New Thinking • May 11, 2023 Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including The Science of the Greater Jihad, Folk Metaphysics, Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics of Social Engineering, Day and Night on the Sufi Path, and Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory. His two books that deal most with Theodicy are System of the Antichrist and Vectors of the Counter-Initiation. His website is https://charles-upton.com/. Here he approaches theodicy (the justification of god’s goodness, omniscience, and omnipotence in the face of evil) as an inevitable problem facing those on a spiritual path. 00:00:00 Introduction and poem 00:13:18 Book of Job 00:19:57 The premise 00:32:41 Value of suffering 00:38:42 Privatio boni 00:41:55 Gnosticism 00:55:03 Sufi theodicy 01:00:05 Final poem 01:17:58 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in Russian, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on April 26, 2023)