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Welcome to Part One of ‘Yer A Wizard', a Harry Potter Sleep Saga where you are the main character. This is the beginning of your adventure as a wizard. Sitting in your room at the end of summer, you are greeted by a friendly Owl, who is carrying a mysterious and magical letter in its beak… a letter addressed to you! The letter reveals something to you, that deep down you have always known… You are a Wizard. You journey into the heart of Diagon Alley, and visit the many fantastical shops to collect all of your supplies ready for the new term, meeting friendly and exciting characters along the way, before spending a relaxed evening in the Leaky Cauldron, and settling down for sleep. This is a long story, designed to be enjoyed over multiple listens, or giving you that extra time to fall asleep peacefully.  I hope you enjoy Part One of ‘Yer A Wizard' - A Harry Potter Inspired Sleep Saga by Sleepy Cat. *With the rise of AI generated content, I feel it appropriate to reassure you that I am a human creator, with a deep love of storytelling, meditation and sleep. I work on my own to bring you as many varied tracks as possible, and I hope you continue to enjoy my creations!* If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations  This track was originally released on YouTube in 2021. Writing, Voiceover & Edits property of © Sleepy Cat Meditations (est. 2020). All rights reserved.  Music by Liborio Conti, Kevin Macleod, Feslyann Studios, YouTube Audio Library & Enlightened Audio (all appropriate rights / licenses obtained) SFX are Homemade or from Freesound/YouTube Audio Library Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep meditation and story, based loosely on the fictional world of Harry Potter, created by J.K. Rowling  

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This video podcast is the third in a series of three posts about the Hidden Hold of Horrors Golden Thread in the work of author Rowling-Galbraith. A Golden Thread is a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an author's stories, a commonality that is evident only when looking at the writer's writings viewed as a whole. The ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' repeated scene is of a location underground, be it a cave, a cellar, a tunnel, a tomb, or a basement pool, in which a frightening confrontation, a Near Death Experience, flat out murder, or transformative revelation occurs.The first post in this series was Nick Jeffery's exploration and explanation of Rowling's Church Cottage childhood home in Tutshill and its remarkable cellar beneath a covered access port, what has been mistakenly referred to as a “trapdoor.” In The Hidden Cellar Beneath J. K. Rowling's Childhood Home, Nick shares why a building in West England on the border with Wales from the mid 19th Century that was built as a Church of England school would have a substantial brick and cement vaulted basement and what this room, originally a cistern to prevent cholera outbreaks, was probably like during Rowling's childhood.[Golden Thread Image: Wovex.com; Ladder to Cellar Under Access Port: Pinterest]The second post was one I sent out yesterday in which I shared Nick's and my off-the-top-of-our-heads catalog of everything subterranean, frightening, and damp in Rowling's oeuvre, that is, her seven Harry Potter novels, eight Cormoran Strike mysteries, the Cursed Child ‘collaborative' play script, her Beedle the Bard fairy tale collection and Ickabog “political fairy tale,” the three Fantastic Beasts screenplays, her border-line autobiographical Casual Vacancy, and the Dante-meets-Dickens Christmas Pig classic. Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap DoorHogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The morning after posting it, readers are already adding scenes Nick and I overlooked and I am kicking myself for not including the “deepest dungeon” in ‘The Warlock's Hairy Heart' and “the trapdoor beneath the rug” concealing the tunnel beneath Poem and Pretense's sanctuary from the Loss Adjustors, a tunnel reached via a ladder. ‘The Tunnel' takes them “to the bottom of the mountain” where Compass joins them for their flight to the City of the Missed across the Wastes of the Unlamented, Pig's story turn and meaning-in-the-middle. As Nick and I note in the conversation above, a comprehensive list will require a repeated reading of Rowling's complete writings. Please add the ones you think of that we missed in your comments below, especially for Cursed Child, the only book for which Nick and I drew a complete Golden Thread blank.Those first two posts cover half of the four subjects Nick and I tackle in this Golden Thread conversation; the Ten Questions guiding that discussion with the relevant links and notes from our answers can be found below. What I want to write out here briefly are some notes about Golden Threads in general, their place in a Lake and Shed bifurcated critical environment, and then the importance of the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' Golden Thread specifically for understanding Rowling's work, its inspiration and intentional artistry, and for seeing what will happen in the remaining Strike novels. Not to mention the meaning of Hallmarked Man's fictional silver oligarch Murdoch's name!{Lake image source; Golden Thread image source; Shed image source]Are ‘Golden Threads' Evidence of ‘Lake' Inspiration or ‘Shed' Intentional Artistry?Since the time of our first Hogwarts Professor Substack posts and podcasts, Nick and I have described what we are trying to advance here in the niche field of Rowling Studies is Fourth Generation work. For a discussion of the four generations of Rowling scholarship, listen to On Reading ‘On Writing.' where we discussed the evolution of reader approaches to Rowling-Galbraith texts and how each generation, while typical of a specific time period, continues into the other generations (most of Strike-Ellacott fandom, for example, is reading that series as the ‘Shippers and speculators did the Hogwarts Saga during Potter Mania, the first generation of Rowling Studies).What distinguishes Fourth Generation thinking is, in essence, (1) the incorporation of biographical material in understanding the inspiration of Rowling's work (per her implicit instruction since the late 2019 Lake and Shed metaphor interview), (2) the creation of a gauge to measure the success or failure of her work out of the intention evident in her choices of literary tools, her Shed artistry, and (3) shifting the critical focus from the latest work and the book-next-in-queue to the oeuvre as a whole, everything she's written. The bumper-sticker version of that?Lake — Shed — Golden Threads. Lake? Rowling describes the source of her stories' inspiration as the ‘Lake' of her unconscious mind, her personal issues, the events of her life, her reading and education. This is the work of Fourth Generation specialists who sift through what is known about Rowling's life in pursuit of clues to the source material of her stories.Shed? Again, Rowling's bipolar metaphor for her creative process has a marker, her ‘Shed,' that represents the alocal place ‘where' she deploys her traditional tools to craft archetypal story out of her very personal Lake inspiration. These tools — I focus on seven — have a specific quality, both antiquarian and profoundly effective in producing the effect Rowling desires on her reading audience.And, at last, the Golden Threads, which are not explicitly Lake or Shed findings, but, as noted above, “a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an author's stories, a commonality that is evident only when looking at the writer's writings viewed as a whole.” Examples?In two episodes of The Kanreki Series last July (here and here), Nick and I discussed fourteen Golden Threads in Rowling's work: The Bad Dad, Writing about Writing, Violence against Women, the Evils of Fleet Street, Mother Love, Ghosts, Pregnancy Traps, the Lost Child with Grieving Steward, Evil Government, Occult tropes, the Embedded Author, the Search for the Real, Embedded Texts, and Shadow Doppelgangers. ‘Blood' makes fifteen (see here, here, and here for that) and my post yesterday about the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' is sixteen.As Nick and I explain in the conversation above, most of these Golden Threads have a Lake element or point of origin, e.g., the Cholera Cistern cellar beneath Church Cottage. Understanding why Rowling returns to them again and again in reinventive ways in her work, though, requires more than a psycho-biographical connection. This is obviously the case with all the underground terrors to be found in Rowling's stories.