Podcasts about Eleusis

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Desde los misterios de Mitra, pasando por Eleusis, libros prohibidos, el sufismo, hasta la masonería o la Cábala, la historia del esoterismo ha impregnado la forma de pensar y de pensarse en España desde antiguo. En este capítulo, acompañados por David Suárez, recorremos los principales misterios ocultos de la historia esotérica de España. Historia del esoterismo en España. Producción: Informa Radio. Dirección: Blanca Martín. Subdirector Antonio Sanz Colaboradores: Javier Hernández Sinde, Fermín Mayorga, Jaime Barrientos y David Gaitero. Entrevista a David Suárez, sobre su libro Historia del esoterismo en España de la Editorial Almuzara.

Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaThe Alchemy of AshesI. The DescentThey said the road was paved in gold,but I found only dust—dust in my lungs, dust in my veins,dust in the ruins of the gods I once believed in.The stars collapsed like dying prophets,whispering riddles to the blind.I clawed through the wreckage of my former self,searching for the bones of meaning,but meaning had been set aflame,and the smoke spelled my name in tongues I'd forgotten.O fool of the waking world,O dreamer in a land of steel!Did you think the fire would spare you?Did you think the night would kneel?II. The CrucibleThere is a moment in every exilewhen the wind stops wailing,when silence presses like a lover's palm against your mouth—and you understand.Not with words, not with reason,but with the marrow of your bones,with the ache that only grief can conjure.The old world burns, the new one writhes,and somewhere between death and dawn,you learn to dance in the cinders.They call it madness, they call it sin,but Kesey called it the edge,Leary called it the key,and Morrison screamed it from the rooftopsuntil the night swallowed his voice.We have been here before,in the temples of Eleusis,in the deserts of the prophets,in the painted haze of acid visions—standing at the threshold of annihilation,laughing because we finally see.III. The RebirthLet them come with their chains, their rules, their fear—I have walked through the fire, and I am not the same.I am forged in the wreckage, baptized in the void,a child of ruin, a son of the storm.O city of sleeping minds,O kingdom of glass and smoke!You cannot hold me, you cannot name me,I have carved my own gospel into the skin of the sky.For I have seen the sacred spiral,the ouroboros coiled in eternity's palm.I have watched death weep into the river,only to rise again,only to rise again,only to rise again.And so I rise—not in chains, not in fear,but in the name of all who bled before me,all who dared to whisper to the abyssand heard it whisper back:You were never broken.You were only becoming. Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

War over Coele Syria breaks out yet again. With the death of Cleopatra I, her three very young children (Ptolemy VI, Ptolemy VIII, and Cleopatra II) are raised to the throne by their ambitious ministers Eulaios and Lenaios, who lead campaign of reconquest against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. It turns into a disaster, with the Syrian king launching two successful invasions into Egypt and besieging Alexandria. It seems the Ptolemaic kingdom is on the verge of collapse and Antiochus poised to be master of Egypt... that is unless the Roman Republic has something to say about it. Episode Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/106-the-sixth-syrian-war-and-day-of-eleusis/) Episode Transcript: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/105-the-sixth-syrian-war-and-day-of-eleusis.pdf) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod) Facebook (www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hellenistic_age_podcast/) Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/hellenisticagepodcast) Show Merchandise: Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/HellenisticAgePod) Redbubble (https://www.redbubble.com/people/HellenisticPod/shop?asc=u) Donations: Patreon (https://patreon.com/TheHellenisticAgePodcast) Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/hellenisticagepodcast) Amazon Book Wish List (https://tinyurl.com/vfw6ask)

Was fällt einem zu Demeter ein, der Göttin der Ernte und des Mysterienkultes in Eleusis? Ein Kult, der uns immer noch Rätsel aufgibt und ein tragender Bestandteil der damaligen Kultur war. Persephone, ihre Tochter von Hades geraubt, verbringt nach einem "göttlichen Deal" ein halbes Jahr in der Unterwelt bei ihrem Gatten Hades, die zweite Hälfte des Jahres bei ihrer Mutter Demeter. Sie ist die Göttin des Wachsens, des Korns, der Prosperität. Wie verstehen wir Demeter und Persephone in ihreren Vielschichtigkeiten? Darüber sprechen Christoph Quarch und die Geschichtenerzählerin Barbara Goossens #griechischemythen #Ernährung #Demeter #Pflanzenwachstum #Landwirtschaft #mythologieverstehen #mythen #akademie3 #christophquarch

fWotD Episode 2794: George E. Mylonas Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Saturday, 28 December 2024 is George E. Mylonas.George Emmanuel Mylonas (Greek: Γεώργιος Μυλωνάς, romanized: Georgios Mylonas, Greek pronunciation: [/ʝe'oɾʝios myːlo'nas/], ye-OR-yios mee-loh-NAS; December 21, [O. S. December 9] 1898 – April 15, 1988) was a Greek archaeologist of ancient Greece and of Aegean prehistory. He excavated widely, particularly at Olynthus, Eleusis and Mycenae, where he made the first archaeological study and publication of Grave Circle B, the earliest known monumentalized burials at the site.Mylonas was born in Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and received an elite education. He enrolled in 1919 at the University of Athens to study classics, joined the Greek Army, and fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. He witnessed the destruction of Smyrna in September 1922, and was subsequently taken prisoner; he was recaptured after a brief escape, but was released in 1923 after bribing his captors with money sent by his American contacts.In 1924, Mylonas began working for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, with which he retained a lifelong association. He became its first bursar the following year, and took part in excavations at Corinth, Nemea and Olynthus under its auspices. After receiving his Ph. D. from the University of Athens in 1927, he moved to Johns Hopkins University in the United States to study under David Moore Robinson, his excavation director from Olynthus. He subsequently taught at the University of Chicago. After a brief return to Greece, during which he taught at a gymnasium and made his first excavations at Eleusis, he was hired by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1931, before moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 1933, where he remained until returning permanently to Greece in 1969. There, he was prominent in the Archaeological Society of Athens and in efforts to conserve the monuments of the Acropolis of Athens.Mylonas's excavation work included the sites of Pylos, Artemision, Mekyberna, Polystylos and Aspropotamos. Along with John Papadimitriou, he was given responsibility for the excavation of Mycenae's Grave Circle B in the early 1950s, and from 1957 until 1985 excavated on the citadel of the site. His excavations helped to establish the chronological relationships between Mycenae's structures, which had been excavated piecemeal over the preceding century, and to determine the religious function of the site's Cult Center, to which he gave its name. He was awarded the Order of George I, the Royal Order of the Phoenix and the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America, of which he was the first foreign-born president. His work at Mycenae has been credited with bringing coherence to the previously scattered and sporadically published record of excavation at the site. At the same time, his belief that ancient Greek mythical traditions, particularly concerning the Trojan War and the Eleusinian Mysteries, could be verified by archaeological excavation was controversial in his day and has generally been discredited since.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Saturday, 28 December 2024.For the full current version of the article, see George E. Mylonas on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Ruth.

