The Empire Never Ended

Boris begins a new series looking at the remarkable journey of Michał Goleniewski, the Cold War Polish spy whose 1961 defection to the West made him one of the CIA's top assets, until his subsequent fall from grace and claim to the Romanov throne found him at the center of a network of far right lunatics. Part 1 will cover his life and career in Poland up to the defection. Music Credits: Breakout - Takie moje miasto jest --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey starts off a new series on Anthroposophy, an even more racist spin-off of Theosophy, by examining the race theories of founder Rudolf Steiner, who is best known today as the creator of the holistic Waldorf educational system. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE has a very nerdy conversation with historian Stefan Gužvica about the history of Balkan communists in the 1920s, their relationship with various nationalist movements and the Comintern, and why Vienna was significant in all of this. Check out Stefan's work here: https://stefanguzvica.su/ --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

In part two, Boris explores the odd biography of the mosque's co-founder; respected nuclear scientist, US Army colonel, and Sufi Sheikh Asaf Duraković who had dark connections to Ustaša war criminals and right-wing extremists. They follow the progression of the mosque from the Cold War to the 90s, when its designation changed from Croation to Bosnian. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

In this two part news update, Boris and Rey discuss the recent state funeral for Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić. In part two, we are joined by returning guest Peter Korotaev of the Events in Ukraine substack to discuss the shootout in Kyiv between two factions of the Ukrainian intelligence services over a member of Neo-Nazi paramilitary Russian Volunteer Corps. Check out Peter's substack here: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/ --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris examines the strange backstory behind a Toronto area mosque founded by a former member of the Waffen SS and a Sufi Sheikh nuclear scientist as a bridge between the Islamic world and Croatian emigre extremists. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENEpod is joined by Andy from This Wreckage podcast to talk about sports and his recent book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team. Did Theosophists invent baseball? This and more on TENE sports hour. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey thinks he figured out what the Order of Nine Angles really is. Alternatively, he is having a mental breakdown. It should be fun either way. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey wraps up the Theosophy series by alking about the extraordinary life of Jiddu Krishnamurti, from his days as a "child prophet: adopted and indocrinated by the Theosophical Society, to his later days as a part of California elite society and a world teacher...on his own terms. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE & friend take a look at David Myatt's latest attempt at humor, check up on the tradcath world as well as suffer through Steven Crowder's new idiotic love affair with fascism and Pinochet. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE takes a trip to Polaris, Lemuria, and Hyperborea to try and make sense of Helena Blavatsky's "Root Races," a fundamental component of Theosophist cosmology and Blavatsky's totally-not-sketchy contribution to evolutionary theory. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris takes a look at the biographies of two Orthodox priests from Pennsylvania and Ohio whose activities during WW2 earned them medals from Tito, and got them into hot water with the US Government as dangerous reds. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Taking a break from the usual cast of characters, Boris examines two Yugoslav-American anti-fascist publications published in the US in the 1940s. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Near the end of the Theosophy series, Rey examines the strange lives of Peter Ouspensky and John G. Bennett, who were followers of Gurdjieff, but also gurus in their own right with many followers of their own. They struggled with the legacy of Gurdjieff in different ways, but both were in pretty sad states by the end of their lives.

Courtesy of Elon Musk, Uwe Boll goes on a paid vacation to Croatia where he enjoys restaurants, the nightlife, and also films a movie starring Armie Hammer about how it's cool and based to murder immigrant families because of woke. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

George Gurdjieff was never formally a theosophist, but his "doctrine" contained a very similar backstory, and many of his followers were former theosophists. Gurdjieff was a practice-oriented despotic cult leader, whose follwers believed him to be one of the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood described by Helena Blavatsky.