[Basement Image from WallPaperAccess.com]How are We to Understand the ‘Hidden Hold of Horrors' Golden Thread? What does it mean?As I listed at the end of yesterday's post and the conversation with Nick above, Rowling's childhood home with its hidden depths beneath the floorboards and neighboring graveyard and attendant ghosts is only one part of the explanation for the Hidden Hold Golden Thread. It's a wonderful point of origin and launching pad for inspiration, certainly, but restricting the interpretation of her usage of this meme to nightmares and flights of fancy she had as a child about the sublimely subliminal spaces around her is, for lack of a better word, lazy. Her use of these spaces again and again reflects, I'm sure, to a certain degree her psychological Default Setting from childhood memories of the ‘Wet Nightmare Place' under the dining room table and next door. But Rowling's mind was shaped as much by her bibliography, the books she read and loved, as by her biography, the exterior circumstances of her life. Her reading is the bridge linking her Lake and Shed creative process and it plays an outsized role in her Golden Threads as well. Granting that the first inspiration of her unconscious mind may just have been childhood fears and fantasies, knowing that Rowling has read Homer, Virgil, and Dante and studied Greek mythology from her time at Wyedean Comprehensive through UExeter means that a Trip to the Underworld to speak to the dead is a touchstone of myth and epic. There's a word for this commonplace, katabasis, the going-down-and-coming-back. Odysseus visits Tiresias, Aeneas his father Anchises, Dante with Virgil tours the Inferno's multiple levels — and Psyche is sent by Venus into Hades on the last of her purgative trials.· Rowling, having entered into these stories, knows they are delivery vehicles for the cathartic transformative change to be found in consultation with the dead and in thinking about death.Joseph Campbell famously argued in Hero with a Thousand Faces that per James Joyce, ethnographers, and comparative mythology experts this descent into the nether worlds and return was an essential aspect of the “monomyth” or Ur story underlying all story and myth. Campbell's more important contribution was arguing that this was not an abstract historical or literary assertion but one fundamentally important in every human being's life and psycho-spiritual development.The Journey to the Underworld from this perspective is that it represents the conscious entry into the Unconscious Mind, the Hidden ‘Depths' of the Person Behind the Persona-Mask. Rowling has said that, if the writing dream had not worked out, she would have studied to become a psychologist. It is a touchstone belief of Fourth Generation Rowling Studies that, even though the writing gig did work out, that Rowling-Galbraith still became a psychologist in the sense of a person working to help her client-readers experience meaning (logos) more profoundly in their souls (psyche).Every time we descend into the depths with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, with Cormoran and Robin, or with Jack Jones, we jump into a shared psychological crucible for our alchemical dissolution, purification, and reintegration. In this Golden Thread, we can see the Shed tools of literary alchemy, mythology, psychomachia, Christian symbolism, chiastic writing, and cathartic shock all at work.And, though speculating about the novel-on-the-near-horizon isn't a signature quality of Fourth Generation reading, I would be remiss not to point out that Rowling-Galbraith has left pointers in Hallmarked Man and throughout the Strike series that Robin Ellacott is on a ‘Heroine's Journey' — and overdue for a trip to Hades.Pointers to Trips Underground to Come in the Cormoran Strike Series' Remaining BooksSubscribers to Hogwarts Professor are familiar with Rowling-Galbraith's use of the Cupid and Psyche Myth as a template for the Strike-Ellacott series, a use the author highlighted in a tweet after the publication of Strike 8. That myth is about the Soul's trials to be worthy of Divine Love, Psyche being the Greek word for Soul and Cupid or Eros for love (Anteros for True Love). Psyche's great trial is her descent into Hell at Venus' command to receive from Persephone a gift for the Goddess of Beauty. As infernal as Robin Ellacott's sufferings have been, Serious Strikers have been anticipating that she will at last ‘go there' for real in Strike 9.Iris T. M. wrote in The Rowling Library Magazine, Issue #99 (March 2025), her belief that Robin's story arc conformed, intentionally or not on the author's part, with ‘The Heroine's Journey.' See ‘Robin's Heroine's Journey: How J. K. Rowling's Robin Ellacott from the Strike Series Follows the Classic Path of Self-Discovery' in that archived issue of TRL (and say a prayer for the return of The Rowling Library in 2027!). Iris mentions psychotherapist Maureen Murdock as the original advocate of a ‘Heroine's Journey' distinct from a Campbell-esque ‘Hero's Journey,' but uses the ‘Aletis' archetype of Jody Gentian Bower as her framework for tracing Robin's story arc. It's a brilliant exegesis and well worth reading in full.It misses the mark, however, in at least three important respects.First, it makes no mention of the Cupid and Psyche myth, which conforms to every ‘Heroine's Journey' marker and is Rowling's only admitted mythological template for the series;Second, it was written before the publication of Hallmarked Man so Iris T. M. could not have seen that Rowling-Galbraith gave a historical character, a 19th Century Freemason, silver millionaire, and author of Secrets of the Craft (see Ed Shardlow's discussion of his importance here), the name Alexander Hughson Murdock. Taking that as a pointer to Maureen Murdock and her groundbreaking The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness, we're obliged, I think, to look at the stages Dr Murdock assigns to this transformative odyssey.Last, that look reveals a stage that Iris, Bower, or both neglect, namely, ‘Initiation and Descent to the Goddess' after ‘Awakening to Feelings of Spiritual Aridity/Death.' Iris following Bower looks for a ‘Dark Night of the Soul' and attendant “descent into the underworld,” which she ties to Robin's being buried alive at the UHC's Chapman Farm in Running Grave. She argues that after this experience “two key stages remain in the Aletis Journey: Self discovery and integration—where she fully embraces her skills and authenticity—and the Establishment of a new home, where she builds a life that reflects her true self and her desires.”A Murdock reading, in contrast, suggests that Robin's descent into hell has not yet begun or is not yet over.Heroine Journey's Cycle image source; Maureen Murdock image sourceMurdock's ten stage Heroine's Journey looks like this per HeroineJourneys.com with my notes in [Brackets}:* HEROINE SEPARATES FROM THE FEMININE. The “feminine” is often a mother/mentor figure or a societally prescribed feminine/marginalized/outsider role. [Robin's decision to pursue her vocation to be a private detective despite her fiancee's and family's disapproval, especially Linda's]* IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MASCULINE & GATHERING OF ALLIES. The heroine embraces a new way of life. This often involves choosing a path that is different than the heroine's prescribed societal role, gearing up to “fight” an organization/role/group that is limiting the heroine's life options, or entering some masculine/dominant-identity defined sphere. [Her move from secretary to detective to partner at the Agency]* ROAD/TRIALS AND MEETING OGRES & DRAGONS. The heroine encounters trials and meets people who try to dissuade the heroine from pursuing their chosen path, or who try to destroy the heroine. [Insert list here of those who try to convince Robin to leave the Agency or to kill her.]* EXPERIENCING THE BOON OF SUCCESS. The heroine overcomes the obstacles in their way. (This is typically where the hero's journey ends.) [Partner status and respect of Strike and the Met as a First Tier detective]* HEROINE AWAKENS TO FEELINGS OF SPIRITUAL ARIDITY/DEATH. The heroine's new way of life (attempting the masculine/dominant identity) is too limited. Their success in this new way of life is either temporary, illusory, shallow, or requires a betrayal of self over time. [Robin's growing awareness that her vocation as a detective is in an undefined but certain way in conflict with her life as a woman and the roles of wife, daughter, and mother]* INITIATION & DESCENT TO THE GODDESS. The heroine faces a crisis of some sort in which the new way of life is insufficient, and the heroine falls into despair. All of the masculine/dominant-group strategies have failed them. [Strike 9! Robin breaks down but conferring with the Goddess-Crone, her Jungian psychoanalyst, she learns how imbalanced her life has become; she makes decisions a la those of Psyche in Hades per the Crone's instructions]* HEROINE URGENTLY YEARNS TO RECONNECT WITH THE FEMININE. The heroine wants to, but is unable to return to their initial limited state/position. [Ditto]* HEROINE HEALS THE MOTHER/DAUGHTER SPLIT. The heroine reclaims some of their initial values, skills, or attributes (or those of others like them) but now views these traits from a new perspective. [I suspect this healing will be akin to Strike's Chapel ‘conversation' with the late Charlotte Campbell; for reasons to be discussed, I think Linda Ellacott dies in Strike 9 which precipitates Robin's mental crisis]* HEROINE HEALS THE WOUNDED MASCULINE WITHIN. The heroine makes peace with the “masculine” approach to the world as it applies to them. [Strikes 9 and 10]* HEROINE INTEGRATES THE MASCULINE & FEMININE. In order to face the world/future with a new understanding of themselves and the world/life, the heroine integrates the “masculine” and “feminine” qualities/perspectives. This permits the heroine to see through binaries and to interact with a complex world that includes the heroine but is also larger than their personal lifetime or their geographical/cultural milieu. [The Alchemical Hermaphrodite or Rebis, Strike 10]I think there are two more Golden Threads to be explored in Rowling's work that are rooted in Tutshill's Church Cottage and Rowling's life there, both of which I began to pull in the conversation with Nick above, namely, the Nightmare Upstairs Room and the Neglected Dead Mother. But those will have to wait for another day!Hats off in salute to Iris T. M. for her work with Robin's ‘Heroine's Journey' (and Strike's in TRL Issue #100)! Writing as she was before Hallmarked Man and not being familiar with Rowling's Shed tools and how they work together, she still revealed the psychological template Rowling is deliberately following, it seems, if the Murdoch name drop is any indication.The Hidden Hold of Horrors, then, is an especially rich Lake-Shed-and-Golden-Thread story point in Rowling's work. Stay tuned for more of the same with respect to Mums and Upstairs Nightmares!The Ten Questions with Notes and Links1. Good day, Nick! What can you tell me about the trap door basement in Rowling's childhood home, Church Cottage in Tutshill?* The Hidden Cellar Beneath J. K. Rowling's Childhood Home2. So, it's bigger than I once thought. Are you asking for the reasons I think you're asking?* Golden Thread discussion above3. So, yes, that Ironbridge cellar and my recent revisits to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with its gauntlet run beneath a trapdoor, made me wonder: is the nightmare basement a Rowling Golden Thread? It's not as if all of them have been identified; you just came up with the Crimson Golden Thread this year --* See here, here, and here for that.4. How many Golden Threads have we discussed, John? Why do we care again?* Golden Thread 1: Kanreki (Bad Dad, Writing about Writing, Violence against Women, the Evils of Fleet Street, Mother Love, Ghosts, Pregnancy Traps, the Lost Child with Grieving Steward)* Golden Thread 2: Kanreki (Evil Government, Occult tropes, the Embedded Author, the Search for the Real, Embedded Texts, and Shadow Doppelgangers)* Lost Child Golden Thread: Kanreki Finale* See Golden Thread discussion above.5. So it's a Big Deal, really. Care to join me in reviewing Rowling's work to see what's lurking in her basements? (Harry Potter back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door6. How about the Stand-Alones, John: Casual Vacancy, the Ickabog, The Christmas Pig? And the collaboration exercises, Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts (back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door7. And Cormoran Strike? (back and forth)* Rowling Golden Thread: The Hidden ‘Hold of Horrors Downstairs, Beneath the Trap Door* Nick: “And the Dell, of course, in Lethal White's Chiswell House, where the remains of the Shetland pony are dug up in the pink blanket.”8. Okay, that was fun -- and we have sufficient evidence to say that Rowling thinks of the spaces downstairs as wet, scary, even horrible. So what? Tell me this isn't just a Lake inspiration bit; what is this very deliberate artist choosing to do with the basement image? Do we have any bibliographic pointers?* Discussion Above in text.9. What about the psychological piece here? Rowling has said she'd have been a psychologist if the writing gig hadn't worked out. Is her ‘underground' piece of Harry's Journey everywhere our moving into the subconscious of depth psychology?* Joseph Campbell ‘Hero's Journey,' Joyce scholar, Jung disciple, monomyth advocate – myth not only historical but important as individual psychological template;* Maureen Murdock ‘Heroine's Journey,' Jungian psychotherapist, writing for therapiss and patients not writers on Campbell model, “Initiation and Descent to the Goddess”* Victoria Lynn Schmidt ‘Heroine's Journey for Writers'* Iris T. M: The Heroine's Journeys of Robin Ellacott (TRL #99) and of Cormoran Strike (TRL #100)10. Do you think we'll be going underground in the last two Cormoran Strike novels? * YES, we will!Hogwarts Professor 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 hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

Content note: This episode includes discussion of Harry Potter, including our experiences of the fandom, fan fiction and Hogwarts houses.We recognise that J.K. Rowling has publicly expressed and supported harmful and transphobic views and actions towards trans people that have caused significant hurt and concern within trans and non-binary communities. Our discussion of Harry Potter reflects our personal relationship with the stories and fandom and is not intended as an endorsement of Rowling or her views.We are committed to creating an inclusive space for trans and non-binary members of our community, while recognising that individuals may have different and complex relationships with the Harry Potter franchise.SummaryIn this episode, neurodivergent coaches Vicky and Kit from Flown share insights on motivation, brain science, and embodied practices for managing ADHD. They explore how systems, somatic techniques, and neurodiversity reshape our understanding of productivity and self-care. In this episode, Chichi, Shauna, Kit, and Victoria explore practical strategies for managing motivation, regulation, and self-care with ADHD. They share insights on systems, neurodivergence, and embracing curiosity to thrive.HostChichiShaunaGuestsFrom FlownKitVickiWebsite: flown.comIG: instagram.com/flownspaceYoutube: youtube.com/@flown_spaceADHD Program: flown.com/adhd-focus-programViki's socials:Website: www.victoriouscoach.comYoutube: www.youtube.com/@VictoriousCoachIG: instagram.com/victorious_coachLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/victoriamcKit's socials:Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/kitslocumEmail: kit@flown.com Key TopicsThe neuroscience of ADHD and motivationSystems and strategies like body doubling and time scaffoldingThe role of the body and breathwork in managing stucknessNeurodiversity as a strength and a different way of beingCultural and societal influences on time perception and motivation Motivation strategies for neurodivergent peopleThe role of regulation and self-care in managing ADHDUsing curiosity and systems to thrive with neurodivergencePractical tips for overcoming overwhelm and procrastinationThe importance of understanding individual neurodivergent needsChapters00:00 Introduction to the episode and guests00:34 Introduction to managing motivation with ADHD02:02 Guest introductions and motivations of the day02:57 The importance of regulation and self-care03:38 Early awareness of motivation differences and late diagnosis06:54 Using curiosity and systems to overcome overwhelm12:00 Practical tips: regulatory toolkits and dopamine staircase12:08 Why motivation is unreliable for ADHD brains18:00 The role of environment and body in motivation21:23 Flown's approach: systems over motivation22:00 Understanding neurodivergence and hormonal influences24:28 The neuroscience of dopamine and brain networks in ADHD26:50 Internal family systems therapy explained32:11 The role of the body and breathwork in regulation32:52 Embracing adventure and curiosity with ADHD38:06 Supporting neurodivergent needs seasonally and contextually41:23 Cultural influences on time and neurodivergence43:08 Building compassionate habits and removing 'should'44:36 Embodied practices and somatic techniques for focus47:49 Neurodivergence and spirituality as intuitive gifts47:59 Closing thoughts and upcoming programs⁠Donate to ADHD Babes CIC⁠CreditsScripted by - JulezEdited by - ShaunaMusicWritten & Performed by VVN, Produced by SolomonsSoul, Mix & Master by ST4X.Voice overShauna Campbell -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @Shaye_cam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.adhdbabes.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠https://www.YouTube.com/adhdbabes⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/adhdbabes/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/adhdbabes/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@adhdbabes⁠⁠If you'd like to suggest a topic or be a guest on an episode, please email podcast@adhdbabes.com.