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Está con nosotros Ramón Valero, más conocido como Un Técnico Preocupado. Bienvenido a Entrevistas desde Eleusis. El motivo de esta entrevista es la publicación de tus dos libros: Ojos bien abiertos: Análisis de Eyes Wide Shut y Blasco Ibáñez Desvelado. Stanley Kubrick, un cineasta de culto con solo 13 películas, vivió entre 1928 y 1999. Por su parte, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, escritor español de fama internacional, vivió entre 1867 y 1928. ¿Por qué elegiste analizar Eyes Wide Shut en lugar de otra película de Kubrick? 001 La verdad es que había visto esa película hace ya mucho tiempo, quizás incluso antes de mi despertar, probablemente en 2003 o por ahí. En aquel entonces, me pareció tediosa, difícil de entender. La percibí extremadamente lenta, confusa y enrevesada. Creo que me sucedió lo mismo que les pasa al 99% de las personas que se enfrentan a ese film sin conocer el contexto: no entienden que fue la decimotercera y última película del director, estrenada de manera póstuma, y que él mismo la consideraba su obra cumbre. Sin embargo, esta valoración no fue compartida ni por la crítica ni por el público. De hecho, si la película no terminó siendo un rotundo fracaso económico, se debió en gran parte a la participación de la entonces pareja de moda, Cruise-Kidman. Una gran cantidad de espectadores se sintió atraída únicamente por las escenas sugerentes protagonizadas por la actriz australiana y otras bellísimas mujeres que aparecen en el film. Menciono esto para poner en perspectiva lo especial que resulta haber elegido analizar esta película, sobre todo si consideramos que formó parte de la cuarta entrega de los análisis de cine que realizamos en nuestro grupo, al que llamamos Es Clave, en homenaje al icónico programa La Clave. Cuando decidimos estudiarla, ya había despertado cierto interés en círculos de conspiración debido al ritual central que aparece en la trama. Además, habíamos leído algunos artículos que iban más allá de la típica crítica cinematográfica, sugiriendo que la película escondía un significado mucho más profundo tras su aparente superficie. Así que nos propusimos el reto de analizarla desde nuestro enfoque como buscadores de la Verdad. Nuestro método de trabajo siempre sigue una estructura. Primero, cada uno ve la película de forma individual, anotando los detalles que considera interesantes o que podrían pasar desapercibidos. Luego, organizamos una proyección conjunta, en la que pausamos la película en puntos clave para comentar y debatir nuestras observaciones, intentando esclarecer juntos los posibles mensajes ocultos o simbólicos. En este caso particular, además, vimos previamente los dos magníficos vídeos de Pedro Bustamante sobre este film, lo que nos aportó una perspectiva muy enriquecedora. Por lo general, antes de elegir una película para analizar, suelo proponer cinco títulos, que luego sometemos a votación para determinar cuál será el seleccionado. Algunas de las películas que hemos considerado en el pasado incluyen: Benji contra el crimen, Cube 2, 12 monos, Ghost in the Shell, American Ultra, Lucy, Prisoners, Ellos viven (They Live), Gattaca, Blade Runner o El destino de Júpiter. Sin embargo, en el caso de esta obra de Kubrick, no hicimos ninguna votación. Ya sabíamos de antemano que era una película que encerraba mucho más de lo que parecía a simple vista, lo que la convertía en una elección incuestionable. ¿Qué despertó tu interés por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: su afiliación a la masonería, su conocimiento de La Araña (la Compañía de Jesús), o algún otro aspecto de su vida y obra? 002 No me consideraba, ni mucho menos, un admirador ferviente del escritor valenciano, pero tampoco un detractor. Sabía que había sido masón, aunque nunca había profundizado en su obra o en su figura más allá de las generalidades conocidas. Fue otro buscador de la verdad, Toni Marco, quien se propuso desentrañar todo lo que había tras esta figura clave, cuya trayectoria abarcó los siglos XIX y XX y dejó una huella profunda en la historia. Toni había crecido familiarizado con Blasco Ibáñez, ya que poseía en casa una edición completa de sus obras desde pequeño. Durante casi dos años, estuvo recopilando información sobre el autor con el objetivo de desarrollar un episodio para un podcast que aún no ha visto la luz, titulado El hilo de Ariadna. Su intención era plasmar la vida y obra de Blasco, pero, poco a poco, lo que empezó siendo un hilo de investigación se convirtió en un ovillo enredado y, finalmente, en un auténtico laberinto donde la coherencia parecía inalcanzable. Un día, Toni me envió un gigantesco archivo PDF que contenía cientos de enlaces. Cada uno conducía a otros documentos: artículos, entrevistas, fragmentos de sus libros, notas, análisis, y una interminable colección de referencias. Era una maraña inmensa, intrincada hasta el punto de que resultaba casi imposible encontrar un camino claro para comprender algo en conjunto. Me tomó más de dos semanas montar un enorme rompecabezas en mi mente, organizando cada pieza hasta tener un esquema funcional. Solo entonces pude iniciar el arduo trabajo de lectura e investigación en profundidad. Me sumergí en decenas de textos, libros descatalogados encontrados en viejas bibliotecas, algunos de ellos censurados y prácticamente inhallables, como Tartarin revolucionario. También revisé tesis doctorales, vídeos de archivo, y, sobre todo, periódicos de la época. Mientras avanzaba en esta labor, trazaba mentalmente una imaginaria línea roja, como el hilo que Ariadna tendió para no perderse en el laberinto del Minotauro. Fue en ese proceso donde descubrí que, sorprendentemente, nadie había unificado todos estos datos ni los había presentado al público de forma completa y crítica. El enfoque habitual hacia Blasco Ibáñez seguía siendo el de una veneración superficial, anclada en lugares comunes y alabanzas, pero sin una mirada más profunda que conectara todos los aspectos de su vida y obra. Lo que finalmente revelamos superaba con creces las opiniones de sus contemporáneos, incluidos los escritores de la Generación del 98, de la cual fue apartado. También iba más allá de las críticas feroces de detractores como el periodista que firmaba bajo el seudónimo de El Caballero Audaz. Y, por supuesto, trascendía las supuestas disputas con la Iglesia, que en realidad se reveló como una de las patas de la estructura que lo impulsó a las altas esferas de la literatura mundial. A medida que avanzábamos, entendimos cómo funcionaba esa compleja maquinaria hierogámica y sacrificial a la que se refiere Pedro Bustamante. Blasco Ibáñez, lejos de ser una figura independiente o aislada, era una pieza clave, una rueda más dentro de un engranaje mayor que operaba en las sombras. En Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick presenta una crítica a las élites y sus dinámicas de poder. ¿Encuentras paralelismos entre esta visión y la forma en que Blasco Ibáñez retrata las estructuras de poder de su época? 003 El genio neoyorquino, Stanley Kubrick, logró algo único en su filmografía: mostrar sin mostrar, desvelar un mundo oculto pero solo para aquellos que supieran mirar más allá de las apariencias. En su obra póstuma, Eyes Wide Shut, construyó un complejo entramado simbólico donde nada es lo que parece. Por contraste, Blasco Ibáñez, aunque reconocido en su tiempo como un escritor y político audaz, se limitó a servir a los poderes fácticos, adoptando una postura supuestamente de izquierdas que, al ser analizada con detenimiento, revela contradicciones flagrantes. Digo “supuestamente” porque, al examinar su vida y su obra, queda claro que decía una cosa mientras hacía exactamente la contraria. Esto fue algo que Luis García Berlanga dejó en evidencia de forma magistral en su miniserie de dos capítulos sobre Blasco, donde la hipocresía del escritor valenciano se expone sin ambages. Hay momentos reveladores, como cuando pasa de viajar en tercera clase a primera para evitar incomodidades en el tren que lo lleva a un pequeño pueblo, donde apenas dedica unos minutos a dar un discurso apresurado. Otro ejemplo es su actitud despectiva hacia los pobres en una escena que representa un duelo con el teniente Alestuey, o su cómoda relación con las élites, como su presencia junto al rey Alfonso XIII en casa de Sorolla. Quizás el caso más emblemático sea la visita de Jaime de Borbón, aspirante al trono, a su residencia en Mentón, lo que demuestra cómo un supuesto republicano no tenía reparos en confraternizar con monarquías y nobles, siempre que estuvieran fuera de la vista del pueblo llano. En cada uno de estos episodios, queda patente la distancia entre el Blasco Ibáñez público, crítico con las instituciones tradicionales, y el privado, que buscaba activamente entrar en los círculos que tanto criticaba. Así como Kubrick cuidaba cada detalle en Eyes Wide Shut, asegurándose de que no hubiera nada al azar en el metraje, nosotros encontramos un patrón similar en la vida de Blasco. Cada gesto y decisión parece calculado para proyectar una imagen pública que ocultara su verdadera naturaleza. Esto fue algo que exploramos a fondo en la serie de diez capítulos que realizamos para nuestro proyecto Es Clave, convirtiéndose en el sexto análisis de nuestro grupo. El paralelismo entre Kubrick y Blasco es inevitable en este sentido: mientras uno construyó una obra deliberadamente críptica para quienes quisieran descifrarla, el otro construyó una vida donde las contradicciones eran tan visibles que, a pesar de su aparente claridad, invitaban a un análisis mucho más profundo. Blasco, como dije, solo aparentaba estar enfrentado con la derecha, con los reyes o con las instituciones tradicionales. En realidad, su carrera estuvo marcada por la búsqueda de aceptación en esos mismos círculos que decía despreciar. Criticaba de cara al público mientras, en privado, se aseguraba de beneficiarse de las relaciones y los privilegios que estas conexiones le proporcionaban. Es por eso que decidí titular mi libro Blasco Ibáñez desvelado. Mi intención fue clara: retirar el velo de mentiras y medias verdades que han envuelto su figura durante décadas, elevándolo casi a la categoría de un semidiós intocable. Al desentrañar su verdadero rostro, mostramos no solo sus logros, sino también sus sombras y sus contradicciones, ofreciendo una visión más completa, menos idealizada y mucho más real. Tanto Kubrick como Blasco Ibáñez parecen emplear una narrativa dual: una narrativa superficial y profana, y otra más oculta, cargada de simbolismo, que revela una realidad subyacente. ¿Puedes compartir ejemplos de cómo cada autor expone y revela este "mundo oculto" para quienes tienen los ojos bien abiertos? 004 La película se titula Eyes Wide Shut, que en español significa Ojos bien cerrados. Inspirándome en ello, decidí nombrar mi libro Ojos bien abiertos, con la intención de que su lectura sirva para abrir los ojos de los lectores y permitirles descubrir todo lo que la película revela a quienes tengan la capacidad y la voluntad de verlo. Este ejercicio de análisis nos lleva a explorar un film que, a pesar de ser una obra maestra, ha pasado desapercibido para el gran público. Se trata de un testamento cinematográfico que desvela cómo una élite psicopatocrática controla el mundo desde las sombras. Para la mayoría de las personas, esta última obra de Stanley Kubrick no es más que una crítica superficial y anodina hacia los poderes ocultos, salpicada por algunas escenas que muestran a un grupo selecto de esta élite participando en rituales sexuales. En el mundo del cine, a menudo se la categoriza como un thriller erótico o un drama romántico. Nada más lejos de la realidad. Nuestro análisis va mucho más allá de lo que simplemente se ve en pantalla. Nos adentramos en las capas más profundas del metraje, desentrañando los significados ocultos y las complejas simbologías que el director dejó deliberadamente para ser descubiertas solo por quienes se atrevieran a buscar. Como explica Michel Ciment en su magnífico libro Kubrick: Edición definitiva: “El título mismo es una clave para entrar en este universo en trampantojo; suena familiar pero es una trampa: nunca los ojos se han calificado «grandes cerrados». Lo mismo que el primer plano de la película que ofrece brevemente a la mirada la desnudez de una mujer es seguido inmediatamente por un fundido en negro que nos la arrebata apenas entrevista, preludiando las frustraciones venideras. El fundido (con los habituales travellings hacia atrás) es una de las grandes figuras de estilo recurrentes en Eyes Wide Shut, expresando acertadamente ese balanceo, esencial de la película: ebriedad, pérdida de conciencia, desvanecimiento, sueños. Y la Steadicam de Kubrick encuentra en la fiesta de Ziegler las volutas de la cámara de un Ophuls, tan admirado por Kubrick en su juventud y él también aficionado a Schnitzler (Liebelei, La ronda) y a Zweig (Carta de una desconocida). Pero la embriaguez de la pareja que baila, Alice y su seductor húngaro, es el preludio de vértigos mucho más peligrosos.” Existen decenas de libros que analizan esta película, como el de Ciment, pero ninguno de ellos profundiza en aspectos menos evidentes, como las referencias al ciclo metónico que Kubrick incorpora de manera magistral. Por ejemplo, en el minuto 2:08:03 de la película, Mandy, en la sala de autopsias, se encuentra en la cámara frigorífica número 19. Los números, como es característico en las obras de Kubrick, jamás están al azar. Este detalle nos remite al simbolismo del número 19 en astronomía, conocido como número áureo, que marca un año dentro del ciclo metónico, un período de 19 años que sincroniza los ciclos lunares y solares con un margen de error mínimo. Este descubrimiento, atribuido a Metón de Atenas en el año 432 a.C., fue celebrado por los atenienses como un avance revolucionario y quedó inmortalizado en letras doradas en el templo de Minerva. En la película, este número adquiere una dimensión arquetípica, evocando la escena de los cuentos clásicos en la que el beso despierta a la princesa, rompiendo maldiciones y simbolizando el amor verdadero. Aquí, el número 19 no solo alude al ciclo astronómico, sino que también sugiere una conexión con la trascendencia y la transformación. Por otro lado, si miramos a Blasco Ibáñez, encontramos paralelismos inquietantes con los temas abordados en Eyes Wide Shut. En su vida y en los detalles que rodearon su muerte, hay símbolos que sugieren que comprendía perfectamente el mundo oculto que las élites mantienen alejado de las masas. El 29 de octubre de 1933, con la II República española consolidada, Blasco fue recibido en el puerto de Valencia por 300.000 personas, incluyendo figuras de alto rango como Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Francesc Macià. Su entierro, más propio de un jefe de Estado, incluyó un sarcófago diseñado por Mariano Benlliure con simbología masónica, como una pirámide truncada, el disco solar y una esfera terrestre flanqueada por cabezas de águila. La cara posterior del sarcófago, “la cara buena” de la pirámide truncada Illuminati donde reside esta simbología más esotérica, es curiosamente la menos difundida. Apenas existen fotografías de alta resolución de este lado del cenotafio, lo que alimenta las especulaciones sobre qué se intenta ocultar. ¿Por qué esa opacidad? ¿Qué mensajes ocultos quiso dejar su círculo cercano? La cara de Medusa, una égida de Atenea metálica para proteger al espíritu iluminándolo, con el disco solar acompañado de los cuernos de la fortuna. Fijaos que la bola del mundo que está entre las garras de las dos águilas o del águila de dos cabezas parece un huevo. El huevo alquímico de la masonería, ese germen que tratan de transformar con dos fuerzas, izquierda y derecha, blanco y negro, azul y rojo para lograr la síntesis. La culminación de su obra, vaya. El diseño del mausoleo, obra del arquitecto Javier Goerlich nieto de un marques, incluye elementos alquímicos como un "huevo" que parece estar entre las garras de las águilas, aludiendo al huevo filosófico de la masonería, símbolo de transformación y síntesis. Este cenotafio, que ha cambiado de ubicación en múltiples ocasiones, parece ser un símbolo en sí mismo de una verdad que las élites prefieren mantener en las sombras. En dicho mausoleo se iban a utilizar unos pebeteros que terminaron en una capilla y uno de los cuales fue sufragado por una institución, la Diputación provincial, que fue creada por la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, el supuesto enemigo de Blasco y la República. En definitiva, tanto en el cine de Kubrick como en la vida de Blasco Ibáñez encontramos capas de significados que esperan ser descifradas. Mi libro, Ojos bien abiertos, busca precisamente eso: iluminar lo que se oculta a plena vista y mostrar que, tanto en el arte como en la historia, todo está interconectado. Ambos autores muestran la existencia de estructuras de poder: Kubrick identifica a las élites como la aristocracia del dinero, la nobleza de sangre y la clase media alta; mientras que Blasco Ibáñez se centra en los estamentos tradicionales de la aristocracia, la Iglesia y el Estado, con una burguesía emergente intentando integrarse en las élites. ¿Crees que estas élites son las que realmente controlan el sistema, o es algo aún más complejo? 005 La verdad es que a ciencia cierta nadie puede saber lo que es ese poder oculto sin tener que respetar el secretismo que les ha garantizado la supervivencia a lo largo de muchos milenios. Esto significa que si conoces realmente los mecanismos que utiliza el poder-religión para mantenerse ahi nunca hablaras abiertamente de ello. En ojos bien abiertos hablo sobre los mecanismos de control mental mediante trauma que emplean esta elite psicopatocratica para programar a los miembros de dicha elite. Los mas viejos programan a los mas jóvenes y los mas jóvenes terminan programando a los hijos de de otros que son como ellos en un ciclo sin fin. Esto va mucho mas alla de lo que se conoce por programación MK ultra, o control mental ultra. Aqui hablamos de vínculos sagrados mediante pactos de sangre donde unas familias se intercambian hijos con otras familias para no tener que programar a sus propios hijos mediante las técnicas mas crueles que podamos imaginar. Algo de esto nos mostró Kubrick en la naranja mecánica donde un padre monstruo engendra a un demonio hijo. Kubrick nos está hablando del abuso intergeneracional que practican estas elites de psicopatas que no tienen otra religión mas que la búsqueda del poder. Pedro Bustamante en su articulo "La naranja mecánica: el "eterno retorno" del Falo (1)” nos decía: “Álex-Edipo, hijo encubierto del Illuminati Mr. Alexander, dos encarnaciones de un mismo "eterno retorno" de la herramienta por excelencia del poder-religión: el Falo pederástico- felado-sodomizador-violador. "La naranja mecánica" (1971) de Stanley Kubrick no es una obra fácil. Se puede leer, como todas las grandes obras, a varios niveles. Pero niveles que están relacionados unos con otros. No solo es que haya varios planos narrativos, con uno más literal y otros más metafóricos que podamos leer entre líneas. Lo que hace el genio estadounidense es contarnos, precisamente a través de las vinculaciones entre estos distintos planos, cómo funciona la realidad, cómo funciona el poder-religión.” … “La leche-semen que la pandilla de jóvenes violentos beben, pero también los burgueses con los que se cruzan en el bar, funciona por lo tanto como una droga. Por eso nos dicen que es "leche-plus" o leche con "velloceta". Se refieren a la "belladona" utilizada por las brujas en sus rituales desde la antigüedad, en los rituales dionisíacos o para narcotizar a los soldados griegos. Como el Captagon que hoy las agencias de inteligencia occidentales proporcionan a sus ejércitos de yihadistas, con los que dicen combatir los políticos y los medios mentirosos e inmorales que hoy padecemos. La mecánica es la misma para la clase burguesa o profesional, con sus trajes y sus pajaritas, y para las pandillas callejeras, que no en vano llevan gorros burgueses. Los matones no están más que iniciándose en el sadismo que estructura toda la sociedad capitalista, que irán haciendo más sofisticado a medida que asciendan en la escala de poder.” En la serie de Berlanga sobre la vida de Vicente Blasco se hace una alusión velada al “comercio de mercancía sagrada o intercambio de niños de unos linajes a otros” con la adopción del primo de Blasco. Allí vemos como una carreta esta entrando a Valencia: “Venga Matías, coge a la boñiga. Detrás de esas torres está Valencia aquí nací yo. En aquellos tiempos para mucha gente, para la gente del campo, sobre todo era la ciudad de las promesas. Un lugar en el que cualquiera podía comerciar con lo que tuviera, azadones, patatas, estiércol incluso hijos. Lo curioso era que mientras unos querían entrar a toda costa, para otros respirar se nos hacía cada día más difícil y solo soñábamos con irnos.” Hacen alusión al cuento el Femater, el basurero, de la colección cuentos valencianos. ¿Podría ser que el director se refiriese al propio Blasco ya que poco o nada se sabe de ese supuesto primo adoptado? ¿Podría ser que el propio Blasco hubiera sido intercambiado por otra familia de la elite psicopatocratica para ser traumatizado y programado desde pequeño? Desde luego lo que nos debe quedar claro tras leer “Blasco Ibáñez desvelado” es que la función del escritor valenciano ya estaba designada desde muy niño y que, sabedor o no de ello, el valenciano será una pieza fundamental en la historia global. ¿Definen Kubrick y Blasco Ibáñez a las élites como grupos de poder interesados en el ocultismo, el esoterismo y la espiritualidad, o más bien como entidades centradas únicamente en los poderes materialistas y financieros? 006 Tanto Stanley Kubrick como Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, aunque separados por contextos históricos y temáticas aparentemente distintas, comparten una misma interpretación, una visión de las élites como entidades profundamente interesadas en prácticas ocultistas, rituales esotéricos y un entendimiento del poder que trasciende lo meramente materialista. Sus obras, reinterpretadas bajo esta óptica, dejan entrever la fascinación y el temor hacia un control invisible ejercido a través de fuerzas intangibles pero profundamente influyentes. En esta línea, las élites no solo estarían obsesionadas con acumular riquezas y controlar recursos, sino que también creen en su capacidad para moldear la realidad misma mediante rituales ancestrales y hierogamias sacrificiales, una práctica que, desde tiempos remotos, fusiona los conceptos de sexualidad y sacralidad en una búsqueda de poder espiritual. Kubrick, en su película Eyes Wide Shut, alude a círculos de poder cerrados que participan en ceremonias misteriosas, sugiriendo que estas prácticas no solo simbolizan su influencia, sino que son herramientas reales para afianzar su dominio. Por otro lado, Blasco Ibáñez, aunque menos explícito en lo esotérico, retrata en su obra un universo en el que las élites parecen operar bajo la influencia de fuerzas más grandes que la propia economía o la política. La elección del chalet de la Malvarrosa, en Valencia, como un símbolo del contacto entre el poder terrenal y lo trascendental, adquiere un peso especial en este relato. De forma extraordinaria, si uno traza una línea entre este punto y el obelisco de la Plaza de San Pedro en el Vaticano, se encuentra con una distancia exacta de 600 millas náuticas. Este dato, lejos de ser casual, reflejaría un diseño premeditado que conecta ambas localizaciones con un propósito energético y ritual. Las élites, según esta perspectiva, habrían diseñado el mundo físico para reflejar sus conocimientos ocultos. Esta distancia, tan precisa, no sería un accidente, sino una evidencia de que el chalet y el Vaticano ocupan posiciones estratégicas dentro de una red geomántica que canaliza energías terrestres y cósmicas. A través de estas alineaciones, los rituales adquieren un poder multiplicador, afectando la psique colectiva y reafirmando el control sobre las masas. Esta obsesión por el control no se limita al dominio físico de los territorios, sino que se extiende a la manipulación de las mentes y almas humanas. Según estas creencias, los rituales ancestrales no solo honran a deidades arcanas, sino que también funcionan como un medio para programar la realidad compartida. Creen que, al activar estos puntos energéticos mediante ceremonias específicas, pueden influir en el curso de la historia y el destino de los pueblos, consolidando su hegemonía. Desde este punto de vista, Kubrick y Blasco Ibáñez no serían meros artistas, sino crípticos cronistas que dejaron pistas sobre los mecanismos invisibles del poder. El lenguaje simbólico, las distancias exactas y las narrativas de exclusión esotérica que aparecen en sus obras nos ofrecen un mapa alternativo del mundo, uno donde lo oculto y lo manifiesto se entrelazan para dar forma a una realidad que sigue escapando al entendimiento común. ¿Cómo se pueden conseguir tus libros? 007 Por desgracia mis libros de momento solo se pueden conseguir a través de Amazon ya que todavía no he logrado llegar a ningún acuerdo con ninguna librería. Tengo un articulo en mi blog que se titula “AYUDA A TRAVÉS DE LA COMPRA DE MIS LIBROS” donde explico los libros que tengo y en los formatos que se pueden comprar. De todas formas si introduces mi nombre en Amazon, Ramón Valero, te van a mostrar la pagina de autor donde se referencia mis tres libros. Escribí uno hace mucho tiempo que se llama “Cinco Familiares elementos” pero que he publicado tras escribir mi primer libro como tal que es el que habla sobre Blasco. Este anterior es una recopilación de cinco relatos cortos donde utilizando las vivencias de algunos miembros de mi propia familia explico lo que son los cinco elementos fundamentales que describían los filósofos griegos. Cada relato es muy diferente y trata temas del despertar de consciencia. Son como micro cuentos donde el hilo en común es que hablo de vivencias personales. Este libro contiene también algunos artículos miss muy antiguos y un indice detallado con mis mejores hilos de Twitter. Se podría decir que es un libro de consulta. Hay una versión digital y también en papel en tapa blanda y dura. Realmente mi primer libro como tal es “Blasco Ibáñez desvelado” y se trata de una obra muy seria, muy referenciada, casi una obra académica lo que la hace quizás poco accesible para el gran publico. Pero en ella se explica como funciona el mecanismo hierogamico sacrificial del que hablaba Pedro Bustamante con ideas casi pictóricas. Estoy muy orgulloso de esa obra, que creo que envejecerá muy bien. Darle las gracias a Marta, la editora que me dio el empujoncito para escribirlo. Tras este libro ya me atreví a publicar el de relatos cortos e inmediatamente me metí de lleno a escribir el tercero “Ojos bien abiertos” donde en mas de 800 paginas descubro lo que Kubrick nos contaba en esa película e incluso lo amplio dando detalles sobre las técnicas y rituales que emplea la elite de psicopatas que dirige todo. Esta obra esta editada en digital, tapa blanda de mas de 800 paginas o en dos volúmenes de lujo en tapa dura de unas 500. Realmente esta escrito para poder leer de subcapitulo en subcapitulo sin hacer que el publico pierda el interés en ningún momento. Al igual que el de Blasco, la traca final os dejará con ganas de más. Como digo, o bien a través del articulo en mi blog, o introduciendo mi nombre o el titulo de las obras en Amazon, esta plataforma les proporcionara los enlaces para poder comprarlos. Espero también organizar una charla de presentación de las obras en Valencia lo más pronto posible y lo publicitare a través de mi blog y de Twitter. Muchísimas gracias Alex por preocuparte por entrevistar a este paria que tan solo aspira a ser humano cada dia. Un fuerte abrazo a todos los oyentes y otro para todas las personas que hayan escuchado de mi por primera vez. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Conductor del programa Carl Jung El Mundo Oculto @CarlJungPsico Canal Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_YHaTZKdMN5wqAx8USmtGg …. Invitado UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: AYUDA A TRAVÉS DE LA COMPRA DE MIS LIBROS https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2024/11/16/ayuda-a-traves-de-la-compra-de-mis-libros/ Las Elites secretas de Stanley Kubrick y Vicente Blasco Ibáñez | Psicología y Ocultismo https://youtu.be/ra8k2KbTVOo?feature=shared ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ………………………………………………………………………………………. Epílogo Ricky Hombre Libre - Illuminati https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqSljQlJq8 Anonymous - Illuminati Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uzq-bLJquY

