Abdallah discusses 'The Waldgang' essay by Ernst Junger with Dr Ali Azzali,, a teacher and historian and the Vice Chairman of Dallas College in Cape Town, South Africa.
The Waldgang translates into English as the Forest Passage, but is a metaphor for the journey to the self, facing the fear of death and emerging from the 'forest' heroic, spontaneous and free to call things by their proper names.
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Timecode Guide:
2:38 The meaning of the word ‘Kufr’ and how the works of Junger unveil the truth of the 20th Century
3:30 Junger as a war hero in the First World War and how the World Wars transformed the men that survived.
The Waldganger doesn't fight ideology with ideology. He resists by tapping into the deeper parts of his being.
04:55 The link between heart and courage
05:25 Junger's book 'Storm of Steel'
07:20 How the soldiers of the First World War couldn’t accept the terms of the Treaty of Versaille and were unable to adapt to bourgeois society. Junger said “Better a criminal than a bourgeois.” Bourgeois society aimed at protecting men from destiny and fate.
10:25 The principle of efficiency in the capitalist technocratic state and the Waldganger as the one that resists by taking the passage into the forest.
11:28 What the forest represents and how the men of Allah never act with ideology, they act by calling things by their proper names
12:28 Ideology is a cover up of reality - a view of existence that is limited
13:10 Lexical Innovation
14:10 Mass education based on ideology
15:30 Dante on the metaphor of the forest
17:10 Encountering the truth through encountering yourself
18:05 Bear Grylls and his experiences in the most hostile environments
19:05 "For the light to shine through there must be a crack". The great teachers take you to the place where you are forced to rely on Allah
19:50 "The Sufi is like the earth, you throw rubbish at it and roses grow"
20:20 Science was put in the place of the Divine - Man is not rational
22:28 "The Modern battle of the Thermopolae is fought in the heart of man" and "Every man is a Path." A man who is looking for the truth in himself will look for the truth outside.
24:30 Junger on modern medicine; "Health and wellbeing is with the fearless." The fear of death.
29:00 Paralysis, rigidity and fear. "The physiological age of the body is defined by its stiffness".
30:10 What is love? Love is renunciation of will.
31:55 Junger's example of David and Goliath
32:44 The eternal part of man being denied by Western science
34:20 Without the spirit there is no man and the spirit is the essence of man.
35:20 The source of the strength to resist
36:07 The metaphor of the journey
37:22 The metaphor of marrying your real self
37:33 Nietzsche and the Cosmic poem of Iqbal
40:00 Junger’s book ‘The Adventurous Heart’
40:32 Style as something that speaks to something deeper
42:48 Initiation of traditional societies for young men and women to prove themselves
44:17 Know yourself
44:32 Every great event in history has been initiated by a small elite, never by the masses. The masses follow!
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