A cast of non-celebrity American players feature on this season of “The Traitors: New Blood” – an unusually “Harry Potter”-inflected season, especially considering how radioactive J.K. Rowling's brand has become. (Why, exactly, are the Weasley twins here?) The cast is packed with standout personalities – a funeral director, a dog trainer, a mulleted executive, a 23-year-old, a baseball scout, a lawyer posing as a basketball coach – though some of these newly minted reality stars have done more strategic preparation than others. The first two episodes feature some classic “Traitors” blunders, including one that cruelly ended a blossoming showmance. Is “The Traitors” a dating show? Sadly, not at the moment.

Warren Smith told me death isn't final. Then he told me the second thing he's certain of... Warren Smith became known for questioning a student's beliefs about J.K. Rowling. In this interview, I turn that same scrutiny on his own beliefs about God, Christianity and what happens when we die. Follow Warren Smith's brilliant channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SecretScholars What starts with his viral classroom video and the fallout from losing his teaching job becomes a deeply personal conversation about faith, evidence and consciousness. Warren describes a life-changing experience involving psychedelics, explains Jordan Peterson's influence, and makes a claim about life after death that I have to challenge. We explore simulation theory, Richard Dawkins, Alex O'Connor and whether morality needs God. But when I explain where my own morals come from, Warren has a question for me. Can we apply the same standards of evidence to the beliefs we most want to be true? Watch the conversation and tell me who makes the stronger case—and which argument challenged your own thinking. Subscribe to heretics for interviews and debates about psychology, religion, critical thinking and the beliefs shaping our lives. CHAPTERS 00:00 Warren Smith: The J.K. Rowling Video That Changed Everything 04:58 Critical Thinking: Why Are You So Certain? 09:52 Getting Fired: The Cost of Going Viral 14:03 Jordan Peterson & the Belief I Had to Challenge 17:47 Christianity: What Does Warren Smith Actually Believe? 21:51 Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? 24:52 What Made Warren Certain That Death Isn't Final? 28:25 Can Personal Experience Prove God Exists? 32:01 Life After Death: What Does Warren Actually Mean? 35:09 Quantum Physics & Richard Dawkins: Evidence for God? 39:08 Why Would God Hide the Evidence? 44:54 Morality Without God: Warren Turns the Questions on Me 49:21 Self-Sacrifice: Why Do We Do Things That Feel Bad? #WarrenSmith #AndrewGold #CriticalThinking #LifeAfterDeath #GodDebate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump anunció un acuerdo permanente con Dinamarca para ampliar la presencia militar de EE.UU. en GroenlandiaECDQEMSD noticias, humor e historias verdaderasEpisodio 6396 Cuidando a GroenlandiaConducen: El Pirata y El Sr. Lagartija https://canaltrans.comNoticias del Mundo: Estados Unidos se encarga de la seguridad de Groenlandia - Dinamarca y la OTAN celebran acuerdo - Sheinbaum y Maru Campos en Chihuahua - Tilcayo el nuevo felino boliviano - Sobrevolando Vancouver - Delfina y Claudia taparan todos los baches del Edomex - Clásico de Madrid para los ColchonerosHistorias Desintegradas: Arte y política - El arte como transformador - Todo hecho es político - Disimular o señalar - De J.K. Rowling a Harry Potter - Salvar la obra - El perro de Saúl Hernández - Una de Caifanes - Video de Jaguares - Nombre normales - Esposa extravagante - El amigo que acota - La constancia - Responsable de los aves - Llegó el equinoccio - Otoño para el norte, primavera para el sur - Biodiversidad - A los artistas plásticosEn Caso De Que El Mundo Se Desintegre - Podcast no tiene publicidad, sponsors ni organizaciones que aporten para mantenerlo al aire. Solo el sistema cooperativo de los que aportan a través de las suscripciones hacen posible que todo esto siga siendo una realidad. Gracias Dragones Dorados!!NO AI: ECDQEMSD Podcast no utiliza ninguna inteligencia artificial de manera directa para su realización. Diseño, guionado, música, edición y voces son de  nuestra completa intervención humana.

George Wright III opens the Monday Daily Mastermind episode by highlighting persistence as a key prosperity principle and “difference maker,” tied to his third prosperity pillar: “I act in spite of my mood.” Citing Napoleon Hill and Calvin Coolidge, he argues that lack of persistence prevents people from achieving goals and that persistence is a cultivatable state of mind. He outlines ways to build it: definiteness of purpose, strong desire, self-reliance, definite plans and scheduling, applied knowledge, a cooperative mastermind group, using willpower strategically, and preparation through daily rituals and habits. He frames persistence as a decision—“it's not over until you win”—and shares examples of repeated rejection and failure from NASA, Tim Ferriss, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Einstein, Edison, Dr. Seuss, Jack London, van Gogh, Michael Jordan, and J.K. Rowling.00:00 Monday Prosperity Focus01:29 Pillar Three Act Anyway02:56 Why Persistence Wins04:55 Persistence Is Trainable05:52 How To Build Persistence09:00 Decide Despite Your Mood09:51 Famous Persistence StoriesThanks for listening, and Please Share this Episode with someone. It would really help us to grow our show and share these valuable tips and strategies with others. Have a great day.George Wright III“It's Never Too Late to Start Living the Life You Were Meant to Live”FREE Daily Mastermind Resources:CONNECT with George & Access Tons of ResourcesGet access to Proven Strategies and Time-Test Principles for Success. Plus, download and access tons of FREE resources and online events by joining our Exclusive Community of Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and High Achievers like YOU.Join FREE at DailyMastermind.comFollow me on social media Facebook | Instagram | Linkedin | TikTok | YoutubeGrow Your Authority and Personal Brand with a FREE Interview in a Top Global Magazine HERE.

A warm welcome to this ‘Yer A Wizard' side story, where - after receiving a letter from your best friend - you will take an enchanted adventure aboard the famous Knight Bus!  If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations  *With the rise of AI generated content, I feel it appropriate to reassure you that I am a human creator, with a deep love of storytelling, meditation and sleep. I work on my own to bring you as many varied tracks as possible, and I hope you continue to enjoy my creations!* Writing, Voiceover & Edits property of © Sleepy Cat Meditations (est. 2020). All rights reserved.  Music by Liborio Conti SFX are Homemade or from Freesound Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep meditation and story, based very loosely on the fictional world of Harry Potter, created by J.K. Rowling.

We kick off the show by apologizing for mispronouncing ArieForce One last week and addressing some of the comments about the UAE. On the UAE, listeners raised labor conditions, LGBTQ safety, and J.K. Rowling, and we address each one based on firsthand experience living and working in the region.Then, the news. Legoland Dubai, Real Madrid World, and Motiongate reopen on October 7, which means a lot of people in the region are going back to work.Sphere is bringing The Wizard of Oz back on September 25 with new effects, including animatronic winged monkeys flying overhead, scents, glitter, and what the release calls pyrotechnics. The building and the screen were the expensive part, so each new layer is relatively cheap, and each one makes the show something you can't recreate at home.In Pigeon Forge, Rocky Top Mountain Coaster is running a nighttime overlay called Zombie Invasion, with live actors, fog, and military props along a track that already had half a million dollars of lighting. The coaster is already paid for, and fog rising off a hillside on the Parkway is better marketing than any billboard.Finally, the Golden Ticket Awards. Dollywood won four, the most of any park. Six Flags Fiesta Texas won for Monster Mash Bash a year after winning for Voodoo Dolls, and Europa-Park was named best park. Nobody agrees with every winner, but the awards recognize excellence, and the whole industry benefits when they do.Listen to weekly BONUS episodes on our Patreon.

Nick Jeffery and John Granger met on Wednesday this week to talk about John's epic ‘Index to the First Year of Reading Hallmarked Man' that was posted a week ago. Both were delighted (and a little surprised?) by the range and depths of the work done here and elsewhere to unpack the eighth Strellacott mystery, easily the most carefully planned and unique of the Strike series.Below are the ten questions Nick and John asked one another, brief versions of their answers, and links to points they made for listeners wanting to read more about the subjects and previous work mentioned. The conversation ended with a big THANK YOU to the Hogwarts Professor subscribers and the announcement of an announcement (!) coming next week of Real Time conversation with those supporters.Enjoy this conversation and the links below to highlights from the previous year - and stand by for some exciting news about the coming year's work at Hogwarts Professor!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Ten Questions, Answer Notes, and Links:[Nota Bene: Nick's questions to John are in Blue and John's to Nick are red; Links with bullet points are Nick and John ‘Rowling Studies' podcasts; non-bulleted links are posts.]1 -- Happy Anniversary, John! Can you believe it's been a year since Hallmarked Man was published? What Should we do in commemoration of the Strike Fandom Holiday?* Three things? First, note how much our thinking about the Strike series has changed from our expectations about Strike 8 to our ever growing appreciation of the complexity and mysteries of Hallmarked Man;* Next, maybe this is just me, but I wanted to chart somehow that progression and change from date of publication to where we are now, if only to get a clearer picture of where we're headed – and* Last, I want to have some kind of party, right? Some kind of gathering, the virtual kind obviously, to celebrate the milestones and our direction as readers --2 -- So, Nick, I spent my weekend collating an Index of our Hallmarked Man Year's Greatest Hits. The most shocking piece for me, frankly, was the amount of material we put up in the first months in addition to our podcasts. Do you remember the feeling of a second Kanreki blitz?* Nick notes: stories of publisher bread crumbs and gaffes, ‘Robin is Sterile' and ‘Charlotte was Murdered' strikes, and fandom shock, disappointment and confusion;* Our ‘hot takes' here, reader speculations, beginning of Lake and Shed readingsFrom Hallmarked Man Index Post:First Impressions: Overwhelm, Cryptonyms* Three Cheers for The Hallmarked Man! Thoughts After the First Reading* The Hallmarked Man: A ‘Blitz' Lake and Shed Reading (with a few Golden Threads)Hallmarked Man's Flood of Names, Characters, and PlotsThe Allegorical Cryptonyms of The Hallmarked Man, Part ThreeHallmarked Man as Key to Series Ending, Difficulty Intentional* Hallmarked Man's Three ‘Whose My Daddy?' Set-Ups to Shock Readers in Strikes 9 and 10* Why Hallmarked Man is the Best Cormoran Strike Novel and Will Be Considered the Key to Unlocking the Series' MysteriesCupid and Psyche Template* The Hallmarked Man's Mythological Template* Valentine's Day Special: The Cupid and Psyche Myth within the Cormoran Strike Series: Both a Series Template and Traditional Delivery System for the Fundamental Choice in Human Existence, Eros vs Anteros3 -- Rowling spurred that, John, with writing a very challenging book but also via the Cupid and Psyche tweet. Which of the flood of Fan Theories we discussed did you find the most intriguing?* Ryan Murphy is Charlotte Campbell's ‘Dirty Bomb'And Other Mind-Blowing Cogent Arguments and Ideas from Hogwarts Professor Readers* Robin Ellacott's Imminent Death and Its Out of This World Effect on Strike: The Christian Text-Within-the-Text of Running Grave Subtly Suggests the Ultimate Twist in Cormoran Strike's Transformation4 -- Talking about Robin's Immanent death and the Charlotte Campbell ‘Dirty Bomb' were fun, but, Nick, the Fiona and Katya revelations about Shanker may have been the Peak of the Year's Finds and Reveals, no?The Mysterious Suicides of Leda Strike and Charlotte Campbell Revisited Post Hallmarked Man: Has Fiona Down Under Revealed the Murderers of both Strike's Mother and Milady Bezerko? Was a Busted Drug Deal with Gangsters and Campbell-Longcaster Incest and Adultery behind it All?Dementia, Jewelry, and a Nine Inch Cock: The Mystery of Shanker's ‘Old Man,' His Given Name, and Why He's Never Killed Jeff Whittaker: Katya Slonenko's Deductions from Shanker Comments about His Dear Old Dad in ‘The Hallmarked Man'* Shanker's ‘Old Man,' Leda Strike's Tattoo, Her First Husband's Real Name, and The Dress: A Conversation with Katya Slonenko about Her Strike-Ellacott Theories and Others from Reddit's r/CormoranStrike Community5 -- That was like reading Strike 9 in advance, John, wasn't it? Shades of ‘Robin is Sterile'! But the wheels almost fell off the cart when it came to the Incest speculation. Funny that it was a Golden Thread through all her work, though, not just Hallmarked Man...Incest Notes and Theories* Jonny Rokeby was both Cormoran and Charlotte's Father: The Incest Twist Rowling Has Hidden Inside the Strike Series* Is Rowling's Incest ‘Golden Thread' the Key to Her Cormoran Strike Finale? That Seems to Be the Strong Trend in the Theories Offered by Serious Strikers at Hogwarts Professor6 -- But, Nick, what a Year for a Trip to the Lake -- Rowling's Charlie Kirk tweets, the Charm Bracelet, the Congenital Blood Disease -- was your cup running over?JKR — VWD!Rowling Tweets About Congenital Blood Condition: von Willebrand Disease* Hallmarked Man and Rowling's Tweets after the Shooting of Charlie KirkThe Troubled Blood of J. K. Rowling: Blood as a Golden Thread in all her Works* Blood! The Crimson Thread: Exploring the Lake Inspiration of Blood in the Works of J. K. RowlingThe Christmas Charm Bracelet Conversations with Elizabeth Baird-Hardy:* The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part One)* The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part Two)Rowling Tweets about Changed Beliefs — and Her Beliefs about “Religious Faith”Perhaps the most important of Rowling's revelations in the past year were the ones she made about her beliefs consequent to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.Specifically on 12 September 2025 she wrote about the beliefs she has changed, in which tweet she concluded with thoughts about God and “religious faith:”The distinction implicit in Rowling's “God conundrum” is between (a) “religious faith,” conformity to the beliefs and practices of a specific revelation, and (b) belief in God. Her posture of