Auf seinem YouTube Kanal Hyperraum hat Maximilian Wüsten sein Wissen über und seine Erfahrungen mit psychedelischen Substanzen geteilt. Bis Google ihn gesperrt hat. Ein Gespräch über angereicherte Trüffel und existentialistische Fragen als Teenager, über seine Überwinterungspläne im Balkan und Südeuropa, über Goa Parties, LSD Derivate und Fliegenpilze und warum es sich der de facto Monopolist YouTube / Google leisten kann, auf anwaltliche Klagen nicht zu reagieren. Infos & Links zur Folge ⁠⁠psychedelische-reise.de ⁠⁠Max bei Instagram Weitere Folgen zum Thema ⁠⁠182 mit Maren Krings über innovative Nutzung von Industriehanf ⁠⁠170 mit Dr. Justus Haucap über verschenkte Chancen und wirtschaftliche Prognosen ⁠⁠165 mit Sebastián Marincolo über das Potential des Highs ⁠⁠162 mit Roman Lemke über Substanzkonsum ⁠⁠159 mit Paul-Philipp Hanske & Benedikt Sarreiter über Ekstasen ⁠⁠149 mit Mathias Bröckers über Eleusis ⁠⁠117 MIRACULIX Lab ⁠⁠069 Dr. Katrin Preller Infos & Links zum Podcast ⁠⁠

In this enlightening episode of the Sacred Travel Podcast, Jocelyn Star Feather joins Julia to discuss the enduring significance of ancient prophecies, rituals and temple culture. Follow along as we trace back the threads connecting Greece and Egypt as highly developed cultures revealing timeless truths about your own existence and relationship with the Earth.Don't miss the activation journey at the end to integrate all the information shared! We talked about: How to bring timeless prophecies of the Oracle of Truth into the contemporary timeline to create a golden future for humanityDiscovering the sacred weavings between Greece and Egypt How the Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries was a life-changing act of reuniting with the Primordial Mother and the Earth What the ancient Egyptian Opening of the Mouth Ritual reveals about our own immortalityReceive a powerful transmission from Jocelyn at the end of our talk!About Jocelyn:Jocelyn Star Feather is a Visibility & Thought Leadership Coach for Visionary Entrepreneurs, Spiritual Alchemist, Astrologer, & Founder of Sacred Planet. She shares shamanic and ancient wisdom to guide courageous seekers in co-creating a revolutionary new world in alignment with Mother Earth and the vast intelligence of the Cosmos.After a successful 15-year corporate career working in finance for major multinational companies, Jocelyn was thrust into a deep spiritual awakening. It was that awakening that turned her life upside-down ... And from which she emerged with a powerful understanding of how to use her intuition and healing abilities ~ Aspects of herself that she'd never had access to before.She dove deeply into earth-based & shamanic practices, and she has studied alongside elders and wisdomkeepers ever since. She has extensively studied ancient civilizations, especially cultures where the Goddess held a strong presence; and she has spent profound & life-changing time in the ancient temples and pyramids of Egypt.Join Jocelyn on a Sacred Egypt Tour in 2025: https://www.wearesacredplanet.com/egypt-2025Connect with Jocelyn:Website: https://www.wearesacredplanet.comYoutube: @sacredplanetFacebook: @sacredplanetInstagram: @wearesacredplanetIf you like the show, please do me a favor and like, follow and leave me a review or tag me on your socials #thesacredtravelpodcast. Thank you so much! Ready to embark on your own expansion journey?Check out upcoming Conscious Travel and Sacred Site Pilgrimages with me.Seeking guidance and clarity for a land calling or a conscious travel experience? Book your Soul Wisdom Quest Counseling with me.Connect with me on Instagram: @soul_wisdom_by_julia For more information and to subscribe to my newsletter, visit www.soulwisdom.ch.Send me a message!Support the show

EGO DEATH and the God Complex - THis episode unveils the Mysterious city of Eleusis where it was said humans experienced the magic of mortality and Rebirth by drinking some sort of magic transformational potion. If true, this takes the modern day structures of religion and god and shakes them up into manifestations of something else. Enjoy this thing that makes you go hmmm.  Connect With Dr. JC: https://zez.am/makessense  LIVE STREAMED on Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube MAKES SENSE PODCAST SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW the NEW Podcast - You will find a "Follow" button top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168    OUR SPONSOR: Enjoy the show and consider joining our psychological safe haven and environment where you can begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about   Highlights:  0:00 - Intro - What is it that I actually do? 1:36 - A word from our sponsor (Makes Sense Academy) 2:34 - What is the true meaning and purpose of life? 3:42 - NDE's (Near Death Experiences) 4:09 - The ancient Eleusinian Mysteries 6:49 - The emergence of Jesus 7:36 - Plant medicine and ego death 8:34 - Why do humans struggle so much?  

Today we are joined by author and publisher Mark Nemglan to discuss his new title from Scarlet Imprint, Avalon Working. Avalon Working is equal parts grimoire and devotional, gazeteer and visionary journey. The work passionately argues for Glastonbury as centre of emergence and initiation, a latter-day Eleusis. Through essay and ritual, the author invites readers to actively participate in the Holy Island's unfolding destiny, in partnership with its spirits and powers, to co-create its mythopoeia and, in doing so, forge a new Avalonian covenant. In the Plus show Mark goes into detail regarding the rituals and spirits associated with Glastonbury and the strange encounters people have had on the Tor and Mark shares with us his own incredible experience. Show Notes: Buy the book https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/avalon-working Nemglan Press https://nemglan.com Mark's instagram https://www.instagram.com/nemglan_press/ Mark's Substack https://marknemglan.substack.com Glastonbury Tor https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/somerset/glastonbury-tor/history-of-glastonbury-tor The Sun and the Serpent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/576696.The_Sun_and_the_Serpent Lough Derg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_DergCountyDonegal Caoránach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oilliphéist Keep in touch? https://linktr.ee/darraghmason Music by Obliqka https://soundcloud.com/obliqka

Welche Sprache sprachen die Mykener:innen? Welche Gottheiten beteten sie an? Gab es Zeus und Hera bereits bei ihnen? Neben der Schrift, Sprache und Kultzentren treffen wir auch auf Achilles, Hektor, Theseus und Orestes...oder zumindest auf Mykener, die diese Namen trugen, aber nicht die legendenhaften Krieger und Helden aus der Mythologie waren. Normale Menschen, wie du und ich. Quellen: https://www.rug.nl/research/groningen-institute-of-archaeology/research/research-groups/corienwiersma Bartonek, Handbuch des mykenisch Griechisch, 2002 Chadwick, The Mycenaean World, 1976 Chadwick/ Ventris, 1973 Daniels / Bright, The World's Writing Systems, 1996 Driessen / Macdonal, Some Military Aspects of Aegean in the Late Fifteenth & Early Fourteenth centuries, 1984 Hagg/Wells, Opuscula Atheniesia XII, 1978 Mylonas, Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age, 1966 Ebd., Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries, 1961 Nillson, Geschichte der Griechischen Religion, 1967 Nillson, 1940 S.A. James, The Thebes Tablets and the Fq series (…), 2006 S. Deger / O. Panagl, Die Neuen Linear-B-Texte aus Theben, 2006 Musik: Akhet, The Innundation of the Nile by ArizonaGuide (Pixabay)

Have you ever wondered what is meant by the phrase "mystery religions"? Ever wonder, just what the hell this "mystery" is? Are you frustrated by the deafening silence of the ancient writers on this subject? Titillated by the hints left by Plato and the pre-Socratics? Yeah, you're not alone. While the mysteries of Eleusis and the cults of Mithras and Isis may remain in the shadows, the mysteries of Orpheus have been cracked wide open! Like the Rosetta Stone of the Orphic-Dionysian mysteries, an ancient papyrus has been found, which spills the proverbial beans. Join me in exploring the Derveni Papyrus. Enjoy ;) 

Part 1 of Episode 150! Yay!! And now for something completely different. This episode is a bit of a departure from our regular show. We invite Alex Criddle and Cody Noconi, researchers into the psychedelic origins of Mormonism, to respond to the recent debate on the Mormon Book Reviews channel between ourselves and Mormon apologist, Brian Hales. Brian attempts to provide the apologetic response to the theory that Joseph Smith utilized psychedelics (entheogens) in the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to facilitate visionary experiences for the early Saints. Disinformation requires much greater effort than simply stating information so we do our best to debunk his debunking (rebunk the theory?). This one is a long haul so we split it into 2 episodes to make it a little more digestible.   Show notes: Video version: https://youtu.be/3l0L1EHtQOo Support our research and outreach: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions Original here: Psychedelics & Early Mormonism Theory Brian Hales Responds on Mormon Book Reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7J0y_cPpg Further information: “The Higher Powers of Man” - Frederick M. Smith was a prophet of the RLDS Mormons and paternal grandson of the founder Joseph Smith. In 1918 Frederick published this Ph.D. dissertation breaking down altered states of consciousness from an early psychologist's perspective, specifically, religious states of ‘ecstacy' as he called it. A lengthy chapter devoted to peyote is particularly worth reading. “The Higher Powers: Fred M - Smith and the Peyote Ceremonies” - Shelby Barnes' 1995 paper highlighting the curious psychedelic interests of Frederick M. Smith. While Barnes does not make any direct connections to Joseph Smith and psychedelics, Barnes does note that Frederick's interests were an attempt to find the reliable keys to visionary revelation that his grandfather Joseph had demonstrated. “Restoration and the Sacred Mushroom”  - Dr. Robert Beckstead's seminal research paper presented at the August 2007 Sunstone Symposium. Beckstead's paper was the first to propose the possibility that Joseph Smith used psychedelics to facilitate visionary experiences. “A 1920's Harvard Psychedelic Circle with a Mormon Connection: Peyote Use amongst the Harvard Aesthetes” Alan Piper's 2016 paper highlighting Frederick M. Smith's interest in psychedelics, and how as a standing Mormon prophet Fred was funding a 1920s group of Harvard students with peyote. “Revelation Through Hallucination: A discourse on the Joseph Smith-entheogen theory” - Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi's 2017 follow-up paper further explores the hypothesis originally put forward by Dr. Robert Beckstead a decade earlier. “The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis” - Dr. Robert Beckstead, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman's paper published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies in June 2019. This was the first paper on the subject published in an academic journal. “Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith's Reported Use of Entheogens” Brian Hales' 2020 response paper to the one published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies. As a believing Mormon engaged in academic apologetics, Hales details what he perceives to be holes in the proposed hypothesis. “The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs” - Cody Noconi's book published in 2021. “Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 1)” Alex Criddle's 2023 paper that was originally presented at the Forms of Psychedelic Life conference at UC Berkeley (April 14-15, 2023). “Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 2)” A continuation of Alex Criddle's 2023 paper. “A Real Spiritual High: In Defense of Psychedelic Mysticism” An enlightening philosophical essay from Alex Criddle. Bibliography and further reading: The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James The Higher Powers of Man, by Frederick M. Smith The Magus, by Francis Barrett  A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly Hearts Made Glad: The Charges of Intemperance Against Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet, by Lamar Peterson The Seven Sisters of Sleep, by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke The Encylopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, by Christian Rátsch Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, by Richard Evans Shultes, Albert Hoffman, and Christian Rátsch The Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants, by Christian Rátsch Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants, by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Rátsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible, by Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult, by Chris Bennett Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World, by Chris Bennett Plants of the Devil, by Corinne Boyer The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, by Brian C. Muraresku Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft, and the Poison Path, by Daniel A. Schulke Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism, by Daniel A. Schulke The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, by Richard Evans Shultes and Albert Hoffman Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, by Richard Evans Shultes Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia, by Richard Evans Shultes and Robert F. Raffauf Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline, Richard Evans Shultes and Siri von Reis Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, by Jonathan Ott, R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, and Carl A. P. Ruck Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, by Jonathan Ott Plant Intoxicants: a Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants, by Ernst Bibra and Jonathan Ott Age of Entheogens & the Angels' Dictionary, by Jonathan Ott Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia Divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants, by Jonathan Ott, Gianluca Toro, and Benjamin Thomas The Road to Eleusis, by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, by William A. Richards Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness, by Carl A.P. Ruck and Mark Alwin Hoffman Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis, by Carl A.P. Ruck The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Clark Heinrich, and Blaise Daniel Staples Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Sacred Plants, Magical Practices, Ecstatic States, by Thomas Hatsis The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic, by Thomas Hatsis Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry, by PD Newman Angels in Vermillion: The Philosophers' Stone: From Dee to DMT, by PD Newman Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine, by PD Newman The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs, by Cody Noconi Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy, by Clark Heinrich Psychedelic Medicine, by Richard Miller Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History, by Brian Jackson The Religious Experience: It's Production and Interpretation., by Timothy Leary Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, by Huston Smith The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide, by James Fadiman Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, by Paul Stamets Soma: divine mushroom of immortality, by Robert Gordon Wasson The Philosophy of Natural Magic, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Dwellers on the Threshold; Or Magic and Magicians, with Some Illustrations of Human Error and Imposture, by John Maxwell The History of Magic, by Eliphas Levi Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, by Albert Mackey The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius F. Sachse God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion, by Don Lattin The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, byAlexander Dawson The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzne, and Richard Alpert Entheogens and the Future of Religion, by Robert Forte How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, by James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon The Peyote Cult, by Weston LaBarre DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, by Rick Stassman A Hallucinogenic Tea Laced With Controversy, by Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill Occurrence and Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin Alkaloids, by Jakob Kristinsson and Jørn Gry Psychedelics Encyclopedia, by Peter G Stafford Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain, by Nicolas Langlitz Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History, by Robert W. Fuller Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, by Mike Jay DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible, by Rick Strassman Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, by G. William Barnar Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, by Don Lattin The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible, by Dan Merkur Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation and Mystical Experience, by Dan Merkur LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann, by Albert Hoffman The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy, by Don Lattin LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious, by Stanislav Grof LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby and Rafael Chanchari Pizuri Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon by Marlene Dobkin de Rios The Antipodes of the Mind by Benny Shannon Ancient Psychedelic Substances by Scott Fitzpatrick Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion by Stan Grof, Huston Smith, and Albert Hofmann  The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms by Don Jose Campos The Religion of Ayahuasca: The Teachings of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari de Alverga Email: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glassboxpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlassBoxPod  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/  Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com   

