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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 12/5/25 | ![]() How to Drink Like an Occultist✨ | occultismdrinking culture | — | — | — | occultdrinking+1 | — | 4m 18s | |
| 8/12/24 | ![]() McGilchrist Explains What Huxley Experienced✨ | perceptionhemispheric dominance+2 | — | WaldenAlice's Restaurant | — | mescalinAlice's Restaurant+1 | — | 18m 27s | |
| 7/14/24 | ![]() The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature✨ | literaturehemisphere+1 | — | The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature | — | — | — | 12m 14s | |
| 7/4/24 | ![]() Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger✨ | Thomas SowellChevron+1 | — | Chevron | — | — | — | 15m 50s | |
| 6/27/24 | ![]() Gardening and Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis✨ | gardeningIain McGilchrist+3 | — | Hemisphere Hypothesis | — | — | — | 18m 22s | |
| 4/18/23 | ![]() Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary✨ | modernitygnosticism+3 | — | — | — | TaoReality Spectrum+2 | — | 18m 51s | |
| 2/27/23 | ![]() How to Brand Yourself✨ | brandingvictim mentality+2 | — | — | — | self-brandingidentity+1 | — | 6m 13s | |
| 2/20/23 | ![]() The Gnostic Hates the Structure✨ | Gnosticismcosmology+3 | — | — | VenusMars+2 | Demiurgeancient Gnosticism+3 | — | 13m 50s | |
| 2/6/23 | ![]() The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About✨ | GnosticismEric Voegelin+3 | — | an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits Alienation | — | historic inevitabilityrevolution+1 | — | 15m 07s | |
| 1/23/23 | ![]() The Gnostic is a Believer✨ | sociologyAugust Comte+2 | — | The Encyclopedia Britannica | — | sociology classsocial physics+2 | — | 10m 51s | |
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| 1/16/23 | ![]() Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop | This is a podcast episode from "Outside the Modern Limits," a whimsical newsletter that comes out every Saturday that is geared toward helping people understand and thrive in modernity. You can subscribe and find the show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/23 | ![]() The Gnostic Never Blames Himself | “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau Rousseau’s passage from the beginning of The Social Contract contends for the most famous in philosophy. Rousseau’s point was simple: Humans are good, but there’s a lot of suffering, so social institutions must be corrupting everything. Significantly, Rousseau didn’t see any problems with himself. He was arguably the most self-centered philosopher of all time. He was so self-centered, biographers wonder if he was even capable of love. He said of his long-time mistress, a lowly laundress that he, Never felt the lease glimmering of love for her . . . the sensual needs I satisfied with her were purely sexual. When those sensual needs resulted in five children, he put them into orphanages, which, given the state of orphanages in the 18thcentury, was practically a sentence of torture and early death: only five percent of orphan children survived to adulthood, and most of the adult survivors became beggars and vagabonds. Full show notes here You can find my essay about the first gnostic trait here | — | ||||||
| 12/5/22 | ![]() These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic | A Diagnostic of the Gnostic Eric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover modern gnosticism, but they took their subjects to much higher levels. The Swiss theologian, Hans urs Von Balthasar was supposedly the first person to draw parallels between the ancient gnostic heresy and modern theories in Prometheus (1937), which examined modern German thought. Albert Camus did a similar thing with modern French thought in The Rebel (1951).[1] But Voegelin took the strain of thought much further in The New Science of Politics (1952). The book became a Time cover story and, voila, gnosticism was in the limelight, a least among nerds. Granted, later in life, Voegelin said he wasn’t sure “gnosticism” was the best term to use and thought perhaps it received too much attention, but he didn’t remotely conclude that the term didn’t work. Far from it. Later in life, at age 67, he published his most popular work, Science, Politics and Gnosticism (1968). Remaining Show Notes Here | — | ||||||
| 11/21/22 | ![]() A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease | Brains beat brawn. The Titan Prometheus knew that. He joined Zeus in his battle against the Titans. Prometheus later befriended the race of men. He saved them when Zeus thought about extinguishing them. He taught them arts and science. He gave them tools. Zeus increasingly found Prometheus’ promotion of the human race tiresome and troublesome. And then Prometheus gave humans the gift of fire, in direct violation of Zeus’ orders. Zeus was livid. He ordered Prometheus bound: Kratos (Power) and Bia (Force) held him while Hephaestus fettered him to a chain on a crag hanging over the Black Sea. An eagle came every day and ate his liver, which regenerated every night. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 11/14/22 | ![]() The Tao: The Transcendental Router | For the fortunate few, that router is hard-wired with fiber optic. Most of us only get a wireless connection, and a wobbly one at that. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 11/7/22 | ![]() Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness | If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 10/31/22 | ![]() Solon was a Man of the Tao | Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
