Today I’m very pleased to be joined by Phil Reddall, author of a very interesting and unusual book on masculinity and self-development called Towards Awakening: An Odinic Perspective.

The book explores Western man’s detachment from his roots, a problem we’ve all thought about at length. The book is simultaneously a diagnosis and a cure. The cure consists of physical and spiritual exercises designed to bring the practitioner back into contact with the deeper Western traditions and nature itself.

We talk about why we’re living in “the Wolf Age,” man’s agency in cyclical history, what it’s like to spend the night alone in a forest and much, much more. This is great stuff and Phil’s a really smart cookie.

The book can be bought from Arktos now. I believe it’s available via Amazon as well. You can read the blurb below.

Myth tells of a Hyperborean folk, those from ‘beyond the north wind’, precursors of the European kindred. This myth offers the spiritual seeker a logical, rational lineage for a faith which continues to evolve.

Vibrational messages, which vary in frequency depending upon the age in which one resides, flow through the multiverse. As one treads the path towards awakening, these vibrations become ever more apparent as one tunes in to the poetic nature of ancestral spirituality.

This book is written in two parts, designed to work holistically. The first creates a shift in psyche, which is required to ride the tiger of the present era. The second offers a series of exercises to be undertaken, ending in a holy pilgrimage, which is in fact a new beginning as one rises from the darkness of the Wolf Age and strides towards the Golden Age.

Waes thu Hael — Be Thou Whole.