Part 2 of Episode 150! Yay!! And now for something completely different. This episode is a bit of a departure from our regular show. We invite Alex Criddle and Cody Noconi, researchers into the psychedelic origins of Mormonism, to respond to the recent debate on the Mormon Book Reviews channel between ourselves and Mormon apologist, Brian Hales. Brian attempts to provide the apologetic response to the theory that Joseph Smith utilized psychedelics (entheogens) in the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in order to facilitate visionary experiences for the early Saints. Disinformation requires much greater effort than simply stating information so we do our best to debunk his debunking (rebunk the theory?). This one is a long haul so we split it into 2 episodes to make it a little more digestible.   Show notes: Video version: https://youtu.be/3l0L1EHtQOo Support our research and outreach: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions Original here: Psychedelics & Early Mormonism Theory Brian Hales Responds on Mormon Book Reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7J0y_cPpg   Further information: “The Higher Powers of Man” - Frederick M. Smith was a prophet of the RLDS Mormons and paternal grandson of the founder Joseph Smith. In 1918 Frederick published this Ph.D. dissertation breaking down altered states of consciousness from an early psychologist's perspective, specifically, religious states of ‘ecstacy' as he called it. A lengthy chapter devoted to peyote is particularly worth reading. “The Higher Powers: Fred M - Smith and the Peyote Ceremonies” - Shelby Barnes' 1995 paper highlighting the curious psychedelic interests of Frederick M. Smith. While Barnes does not make any direct connections to Joseph Smith and psychedelics, Barnes does note that Frederick's interests were an attempt to find the reliable keys to visionary revelation that his grandfather Joseph had demonstrated. “Restoration and the Sacred Mushroom”  - Dr. Robert Beckstead's seminal research paper presented at the August 2007 Sunstone Symposium. Beckstead's paper was the first to propose the possibility that Joseph Smith used psychedelics to facilitate visionary experiences. “A 1920's Harvard Psychedelic Circle with a Mormon Connection: Peyote Use amongst the Harvard Aesthetes” Alan Piper's 2016 paper highlighting Frederick M. Smith's interest in psychedelics, and how as a standing Mormon prophet Fred was funding a 1920s group of Harvard students with peyote. “Revelation Through Hallucination: A discourse on the Joseph Smith-entheogen theory” - Bryce Blankenagel and Cody Noconi's 2017 follow-up paper further explores the hypothesis originally put forward by Dr. Robert Beckstead a decade earlier. “The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis” - Dr. Robert Beckstead, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman's paper published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies in June 2019. This was the first paper on the subject published in an academic journal. “Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads: Joseph Smith's Reported Use of Entheogens” Brian Hales' 2020 response paper to the one published in the Journal of Psychedelic Studies. As a believing Mormon engaged in academic apologetics, Hales details what he perceives to be holes in the proposed hypothesis. “The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs” - Cody Noconi's book published in 2021. “Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 1)” Alex Criddle's 2023 paper that was originally presented at the Forms of Psychedelic Life conference at UC Berkeley (April 14-15, 2023). “Psychedelics as a Means of Revelation in Early and Contemporary Mormonism (Part 2)” A continuation of Alex Criddle's 2023 paper. “A Real Spiritual High: In Defense of Psychedelic Mysticism” An enlightening philosophical essay from Alex Criddle. Bibliography and further reading: The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James The Higher Powers of Man, by Frederick M. Smith The Magus, by Francis Barrett  A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly Hearts Made Glad: The Charges of Intemperance Against Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet, by Lamar Peterson The Seven Sisters of Sleep, by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke The Encylopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, by Christian Rátsch Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, by Richard Evans Shultes, Albert Hoffman, and Christian Rátsch The Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants, by Christian Rátsch Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants, by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Rátsch, and Wolf-Dieter Storl Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible, by Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult, by Chris Bennett Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World, by Chris Bennett Plants of the Devil, by Corinne Boyer The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name, by Brian C. Muraresku Veneficium: Magic Witchcraft, and the Poison Path, by Daniel A. Schulke Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism, by Daniel A. Schulke The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, by Richard Evans Shultes and Albert Hoffman Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian Amazon, by Richard Evans Shultes Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia, by Richard Evans Shultes and Robert F. Raffauf Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline, Richard Evans Shultes and Siri von Reis Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, by Jonathan Ott, R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, and Carl A. P. Ruck Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, by Jonathan Ott Plant Intoxicants: a Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants, by Ernst Bibra and Jonathan Ott Age of Entheogens & the Angels' Dictionary, by Jonathan Ott Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia Divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants, by Jonathan Ott, Gianluca Toro, and Benjamin Thomas The Road to Eleusis, by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck, Huston Smith Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences, by William A. Richards Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness, by Carl A.P. Ruck and Mark Alwin Hoffman Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Mark Alwin Hoffman and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess: Secrets of Eleusis, by Carl A.P. Ruck The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, by Carl A.P. Ruck, Clark Heinrich, and Blaise Daniel Staples Psychedelic Mystery Traditions: Sacred Plants, Magical Practices, Ecstatic States, by Thomas Hatsis The Witches' Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic, by Thomas Hatsis Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry, by PD Newman Angels in Vermillion: The Philosophers' Stone: From Dee to DMT, by PD Newman Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine, by PD Newman The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs, by Cody Noconi Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy, by Clark Heinrich Psychedelic Medicine, by Richard Miller Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History, by Brian Jackson The Religious Experience: It's Production and Interpretation., by Timothy Leary Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, by Huston Smith The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide, by James Fadiman Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide, by Paul Stamets Soma: divine mushroom of immortality, by Robert Gordon Wasson The Philosophy of Natural Magic, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Dwellers on the Threshold; Or Magic and Magicians, with Some Illustrations of Human Error and Imposture, by John Maxwell The History of Magic, by Eliphas Levi Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, by Albert Mackey The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius F. Sachse God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion, by Don Lattin The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, byAlexander Dawson The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzne, and Richard Alpert Entheogens and the Future of Religion, by Robert Forte How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, by James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon The Peyote Cult, by Weston LaBarre DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, by Rick Stassman A Hallucinogenic Tea Laced With Controversy, by Marlene Dobkin de Rios and Roger Rumrrill Occurrence and Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin Alkaloids, by Jakob Kristinsson and Jørn Gry Psychedelics Encyclopedia, by Peter G Stafford Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain, by Nicolas Langlitz Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History, by Robert W. Fuller Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, by Mike Jay DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible, by Rick Strassman Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition, by G. William Barnar Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, by Don Lattin The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible, by Dan Merkur Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation and Mystical Experience, by Dan Merkur LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann, by Albert Hoffman The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy, by Don Lattin LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious, by Stanislav Grof LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher Bache Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby and Rafael Chanchari Pizuri Visionary Vine: Psychedelic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon by Marlene Dobkin de Rios The Antipodes of the Mind by Benny Shannon Ancient Psychedelic Substances by Scott Fitzpatrick Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion by Stan Grof, Huston Smith, and Albert Hofmann  The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms by Don Jose Campos The Religion of Ayahuasca: The Teachings of the Church of Santo Daime by Alex Polari de Alverga  Email: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod  Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glassboxpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlassBoxPod  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/  Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com   

Doritos is facing a boycott after announcing a transgender artist as brand ambassador, Samantha Hudson; a similar story to what happened with Bud Light and Target. But in order to boycott something, “withdraw from relations with,” you have to support it in the first place. Doritos, Bud Light, and Target are awful products and companies already, and the ingredients in the former are terrifying, despite claims otherwise. The chemicals, flavors, colors, and preservatives in Doritos are enough already to launch a boycott; the chemicals sprayed on the crops, which are also GM, used for Bud Light are equally enough to call for a boycott. Now Kellogg's is being threatened with a boycott because a new ad suggests eating cereal for dinner due to increasing costs of living. But again, the ingredients in Frosted Flakes are the real reason to boycott the company. In fact, the colorings and sugars in these cereals alone are not only cause for concern due to health reasons but also due to spiritual reasons. Cereal crops were sacred in antiquity and the myths of Demeter and her daughter Persephone, and Ceres (where we get the word Cereal) and her daughter Proserpina, were the basis of the ancient mysteries. The colorful purple fungus found on barley, rye, and other crops was used in Greece to induce mind altering contact with the spirit realm. Today we think that “cereal” is a boxed and brand name product, rather than the crop that takes time and magic to grow. We also think that the colors and flavors that appeal to eyes and tongue are magical when rather than expanding the mind like at Eleusis, now drive kids into hyperactivity hypersensitive and a different type of frenzy. Furthermore, the outrage expressed by the political right is equivalent to the same on the political left: censorship and canceling whatever is trending on their news feeds. Boycotting is one thing, but this type of boycotting equates to some type of sophisticated, yet simple, marketing scam. People say, “I'm not buying Frosted Flakes anymore,” while replacing that cereal with Froot Lupes, which are also made by Kellogg's. If not for the ingredients themselves, the only other major reason to boycott these companies and their products is due to the fact that their use of trans-marketing applies to 0.7% of the population, leaving 99.3% of a potential marketplace victim to emotional blackmail and gas lighting with subsidized, chemical, witch brews of dairy, corn, and unnecessary food coloring. These things overwhelm the senses and exploit the same, just as Facebook was designed to exploit a vulnerably in human psychology. -FREE ARCHIVE & RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-secret-teachingsTwitter: https://twitter.com/TST___RadioFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesecretteachingsWEBSITE (BOOKS, RESUBSCRIBE for early show access): http://thesecretteachings.infoPaypal: rdgable@yahoo.comCashApp: $rdgableBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tstradioSUBSCRIBE TO NETWORK: http://aftermath.mediaEMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.com

In episode 1967, Andrew talks to Matt Gatton, author of THE SHADOWS OF SOCRATES, about the heresy, war and treachery behind the trial of Socrates. Matt Gatton is a scholar based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a pioneer of the study of the ritual and aesthetic uses of physical light in prehistory and classical antiquity. Gatton's groundbreaking work on optical distortions at Lascaux was published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics; and his work on the ritual use of optics at the influential ancient Greek temple of Eleusis was published by Oxford University Press. Gatton has presented his work at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford, the University of Cologne, Slovak University, and Vanderbilt University. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I read an exclusive excerpt from my latest book, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor, published by Yale University Press, as part of the Ancient Lives Series. The book is a philosophical biography of the Roman emperor, which contains many references to the Meditations and how his philosophy shaped his life. You can help it reach a wider audience by pre-ordering now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or any other bookseller.While the First Marcomannic War was raging, Marcus Aurelius, surrounded by death and betrayal, found consolation in writing his famous notes “to himself” on Stoic philosophy. He also made a solemn vow. If he survived long enough, he would go on pilgrimage to Athens and join the supplicants being initiated in the Temple of Demeter at nearby Eleusis. Hadrian had tried to bring the Eleusinian Mysteries to Rome, but their mystique was rooted in the Greek temple's ancient site.Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.NEW: My publisher, Yale University Press, has generously agreed to offer a whopping 30% discount to you, my Substack Subscribers, when you pre-order my new book Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. Simply click the pre-order button and at the checkout enter the coupon code Y24AURELIUS to claim 30% off. This offer is valid now, and until February 5th, 2024. (NB: Offer only available to orders placed on the Yale website for delivery to the US or Canada.)Praise from other Authors“Few historical figures are as fascinating as Marcus Aurelius, the emperor-philosopher. And few writers have been so effective at bringing his complex life and character to the attention of modern readers as Donald Robertson.”—Massimo Pigliucci, author of How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life“Robertson has written a very thorough and very readable account of Marcus's life and the events and people that shaped him. Anyone who wants to understand the author of Meditations should read this book.”—Robin Waterfield, author of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: The Annotated Edition“Donald Robertson guides us into the world of a philosopher-emperor whose humility and Stoic teachings fill the pages. We are indebted to Robertson for this wonderful account of the emperor who penned notes to himself while in battle that would be later known as the Meditations and read by millions for philosophical inspiration. Simply spellbinding.”—Nancy Sherman, author of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience“This highly readable biography is the perfect place to begin for anyone who wants to learn more about the man behind the Meditations.”—John Sellars, author of The Pocket Stoic“Robertson's biography provides a compelling narrative of Marcus' life, carefully based on the primary sources. He brings out very clearly the life-long significance of Stoicism for Marcus and the interplay between philosophy, politics, and warfare.”—Christopher Gill, author of Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and Its Modern SignificanceThank you for reading Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life. This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life at donaldrobertson.substack.com/subscribe

Ο Δημήτρης συζητάει με τον Γιάννη, συνιδρυτή της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Ενθεογόνων, για το θέμα των ψυχεδελικών ουσιών. Τι είναι τα ψυχεδελικά; Είναι ναρκωτικά; Ποιοι οι στόχοι της Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Ενθεογόνων; Πότε μπορεί κανείς να σκεφτεί να χρησιμοποιήσει αυτές τις ουσίες; Και ποια η σχέση με την Ελλάδα και την ελληνική γλώσσα; Σημειώσεις εκπομπής Vidcast (https://youtu.be/nlyHqB9L884) Κυκεώνας - Greek Psychedelic Society (https://psychedelicsociety.gr/en) Aldous Huxley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley) - To make this mundane world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme Humphrey Osmond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Osmond) - To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic Η Αλήθεια για τα «Ναρκωτικά» (https://www.politeianet.gr/books/9789600417555-rock-michael-kedros-i-alitheia-gia-ta-narkotika-167972) (βιβλίο) Παραδοχή για τον πόλεμο κατά των ναρκωτικών (https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional) Project MKUltra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra) Unabomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski) Ken Kesey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey) How to Change Your Mind (βιβλίο) (https://michaelpollan.com/books/how-to-change-your-mind/) How to Change Your Mind (Netflix) (https://www.netflix.com/title/80229847) The Road to Eleusis (βιβλίο) (https://www.goodreads.com/el/book/show/2402353) The Immortality Key (βιβλίο) (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51174256-the-immortality-key) Είναι Καιρός να Βγούμε Από Την Ψυχεδελική Ντουλάπα (https://psychedelicsociety.gr/el/testimonials/kairos-na-bgoyme-apo-tin-psyhedeliki-ntoylapa) Λεξιλόγιο κι εκφράσεις παραισθησιογόνο (https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B8%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B3%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%BF) = hallucinogen ψυχεδελικό (https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%88%CF%85%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82) = ψυχή + δηλώνω = ψυχοδηλωτικό phanerothyme = φανερώνω + θυμικό (https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B8%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C) ενθεογόνο (https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BD%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%B3%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%BF) = εν + θεός + γενέσθαι (γεννιέμαι) connotation (https://www.wordreference.com/engr/connotation) = συνυποδήλωση τσουβαλιάζω (https://www.wordreference.com/gren/%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B6%CF%89) = lump sth up with sth χάνω τη μπάλα (https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=401086.0) = to lose the plot ατέρμονη ανάπτυξη = infinite growth Απομαγνητοφώνηση Δημήτρης: [0:17] Γεια σας και καλώς ήρθατε στο Easy Greek podcast, το podcast που σας μαθαίνει ελληνικά με καθημερινούς αυθεντικούς διαλόγους. Στο σημερινό μας podcast έχουμε έναν καλεσμένο... έναν αξιότιμο καλεσμένο, τον Γιάννη. Γεια σου, Γιάννη! (Γεια σου, Δημήτρη!) Χρόνια πολλά κιόλας! Σήμερα είναι 7 Ιανουαρίου, ε; Γιάννης: [0:39] Ναι, γιορτάζω εγώ και η μισή Ελλάδα. Δημήτρης: [0:42] Εσύ όμως είσαι στην Αγγλία! Γιορτάζεις και στην Αγγλία; Γιάννης: [0:46] Ναι, όσοι μου στέλνουνε χρόνια πολλά αυτό θεωρούν... ότι γιορτάζω και στην Αγγλία, αλλά, ναι... εδώ δεν ξέρουν από namedays. Δημήτρης: [0:53] Ναι, αλλά εσύ κάνεις τίποτα; Φαντάζομαι μόνος σου τα... δεν (Όχι) ξεχνάς ότι υπάρχει αυτό όταν... όταν φεύγεις από το περιβάλλον το... Γιάννης: [1:01] Ναι, ναι, ναι, ναι, ναι, ναι. Και στην Ελλάδα δηλαδή... Ντάξει, άντε να βγαίναμε για κανά φαΐ. Δεν είναι ότι θα κάνουμε κάτι πολύ μεγάλο για την ονομαστική εορτή. Δημήτρης: [1:08] Αλλά και πάλι είναι ωραίο που σήμερα μιλάμε στη γιορτή σου. Εμένα μου αρέσει τουλάχιστον. Είμαστε... καταρχάς να πω ότι αυτό το επεισόδιο είναι vidcast, θα το βάλουμε και σαν βίντεο στο Easy Greek podcast στο YouTube. Είναι μία καλή ευκαιρία να το μοιραστούμε γιατί το βίντεο έχει άλλη δύναμη, όπως και να 'χει. Θα 'θελα να δοκιμάσουμε και βίντεο γενικότερα στο Easy Greek podcast, να δούμε αν μπορούμε να το χρησιμοποιήσουμε πιο συχνά, οπότε είναι και αυτό μία δοκιμή. Όπως και να 'χει, αν εσείς μας ακούτε σε κανονική μορφή podcast, αυτό δεν σας επηρεάζει καθόλου κάπως. Σήμερα θα μιλήσουμε για τα ψυχεδελικά. Έτσι δεν είναι, Γιάννη; (Ναι) Πες μας για τον «Κυκεώνα» και για την Ελληνική Εταιρία Ενθεογόνων. Καταρχάς, στα αγγλικά «Greek Psychedelic Society» και στα ελληνικά «Ελληνική Εταιρία Ενθεογόνων» Γιατί όχι «Ελληνική Ψυχεδελικη Εταιρία». Γιάννης: [2:17] Βασικά λόγω του... της αρνητικής φόρτισης αυτής της λέξης στην ελληνική κοινωνία. Όταν το είχαμε ονομάσει αρχικά έτσι, πάρα πολλοί ερχόντουσαν και μας έλεγαν ότι «Έχετε σχέση με party και psychedelic music και τέτοια πράγματα;». Ναι. Για την υπόλοιπη απομαγνητοφώνηση, γίνετε μέλη μας! (https://easy-greek.org/membership)

We end 2023 with a look at Despoina, an obscure Arcadian goddess associated with this title which means "Mistress". Often connected to Kore/Persephone, Artemis and Hecate, this child of Demeter and Poseidon holds a powerful secret and a name that would only be revealed to initiates of her Mysteries. The only surviving image connected to Despoina is her veil, and the only account of her shrine in Arcadia comes from a description by the Roman writer Pausanias. Still, the little information that we have tells us a lot about this goddess and her cohorts.