enlightened agnosticism with respect to God, being unable to believe “without seeing proof,” while acknowledging the “God-shaped vacuum inside me,” an existential proof of same she experiences, is, frankly, only sophistry. It is verbiage draped over her all-too-human inability to reject those core beliefs she has qua postmodern that religious faith requires she reject for communion with God. [If you struggle earnestly and honestly with these same issues, I recommend to you what I would to Rowling as I have to Nick, namely, that you read James Cutsinger's Advice for the Serious Seeker and Ross Douthat's Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. What Chesterton said about Christianity is as true about “religious faith” in general, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting but found difficult and left untried.” Pedestrian agnosticism and adolescent atheism today are less markers of sophistication and thoughtfulness, being ‘above the herd,' than unthinking captivity to the zeitgeist and to one's unexamined beliefs.]7 -- That was a Big Year for us Lake Dwellers, John, but Hogwarts Professor, I think, will always be a Shed site until Rowling agrees to an interview with Veritaserum. And the Shed work we did with Hallmarked Man was significant; what was your favorite part of that?‘The Group Adventure of Charting Hallmarked Man' (Fourteen Posts) was a landmark event in Rowling Studies, frankly, and a proof that Strike 8 was one of if not THE most carefully planned novels — which proof serves as a corrective rebuke to readers who thought it was a careless melange of confusing and conflicting plot lines, the “worst of the series.”* The Group Adventure of Charting Hallmarked Man's Rings: Part Ten and Epilogue, Chapters 117-127 (post to the other thirteen posts in this series are at the bottom of this post)8 -- For me the Gang of Five independent Ring Reading of Hallmarked Man will always be the stand-out of the past year. But you brought the Lake into the Shed with your Read-Along-with-Nick Book club this year! Two epic poems by the Brownings, a Bildungsroman classic by Dodie Smith, and another C. S. Lewis template -- what was the goal and what was the highlight for you in those readings?Nick's Reading List Online: Rowling's Admitted Literary Influences (December 2020)Important Side Texts: The Ring and the Book, Aurora Leigh, I Capture the Castle,‘Till We Have FacesThe Ring and The Book – A Rowling Reading* What the Hallmarked Man Epigraphs Reveal About Rowling-Galbraith's Artistry and MeaningA Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh* Talking About ‘A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh‘A J. K. Rowling Reading of I Capture the Castle* The Most Influential Book Rowling Read as a Child Wanting to Be a Writer is Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle‘Till We Have FacesC. S. Lewis' ‘Till We Have Faces' and Rowling-Galbraith's Cormoran Strike Series (Part One) Is ‘Till We Have Faces' the The Thematic Template for the ‘Strike-Ellacott' Series?C. S. Lewis' ‘Till We Have Faces' and Rowling-Galbraith's Cormoran Strike Series (Part Two): John Granger's thoughts on the seven points of intersection between CSL's retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth and JKR's use of the same myth as a psychomachian story template* A Spirited Conversation about Rowling-Galbraith's Cormoran Strike Series and C. S. Lewis' ‘Till We Have Faces': What does the 1956 re-telling of the Cupid and Psyche myth tell Serious Strikers about Rowling's re-imagining of the same tale9 -- Our Paid Subscribers, John, had the opportunity to read Livingston's Traditional Theory of Literature with you. That took up a lot of your band-space, I know, because it led to your Symbolism of G posts. Why did you think republishing Livingston on Coomaraswamy was so important?In brief, Nick, it was because the most important work we did in Rowling Studies, I think, was not the exercise in Ring Reading that served as a demonstration of what we already suspected, but the synthesis change in how we read Rowling, namely, a shift in our Critical Perspective and Orientation. That was represented by our reprinting The Traditional Theory of Literature by Ray Livingston and our printing currently my PhD thesis draft on this same subject.The Livingston part of this Hogwarts Professor project for Paid Subscribers served as an in-depth introduction to the Perennialist interpretation of fiction, the counter and correction to Critique and to the profane reading of sacred art-in-story. It is the republication by chapters of The Traditional Theory of Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 1962), a book by Ray Livingston that makes reading the otherwise inaccessible Ananda Coomaraswamy the transformative experience it is.If you want to grasp what Rowling is all about, why she has chosen the Shed tools she has and what those choices reveal about her Dante-esque intentions as a writer, you need to wrestle with The Traditional Theory of Literature. Or you can read my PhD thesis draft on the same subject, ‘A Revelation of the Real: A Perennialist Reading of J. K. Rowling's Work'!Chapter Seven: Conclusion and Appendix (links to all the other posted chapters are at the beginning of this post)10 -- Nick, you talk about our Guests on the podcasts, please, and our Guest Posts. I think that's an essential part of what we do here, but coming from you, one of the great discoveries of Hogwarts Professor, it will mean a lot morePodcast Guests and Guest Posts:Dimitra Fimi* Reading Rowling as Myth Maker and Myth Re-Writer: A Conversation with Dr Dimitra Fimi* ‘Sleep Tight, Evangeline,' Miniature Psalters, and the Head of Persephone: A Conversation with Dimitra Fimi: Nick and John sit down with the renowned Tolkien scholar to quiz her about the meaning of Rowling's yuletide charm bracelet, mythological templates, and Strike9 titleEd ShardlowGuest Post: The Pride of Lions in ‘The Hallmarked Man': Ed Shardlow discusses the many lions on the surface, behind a corner, or well-concealed within Rowling-Galbraith's Eighth Cormoran Strike NovelHallmarked Man Notes: The Christmas Charm Bracelet Decoded, Tod Jameson and the Ectopic Pregnancy, and Venetian Blinds: Ed Shardlow shares his ‘Nuggets of Silver' about over-looked meanings in Rowling-Galbraith's Hallmarked Man* The Hidden Narratives and Interpretive Ciphers Beneath the Surface Story of Hallmarked Man: Ed Shardlow speaks with Nick Jeffery and John Granger about Stories inside the Strike 8 Story that Re-tell the Story and Explain Its MeaningThe Hallmarked Man Meets The Ickabog: Strike 8 and Rowling's Fractured Fairy Tale are Parallel Texts* The First Seven Strike Novels Paralleled Their Seven Harry Potter Equivalents; What Rowling Work Did The Hallmarked Man Parallel? Ed Shardlow makes the Argument in Conversation with John and Nick that Strike 8 is a Fun Re-Visiting of the Themes, Scenes, and Characters of Rowling's ‘Ickabog' Fairy TaleKatya SlonenkoDementia, Jewelry, and a Nine Inch Cock: The Mystery of Shanker's ‘Old Man,' His Given Name, and Why He's Never Killed Jeff Whittaker: Katya Slonenko's Deductions from Shanker Comments about His Dear Old Dad in ‘The Hallmarked Man'Katya Slonenko: Leda Strike's ‘Mistress of the Salmon Salts' Pudenda Tattoo: Strike Fandom's Leading Tattoo Artist Explains What Tattoos Mean in the Strike Novels and Explores Why Cormoran's Mum Would Put a Song Title in Ink Where She Did* Shanker's ‘Old Man,' Leda Strike's Tattoo, Her First Husband's Real Name, and The Dress: A Conversation with Katya Slonenko about Her Strike-Ellacott Theories and Others from Reddit's r/CormoranStrike CommunitySolomon Schmidt* A Pen to Change the World: Conversation with Solomon Schmidt, Rowling-Galbraith Biographer (Part One): Nick Jeffery and John Granger talk with Solomon Schmidt about the Adventure of Writing a Rowling Biography Today* A Pen to Change the World: Conversation with Solomon Schmidt, Rowling-Galbraith Biographer (Part Two) — Nick Jeffery and John Granger talk with Solomon Schmidt about what he'd ask Rowling as a biographer if given the chance --and he asks them what they would ask, with and without VeritaserumConclusions: First Anniversary Status QuoThree conclusions to an overly long Hallmarked Man Year One Review:1. It's Been a Great Year! I think we're well positioned for Strike 9 and for another year of discoveries via a Slow Mining of Strike 8.2. Next Year Promises to be Even Better! It may be a little slow in Strike fandom relatively speaking, but, with rumors of a Christmas Pig animated special and trailers for the adaptations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the air, we're going to be very busy here. And —3. We'll Be Breaking New Ground Here as Always! We have found an online platform to host online courses and classes for sharing the heights, depths, and breadth of traditional reading, not to mention practical seminars in how to identify and use the tools that Rowling deploys.All of which classes will be free or at a Close-to-Free discount for our Paid Subscribers here. That's our thank you for your generosity and in acknowledgement of your brilliance. Stay tuned!