Just out of curiosity, who is running the ONA now? From my understand Myatt has become a Muslim.
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Magister Robert Adams
Host, KHPR: The Voice of Darkness
Myatt has written a few new essays and MSS under his own name recently stating that although he has learned much during his 12 years as a devout Muslim, he has returned to nurture his own The Numinous Way; which you may find on him Numinous Way website. Julie R. Wright of Oxford has also written a document recently stating that Myatt is not a Muslim anymore and has returned to being a Philosopher of The Numinous Way. This having been said...
The Old Guards and the "young guards" of the ONA got together recently and have made a few major changes with "Anton Long's" full approval. The first change to the ONA is that there is no such thing anymore as a "boss," "leader," "runner," "grand master," "controller," "head," "inner rep," or "outer representative."
The ONA is now leaderless. In support of this "Anton Long" has written a few ONA MSS in which he states that he is not the leader of the ONA. The ONA now functions kollectively via a "peerage" system, which peerage consists of all Initiates.
The second major change in the ONA is that it is now an "open source" system. Myatt or Anton Long's words and writings are not infallible, or authoritative. No one person now dictates what the ONA thinks or believes. Every Initiate now has the right and prerogative to change, evolve, alter, mutate, and add to the ONA.
The third change to the ONA is that there is no such thing anymore as some "formal," or "official," or "unofficial," or "informal," or some "recognized," or "unrecognized" membership in the ONA. If you like what you see: claim it, and Live it. If you don't like what you see: go away.
Therefore, the answer to your good question is: regardless of what Myatt was, or is, or will be, or isn't; Myatt neither owns or disowns the ONA. He neither runs or unruns the ONA. He is neither a member of or an unmember of the ONA. Nothing he writes is either unathuritative or authoritative. Nobody runs the ONA and everybody runs the ONA at the same time.
David Myatt will always have a big influence on ONA Initiates, and he will always be much Honoured and Respected by all ONA Initiates. But others now also have a big influence on the ONA, and every Initiate of the ONA - Old Guard or Young Guard - runs the ONA Kollectively as peers and has the individual and Kollective duty to change and evolve the ONA as they need and desire whenever, however, and for whatever reason.
The ONA is now like Empirical Science. It is an institution with theories based on the application of the Scientific Method and processed thru a peer review. Nobody owns or leads or runs Empirical Science. There is no such thing as a grand master of Science, or some Scientific Priest that expounds facts and authoritative doctrines to be sheepishly followed by some official card carrying member of Science. Yet the whole system, method, and institution works very well don't you think?
The way the institution of Science is "structured" in that the Scientific Method is the foundation of praxis, and not the dictates of some leader, allows for science to gradually evolve and progress replacing old and outdated theories with new ones.
Whereas with these old world religious institutions that utilize some old world caste system of grand master, middle management, yes men, card carrying members, such rigidly structured institutions that base their modus and cultus on some inert authoritative sacred text, have a hard time progressing, advancing, and staying relevant to the change of time, generations, and worldviews.
The great thing about the ONA is that on a Kollective level as a memetic organism, it is very open to learning from its past mistakes and struggles to change itself. It is also very open to learning from the wyrdful example of other institutions. It has learned that having a system like Empirical Science works best for it. Nobody runs it. It has its own Methodology and Sinister Method with which the Initiate may use to extract new ideas and insights which they can share with other.
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