Ariosophy (List, Wiligut)

Domain XVI · Historical, discredited & harmful · Guido von List, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels · 1890 · Vienna

What it is

Ariosophy is not a therapy and was never a healing practice. It is an esoteric ideology: a body of writings, societies and orders that arose in Vienna and Germany from about 1890, combining völkisch nationalism and Theosophy-influenced occultism with an explicitly racist and antisemitic doctrine of…

Format

• After 1945. Neo-Nazis adopted the SS "Black Sun" (Sonnenrad) design from the Wewelsburg floor mosaic; in the US its use spread to other white supremacists. A myth of "Nazi occultism" around Wewelsburg persisted in popular culture and music. Racially exclusive ("folkish" or "neo-Völkisch") forms of…
• Session number and length follow the client's needs and the setting; the phases below are a working structure.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Does it use a device, heat, cold, water or a physical procedure? Has a medical professional checked that it is safe for you?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• avoidance, cynicism, rescuing. Working when you remain both engaged and boundaried.
• concealment; shame; escalation online. Working when you have a shared, specific picture.
• escalation, threats to the therapist. Working when talk shifts from slogans to experience.
• retaliation risk from former associates. Working when practical ties reduce without new danger.
• romanticising the ancestor; crushing shame. Working when the client holds the history with clarity.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.