A perennially favourite party-on! kind of question: What of Nietzsches Doctrine of the Eternal Return?
The questions and psychic forces which tore at the soul of this mythic figure who dared to stand against the consensus of centuries, against the all-consuming power of the collective and its conventional pretensions, are burning issues for us still as we lonely individuals seek our rebirth amidst the rubble of Western civilization. Declaring the supreme value of the outstanding individual who towers above the herd courageously transvaluing all values, Nietzsche envisions his heroic ‘Superman’ standing at the pinnacle of history forging his destiny from the primary and godless Chaos of reality. Depth psychology, existentialism and the human potential movement: the idea and practice of the liberation of the self involving a necessary opening to the hidden Dionysiac depths; the necessary break with the collective in its conventional, conformist and often cultural/moral mediocrity; individual empowerment through a healthily strong ego; the belief that deep societal change can only come abo