In the fourth episode of our series on Theosophy, Rey talks about the founder of Anthroposophy, Austrian guru Rudolf Steiner. Steiner started started out as a Theosophist, but was much too ambitious and much too German for that movement. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The story of the Theosophical Society takes a dark turn, as we examine the malignant influence of Charles Leadbeater, how he took an Indian boy from his family, and together with James Wedgwood formed the Liberal Catholic Church and proclaimed himself a Bishop. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The TENE crew zooms out from Bovino's attendance (among others) at the recent far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal and follows the various threads and shadows of recurring characters on the show, who are unfortunately very real. Music Credits: Kaleidoscope - Girmitiya --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The TENE crew zooms out from Bovino's attendance (among others) at the recent far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal and follows the various threads and shadows of recurring characters on the show, who are unfortunately very real.

In the second part of the Theosophy series, Rey talks about Helena Blavatsky's turbulent relationships with Anna Kingsford and Emma cutting, as well as the harmonious relationship she had with Annie Besant, her heir. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE is rejoined by Amanda (Ms.Entropy) to discuss the recent shooting at the San Diego Islamic Center, the lingering Legacy of Tom Metzger, and neo-Nazi accelerationism.

Rey started reading a book (Madame Blavatsky's Baboon by Peter Washington) on the very influential Theosophical Society, which was in many ways the starting point for Western Occultism in the 19th century. Music: Arthur Pryor's Band - Dill Pickles Rag (1909 version) --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Andrew Palella studiously went through the corpus of the Order of Nine Angles writings known as the "Labyrinthos Mythologicus" and published a 100 page peer reviewed article on it (fuck you, David Myatt). Andrew joins us to discuss his article and explain the O9A worldview, terminology and appeal for certain kinds of people today. Music Credits: Haus Arafna - Colony Collapse (A Sign for You) --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Legacy media is at it yet again, cutting free propaganda pieces for the Far Right so they don't have to! The TENE Crew checks out the 60 Minutes segment featuring Rob Rundo, discusses NATO Troll Günther Fehrlinger's fantasy war, and more! --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The TENE crew checks in on the recent fate of beloved and tooth-bereft terrorist organization The JDL 613 Brotherhood, and listens to a real "meeting of the minds" between Alexandr Dugin, "Professor" Jiang, and whoever the hell Sneako is. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The true tragedy of the 19th century was Abraham Lincoln's extermination of the Confederates and also America is very gay..at least so tells us yet another brilliant mind of the ENR as Rey finishes the second book in a row on the subject, concluding this bizarre masochistic ritual. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENEpod takes a detour into the world of art history by discussing the role of Mazdaznan in the early years of the legendary Bauhaus school. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE examine the Mazdaznan cult's most (in)famous disciple in America, C. Leon de Aryan and his bizarre racist newspaper, The Broom. We follow De Aryan's career from publlisher of "San Diego's Progressive Weekly", to being a defendant in the Sedition Trial of 1944 and his later connections to the post-war white supremacist movement and Christian Identity. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris begins a short series examining Mazdaznan, a faux Zoroastrian cult from the early 20th century. Although largely forgotten now, it was quite influential in the world of modern art in the interwar period and also has surprising links to the white supremacist Christian identity movement. In part one, Boris takes a look at the strange mix of vegetarianism, race science, and breathing exercises that make up their foundational doctrines. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey forced himself to read another book on the ENR and was met with page upon page of ideologically inconsistent fascist babble written by a group that experts are calling "the most boring neopagans of all time." --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

As world toiletification intensifies, the TENE crew checks in on some of the dumbest people alive, some of whom are beating the crap out of each other in a forest. Also, Boris is further entangled in the ever-expanding web of HOOM connections. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey finished reading Tomislav Sunić's definitive book (in English) about ENR. The second part was even harder to comprehend, not only because of its strange attacks on the concept of equality, but also because the book ends up undermining its own premises. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey starts looking at the European New Right of Alain de Benoist, by examining the first half of Tomislav Sunić's definitive and deranged book Against Democracy and Equality (1990).