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. 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Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures series follows two kid heroes on their journey to save a group of islands filled with magical beasts. She's the first children's author since J.K. Rowling to simultaneously top the U.K. and U.S. sales charts. Now, Rundell is out with The Neverfear, the third installment in the series. She's also authored a book-length essay called Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. In today's episode, she talks with Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan about how children's literature gets to “the meat of the human heart.”Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Nel 2027 saranno passati trent'anni dall'uscita di Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale, il primo romanzo della saga di Harry Potter, e giusto in tempo per questo anniversario uscirà la prima stagione di una nuova serie tv di HBO tratta dai libri. Nel 2025 invece aveva compiuto trent'anni La bussola d'oro, il primo dei romanzi di Philip Pullman con protagonista Lyra Belacqua: il 29 settembre uscirà l'ultimo, Il campo delle rose, pubblicato da Salani come tutti i precedenti e come i libri di J.K. Rowling. In questa puntata di Comodino Ludovica Lugli e Giulia Pilotti ricordano cosa sono stati questi romanzi per ragazzi per la generazione che era bambina negli anni Novanta e parlano di com'è rileggerli da adulte. Hanno partecipato alla puntata Ilaria Marinelli della Libreria Centofiori di Milano, esperta di letteratura per ragazzi, e Giulia Trincardi, autrice e docente di Culture digitali e Worldbuilding per videogiochi alla NABA. Sono state menzionate la puntata di Comodino su Mostri di Claire Dederer e la puntata di Superfan di Viola Stefanello che racconta come le posizioni di Rowling sulle persone trans abbiano spaccato il fandom di Harry Potter. LEGGI ANCHE:- La frammentazione della cultura è un bene o un male?- Anche J.K. Rowling non ha capito la copertina della prima edizione italiana di Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nick and John get together to discuss three HogwartsProfessor posts about the All New Hogwarts House Emblems and Rowling's commentary via three emojis about the recent trailer for the Bronte Studios adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. You can read those posts via these links:The HBO+ Potter Trailer: The Meaning of Rowling's Heart, Owl, and Lightning BoltHBO's Harry Potter and the Alchemical SymbolsThe New Hogwarts House Emblems and Their Alchemical and Plant SymbolismOr you can just jump right into the conversation via the questions, notes and links below!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Ten Questions Guiding this Conversation: Nick in Red, John in Blue1. G'day, John! Great to see you, your chin, and hairline again! You posted a short piece over at the HogwartsProfessor weblog this week about a seemingly meaningless Rowling tweet that shared a new trailer for the HBO+ adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. She only ‘wrote' three emojis, but, even though you wrote was only several paragraphs long, it said a lot. Why do such a deep-dive into these perhaps offhand fan-servicing signals?* All the signals or emojis are traditional symbols, so, offhand or not, they're markers of the choice a serious reader has to make about understanding Rowling's work properly;* Is it literary sacred art as her Shed tool choices suggest or just creative personal expressions for our diversion and entertainment? * Rowling is signaling us, as you say, that it is the former with these three emojis.* T. S. Eliot, ‘The Dry Salvages' (InterNet Poem)We had the experience but missed the meaningAnd approach to the meaning restores the experiencein a different form2. Let's take a closer look, then! The Heart, the Owl, and the Lightning Bolt -- what does the Rowling fan, from “ten years old to seventy,” see right away before they stretch for the traditional meaning?* Heart – Rowling is pleased; we should be, too; heart as sentiment, love token. * Owl – Hedwig in Stone, important message being delivered, ‘pet' project of Rowling's. * Lightning Bolt – The Boy Who Lived's signature mark, news out of the blue or ‘news flash'3. And there's more? What traditional meanings do these emojis have?* The Heart to Rowling is a lot more than a token of sentiment. It is a Golden Thread in her work that the Heart is a pulsing symbol of the human spiritual capacity. Only the Eye does as much heavy freight of meaning lifting in her work and I think the Heart surpasses the Eye ultimately in importance except insomuch as she elides their meaning. Read The Heart is Not About Emotions and Affection but the Human Spiritual Center for discussion of the symbolism and the Golden Thread.* The Owl, too, is an ancient and dynamic symbol, the reason frankly there is a Hedwig rather than Hedwig being the meaning of the token. Rowling clearly draws on her experience of owls in Greek mythology (and reading of C. S. Lewis' Narniad drawing on the same source) in making the owl the vessel of communication and supernatural perception in her Wizarding World. None of the letters written by her witches and wizards need to be addressed because an owl is so attuned to everyone and everything that it is able effortlessly to understand where it needs to go, God's own GPS. What is usually described as a symbol of Wisdom is clearly much more a revelation of a mind able to grasp the great interconnectedness of things which in turns takes us back to the Eye and the Heart — and what Rowling is trying to bring to readers in her transformative literature. (Contrast this Greek mythology symbolism with what owls represent in Christian scripture; quite the gulf between Athens and Jerusalem there!)* But the wisdom piece is there, too! Rowling is writing at four levels of story that correspond with the four ways of human knowing, of which the last and most important is gnosis or wisdom, the so-called anagogical layer of meaning that no less a light than Flannery O'Connor said was the whole point of writing and reading. If you're writing for the Heart or to illumine the Eye of the Heart, the goal is transformative imaginative experience fostering wisdom.* And the Lightning Bolt? The forehead scar, the mark of Orestes, the Greek hero who avenged his father's betrayal and murder, is another polyvalent and profoundly spiritual cipher as a lightning bolt. In it simultaneously the reader experiences simultaneously as we do in a thunder storm albeit imaginatively (1) sudden illumination or enlightenment, (2) from above, the heavens, the super-conscious realm, and, most important, (3) a reorientating shock, a cathartic shaking, the jolting moment that jars us out of our psychological rut and cage to see the world afresh with our ‘eye of the heart.'* Rowling's three emojis on her tweet about the fun trailer below can be read as fan servicing variations on the ‘thumbs up' and ‘hand-clapping' using tokens associated with the books. No doubt about that reading.