| 10/24/22 | ![]() Why David Hume is Important | Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume yanked God and mind out of these conclusions and the Cartesian Jenga tower came tumbling down. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 10/17/22 | ![]() The First Amendment’s Separation of Church and State Goes Back to 500 BC | Something really bizarre happened around the year 500 BC, all across Eurasia. We started to realize that we live in the metaxy: an area comprised of transcendence and immanence. These ten thinkers, from Italy to China, led the way. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 10/10/22 | ![]() Introducing Eric Voegelin | Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or movement. But he’s important. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 9/26/22 | ![]() We're All Machiavellians Now | Before he published the Prince, Machiavelli published the seducer. Before he published a masterpiece of political philosophy, he published a comedy. The Mandragola (The Mandrake) tells the story of Callimaco, a handsome young man and seducer of women. He hears about the Florentine beauty Lucrezia and begins a conspiracy to seduce her. The problem is, she’s married. She’s married to a wealthy old man who can’t get her pregnant and they need a son to maintain their political position. Callimaco shows up, disguised as a doctor, and convinces her husband to give her a mandrake potion to increase her fertility. The problem is, Callimaco tells the old man, the first man who sleeps with her after she takes the potion will die. They decide to find an unwitting dupe to have sex with her. Callimaco, in different disguise, becomes the dupe, much to his delight. And Lucrezia’s. She at first was hesitant, but she relented and, convinced it was divine providence, takes Callimaco as her lover indefinitely. Everything turns out well. The old man gets his male heir and Callimaco gets Lucrezia. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 9/19/22 | ![]() Keep Sweet and Have Sex | A 50-year-old man had ritual sex with a 12-year-old girl while adult women assisted. And everyone was cool with it. That’s just part of the bizarre story told in Netflix’s Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey and the exploits of its prophet, Warren Jeffs. Keep Sweet’s Fascination It’s the story of a renegade Mormon group that still practice polygamy. Vigorous polygamy, especially the type that lets old men bang young women and, occasionally, girls. It’s the kind of thing that disgusts, but it also arouses, at least at some level. Sex sells for a reason. Keep Sweet did, its IMDB rating currently sitting at 7.3 with 11,000 reviews (Netflix’s Murder Mountain, which enjoyed the endorsement of Joe Rogan, sits at 6.8 with 3,200 reviews). But I don’t think sex is the only reason Keep Sweetfascinates. I think it fascinates because, although everyone understands the sex part, they can’t understand how an entire culture could allow such a thing to occur. If It Doesn’t Fit, Put It on the Shelf The docuseries tries to explain it, but every interview or explanation came down to the same thing: it’s how these people were raised. It was the only thing these people knew. They were raised in a polygamous culture that celebrated their prophet. If the prophet told girls to do something—or someone—they did it/him. If something didn’t make sense, they were told to “put it on the shelf.” And just as the lechery of old men resonates with all men at some level, this kind of rationality resonates too. These girls who submitted to sex with old men, the parents who gave their consent the women who participated in the erotic ritual: they acted rationally. It’s All Rational That’s the real dirty secret in the docuseries and another reason why, besides the sex, it fascinates. We’re all capable of such a thing. Not because of our nethers. But because of our brains. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 9/12/22 | ![]() How to Cure Yourself of Modernitis | You're soaked in modernity. You think like a modern. It's not good. Consider doing the opposite of whatever your rationality tells you to do. Show note here | — | ||||||
| 9/5/22 | ![]() Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis” | Your reason isn’t reasonable. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it. And smoke it and smoke it and smoke it, until you smoke rationality out of your head, until a love for the absurd fills your lungs, and until you breathe the fresh air of freedom. Let me explain. “I Don’t See Why” When I look back over my adult life and wince at the unfortunate things I did, there’s a common theme: the inner dialogue that began and concluded with, “I don’t see why” or its negative shade, “I don’t see why not.” I didn’t see why, or see why not, so I did X, Y, or Z. And X, Y, or Z turned out awful for me or others. Most of us carry the assumption that we can do whatever we want unless our reason tells us not to. Unfortunately, this tends to be almost identical to the assumption that we can do whatever we want. As Pascal said, as Freud argued, as current studies about cognitive biases show: our minds aren’t nearly as reasonable as we think. It’s one thing to spend long hours in study, contemplation, and dialogue with advisers and friends to form your conscience when it comes to a weighty matter. It’s another thing to do something merely because your reason doesn’t explain why you shouldn’t. The former is a sign of wisdom. The latter is a sign that your mind suffers from Modernitis. Definition “Modernitis”: A mental disease, rarely diagnosed, marked by intuitive confidence in one’s ideas and the findings of science. It’s rarely diagnosed for the same reason a rational fish wouldn’t know it’s wet. A mental disease that afflicts everyone becomes a sign of mental health. Descartes was the main philosopher that spread Modernitis. There were other causes and other philosophers contributed, sure, but he was the main culprit. He died in 1650, a celebrity and conqueror. His ideas had spread; his ideas had won. Modernitis became a sign of mental health. The effects were seen everywhere. Show notes here | — | ||||||
| 8/29/22 | ![]() When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy | Descartes was a philosophical surgeon who lobotomized common sense from the modern mind without most people even noticing. It helped that western civilization was thoroughly prepped and anesthetized for the procedure. Show notes here. | — | ||||||
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