Sam Harris speaks with Brian Muraresku about ancient mystery religions and the possible psychedelic roots of Christianity. They discuss the Mysteries of Eleusis, the “pagan continuity hypothesis,” the cult of Dionysius, the Dead Sea scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels, Christianity as a cult of human sacrifice, the evidence for the use of psychedelics in ancient rites, the chemical analysis of ancient wine and beer, why Brian hasn't tried psychedelics, the need for a modern Mysteries of Eleusis, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.   Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That's why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life's most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Eleusis is a town outside of Athens where the Greeks conducted a secret rite of initiation in honor of the goddess of the earth, Demeter, and her daughter and queen of the underworld, Persephone. The rite may have dated before the Greek Dark Ages, more than a thousand years BCE, and could have had its roots in a still more ancient agrarian cult. Eleusis was known for its special relationship with the spirits of the dead who aided in the prosperity of the grains that grew in the fields outside of the town. Anyone could become an initiate who could speak and understand Greek and pay roughly a month's wages for the cost of a sacrificial pig and the services of priests and guides. In February, the time of the flowers, initiates experienced the lesser mystery in Agrai based on the events surrounding Persephone's death. In September, the time of the sowing of winter crops, masses of pilgrims paraded over a narrow bridge into the sacred town where they experienced the secret vision of the Greater Mystery, an encounter these initiates could never describe to anyone under any circumstances for the rest of their lives.

Share this episode: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/the-best-kept-secret-in-history Sam Harris speaks with Brian Muraresku about ancient mystery religions and the possible psychedelic roots of Christianity. They discuss the Mysteries of Eleusis, the “pagan continuity hypothesis,” the cult of Dionysius, the Dead Sea scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels, Christianity as a cult of human sacrifice, the evidence for the use of psychedelics in ancient rites, the chemical analysis of ancient wine and beer, why Brian hasn’t tried psychedelics, the need for a modern Mysteries of Eleusis, and other topics. Brian Muraresku graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. As an alumnus of Georgetown Law and a member of the Bars of both New York and Washington D.C., he has been practicing law internationally for over fifteen years. He lives outside Washington D.C. with his wife and two daughters. The Immortality Key is Muraresku's debut book. Website: https://www.brianmuraresku.com/ Twitter: @BrianMuraresku Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Carolyn Lovewell (aka Carolyn Elliott), PhD. Carolyn wrote a book called Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power. In their conversation today they discuss this unique approach to shadow work, the importance of surrender when trying to integrate our shadow parts, how the mysteries of Eleusis inspired Carolyn to create what she calls “sleepover mystery school”, who existential kink is and is not appropriate for, and much more.You can learn more about Carolyn's book and other work at her website: https://carolyngraceelliott.com/Learn more about our podcast at https://numinus.com/podcast/Learn more about psychedelic therapy training opportunities at https://numinus.com/our-training-selection/Learn more about our clinical trials at https://numinus.com/research/ Learn more about Numinus at https://numinus.com/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstevethayer/https://www.instagram.com/innerspacedoctor/https://www.instagram.com/numinushealth/

Ad Verbrugge, Bert van den Berg en Hugo Koning over de betekenis van de mysteriën van Eleusis, waar Demeter, Persephone en Dionysos centraal stonden, voor Plato en wat daar plaatsvond. Dit is een ingekorte versie van een langer gesprek, zie de volledige versie hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuJKpS2EBj4 Het boek 'De mythen van Plato, Verhalen voor alle tijden' bestel je hier: https://www.damon.nl/boeken/344-de-mythen-van-plato

Podcast dedykowany pamięci Ireneusza Kani, zmarłego 9 października 2023 roku filologa, humanisty, erudyty, poligloty, tłumacza, znawczy i miłośnika języków i kultur Grecji starożytnej i współczesnej.Inicjatywa Doskonałości na Wydziale Filologicznym Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.

First New Moon of Autumn will cause an annular eclipse and calls to mind the greater mystery rites of Eleusis

This week I'm joined by Elyse Welles! Elyse is the cohost of the Magick Kitchen Podcast. She is a Greek and American earth intuitive witch and author living on Artemis' temple lands in Greece. An initiate of the eclectic Faery Tradition, her practice is centered on connections to land spirits and sacred places (numina). She is also a monthly columnist for The Wild Hunt, Witch Way Magazine, Full Moon Magazine., and Pagan Pages. Elyse's debut novel, "What the Water Remembers", a paranormal mystery that empowers witches in and out of the broom closet, releases autumn 2024. With ten years of experience and a masters degree in the history of witchcraft, she teaches witchcraft workshops online, gives tours to Greece's sacred sites, and is an intuitive tarot reader. You can learn more about her work on @seekingnumina on Instagram, and seekingnumina.com We talk about her practice living in Greece, some of the contemporary attitudes to witchcraft around Athens, what it's like to live and work in Greek temples that are still standing & of course, about how to connect to Land Spirits and cultivate a lived magical practice. Interested in Esoteric Scholarship & historical Occult practice? Check out our flagship training program: https://www.mystai.co.uk/omm Click here to learn more about our school

This is a thesis about Nietzsche. My obsession with Nietzsche started when I was sixteen years old. Inspired by Nietzsche, I went back to Homer and to Plato and read them through Nietzsche's provocations. These provocations also inspired me to learn Greek. I would guess I thought through the ideas behind this thesis around the time I was twenty-two years old. The fundamental problem that motivated me then as it does now: what is life as opposed to death, and what is life as full of life, as opposed to life as diminished life. ... While it would greatly amuse me to claim now that I learned all my naughty ideas from my advisors, and that there is a secret Straussian finishing school for people like me of unusual persuasion, I think even they don't deserve this. I've learned everything I care about on my own and certainly not from any professors. It's not arrogant of me to say this, but the truth. ... They enjoy the notoriety and the implication that they must be very powerful operators, or Machiavellian eminences-grises. This is much better than the thought that they are an ineffectual ladies' reading group. They are so powerful that they've been almost completely eliminated from the few positions they once held at prominent universities. Other Straussians deny these claims but engage in a different outlandish self-flattery where they view themselves as preservers of classical philosophy and the light of freedom of thought, republican moderation, and so on...and other pieties of this kind. None of these things are true. ... Critias, Socrates' student, was the Hitler of the ancient Greek world. He and his friends established a regime based on atheistic biologism so to speak; on “Sparta radicalized,” a eugenic antinomian dictatorship. He was maybe what Hitler's most hysterical detractors claim of him today. Critias killed more Athenians in his short rule than died in the decades of the war with Sparta. He expelled almost everyone from the city, and burned the docks, which were the perceived source of democratic power. He wasted all the priests of Eleusis for being tedious religious moralists. He saw the purpose of the Spartan constitution as the creation of one “supreme biological specimen,” and Critias sought to found a state based on such ideas. He and his friends were overthrown quite quickly. ... dysgenics as opposed to eugenics combined with modern technology --another product of Socratic-Alexandrian scientific civilization--leads to mechanized and universalized dysgenics. I am trying to explain some of the implications of the work of Nietzsche for a world in which he is still the only prophet, and will remain so for some centuries.

Today we're kicking off a 4-part series with return guest Layla Martin, where they will take you through their recent Priestess Pilgrimage through Greece. Together, they traveled to several sacred sites to have a visceral experience of the very same places where priestesses were serving medicine and practicing sacred sexuality rituals that helped to form the very fabric of Western society. Things like democracy, theater, even religion. In Part 1 they discuss what it means to be a high priestess, and why reclaiming words like “witch” and “priestess” empower people to connect with their own divinity. They also introduce the religion that has no name – something that humans have been practicing for millenia in order to connect with God through Nature, plants, animals, their own bodies, dance, music, medicines, breath, trance and meditation. Layla and Emily also give a history lesson on why people used to travel to Eleusis to change their perception of death and the afterlife. Plus, they explore why it's so hard to control people who have access to psychedelics and modalities such as breathwork, yoga, meditation and sacred sexuality. So why isn't everyone using psychedelics to tap into the divine? Discover the reason in this week's episode of Why Isn't Everyone Doing This?   Catch Part 2 of the Priestess Pilgrimage this Sunday, Oct 24 over on Layla's podcast, This Tantric Life.   What part felt like a mic drop moment for you? Drop the timestamp in the comments below. === Want to learn how you can join Ziva's movement to visualize, alchemize and magnetize the life (and world) you really want? Click here to join the waitlist and be the first to know how you can turn the dial up on your own divinity: https://zivameditation.com/secret/ === Have you watched our previous episode with Sarah Jenks? Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-isnt-everyone-doing-this-with-emily-fletcher/id1686999794?i=1000627554473 === Layla Martin is a thought leader in the ever-emerging worlds of sexual wellness, Tantra, erotic empowerment, and personal development.Named the Headmistress of Pleasure by Women's Health Magazine and a Sexpert Extraordinaire by Cosmopolitan, Layla has spent her life studying the science and deep magic of sexuality and human relationships. As founder of the VITA Method, she's been certifying professionals in a Tantric approach to Love, Sex, and Relationships for over 7 years and has taught over 12,000 paid clients.The VITATM Method is proven to help heal trauma, release limiting beliefs, and awaken life-changing levels of pleasure. For 20 years, Layla traveled the world as a devoted student of Tantra, training with the most high-level teachers of this powerful tradition. She studied human sexuality, neuroscience, and biology at Stanford University, and immersed herself in the energetic traditions of Taoism and early witchcraft. @thelaylamartin Join Vita Coaching here === Ready to start your life-altering Ziva practice? Click here to start now: Free Meditation Masterclass: https://zivameditation.com/freemasterclass/ Learn More: https://zivameditation.com/ Join us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zivameditation/ For FREE bonus content, visit https://zivameditation.com/whythis/

This week Jeff and Dave wrap up their two-part series on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Here we learn about Demophoon, infant child of Queen Metaneira of Eleusis. It seems he has a problem with mortality, and Demeter has the cure: nightly fire purgations. As the kids say, "srsly?" But things don't go so well when the blazing goddess of grain is caught in the act of burning off Demophoon's (not huggable but mortal) portions, and rather than wreak havoc on the innocent inhabitants of Eleusis, she decides to set up a cult and allow them to worship her. Meanwhile, what about Persphone? Hey girl, beware the pomegranate! Tune in for an update on Dave's Greece trip, the usual, blithe and bland banter, and maybe a pun or two about Grape Nuts. As the kids say, "Whaaa?"

#eleusinian #greekmythology #greekmysteries The Ancient Greek Mysteries of Eleusis explained by an academic and sourced from peer-reviewed literature. RECOMMENDED READINGS The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient WorldThe Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World https://amzn.to/412tpNb The Homeric Hymn to DemeterThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter https://amzn.to/406dix9 Greek Religion https://amzn.to/3GAHtWk Ancient Mystery Cults https://amzn.to/3ZZcOZD MY SET-UP

:: Grécia é uma ideia  :: :: Viagem Não Turismo :::: Eleusis e o Mistério :::: O que acontece em Eleusis fica em Eleusis :::: Sistema Operacional Grego :::: Efemeridade das nossas ideias :::: A resposta esta dentro de nós :::: Apegos :::: Escutas ::** As referências e as músicas de cada episódio estão no Instagram, segue a gente por lá! - - ! https://instagram.com/elefantes_na_neblina **

