Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born on August 27, 1770, in Stuttgart, in what is now Germany. He was born into a middle-class family. His father, Georg Ludwig Hegel, was a civil servant, and his mother, Maria Magdalena Louisa Fromm, came from a family of clergymen. Early on, Hegel attended the Latin School in Stuttgart,…

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. -Friedrich Nietzsche

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” – Nietzsche In the book Free Will and Will to Power, Mike Hockney presents the following challenge to seekers who have taken an interest in Illuminism: “It’s depressing when we come across people asking questions about Illuminism. Why can’t they propose answers?…

Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on August 28, 1749, in Frankfurt, Germany. He grew up in a well-to-do family (his father was a lawyer). Goethe’s early life was marked by his desire for self-discovery, exploration of emotions, and a longing for deeper meaning in life – expressed significantly through his passion for literature and…

Today we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Kobo’s release of The God Game by Mike Hockney, the first book in The God Series (which appears to be the last place on the internet you can find it). I first stumbled across this material on the site https://armageddonconspiracy.co.uk around 2014. By the time I found the site, it…

Something I would consider is attempting to meet your friend where they’re at. Consider their interests when introducing a starting point. All of the below books are awesome works and can serve as a doorway to the rest, so in a way, you can’t go wrong! But if you want to try to maximize the…

Adam Weishaupt was born on February 6, 1748, in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, which was part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time. He was the son of Johann Georg Weishaupt, a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt. Adam Weishaupt showed early academic promise and was enrolled in Jesuit schools for his education. He…

It can never be stressed enough that the work of the great psychologists is much more important than any mainstream religions or spiritual systems. In fact, mainstream religion and spirituality is simply what you get when you channel the unconscious, without gaining any authentic knowledge of it. Scientific materialism, by contrast, cannot be said to…

The book by Mike Hockney titled “The Last Man Who Knew Everything” is all about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Because the amount of information available to humanity is exponentially increasing (additionally with increasing specialization in every field), it is not possible for any one person to be an expert in all of the most important fields…