Your Relationship With Violence

Wolves in Cascadia. Photo by Peter Beste You’re walking home from the bar after being out with some friends til the small hours of the morning. Feeling some of the effects, you’ve made a good call by opting out of driving, and are conversing with your significant other, enjoying the evening air. Although the streets […]

Simple Rules for a Savage Existence Pt. II – Identifying Negative Relationships

Photo by Leonardo Albiero, Dire Dogs Division, Italy. A lot of the people in your life that you call your friends may actually be huge pieces of shit who are only interested in whining, soaking up your energy, wasting your time, and keeping you at their level. You might call them your friends because you […]

Only Death is Guaranteed

Only Death is guaranteed. Because of this, there is no need to live life carefully. I always hear people say things like “In another life, I’d have loved to do x or y.” They sigh and utter, “Maybe in a few years.” “If I have enough time.” Here’s the thing, friend- You won’t. There is […]

Simple Rules For a Savage Existence

Testosterone is a hormone secreted from the testicles of males, and to a lesser extent, a female’s ovaries. It is responsible for a man’s muscle and bone mass, regulates his physical and mental energy, his libido, sense of well being, and so on. In other words, high testosterone good, low testosterone bad. There are many […]

Discipline and the Divine Madness

Photo by Peter Beste. I’ve heard it said that in this life, anything you choose to do requires you to sacrifice something else. We are in a constant process of weighing and trading, with the scales holding on one side time, and on the other, desire. This is a difficult realization for many, and harder […]

The Wolf-Rune

The wolf-rune, wolf-hook, Wolfsangel, Wolfsanker, Wolfsjagd. The symbol has a long and storied history, reaching back more than a thousand years, and if one considers its obvious connection with the :EIHWAZ: rune, its age can be determined as at least 2,000 years old. Eihwaz is a rune whose name refers to Yggdrasil, the world-tree, its […]

Dragon’s Tooth Field Report/Meditations

This past weekend, I got together with some comrades and we hiked into the Appalachians. Our destination was Dragon’s Tooth, the aptly named stone monolith at the top of Cove Mountain, a short but rugged hike of about two and a half miles, in order to set up camp there at the windy summit and […]

Fuck the Vote

No ruler has ever had your best interest in mind. From the Roman Emperors to modern day Presidents, the ruling party or individuals in charge of your country have been interested in one thing only: power, and the retention of it. This has nothing to do with you, unless you make up one of the […]

Why Train?

Artwork by Tatiana Marotta Why do you train? You train because you are better than them. You are stronger than that pathetic compulsion to poison your body with laziness and excuses. You are more evolved than the babbling, shit-talking insect swarm that stands outside the bar, exchanging useless words and validation for one another’s disgusting […]

Pathways of Fire

The title of this article refers to a technique of esoteric practice I developed and began using some years ago as part of my meditative work. With it, I would bring a sigil or “galdrastafir” up in my mind’s eye, drawing the lines in massive scale on a field of dirt. When I had completed […]