This SHINE podcast episode is on how by facing and preparing for death, we are able to live more meaningful and purposeful lives. We all are born and we all will die. In this interview, we speak about how to talk about death as a way to foster deeper connection, healing, and growth at work, in our communities, and at home. We address the importance of bringing awareness and meditation practices to grieve effectively. Lastly, we talk about how bringing generations together over dinner can support us to solve some of the larger problems at work and in the world. This inspiring episode will support you to live a more meaningful life with less regrets. Episode Links: Compassion & Choices Death over Dinner What happens when death is what is for dinner? Ted Talk Reef Grief Article & coping resources Is this how you feel? Website formed to name and witness grief in community Book of Regrets SHINE Links: Thank you for listening. Want to build a high trust, innovative, and inclusive culture at work? Sign up for our newsletter and get the free handout and be alerted to more inspiring Shine episodes Building Trust Free Gift Carley Links: LinkedIn Consultation Call with Carley Book Carley for Speaking Leading from Wholeness Learning & Development Carley's Book Executive Coaching with Carley Well Being Resources: Inner Game Meditations Inner Game Leadership Assessment Social: LinkedIn IG Website Shine Podcast Page Imperfect Shownotes Hi, welcome to the shine podcast. My name is Carley Hauck. I'm your host, this is the fifth season of the shine podcast. I started the shine podcast as a way of doing research for my book on conscious leadership in business. And you will find interviews with scientists, researchers and business leaders on the intersection of conscious inclusive leadership, the recipe for high performing teams and awareness practices. My book debuted in 2021 Shine ignite your inner game of conscious leadership and was voted one of the best books to read in 2022. By mindful magazine, I facilitate two episodes a month of the shine podcast. And before I tell you about the topic for today, please go over to Apple podcasts or your favorite podcast carrier and hit the subscribe button so you don't miss any future episodes. The focus of this season is on the essentials for wellbeing. And that encompasses the intersection of our personal well being the collective well being of our workplace, and how that fosters and nurtures the planet's well being they are all connected. I focus on well being this season, because I really want to crack the code and inspire folks to prioritize their individual well being and therefore that will transcend into the collective and the planet's well being. And I have developed a inner game leadership assessment that I gave out to 100 different leaders last year. And the leadership assessment is based on the framework of the inner game, which is what we're cultivating on the inside to be conscious leaders. And it shows up on the outside when we cultivated the certain qualities. And two of the nine leadership competencies that were lowest from the sample of 100 leaders were psychological and physical well being. Therefore, that is why we are focusing on well being and if you're curious about where your strengths and gaps are around the qualities to become a conscious leader, you can take the assessment and find out your score for free. I recently opened to the assessment tool to the public, and the link will be in the show notes. Now onto our episode. Hello shine podcast listeners. I am here with my new friend Michael Michael HEB, who is the founder of death over dinner, drugs over dinner, and generations over dinner. He currently serves as a board advisor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, and is the primary editor of COVID paper. His second book, let's talk about death was published by Hashem in the US, UK and Australia in October of 2018. and Russia, China, Taiwan, Indonesian, Poland and Romania in the fall of 2019, and will soon be published in Finland. Wow. That's incredible. Michael, so happy to have you here. Oh, my goodness, this conversation is going to be amazing. Can't wait. Thanks for being here. Of course, credit. Thanks for having me. So to start off in the deep end, which I know you and I swimmin. Often, I'd love if you could share some of your childhood story of losing your father to dementia, and how that experience inspired a movement to support millions in gathering and holding space as we prepare for death. Yeah, well, when I was in second grade, I didn't know that it would inspire valiance. For one, I was very much you know, just a regular seven year old, seven year old, eight year old and my father was quite a bit older than most fathers. He was born in 1904 in the Yukon Gold Rush in a minor shed and Dawson during the the like epicenter of the Yukon Gold Rush. And so he was 72 years old when I was born, which is becoming less and less unique. I think we just found out Al Pacino is going to have another child, but at at something, but back then this was quite a surprising thing. And I think it's a kind of an amazing thing in a challenging thing to be sold and to have a child because you don't know how long you're going to be around for them. But I was a bit of a surprise. And in second grade, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, full blown Alzheimer's, it wasn't early onset, his symptoms were severe at that point, and then was put into a, a nursing home. And those were really rough years, my mother was not resourced to know how to manage our lives. Very few would be, and we lived in a great deal of chaos. And he died when I was 13. On on Halloween, actually. And our family didn't know how to talk about his illness, didn't know how to talk about his inevitable death, didn't know how to talk about our grief. And so we started really avoiding each other, which in many way was was the healthiest thing we could do. Because when you have a secret or a traumatic centerpiece to your family relationship, every time you're around those family members, there's cortisol and all kinds of things flooding your system. And so we really grew apart pretty quickly. And it had a lot of impact on the family structure where you know, much later and we'll talk about death over dinner, it served as the inspiration for inspiring people to talk about death, mortality, life limiting illness, dementia, because I didn't want anybody else to have to go through what I experienced the type of alienation, isolation, depression, confusion, anger, and the whole rainbow of emotion that I had to go through, basically alone until many mentors started to show up in my life. But the the death itself on Halloween was, was a seismic event in my life, and not for the reasons you might think. The grief wasn't overwhelming immediately, there was a kind of void that I felt when I woke up the morning and Halloween, and I knew that he died even though there was no one telling me so there's just a known sense, I'd actually had the previous night woken up at 3:43am, the exact moment that his heart stopped without knowing why. And then when I woke up again, later on that day, I was very clear, like, my dad's died, and I ended up going to school, because I wasn't going to just hang out with my mom and my brother. That didn't seem like a good place to go, or to be. And so I went to school on Halloween and Halloween when you're 13 is a big deal. And I ended up going out with friends that night, I didn't tell a single person that day that my father had died. And looking back on it, I think that was a pretty smart strategy. The realization that I had either consciously or just knew in my bones, at that time was my friend group didn't have the ability to deal with the weight of that kind of information. Kids are much more emotionally intelligent these days than they were 30 some years ago. And so I went out with my friends on Halloween night and did the type of things that 13 year olds do. I think we TPT some houses and eggs, some cars and drink some and essentially were assholes. And this thing happened to me because I was holding this whole new reality that my my dad had died, which no one I knew could relate to. And looking around my friends and what we were involved in the way we related to each other, and really just the world. I had this sense of being separate from it and watching it almost film nicly seeing these things from a from a removed space and questioning. If we act like this, why do we relate to each other? Why is there conversation about meaning? Shit, I hope I can swear on your ad snapped to, I can totally be yourself. Yeah,apparently it's a sign of intelligence, I just read a recent report. But nonetheless, I felt separate from my social group. And in in that separation, I started to ask really big questions. And that is really where my spirituality took shape was in those questions, and their questions about what are we doing here? Is there something more than this? Is there a right way to live? Have people known about living connected to something larger than the cell in the past, and took a great deal of interest in poetry and Eastern spirituality and mysticism? Gnosticism a long list of question askers. And that really set me on a completely different course than I would have been happily skipping down. So really, really a big change for not not exactly the reasons you would expect, when you use the term seismic, you know, change? And I would say yes, for sure. And, you know, before this conversation, I did a lot of research and trying to get to know you, and different interviews and things that you have recorded. And I learned about your early meditation practice, and part of how that came to be. And I was touched, because we both started meditating, and really having these deeper questions and interest around the same time, even though I, I imagine we're probably a similar age. And I also grew up in a family where, and still have a family where I'm keenly sensitive to emotions of myself and others, and the planet, and my, you know, nuclear family is not. And in some ways, I felt like an alien. And really kind of stuffed those for a long time, but had to find other ways and other tools to really understand myself and similar to you, like, understand, why am I here? And you know, what is the reason that I am being called to be here at this time. And, you know, when we, when we think about meditation and Buddhism, Siddhartha had a very similar journey, right? He was he was living in this, you know, Castle, not no suffering, really, except that is that his mother passed at an early age. But then he went outside of the palace walls one day and saw the four heavenly messengers, you probably familiar of this, of this table, or fable, rather, one was a sick person, an old man, a corpse, and aesthetic. And so he went on, you know, the aesthetic path to try to understand why these things happen. But we all know that we're gonna die, like every single one of us is going to die. And we don't know when that is going to happen. And so I wanted to bring you on because of a lot of his own inquiry around death for myself, but also, how do we use death, knowing it's coming, knowing that in some ways, humanity is facing very grave ecological death, which we'll go into a little bit later, to live the most meaningful life that we can right now? Yeah, well, I mean, in many ways, we can unlock what our life's meaning is, without that kind of rupture, without facing our mortality. And for most people, it happens in the middle of their life. This is you know, what Richard Rohr calls the second half of life and talks about and falling upward. And that that is just kind of naturally an age where people that are meaningful to us start dying. Right, some of us are, you know, gifted or cursed with a meaningful death. early in life, if you don't embrace it, or let it embrace you or if you repress it, or run away from it, then it can be a curse. But if you do the hard work of facing, whether that's when you're 13, or 30, or 40, or 50, or 60, or 70. The gifts that you get are really the answers to why I'm here. It's it's in many ways, the strongest medicine there is and there's a lot of talk these days and a lot of experience around psychedelic medicine, for instance, many of your users or, or listeners are experienced or curious. almost everybody's read Michael Pollan's book, how to change your mind, it seems. And we talk about the strength of that medicine, right, because it allows us to connect to something larger than ourselves connect to our, our history, our traumas, some of these big questions we find in a lot of psychedelic plant medicines, experiences that are held in the right container. Death, it's arguably more powerful, a medicine, and it's sitting right here. Yeah, right beside us, whether we acknowledge it or not. And, and it's a little bit easier to integrate, quite frankly, and then a psychedelic experience. And, you know, a lot of those medicines, actually kind of the core thinking around those medicines is they give us the ability to die before we die, so that we don't have to die when we die. And this is the this was the reason that people went to Eleusis, the mysteries in in, in Greece for 2000 years, 30,000 people a year, would go to a Lusas, to drink BurgerTime beer, to have an experience where a part of themselves would die. So that they realized that life, what was important about life, what the meaning was, what they were doing there. And you know that that experience is available to all of us by turning and facing or grief or any number of things. I agree. And I you know, just to circle back to meditation. Gosh, there's so many, there's so many ways that we could go because I love to have the plant medicine discussion with you as well. And I, I believe you're very right. I think a lot of people in some ways are actually just using the medicine to escape again. And they're not actually integrating. I mean, you're finding this altered state of consciousness, which, frankly, you can find meditating. And I've done both. And there's not a lot of difference for me personally. And only the medicine just brings me to that point faster. But I've done years and years and years of silent meditation. And one of the things that I'm so grateful about meditation is that Vipassana, which is coming from the Tera Vaada. And Buddhist tradition, actually learned this several years ago, on a silent retreat at Spirit Rock meditation center, it means to grieve effectively, because every moment is passing this moment right now, between you and I will never happen again, quite like this, ever. And so I'm present to it. And there's a loss and that, here it goes. Yeah, letting it go. Yeah, sometimes we have to be well, I think we do have to build be able to face the big D, yes, the two really come to terms with the small D's that we face all of the time, and not grasp on to that which is constantly changing, right? Because that's what people's primarily, their primary complaints are really around the small days, you know, anxiety, depression, all of these things have that we suffer from on a regular basis have so much to do with dealing with the fact that things are constantly changing. Right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. And how do we how do we practice getting, you know, little and, and to be in flow with a world that is constantly changing? Right? And so that's why I told tell people and teach people that, you know, death is this really powerful medicine because one, you, you do want to drink from that cup, you, you will be facing the big D at some point. And you want to be present to that. And you want to be able to learn from the experience as the aperture of your life gets smaller and smaller. There's a lot of great richness in that I've seen people complete a whole hero's journey in their last hour on this planet and change things generationally, and do healing for people who, you know, their future ancestors, they'll never meet on death's door. Right? But not if we're grasping. Not if we haven't surrendered, not if we're not present to it. And in the present moment, same thing. We're not going to be able to have an access to the beauty of the moment, or whatever it is. It's not just beauty, the is of the moment if grasping, flailing, reacting struggling in fight or flight or freeze, unless we have some sort of practice round. I mean, some of my good friends started the flow Institute's flow Institute, Steven Kotler, and Jamie Weil. And there's a lot of talk about flow these days and to be in flow. And I give those guys a hard time. It's like you're teaching people all of these great techniques, but the most important technique you could be teaching it was to deal with death and go, yeah, and they've incorporated some of that. And we actually hosted the first flow Institute, gathering together years before their other best seller. So there's just a lot there. And it's scary for people. This isn't, I'm not saying this with the idea that you shouldn't have apprehension or that it's easy. But there have been a lot of people who looked at our impermanence, looked at death, looked at grief, and have lit those canyons, and lit those dark forests for us. So you're, you're not alone. And you will get immediate vitality, from the work that people do around this. And I know you work with leaders and, you know, one of one of the kind of most ironic slash funniest uses of death over dinner, which is a initiative I started to get people to talk about end of life and, you know, millions of people have taken part in this. I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah. If we'll come back to continue. Yeah, I'll give. I'll let you lead me into some framing but Deloitte, Europe, one of the leading firms, when it comes to giving advice and creating strategy for the biggest brands in the world, most people know Deloitte. Yes, started using Deloitte, Europe started using depth over dinner at the beginning of their, their corporate retreats for their big clients. And yeah, and found and people were able to have conversations about what do they want to be remembered for? What do they want to have happen to their body? You know, song would be one at their funeral. If they had 30 days left to live, what would they do with it? How would they feel that that unlocks so much connection between the people that were there and humanity, way below the watermark of their strategy, or with you know, their brand, and it also unlocked a tremendous amount of creativity? Right? People feel free to try out new ideas and to play with each other's ideas. So, you know, there's there's a lot, there's a lot there in this space that has big No Trespassing signs all over it for us. Thank you. Well, there's a couple of questions that I have that are bubbling. I mean, first, I'd love to hear well, and even before I, I asked you a question, just my responses, you know, in my experience, working with lots of different, you know, senior people, leaders and stakeholders and various companies, business is only as good as the relationships that people are forming. If there isn't psychological safety, trust, the ability to believe that this person has my back, and we are connected and we are connected towards something of greater purpose, people will not stay, they will not perform, they will not feel they belong, and they will not bring their best to work or that workplace. That has been my experience. And so, I think what we are craving most, and especially since the pandemic is connection, is meaning is purpose, and how do we build that together and then align, you know, in powerful actions together. And I just think that is that is what is happening in the workplace. There is a death of the old workplace that was profit above everything else, thank goodness, but it's slow. It's slow. There's there's still a certain you know, group of leaders that are holding on to that. Lynne twist has been a huge mentor to me and wrote the foreword of my book and I remember when I first heard her speak years ago, she said we are hospice sing out. You know, these Oh, have systems and structures that will not support the new world. Because we have to embrace that, or we don't have a path forward. And so I, I'm excited for the death let it die. But let's hospice it out, right? Because then we can let go more effectively. Yeah, well, I mean, the pandemic, arguably, threw a wrench in some of that, at least from the human connection side. It gave us something that we have in common to connect around, it made grief public, that made mental health public, it made that those topics went from being taboo, which we can talk about the word taboo if we want, because it's a completely misunderstood word. But from things that were not appropriate conversations, to being very appropriate, very common conversation, especially in the millennial communities, some of us that are a little bit older, catching up with millennials and that ability to talk about things openly. But it also just, it did separate us. And it's hard to create deep connections in the workplace, when this is how we're connecting when it's just over zoom, or maybe not even zoom, it's just over email. I hope Len is right below her very much. If you're listening, Man, I miss you. Let's talk soon. And I do I do really have hope that that is the direction that we're going. Right now, this seems like we're going a lot of different directions. So where it's hard to know,it's a little chaotic, for sure. Well, I want to hear more about the process of death over dinner, so you can share with our listeners of how they can engage in that, I also wanted to speak to you about how you have understood the difference between for example, sadness, and grief. Because it's a felt experience. And, you know, there's, there's a lot of numbing, there's a lot of avoiding that. And I just think that in order to really be more comfortable in talking about our own death, we have to be willing to feel the grief. So So start with that, the movement of death over dinner, the process, I'm gonna leave links in the show notes. And I have gone through the process a couple times, a couple dinners, and also have a guess, some insights that are not around that, but just even just some of the my own practices around death that I might insert in in our conversation if we have time. I love it. Well, death over dinner came out of the well, at this point. It's over 20 years of convening people to talk about difficult topics at the dinner table. I realized pretty early on in my career as an architect my backgrounds actually in architecture, that I didn't need to build any new structures, I was building places for people to gather and connect. As an architect. That was the focus of my young career. And then I realized that the dinner table does that, with me needing to file a building permit or raise millions of dollars for said structure. We just forgotten how to use the dinner table. And needed to remember, we've remembered how, to some extent to garden and farm and put great food on the table thanks to Alice Waters in the slow food movement, all this incredible work that's been done on the front side. But very little has been done around what happens when they actually sit down with that beautiful food or have that famous chef cook for us. And so we don't have a virtuous cycle. Back to the table. We have it as a kind of fetishized entertainment, almost like a Martha Stewart shot something not a oh, I want to be there having that experience. How do I get back there that richness comes from people being vulnerable, sharing stories around their lives. And now we just talked about succession when we get to a dinner table or whatever people are watching on TV. Probably 75% of the dinner conversation is happening over tables and or we're not paying attention to the Food, you know, or being even mindful of our consumption. I started off in the corporate space, engaging people in meditation through mindful eating of chocolate. I did not do the raisin that was not going to get their attention. But I've I've always really loved just bringing people's attention. Yes to, to food to connection to our connection to food, and therefore the greater the greater world. Yeah, which is great work. But then we also have to connect with the people at the table. And that was the kind of soft architecture that I got really interested in, what is the history of it? What is the history of the Athenian symposium that brought together you know, Plato and Aristotle was the history of the Jewish Seder. What's the history of the Bloomsbury group? Gertrude Stein's tables, so the Black Panthers Sunday brunches, like, what what has been this role how people use this space, the dinner table, because we're drawn to it naturally. It's like the watering hole on the savanna, all different types. For food, we, we come and we get saved, save it, and then we go back to her our lives. If we were eating together, a lot of people don't eat together. But so I started doing dinners with incredible folks and Presidents and Nobel Prize winners and people that are living on the streets and people that are struggling with mental illness, and you name it, dinner after dinner after dinner in every country, or every continent, and so many places, so many just wild settings. It's hard to even think about, and I've had to forget many of them, because there's been too many, and having hard conversations like how do we end genocide? How do we enhance closeness? How do we end the gender gap? Then I realized that I wasn't going to be able to reach the number of people that I wanted to reach. And I also didn't want to just be working with leaders. I don't believe in a trickle down model. I believe in a grassroots model, I really even think change actually happens from the ground up. And so wanted to create a social ritual that people could enact, all over the world could scale and was free very much like the Jewish Seder, actually, the ER a Shabbat dinner, but with a little bit more of a program, a theme. And so death over dinner was our answer to that. I was working with some great designers and graduate students, I was teaching at the University of Washington, in the Graduate School of Communications and decided to teach a course entirely based around building a platform called death over dinner. And we did and now it's become this global phenomenon. And what it is, is, it's an invitation. First and foremost, we're talking about facing mortality, or death, grief and people Oh, that's great. And you say that there's ways into this, but how well, here's one. Like, we're gonna give people an invitation that isn't a thick book, it is a dinner party, and you liked dinner parties. And so here's the invitation, come to dinner and talk about death. And it can be because you're grieving, because you have a loved one who has a terminal diagnosis, it could be because you have early onset Alzheimer's, you don't know how to talk to your family about it, but it's gonna be more and more of us. And so we built this beautiful website and its limitation and then created scripts for people. So your intention, why you want to have the dinner, or the conversation, you select on the website, and then it auto generates the scripts and allows you to pick some homework based upon that intention. So very different scripts for somebody who's grieving versus somebody who's interested for spiritual or religious reasons in a conversation. And then people sit down, and they have this experience where they don't have to think about what are the questions, it's all laid out. And there's a ritual in the beginning and a ritual in the end, and it works. Good, give people some good food and some structure and have someone you know, kind of hold the space for it, lead it, you know, who is whoever is inviting the conversation? Yeah, it's, it's beautiful. And then I've only done three, you know, personally, and I, I actually invited my parents, maybe like two months ago, and they they turned me down. They said, No, we don't want to talk about this, because we have a lot of friends that are dying right now. And it was it was too much, but I am not giving up. Because I I just think it's so important to talk about. Yeah, I'll just leave it at Yeah. Well, I mean, let's talk about that. Because if If you are lining up and saying like, Oh, I want to do I want to have that conversation, if someone's listening to this podcast and be like, I'm interested in that, or if there's any like, no, no, no, you know, putting their fingers in their ears. We can talk to both of those people right now. So if you are excited about it, and you're saying, I want to have this conversation with my parents, my spouse, my best friends, my co workers, my kids, you are gonna get nose? Yep. You if you're excited about it, you are more excited about it than many of the people in your life, I promise you. And so here's the thing. The people in your life do want to talk about it. Yeah. But inviting them is tricky. can be tricky. It's not tricky. Some people are just gonna be like, hell yes. And I'm gonna bring all my friends too. And some people will be like, Hell, no, I'm never gonna have this conversation. But here's the thing. If we acted like, most people act, or at the end of life conversation, the death conversation, if we acted that way, like we do around love and work, we would never find love, and we would never have a job. So your parents said, No. But you know, how did you ask them? And you tried one way. And there are many different ways. And I think of it more of as a courtship. Right? Well, and and just just to share a little more, I sent that to them over email, as an initial conversation. I actually, at that time, was living in Costa Rica. And we hadn't had a deeper discussion, I had no idea that my father had a law school friend that was like literally going to be dying a week from that moment. So it was really bad timing on my end. And I went through a very deep process at the end of last year, where I spent five days in a very powerful workshop, really facing my death every single day. So it started on a Monday, anyone Friday was dying, like it was happening. And over the course of five days, I was being told you have four days to live, you have three days to live, you have two days to live, you have one day to live, you have 30 seconds to live, what are you going to do and I was buried, literally buried, I did write my eulogy. And I have been wearing a bracelet around my wrist, it's just a black thread. That reminds me, I'm gonna die. And it's been so powerful and so potent. And so you know, some of that experience I've been sharing with my parents. That's the courting I suppose. And I spent my birthday with them intentionally this year. But I haven't done in many, many years. And as part of my birthday dinner, I said, you don't know how I want to die. And I don't know how you want to die. And we have not talked about Advanced Directives. And I really want to know, so that I can honor your wishes. And my parents are probably going to hate that. I'm going to say this out loud. But they said we haven't even talked about it. We don't know. So at least I have started that inquiry. And I said, Well, I would like to be cremated. And this is where and I should probably put this in writing. Because I don't know when that is going to happen. And I want you to know. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's part of I think, what I have been dealing with it all. I'll just share one other piece of that. I want to bring it back to you, Michael. But I wasn't planning on sharing this. But it's so interesting. Yesterday, I was flying back to California from Florida from visiting my my family, my parents, and we were approaching Albuquerque. And they were crazy winds like the plane is rattling and it was just like it was it was crazy. And I'm like, Oh, my gosh, I have not reviewed the emergency protocol. Okay, the 510. Net didn't actually go through it at the beginning. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. And I thought okay, what, what if you were to die right now? You know what that feels like? You have gone through the experience. And I just allowed myself to feel it. I was actually buried in the sand. I was I was in the sand. They left me there for an hour. And when they came to get me during this five days, I didn't want to come out Michael. I felt so at peace. I felt so held by the Earth just the weight of her on me. And so many people had very different experiences. They couldn't wait to get out. It scared the hell out of them. But I reminded myself of that embodied acts experience if if this were to happen, this is what you know, in your body that death is and it was, it was wonderful. I didn't have I didn't have fear and I was able to transport myself back in that place on the plane yesterday as it's rattling and shaking and Okay. Okay. And well, let's imagine your parents, yeah, that would have had very different experiences being buried for one, they wouldn't have gone to Costa Rica to die off and five days. But they have maybe like an anxious attachment relationship to it. Or an avoidant perhaps. And, you know, there are these, you know, we can take, we can use attachment styles for debt too. And going straight up to somebody who is so avoidant. And, you know, putting your finger right on the nose of it is going to be, you know, can can be a thing that has them seize up, right, of course, of course, you know, and this isn't just to you this is to people are listening, because you're not, you're no, I love, you're using this as a teachable moment. And frankly, I have not shared what I just shared with you, I think with only three people. But now here we go. Like, yes, it's been buried. But yes, there there is a there is avoidance, there is anxiety. And it's unknown, of course. Yeah. But there's a way in. So, you know, similarly with courtship, and with a job that you really want, you get creative. And you think about that person. Right? What what are they interested in? Does your mom love Tuesdays with maurey? Perhaps? No, didn't love the movie? Does you know, do they watch dramas that haven't includes our true crime? Or, you know, like, there's, there are ways in and a legacy legacy might be away? And what do you want to be remembered for? Let's get way out, you know, and what stories from your life, we want to make sure that your grandchildren know that that is a death conversation. There's a lot of things that yes, I agree, don't present as much as like, your advanced care directives, and what happens to your body when you die. Right there, there are things that are a little bit more adjacent, where people can open up and before you know it, you're gonna get all of their wishes. It's an unfurling. Because they've been, you know, we're in a society that denies it. And, and is obsessed with it. So we have an unnatural, we have this very unhealthy relationship to it, we're obsessed with that. Death is central to all the top TV shows, books, clickbait it's everywhere. But but our own is, is a real challenge for some people. And the other thing is we can experience it. Right? So it's one of those human experiences that we'll never have, why? Until we have it. And so, it's not something that we can imagine ourselves in. And we also think we're gonna have that other bias in our brain that has it that we're an exception to the rule. We all think we're an exception to the rule. Not gonna happen to me. Yeah. You know, that's just baked in. And so there's a lot but I love that you're trying, and I'm confident that you're gonna find I am pretty persistent. But yes, it's about right timing. And so I appreciate that you used my example as a teachable moment, but I there's so many different places we could go. I'd love to, you know, end on on two questions. One is, how have you maybe found the distinction within yourself but also happen to be in conversation with with folks around the difference between sadness and grief? Well, the thing is, grief is is not one thing. You know, sadness, it has a certain tonality to it. Grief is all of all of the colors all of the sounds of the emotions so you can be a grieving and being laughing. You can be ecstatic and grieving you can be grieving and be horny you can be grieving and be devastatingly depressed. You can be grieving and be inconsolable. You can And all of this is included in grief, grief is is not singular in that way. And, you know, sadness, I'm not an expert on sadness. I mean, then I'm Sam a little bit more expert on grief. And one of the things that I know to be true about grief is one, it's not linear. There, there are no stages. So many people think that Elisabeth Kubler Ross determined the five stages of grief, what Elisabeth Kubler Ross did was create the five stages that happen when we come to terms with our own death. That's what that is. That's what the stages of grief, as we call them, were originally written as she suggested that it might work for grief. And then she retracted it. Some people have taken her suggestion and made careers on it. And the culture has had a bonanza around this idea of grief, having five stages, it doesn't, it's for ever, grief doesn't go away doesn't mean that it's always awful. But the fact that the person is gone, and that whole, that shape of that person will always be in your heart. But the the way to heal that, if that's even the right word, or the way to orient around that is not to try to get back to normal. Or to forget about it or reintegrate into society. It's to honor them. It's called continuing bonds theory. And it's actually the healthy way of grieving. And a lot of countries do this very well, Mexico, India, Japan, where they elevate their relationship to the loved one as opposed to repress it. Right? This, this is going to be with you forever. Turn the beautiful part on and some of the sadness, sadness can be beautiful, poignant, leads to some amazing things inspires us to get in motion sometimes, but elevate that person in your life, build an altar, have some remembrance, turn their body, you know, their cremated remains into things like parting stone or a diamond or have some way where they live in your everyday life is the is the way forward with grief, even though we talk about it in such unhelpful ways. Thank you. Well, and I and my experience with any feeling, you know, the more that we witnessed it, and we witnessed it in community or even with one other person, and in some ways, we're shining the light on it. And it has that opportunity to heal and transform. And that's I think some of what you're doing with this conversation is we're taking it out of the ground, so to speak. We're giving it life and a chance for people to talk about it and therefore grieve together and heal together. Right. And you know, this idea of the word taboo, we'll just talk briefly because I think you have one last question. But taboo is not doesn't mean forbidden. What it actually it's a comes from a Polynesian term, taboo, Tipu. And what that that was referred to places that were sacred places that you have to like, we know for some reason, we know that a burial ground and you know, an Indian or Native American or indigenous burial ground, that we know, for some reason is taboo. Why do we know that? Because that's actually true. It's a sacred place. That's one of the things that was identified as taboo or taboo is a holy place, a sacred place where we actually have to cleanse ourselves or prepare ourselves or being a different state of mind, to go into that space. And that's a rich and meaningful space. Taboo is actually an invitation. It's an invitation and but it's not the regular Friday, your regular Tuesday, it is, I'm going to do I'm going to prepare myself when people go into a mosque, they cleanse themselves. You know, there is there's something about this, that we've forgotten that, yes, we can talk about the hardest things we can talk about trauma. We can talk about sex, we can talk about, you know, history of abuse, we can talk about anything gender, politics, we you name it, if we prepare ourselves properly, and create the right container. There's nothing that's off limits. It's when we don't take the care to do that, that we run into difficulty I agree. Thank you. So in the topic of death and grief, and this is something that has taken a lot of my heart and mind space and continues to. And I think I'm not alone in this, you know, what's happening with our planet, and the extinction of species, and all of the reports that have been coming in for a long time around what is happening with the warming of our planet, and especially the most recent reports, there is an ecological death that is happening. And I think that it is overwhelming for many people to even really look at and feel, feel the grief around the species that are gone for good, and that will be gone. But also, I don't feel like we're prepared with the skills and the resources to navigate what is coming with the fires, with the migration that is going to be happening across our world of people of beings. And I just feel curious, does ecological death or grief come up at all, in these death over dinner conversations? And how can we inspire people to start talking about it, and prepare, skillfully to talk about it? Because we need to talk about it? Because we can't avoid it? It's here. Yeah, and, you know, I think one of the things that we do is weaponize our own grief around this our own urgency as opposed to create space for people to that's inviting to be able to have their own experience of grief around the natural world. Right? A lot of us have had that experience. And we've been we can't believe that others haven't, you know, has woken up to it. Right? Wake up and notice. Wake up and notice is not how I want to be woken up. That doesn't work. I try I have a 14 year old if I come in and shake her or throw water on her or tell her all of the things that she hasn't done or shouldn't be doing. No, that's not how we want to wake somebody up to this. You know, a good morning, I love you. You know, can I? Can I get your coffee? Would you want toast? Or do you want a croissant? Do you want fruit for breakfast? Right? Like, this morning, I gave her some of those choices. She was so touched, she was like, I would love a coffee. She didn't even drink it. But justit's through love. Of course, you're loving, it's tender. And a gentle is about creating space. If you do want people to start to see the world in some way that resembles your way of seeing. Right? One you don't know if they're gonna have the same experience and come to the same conclusions. But until you invite somebody in to look at it themselves and feel it. You've already told them that they're not allowed unless they have a certain set of experiences generally are a certain kind of fire under them to make change is the only way you can be a ticket holder into this conversation. Right this. So you know, there's an incredible book called The Persuaders that just came out. And now Anons going to destroy his last name that is about the right and the left, and how we need more on ramps into these these movements. And I highly recommend that to anybody. But I would also put a little little plug that in my book, I have also created some practices for how to navigate the deep grief and feelings around this. And also, you know, I started experimenting with this practice many years ago when I was teaching at Stanford and I'd, I'd bring the students out into the grass. And I'd ask them to tell me what they loved most about nature, and what they really got from nature. And from that love. What are we willing to fight for? Right? What just like anything, you know, like our family, our friends, if we love something enough, we care for it. We want to protect it and I think that that is I believe the most palpable way into the conversation and to feel the heartbreak around what's happening and you know, a lot of it we have caused, and then we have a choice of what actions we're going to take because pa I couldn't believe we can we can reverse it right? There's there's 100 ways to reverse this. But it requires a certain level of activation of all of us. Yeah. And then, you know, we did create a dinner model called Earth to dinner, which was in partnership with the Paris accord. And the earth in Paris movement in the UN was one of our partners, and we got 1000s of people to have conversations about climate change. But I'll leave you with one story. Because it's, it hasn't asked Yeah, what what evolved from that? Yes. But feel free to feel free to leave the story as well.Yeah, I mean, that. That was, it was incredibly powerful. And I got to work with Jack Black, which was fun. And one of those famous like internet famous cats, I can't remember his name. But nonetheless, the, the story I'll leave you with around it, because I still think it should happen. And I was in Iceland, and got inspired by the glacial melt in Iceland. And, you know, the fact that we are, we're very action oriented, when it comes to those people that are working on climate change, action is really the currency. And I realized that there's a step before action, which is great that we're missing. And so started working on a project to build a table out of the glacier and got, like, the leading ice sculptor in Iceland, to we went out into tests and took, can we cut a table out of the glacier. And then we have the arc at angles, one of the leading sustainable architects in the world cetera to design the table. So the arc angles, gonna design the table, and then how we were started to form this dinner around it. And Bjork said yes, and Sigur Ros was coming. And the president of Iceland was involved. And all of this was happening. And the idea was, okay, we're going to build this table out of ice, and we're going to have a dinner on it that we're going to film and then leave it for people to come visit it while it melts. But the dinner itself was called the goodbye glacier dinner. And the idea very simply was, you know, let's read this together. Let's talk about a world without ice and how that makes us feel. Let's talk a world of burial without glacier. Let's talk about the sixth extinction, that we're in the middle of let's have these conversations from what are we going to miss? How is that going to feel? Which is something that's not politicized? Alright, that's just like, how's it gonna feel? No, full stop. Not now, I want you to make sure you recycle. And you can't wear those, you know, you can't wear fur, or you can't do this, or you can't eat this, or there's no need for you know, let's just grieve. And so and then unfortunately, the idea was so popular that a friend of mine decided to build a whole festival around this and a thought leadership festival. And it got way too big and fancy. And then the whole thing exploded. But the the reason we were doing it in the first place was the goodbye glacier dinner, and the goodbye glacier table. And so it still hasn't happened. And maybe somebody is listening. Maybe someone will listen and they'll say, let's start. Yeah, I love it. Okay, if you want to do it, I'm up for it. Michael's up for reach out. That was your story. Beautiful. Well, I know you have as I shared at the beginning of introducing you, you have a couple other movements, generations over dinner, and that feels like a wonderful opportunity for people of all different ages to come together towards talking about some of these big conversations that were hospice sing out to create something new. Yeah. So yeah, generations over dinner, I'll just be briefly partnership with Chip Conley, Chip Conley, the founder of modern elder Academy, and I'm sure he's been talked about maybe he's been on this podcast he has and chip has a new book, and he's going to be on it again. So I am very inspired by Chip and his work at modern elder Academy and the emphasis on intergenerational wisdom sharing. Yes, this idea that a modern elder is as as curious as they are wise. And that it is about sharing, as as well as being you know, just that curiosity, that desire to learn. And that's the hallmark of what we need an elders right now. We're also age, we have an age apartheid, if you will. Don't know if we can Bandy around the term apartheid. So I apologize if that's offensive. But we have a divisiveness and separation around age we do not know, people of different ages, generally speaking, we are not age diverse, in our country are really very much around the world is one of those American ideas that has been exported, to really just spend your time around people same age and not live with people of different ages, etc. And so we decided to create another social ritual that is generations over dinner. And that's a challenge to see how many generations you can get at a dinner table. And these dinners are happening all over the world as well, there have been already to seven generation dinners, not of the same family, but the generations like boomers, greatest silent millennia, we've gotten all seven living at tables, or people have I haven't even done it, people got inspired by it. And they're like, we'll do it. And two of those dinners, one in Australia, one in the US have happened. And they're these dinners happening of work, mentioned that there were a lot of enterprise or workplace has the most intergenerational opportunity, for sure. Right. And, in many ways, the most generational division. So Chevron, Uber and LinkedIn are three companies that have taken on generation over dinner and are using it at scale. But the project that I'm most excited about you, we talk to you most excited about, and it's like, I get pretty excited about death, obviously. But this work with generations that we're doing in senior living, uh huh. The most the thing I'm most excited about. So there's, I don't know the percentage, there's a lot of us that are in senior living, and a lot of people that we love. And I had this realization one day that senior living, whether that's assisted care, independent living, etc, represents the largest and most concentrated reservoir of wisdom on the planet. And it's just sitting there and we are not tapping it. And we are not in conversation with it. And, you know, my mom, neighbor, and her senior living establishment is former governor Barbara Roberts, the first female governor of Oregon, who's unbelievable human being, no one goes to see her her family does, but she should, she would mentor people all day. And so we started working with senior living and was like, Sure if if we bring you generations over dinner, and also bring you the young people or you just open your doors to young young folks or people in the middle age one, you'll get more people who want to live in or work in senior living. But the loneliness epidemic that's happening at the oldest and the youngest, can be cured. And so now we're in like, 1000, Senior Living. Oh, I love hearing that. Well, my parents live and Valencia lakes, which is in Sun City, Florida, which is a quite a large 55 and older retirement village. And I was just spending a lengthy visit with them. And one of the things and I'm, I've always been an old soul, I have always had people in their 60s. In my life, I'm I'm in my early 40s. But I would go to the fitness center, this is just kind of a fun story. And I'd have lots of folks that I would just interact with, and they would just want to come up and give me wisdom. I saw a little lady, you know, like, like this, this man that was 90, which I wouldn't have known. He's like, don't stop moving. Like, okay, I'm not planning on it. And then this, this other man who was 66. But I want to respect their desire to share and it was it's beautiful, but you can't really get a workout in. But I love that. I love that, Michael, this conversation has been so meaningful. I just really appreciate how you have just started the conversation literally in so many important areas and your service. And I hope that we will be able to continue to converse, and I'm just very passionate about helping you amplify all these incredible movements. So thank you know, thanks for having me. And to those listening out there. It's all available. It's all free. Kind of never charged for any of these initiatives. So grab them, enjoy if death isn't the topic or psychedelic drugs had the topic that you're interested in generations over dinner is kind of for everybody. It is and all these links will be in the show. My notes, and Michael is also on LinkedIn. And he's got a website. And he's got a fabulous TED Talk. So all these all these links will be in the show notes, Michael, thank you again. Thanks so much talk soon. Hey, folks, thanks so much for listening to this wonderful conversation with Michael and I are on the intersection of grief and death. And therefore, how we want to fully live our lives. I wanted to share a few more thoughts and prompts, and resources, so that you could engage in this deeper inquiry around life and death for yourself when you're ready. And I'll start off with this, there is always a cycle of birth and death, and all things it's part of life. And nothing endures but change. And accepting this reality has the potential to transform the dread of dying into joyful living. I started working with cancer patients in my early 20s. And it informed me at an early age on the preciousness of life, I'd also had a meditation practice for probably a couple years before that journey of working with cancer patients. So I was already informed on how important being here for the present moment is. And I saw a lot of the patients that I was serving go through incredible changes when they knew they were about to die. I also saw some people that didn't have a chance to really pivot and had regrets on their deathbed. And last year, I knew that I needed a deeper reset for myself. And I took about 10 weeks sabbatical in Costa Rica, which is a place I've been going to for about 10 years. And I spent the first month in silence. And I have spent a lot of my life in the last 1314 years in silence. So I'd been getting myself ready to take a month, in some ways, because I had taken two to three weeks a year for many years. And it was incredibly nourishing for myself. And after I came out of silence, I prepared to die. Essentially, I had already decided to do a workshop with a teacher and a guide that I respected. And I shared a little bit about my experience with Michael, in the interview that you just listened to. But I had five days to live and die. And there were lots of very potent exercises that I did in preparation. And it was a real embodied experience. So much so that at the very end of the week, I was buried. And it gave me a lot to think about on how I wanted to live my life and what had the most urgency right now. And what came through were some really life changing insights. And I have as much as I can really try to orient my life around those insights into actions. And so one of the biggest aha was for me, when I knew I was about to die was I needed to invest in home, I needed to have a place to die. That was a place I felt safe, where I had loved ones where I had community where I deep roots. And I didn't have that. And I am cultivating that now I lived in the Bay Area for a lot of my adult life and because of how expensive it is, and because of some of what I chose to do during those many years, I couldn't invest in a property. And I frankly put the work of helping clients and companies above my own well being and my own happiness. And I wrote a book for almost four years. So there was a way that I was sacrificing my self in support of a purpose that I believed was more important. And that has really shifted I am no longer willing to make those same types of sacrifices for for the rest of my life. Because life is short, isn't it? And I think many people have been going through those same kinds of changes and acknowledgments over the past couple of years with the pandemic. And so as a result of facing my own death, I put some actions in place So that might be inspiring for you to hear. So I chose to spend three weeks with my parents in May, to nurture more connection really have meaningful time with them in these years where they're still healthy and able, and a lot of my life I have lived in California, and my family's in Florida, and it was incredibly sweet and tender. And I'm so grateful for it. And I hope that we will all have more time like that to connect, and get to know one another. There are ways that I know my parents now that I didn't know when I was a teenager, or even in my early 20s. And I think there are ways that they're getting to know me, as well. I have also recently moved to a community where I am really excited to invest more time and energy, in community in play in friendship, and belonging. And I'm holding greater boundaries around what is my right work, and what do I need that supports me to do that right work in a way that is balanced. So these are just some of some of the things that I have been putting into play. And frankly, one of the things that is also driving this greater motivation is that based on the warming that is occurring in the planet, and not knowing what is going to happen with our planet, and not really knowing how humanity is going to show up in this time, I know it's going to be hot, how hot it's going to be is up to us. And based on that there will be more adaptations, there will be more floods and fires and smoke and scarcity of water and resources. And therefore, in order to really enjoy my life, in addition to the My deeper purpose, to help solve some of these big problems we have created. I don't want to miss out on the beauty that is here. Speaking of the intersection of grief, and ecological death, I wanted to share with you some practices that I wrote about in my book that I think will be really helpful for you, if you like me, are also looking for those tools and resources to help you navigate what is here, what is coming. And so in chapter nine of my book, there is a practice. There's a couple practices actually one of them is turning emotional upset into inspired action. And I do believe that by having greater emotional resilience, we will have greater climate resilience. So allow yourself to just listen in to this excerpt from my book. I presented at Planet home in 2019, which is a gathering of changemakers scientists, Hollywood activists and musicians who are bringing greater awareness to climate problems as well as their solutions. During planet home, I led the participants of my workshop through a hike in nature in the Presidio of San Francisco. I invited those on the hike to notice what they love about Nietzsche, and based on that love what feelings arose when they thought about the Amazon burning, the glaciers melting, and the massive amounts of species dying every day. People shared deep grief, anger, fear, uncertainty and hope. Embracing the discomfort allows us to inform ourselves about how we want to act in service of the earth. So hearing that, I invite you to go out in nature once a week, and walk barefoot on the ground. Listen to the earth. Allow yourself to feel the nourishment from your connection to nature. And notice your love and appreciation of your surroundings. Let yourself feel all the feelings that arise about the destruction of our planet. And if the feelings are too much to bear, drop down to the earth with your hands and knees and let the earth hold some of your fear grief and rage. Yell if you have to let the emotions release from your body. You don't need to hold them in. From a deep place of feeling. Ask yourself how do I want to show up in service of To the earth, and then whatever answer arises, follow it. This will help you to stand in your commitment to be a good steward of this planet. And a couple of prompts for you, in addition to that practice before we end. When we think about using death as a catalyst to live a more meaningful life, there is another book that could also be helpful for you. There's so many, but this one came to mind. So Daniel Pink, an author that I respect, wrote a book about regrets. And he spoke about the five most common regrets that people had in life. So here they are, one, I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me to. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. Three, I wish I had the courage to express my feelings. For I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends, five, I wish that I had allowed myself to be happier. So in thinking about this conversation, what you've heard for me from Michael, if you're curious how you will start your journey to use death as a way to live a more meaningful and purposeful life. If you enjoyed this episode, please give me a five star review helps so much and then other folks can find the shine podcast, share with friends, family colleagues on LinkedIn, we are all in this together and sharing is caring. Are you seeking a catalyst to increase trust in your team upskill your leadership create a flourishing culture. I am your person. These are my areas of genius. And I love solving problems creating strategy, enrolling stakeholders related to these topics. And I've had incredible results with amazing companies. Reach out to me on LinkedIn, and book a consultation. I would love to help. I have some incredible interviews coming in the rest of this podcast season so make sure you subscribe to the shine podcast. Additionally, there's a lot of resources in the show notes around some of the pieces that Michael and I spoke about. Thanks so much for listening. And until we meet again, be the light and shine the light

