If you like Nietzsche, there's a new lecture series (MP3) over at bcrecordings.net. (I'm not associated with this website in any way and don't have any financial interest in it.)The series of lectures over there are numbered and this one is 5003, with the six lectures in this particular series being then, 500301 through 500306. Once you get there, just search for Nietzsche and it'll come up with a list of titles, with those six numbers! Simple, huh?
These lectures, and the other lectures at bcrecordings.net are by Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller, who speaks at some kind of Gnostic gathering in Los Angeles. I've been downloading his lectures on and off for a number of years, and I believe there are some free ones over there. He is an expert on all sorts of what I'd call alternative streams of spirituality, psychology, and esoterica. He's an authority on Gnostic teachings, Madame Blavatsky, and really anything that is Jungian or off the beaten path.
He has a very wry sense of humor and seems like a lovable guy. But some of the things he says show him to be a piercing critic of the human condition, of some religious folks (fundamentalists), and of keeping company. I just heard him extolling introversion and solitude -- which is fine by me, to tell you the truth! He also seems to be a contrarian when it comes to being politically correct, although he's still pretty sensitive.
I just got this series last night, so I haven't had much of a chance to get to it. But I have listened to a little more than half of the first one. He's working on the prologue of Zarathustra, and goes about it in a very deliberate way, reading enough of the text to have a setting for good commentary. Each lecture is around 80 minutes, and the price is only $4.95 per.
The titles in the series are: Prologue of Zarathustra; Passionate Wisdom: Zarathustra, Part One; Scholarly Poetry: Zarathustra, Part Two; Visions and Longing: Zarathustra, Third Part; Zarathustra, Early Portion of Part Four; The Drunken Overman: Latter Portion of Part Four.
Dr. Hoeller has written a few books, including, The Gnostic Jung, in which he gives the text and commentary of Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead, Jung writing as Basilides. There's a whole fascinating prologue of how Dr. Hoeller, as a young man in Europe, was able to copy this rare book, written in 1916. Oh yeah, Dr. Hoeller is Hungarian, and has a great accent.
