Anthology Inspired by readings of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"I MUST GO DOWN." Zarathustra starts his story as a down-going to human kind, a down-going with a single message: the Overman is the meaning of the Earth. What is often left out of this well-known story is the implicit message of the book as a whole: Zarathustra's own struggles with spiritual mediation. Zarathustra may be a type of enlightened being with a singular message, but he is not an enlightened being sitting in a perfect stillness. He is an enlightened being in deep inner antagonism with his own capacity to give birth. He is pregnant with the meaning of the Earth as the Overman. What does it mean to give spiritual birth? What is involved in such a strange process? And how rare is it to receive such an intimate message, let alone to have it gifted to us in the form of a philosophical fiction? Have we ever received such an intimate message and philosophical form before? Hopefully some of these questions will help guide you through Abyssal Arrows: Spiritual Leadership Inspired by Thus Spoke Zarathustra. What these pages (try to) contain, but what in fact spills off the pages, is precisely the real of a community mind trying to do just that: give spiritual birth. Abyssal Arrows is collective midwifery. It is bloody, messy... it is bloody messy. But as such, it is also represents a real of philosophy that is long overdue. What academic philosophy has not, could not, do with Zarathustra, Abyssal Arrows, in the real of the void, has actualised. Long Live Zarathustra.

Authors, Chapters

This Anthology includes contributions from 27 different authors from various backgrounds and levels of participation in underground theory. The large majority of contributions are motivated and stimulated from a long-term engagement with Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

  • A Note on Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Chapter 0: The Importance of Fiction

    Chapter 1: Spirit's Logic

    Interlude 3: Jump Man

    Chapter 10: Emerging Knowing

    Chapter 11: Nietzsche's Zarathustra as a Model for Hegel's Essence

    Chapter 22: Zarathustra, Marriage and Children

    Interlude 8: Music's Crown

    Chapter 25: Philosophy After Nietzsche

    Afterthought: Reflecting on Lightning Strikes

  • Editor's Note

    Chapter 2: The Overman and the Allegory of the Cave

    Chapter 22: Zarathustra, Marriage and Children

  • Chapter 3: Nietzsche = Time + Tragedy

  • Interlude 1: The Mountain Flood

    Chapter 5: A Message from Hell

  • Chapter 4: Nietzsche's Tantra and Girard's Sutra

  • Chapter 6: An Introduction to Blood Writing

  • Interlude 2: God's Love (as Objet lil a)

    Chapter 7: The Birth of the Spirit Child

  • Chapter 8: Excess/Absence

  • Chapter 9: Thinking Jouissance in Nietzschean Negentropy

  • Chapter 10: Emerging Knowing

  • Chapter 10: Emerging Knowing

  • Interlude 4: Dialectics of Self-Love

  • Chapter 12: Paradox & Spiritual Leadership

  • Chapter 13: Thinking Education in Nietzsche

  • Interlude 5: Living fro Eros

  • Chapter 14: Remaining True to the Earth

  • Chapter 15: Meditation on Amor Fati

  • Chapter 16: My Wild Wisdom

  • Interlude 6: How I Plan to Defeat History

  • Chapter 17: The Digital Desert and the Burning Overman

  • Chapter 17: The Digital Desert and the Burning Overman

  • Chapter 18: Thus Zarathustra Was Spoken

  • Chapter 19: Overbecoming: Hyperhumanism as a Bridge Towards Interbeing

  • Chapter 20: Can You Invent a Deity?

  • Interlude 7: Thus Spoke Motherhood

    Chapter 22: Zarathustra, Marriage and Children

  • Chapter 21: Zarathustra - a male mother?

  • Chapter 23: On from Zarathustra

  • Chapter 24: The Hanged Man, The Hermit, and The Star

Overview.

Systematic overview of all the chapters of the Abyssal Arrows anthology.

Community Livestream.

All-day livestream with authors of the Abyssal Arrows anthology.