discuss the relationship between men and weapons. Fists, the vajra/keraunos, the mace, the club, the sword and the gun... You can post your questions in the comments via Instagram or Youtube. We've already started the discussion in our Telegram...

A discussion about The Father archetype from the perspective of Solar Idealism, including a broader discussion about leadership, America's Founding Fathers, "book worship" and more. You can post your questions in the comments via Instagram or Youtube. We've already started the discussion in our Telegram group, The Greater Mandala. (For access, sign up for our mailing list - here ) ⚡THE ADVENTURE...

The Lord of the Earth is one of Solar Idealism's three god archetypes. Because he covers a wide territory, he is sometimes the most difficult or the most often forgotten archetype, even though he represents the majority of what man does every single day—the perpetuation of human life. The Father and the Striker are idealistic and ethereal, but the Lord is rooted in the earth and the body all of th...

Is "Initiation" the solution to male depression and anxiety? In the early 1990s, the mythopoetic men's movement started telling men that what they were missing in their lives was "initiation" -- presumably into manhood. But what would these men be initiated INTO? Modern society completely lacks a consensus about what manhood is and what the rights and responsibilities of a man are. What is initiat...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest stories in the world, if not the oldest. It's rarely read, but human and relatable. Ultimately, it's a story about an extremely masculine man struggling with the loss of his best friend and his own mortality. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the foundational stories in The Order of Fire, and all of the First Men are required to read it. ⚡THE ADVENTURE COL...

Many of the members of the First Men and followers of the Order of Fire are Warhammer 40K enthusiasts. This week, to coincide with the upcoming release of the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 game, we'll be joined by Montana from the Order's First Men to discuss Warhammer 40K and some of the themes in the game and the associated mythos that overlap with concepts in Solar Idealism. ⚡THE ADVENTURE...