Welcome to Occult of Personality: esoteric podcast extraordinaire. Now, in episode number 222, we have another very special interview for you! You love his books, and he always educates and entertains us beyond all expectations—the one and only, Peter Mark Adams returns to the podcast to discuss his most recent masterpiece—Hagia Sophia, Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny! You can find Peter online at https://petermarkadams.com/."Peter Mark Adams is an author, poet, and essayist who specializes in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness, and healing. His latest book, Hagia Sophia, Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny (https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/hagia-sophia-sanctum-of-kronos), is a study of the sacred architecture of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, which dates back to the sixth century. Adams examines the sacred traditions encoded within the structure, from the ancient Rites of Eleusis to the school of Alexandria and offers a fresh and penetrating perspective on how architectural details and history can be read and understood. The book traces a journey across the Hellenistic world as its classical culture teeters on the brink of extinction at the hands of religious zealots."Once again, from start to finish, this interview is LIT! Peter Mark Adams demonstrates over and over through the conversation how his mastery of his subject is all-encompassing. From Adams's work, we can now more fully understand the significance of this holy structure and how its history and the context of spirituality which it embodies is sublime and majestic. Through understanding and appreciating human achievement in service of devotion, we participate to some degree in its intention and purpose as well. Peter Mark Adams is one of our favorite guests and this interview demonstrates why. I cannot recommend Hagia Sophia, Sanctum of Kronos highly enough! If you appreciate the most original and important esoteric scholarship available today, then you're already a fan of his work. If not, you really should be.I know this intro is long enough already and I don't mean to delay you from hearing the actual interview, but I need to take one moment here to recognize the great fortune we have to read and learn what it is that Peter Mark Adams has uncovered for us, yet again. In a superlative third book, Adams has shown us a level of research, insight, and ability to understand ancient religion and spirituality that is perhaps unmatched. It is a true blessing to share in the fruits of his labors and we celebrate his work! Occult of Personality podcast is made possible by you, the listeners, and by the subscribers to chamberofreflection.com, our membership website who aids us in the cause of informed, authentic, and accessible interviews about western esotericism. Thank you again! 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Jules Cashford joins me for this conversation.  It's a welcome interruption to the solo shows I've been doing this year.  We had planned to talk back in 22', so I was pleased to have that plan come full circle, and manifest.  We talk mainly about Eleusis.  The moon, the goddess, and the subjects of all her books make entrances into our conversation as well.  If you're not familiar with Jules' work, you will be now.  Enjoy LINK to her film Return of Gaia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJyF0IeRU_A   my writing: The Dragon Hole (my Substack): https://kosmognosis.substack.com/   to learn Astrology: www.Patreon.com/adamsommer ....to support the creation of my writings/podcasts and be showered with gifts as well   to work with me: https://www.adam-sommer.com/ ...to adventure deeper into kosmos, mythos, and psyche

