Norse wrote:If I'm not mistaken he made a point (in his manifest) of not having his brand of thinking confused with leftist or treehugging or back-to-nature philosophies of any kind. I can imagine he would be interested in new-age stuff for the same reason he would read up on other subjects he didn't particularly sympathize with.
It wouldn't be surprising to see Marx on the shelf of a die-hard capitalist theorist - quite to the contrary, one could even say.
That is right. He considered most of the environmentalists, nature spiritualist and their ilk as soft, spacey and not willing to do the hard cruel things that must be done in a real revolution. Earth First leader Judi Bari epitomized these new age, hippie, peaceful, non-violent environmentalists, and he despised her. He said she "emasculated" the radical environmental movement.
I don't think it is a coincidence that he had a car bomb suitable ball trigger in his cabin, the same type used to blow up Judi Bari's car. Ted had books about the Bible, Marxists and New Agers for precisely the reason you stated. To study his enemies and/or mimic them to impersonate them in letters to bring trouble upon them.