In part 3 of our series on the Holy Order of MANS path from crunchy New Age to Orthodox Christianity, Boris looks at the process of conversion and the ghastly array of sex criminals and fascists that made it all possible. Music Credits: Unknown - Молиться, поститься, слушать радио «Радонеж» (Radio Radonezh Remix) --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

In episode 2 of our series on the path of the Holy Order of MANS from New Age spirituality, to fanatical Orthodox Christianity, Boris tries to understand the core teachings and organizational structure of the Order. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Andrew Palella studiously went through the corpus of the Order of Nine Angles writings known as the "Labyrinthos Mythologicus" and published a 100 page peer reviewed article on it (fuck you, David Myatt). Andrew joins us to discuss his article and explain the O9A worldview, terminology and appeal for certain kinds of people today. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris begins a short series on how a relatively obscure New Age religion from the 1960s lay the foundations for the modern right wing "Orthobro" phenomenon in Orthodox Christianity. To do this, we take a journey back to 1960s San Francisco's world of mystics, American Sufis and Christian Yogis. Music Credits: Christian Yoga Church - Untitled 6 Christian Yoga Church - Turn On (Music for the Hip at Heart) The Sufi Choir - Turning Allen Ginsberg / Reverend Adjari & Buddhist Chorus - Pacific High Studio Mantra's (Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum) Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris and Rey kick back and watch the 1985 action flick The Wild Geese II, a bizarre movie that makes Rudolf Hess into a lovable grandpa (played by Laurence Olivier). --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE has a chat with Peter Korotaev of the substack Events in Ukraine, about the Order of Nine Angles in Russia and Ukraine, and the connected East Slavic Nazis who think they are going to Valhalla. --- Check out Peter Korotaev's substack here: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/ and follow him here: https://x.com/EventsUkraine --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey concludes the reading of Armin Mohler's book, by examining the last two factions of the CR--the Youth and Rural movements--and also by speculating on how the CR concept can possibly help our understanding of historical fascism. ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE tackles the horror of 764 and its related groups. We are extremely lucky to be joined by journalist Ali Winston who, through years of following the story, is uniquely qualified to guide us through the dark. More publications from Ali Winston on: https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/ Follow him here: https://bsky.app/profile/awinston.bsky.social https://x.com/awinston ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The TENE crew discuss recent world events: Russian nazi Denis Kapustin back from the dead, state violence in the USA, and nazi dating site goes kaput. Minneapolis Mutual Aid: https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Continuing the discussion about Armin Mohler's book, Rey presents the main features of the faction known as the Völkisch movement, and resolves the mystery of its so-called disappearance. Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris wraps up the series on Meir Kahane by discussing the toxic legacy of the Kach party's ideology and comparing his writings to other far-right groups. Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

The crew reviews some good news, a lot of bad news, checks up on some old characters, and examines yet another case of mainstream media doing a PR spot for white nationalist hate groups.

In this part Rey talks about the faction of German Fascism that Armin Mohler designated as "National Revolutionaries," which included individuals such as Ernst Jünger and Ernst Niekisch and groups such as the Group of Social Revolutionary Nationalists of Karl Otto Paetel, as well as parts of the "Nazi Left" such as the Combat League of Revolutionary National Socialists of Otto Strasser. Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

In the first episode of the series on the book "Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918-1932," Rey talks about the writer and the book itself, including everyone involved in the 2018 U.S. edition of the book: Karlheinz Weissman, Paul E. Gottfried, F. Roger Devlin, Nina Kouprianova and Richard Spencer. Music Credits: Powerplant - Classic Evil Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris traces the decline of the JDL-- from a serious, intelligence backed militant organization, to a murderous daytime television sideshow. Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE revisits the Orthodox Christian "punk zine" Death to the World, by reviewing the 2025 book Punk to Monks: The Story of Death to the World 'Zine. Boris compares the official narrative to the far more grim reality of abuse, cover-ups, fake churches and a surprising connection to a 1960s New Age cult. Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod