Binding up the Overculture

My work is not exclusively for — or even especially directed towards — Jewish people. I get asked that sometimes. That’s the opposite of my value; I practice online precisely in order to build sangha relationships outside of my offline community.

I think what people who ask me that are perceiving is actually my value of working with people who are not — or at least wish not to be — cultural dabblers, spiritual materialists, consumers of exotic foreign wisdom. My starting point is where YOU are coming from.

I could put this more strongly.

I understand that one driving force behind the contemporary occult project is people from the empowered overculture opting out of its prescriptions and assembling new, hopefully less harmful traditions out of scraps. I am — broadly — supportive of that effort.

But my lineage work involves binding up that overculture to make sure its universalizing imperial project never succeeds. That work is far more important to me than whatever its children do to replace it.

I have productive conversations with people working on those replacements every day. Happy to help. It does support my long-term goals to see thriving cultural forms that appeal more to the overcultural masses than the defaults. But it’s not what I’m working on. I’m working on rescuing my culture from the overculture’s clutches.