Jim talks with Bruce Damer about genius and the use of psychedelics for creative thinking. They discuss the roots of genius, the discovery of fire, Einstein's four great discoveries, building blocks of genius, endotripping vs exotripping, set, setting, & setup, the danger of over-relying on LLMs for knowledge, geniuses in the scanner, crosstalk in the brain, the prepared mind, Bruce's lifelong experience of endotripping, rapid retripping, lucid dreaming, getting psilocybin from Terence McKenna, ayahuasca, Steve Jobs's LSD experience, external constraints, Bruce's epiphany about the origins of life, hypothesizing as a non-rational process, the stoned ape theory, psychedelics in Eleusis, human brain sizes & assisted birth, hypnagogic trip states, casualties of the early psychedelic era, a call for serious practitioners, a proposal for string theorists, Charles Manson & the importance of screening for wisdom, the increasing need for genius, and much more. Episode Transcript Bruce Damer (personal website) The BIOTA Institute JRS EP 167 - Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life JRS EP 171 - Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications Lucid News Canadian-born Dr. Bruce Damer has spent his life pursuing two questions: how did life on Earth begin? and how can we give that life (and ourselves) a sustainable pathway into the future and a presence beyond the Earth? A decade of laboratory and field research with his collaborator Prof. David Deamer at UCSC and teams around the world resulted in the Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life, published in Scientific American in 2017 and the journal Astrobiology in 2020. The scenario has now passed its first key experimental tests in the laboratory and at volcanic hot springs around the world and has emerged as a leading contender for a general theory of abiogenesis. Implications of the work are now spreading through evolutionary biology, philosophy, AI and the search for life beyond Earth. New work with collaborators has proposed the urability framework, how life can start on many different worlds, and addresses some aspects of the Fermi Paradox.

Obwohl in der Antike die Mysterien von Eleusis jährlich tausende Menschen nach Elefsina zogen, ist die griechische Stadt vielen Reisenden heute unbekannt. Haben uns die kultischen Riten denn noch etwas zu sagen? Eine Spurensuche.Schäfer, Andreaswww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, ZeitfragenDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Peter Mark Adams joins us today on the occasion of the imminent release of his new book, Hagia Sophia: Sanctuary of Kronos. Like The Game of Saturn before it, this is an exploration of curious survivals of pagan cosmologies hidden in seemingly plain sight -in this case Hagia Sophia in his home of Istanbul. Check out the show notes at runesoup.com for some companion images. Along the way, we also discuss what happened to the Mysteries when Eleusis was closed, the School of Athens and whether any such thing as Neoplatonism even existed. Enjoy!           Show Notes   Get Hagia Sophia: Sanctuary of Kronos. Peter Mark Adams's website.

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This week's episode looks at Baubo, a figure in Greek mythology usually regarded as humorous, as she manages to making the grieving goddess Demeter laugh by showing off her genitalia. So-called Baubo statuettes have been found around the world, but her actual role in ancient Greece, if any, remains a mystery. Homer refers to Iambe rather than Baubo, and our main source of information on the Baubo myth comes from the early Church fathers. We attempt to untangle the origins of Baubo, and talk about what she represents in society's "shame and blame" culture.

A three-way conversation, or trialogue, in two parts.Part 2 Festivals, a calendrical reform and 'pharmacological intervention'. Oscillating models of chaos, creativity and the imagination. Eleusis as a great turning point. The Virgin of Guadalupe. The Faustian pact with the physical world. The cultural cul-de-sac of the dominator mode. Restoring partnership values, opening our lives to chaos and the world soul. Chaos as Gaian fury and as a moment of opportunity. A forward escape into technology? Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West Chapter 3. This Trialogue and others are available in book form:https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/chaos-creativity-and-cosmic-consciousnessRalph Abraham, PhD, is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, author, and pioneer in the fields of Chaos theory, computer graphics, visual mathematics and dynamical systems. Terence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the novelty wave, and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000.

This is a new audio recording of an article I published on Medium about the Stoic contemplation of death. The photo shows me outside the ruined Temple of Hades at the ancient site of Eleusis near Athens. Get full access to Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life at donaldrobertson.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, we discuss the 24th Degree - “Prince of the Tabernacle” as we continue our exploration of "Morals & Dogma: The Annotated Edition". It is highly recommended that you read the chapter in order to fully follow our discussion."Morals and Dogma" is available from these sites:Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma: Annotated Edition (to purchase)Morals and Dogma (free but unannotated online PDF)Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (Audible audiobook for purchase)Images and Diagrams:24th Degree - Cordon, Jewel and ApronHarmonia Macrosmica of Andreas Cellarius - Plate 05Harmonia Macrosmica of Andreas Cellarius - Plate 19Overview:Introduction (01:14)Ritual of the Degree (02:11)Purpose of the Degree (10:19)Morals and Dogma (11:54)Mysteries of Eleusis (12:06)Initiation (13:48)Death (15:33)Lingam and Yoni (16:43)The Sacred Marriage (18:41)Sic Mundus Creatus Est (20:29)Death as Transmutation (23:24)Transmigration & Past Lives (24:51)Heavenly Drama (25:28)The Myth of Osiris (27:08) Gate of Souls (30:51)The Mystic Egg (32:39)Rites of Purification (33:53)Conclusions (35:31)Links:Scottish Rite Ritual Monitor & Guide (Amazon)A Bridge to Light (Amazon)Sukkot (Wikipedia)History of Initiation (Amazon)Apollonius of Tyana (Wikipedia)Hermes Trismegistus (Wikipedia)Eleusinian Mysteries (Wikipedia)Dionysus, Demeter, Persephone (Wikipedia)Sacred Way (Wikipedia)Telesterion (Wikipedia)Hierophant (Wikipedia)Typhon (Wikipedia)Maypole Scene from Wickerman (YouTube)The Spiritual Science of the Stars: A Guide to the Architecture of the Spirit (Amazon)Tikkun Olam (Wikipedia)

This week, the hosts of the Masonic Roundtable will discuss the highlights of Joe Martinez's jaunt across the pond, focusing on spots of interest to Freemasons, such as the mountain-city of Delphi, the archeological site of Eleusis, and Rosslyn Chapel!

This week we discuss what the Greeks were really up to while Persephone was away in hell. Does Demeter rule over a Cult in the city of Eleusis? And will the Eleusinian Mysteries ever be revealed? Well I for one can say fasting for twenty one days never led us to enlightenment. Tune in to solve this mystery!Thanks for listening and remember to like, rate, review, and email us at: cultscrytpidsconspiracies@gmail.com or tweet us at @C3Podcast. Also check out our Patreon: www.patreon.com/cultscryptidsconspiracies. Thank you to T.J. Shirley for our theme.

Join Michael and Cory Allen for the first-ever wonder gym on Patreon! The wise and whimsical, Sarah Zucker returns! Sarah is a mythopoetic, psychedelically-inspired artist and writer who's been featured in the New York Times Magazine, and CNBC. She's also a Jeopardy! champion. In this one, we muse about the importance of reconnecting with wonder, the puzzle that is the so-called mystery initiations of the ancient world, whether or not human beings have an essential spiritual purpose, how Sarah stays connected with creative inspiration, and more! **Support Third Eye Drops**  Protect yourself online and Get 69% off of Nord VPN at nordvpn.com/thirdeye For rewards and podcast extras, become a patron! Follow and review on Spotify Give us a psychic smooch by leaving us a 5 star review on apple pods!

How do the religious and philosophical beliefs of Ancient Greeks have enduring relevance for us in the modern world of technology and globalisation? What lessons; spiritual or practical, can be discerned from the ancient texts that survive to this day? From the epics of Homer, the cults of Dionysus and Eleusis, the inspired wisdom of Plato or the practical philosophy of the Stoics, Michael Michailidis of Ancient Greece Revisited has explored all these and more on his channel and today he discusses these topics with us on jive Talk.

In today's episode, we chat with Tim Schlidt, a partner at Palo Santo. Palo Santo is a $35M fund investing in psychedelic therapeutics. Palo Santo's portfolio includes companies like Eleusis, Tactogen, and Journey Clinical.In this episode, we discuss:Tim's background in healthcare financeInvesting in classic psychedelic compounds vs. 2nd generation compoundsHallmarks of a good first meeting with a prospective investmentCreated by Greg Kubin and Matias SerebrinskyHost: Matias Serebrinsky & Greg KubinProduced by Jonathan Davis & Zack FrankMarketing by DaisyMae VanValkenburghFind us at businesstrip.fmFollow us on Instagram and Twitter!Theme music by Dorian LoveAdditional Music: Distant Daze by Zack Frank