In this lecture Bowden explores the religiosity of cultural guilt and self-hatred, as well as the nature of environmentalism, through the prism of a Hindu convert who deified Hitler. At base all of Bowden’s lectures are about the metaphysics of society, the power of visualization and faith, and the traction of our cultural narrative. There are some interesting tidbits about post World War II Germany.
The woman who some have called ‘The Daughter of the Black Sun’ is a perfectly extreme avatar for Bowden’s discourse on the philosophical underpinnings of the modern ideology of white guilt, tied as it curiously is to the worship of money. Bowden has a handle on the ancient concept of religiosity which quite eludes the modern mind, which does not realize how its very denials and selfloathings are essentially religious.
Someone told me the other day that Devi was homeless for the last decade of her life.