Karl Friedrich Alfred Heinrich Ferdinand Maria Graf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin was a German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen master. A veteran of World War I, he was introduced to Zen early i
Prabhupada on a morning walk with Baron von Dürckheim in Frankfurt, 1974
Bassenheim Castle near Koblenz in Germany (2005)
Sugamo Prison on 22 December 1948
Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, better known as Julius Evola, was an Italian far-right philosopher and writer. Evola regarded his values as traditionalist, aristocratic, martial and imperialist. An esoter
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
…hours." Dürckheim interpreted his imprisonment as an initiation event that was preparing him for a spiritual rebirth. Influenced partly by the work of Julius Evola, the "conversion experience" later became an essential element of Dürckheim's psychotherapy: "There is real change whenever the individual experiences…
Evola serving as an artillery officer on Monte Cimone di Tonezza, 1917
Evola before leaving the army in 1918
Five o'clock tea, by Evola, 1917