Welcome to the Master Within

The need for self-mastery, for self-discovery, is no small part of what makes a man a man. We are driven by danger; we are driven by the need to stand, fight, and bleed, in the name of something greater than ourselves, side by side with those we call our own. Because in the midst of all this, we realize what lies hidden within. Now we have conquered the world, and will one day conquer the stars.

Tragically, however, the luxury our victories have afforded have also destroyed what is best in us. For as Seneca once said, "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." But where are we to prove ourselves today? Where are we to discover what is best within us when strength, manhood, competition, and victory, have all been condemned by feminists, pacifists, nihilists, all these modern day social crusaders?

Yes, we have lost something special, even something spiritual; we have lost the Master Within.
We know when something is missing.

​When I was young, I went looking for answers. However, the answers I sought were nowhere to be found, and after much discouragement, I discovered I had more in common with Stoic philosophers and Samurai warriors than I did my own contemporaries. So I turned to old books about heroes, to the martial arts, and to the study of warrior cultures. These saved me from a fate worse than death, that slow wasting away of the human spirit so typical today. And this is how I discovered the Tradition.

The Tradition is that body of ancient ideals that had up until recently been handed down from father to son through countless generations, and that had thus served as the foundation for all human society. Its loss has been our downfall, and now, in life and in literature, I wish to revitalize that Tradition in the world, one man at a time. And so this is my work: It will not be easy, but so be it; nothing worth doing is easy.
Heroic Theory is intended as a cultural criticism and as a means by which to return to a New Old World wherein those long-held ideals of our forefathers are honored once again. The abandonment of these very principles has, according to Heroic Theory, resulted in most of our present day societal difficulties, which range from broken homes to gang membership, from the mass incarceration of young men to the neck-creakingly rapid rise of single motherhood, from drug and alcohol addiction to philosophical nihilism with its moral and social consequences, etc, etc, etc. All these, according to Heroic Theory, have in some way been strongly influenced by the abandonment of the Tradition.

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This website will include information on Heroic Theory, a new paradigm in psychology influenced by the work of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and others; ZenTactics, a revolutionary personal development system; and the New Old World, a movement towards the revitalization of the classical tradition. Furthermore, it will include information on both Patreon, a crowdfunding projects for fans of my work, and Patriarch, an upcoming non-profit project directed towards the mentoring of boys and the cultivation of traditional conceptions of manhood in America. And finally, it will include information on all my written works, including Slay the Maiden; Tyger, Tyger; Brothers in Blood, and Other Tales; Oracle: Ninety Days to a New Life ;  Oracle: Nine Rules for a New Spirit; and the upcoming Profiling the Left and Stranging the Beautiful Noise, among others.

For more information on how to be a part of the New Old World Movement, please feel free to contact me directly, or click on the links for either Patreon or Patriarch below:
Joshua van Asakinda
Las Vegas, NV
+1-702-716-2906
​Joshua.van.Asakinda@gmail.com
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