* I think it as important to note, however, the possibility that Mrs Murray is signaling to the HBO+ audience as well as the international of readers that this adaptation is about trying to reproduce as much as is possible in an iconoclastic medium some replica of the imaginative and transformative experience to be had in the books. The Heart, the Owl, and the Lightning Bolt all point to that experience and depth of meaning.4. Which segues nicely to your brief post, Nick, on the HBO+ adaptations and its choices in how to represent the four Hogwarts Houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. (”Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweek,” anyone?) Can you review what the books say are the proper representations, the heraldic glyphs most appropriate to each house?5. Has Rowling added content or context for why she chose those specific representations?[Anelli-Spartz Interview discussion of four elements]JKR: But they're not all — don't think I don't take your point, but — we, the reader, and I as the writer, because I'm leading you all there — you are seeing Slytherin house always from the perspective of Death Eaters' children. They are a small fraction of the total Slytherin population. I'm not saying all the other Slytherins are adorable, but they're certainly not Draco, they're certainly not, you know, Crabbe and Goyle. They're not all like that, that would be too brutal for words, wouldn't it?ES: But there aren't a lot of Death Eater children in the other houses, are there?JKR: You will have people connected with Death Eaters in the other houses, yeah, absolutely.ES: Just in lesser numbers.JKR: Probably. I hear you. It is the tradition to have four houses, but in this case, I wanted them to correspond roughly to the four elements. So Gryffindor is fire, Ravenclaw is air, Hufflepuff is earth, and Slytherin is water, hence the fact that their common room is under the lake. So again, it was this idea of harmony and balance, that you had four necessary components and by integrating them you would make a very strong place. But they remain fragmented, as we know.More on Elements and Humours at HogwartsProfessor:* Ben Jonson's Every Man and His Humor* The Crimes of Grindelwald Group Portrait: A Study in Temperaments6. Where did the Warner Brothers film adaptations depart from and stick to the page-and-interview House heraldry?* The animal representations as often as not are facing in the wrong direction, sinister rather than dexter and vice versa; AND* The Ravenclaw eagle of the books became a raven and their House colors become dark and light shades of blue rather than blue and copper.7. But those corrections aren't the most interesting changes or corrections in these new House shields, are they? What are the extras we're given that weren't suggested in the original texts but implicit in the interview material?[Hat Tip to Sad-Ad-9273 at r/HarryPotteratHBO for these screen catches!]* Note the vegetation in the Banners and the Emblems: the acorns in the Gryffindor mean the Oak tree is its symbol; the white berries in Slytherin suggest holly, per Sandra Miesel Kopec, the laurel tree seems a match for Ravenclaw and ivy for Hufflepuff;* Check out a website devoted to these things, ‘What Do Leaves Represent on a Coat of Arms,' for the meaning of these plant associations with each house or share your own ideas in the comment boxes below!8. What is with the ornamentation on those triangles? The Slytherin circle, the sideways line and paleolithic horse on Gryffindor, the Ravenclaw ‘V,' and the Hufflepuff cup and ‘V'? Are these Founder's treasure tokens that become Horcruxes? If so, are there traditional meanings as well as plot points, e.g., Tarot Card qualities?[Hat Tip to LightAngel452 at r/HarryPotteratHBO for the brilliant graphic! LightAngel also picked up on the alchemical symbols.]* The Emblems material that gets heady involves the melange of symbols and signs in their respective headboards; * Slytherin has an easily discerned ‘S,' the suggestion of the House's signature serpent, and the Horcrux locket of Salazar Slytherin;* Ravenclaw's header with a little head turning and squinting has an ‘R,' the V inserted looks like a diadem, and simultaneously it has what looks like an eagle in flight from a distance;* Gryffindor does not seem to include the ‘G' we'd expect, but the Sword of Gryffindor, and the paleolithic horse a Medieval knight be riding are evident;* Hufflepuff gets the best of the lot, though, with its distractingly obvious cup obscuring how the ‘V' within the inverted triangle and its bisecting line yields both the stripes of a badger and Helga Hufflepuff's initials!* That's great stuff, Nick, but the real catch, I think, was what you shared in your post about the alchemical symbols for the Four Elements, the triangles illustrated in the Wikipedia page for such things and in The Book of Alchemy (Chapter 9, ‘The Four Elements,' pp 111-128 [pdf numbering]; Air triangle 119, Water, Fire, Star of David 115, Earth “no predetermined figure” 113-114)* The meaning of those triangles, especially their direction and the bisecting lines in the symbols for Earth and Air, can be found in Titus Burckhardt's Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, a book we can be pretty sure Rowling read because the Penguin paperback available when she was a Comprehensive student featured Rubeus Hagrid, hermaphroditic giant, with a dragon, both astride a Golden Snitch, on its cover:* Burckhardt explains that the symbols are understood correctly in their harmonious combination or elision as the Seal of Solomon (‘Star of David') [pp 74-75];* The bisecting lines of the Earth and Air symbols is from the base lines of the triangle in the Seal that brings the whole into balance;* Which representations align perfectly with Rowling's attempt to explain the Four Houses as the Four Elements and how the goal or telos of each is its harmonious integration with the others, i.e., the Seal of Solomon;* We may not be able to say that Rowling told Bronte Studios to use these symbols on their respective Hogwarts House emblems, but its undeniable I think that the HBO+ adaptations are going to be risibly rich in traditional symbolism that most readers may or may not notice but which they will not ‘get' without some serious study.9. And, John, you're putting up a post later today about the New Potter Mania and how it will look like the old Potter Mania and still be qualitatively different. We'll probably do a whole show to talk about that but what are the highlights? * Not today, but very soon!10. And I see you're putting up material for the Paid Subscribers on just that subject? * Paid Subscribers will be receiving chapters from the Perennialist PhD thesis draft I wrote that Dimitra Fimi rescued from the fireplace;* I'm meeting with an online course platform owner today that I'm all but certain will be hosting the Wizard Reading Formula classes I gave in 2017 which will be free to Paid Subscribers;* And which will serve as a run-up to and acid test for our ten week week ‘Lake, Shed, Golden Thread' course that will launch in 2027, maybe even at Christmas time 2026 for folks to give themselves their friends and family as presents* Stay tuned! Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. 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Review các phim ra rạp từ ngày 28/08/2026TÀU BUÔN NGƯỜI – T18Đạo diễn: Jean-François RichetDiễn viên: Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Adrian LesterThể loại: Hành Động, Hồi hộp, Tội phạm"Mutiny (Tàu buồn người) kể về Cole Reed do Jason Statham thủ vai, sau khi tận mắt chứng kiến ông chủ tỷ phú của mình bị sát hại và bản thân trở thành kẻ thế thân bị vu oan, Cole Reed (Jason Statham) đã đột nhập lên một con tàu chở hàng để bắt đầu hành trình truy tìm sự thật và trả thù cho vị sếp cũ. Tuy nhiên, chuyến đi đơn độc này lại đẩy anh vào nguy hiểm khi Cole vô tình bóc trần một âm mưu quốc tế quy mô và cực kỳ nguy hiểm.CHIIKAWA: BÍ MẬT ĐẢO NGƯỜI CÁĐạo diễn: Kei OikawaDiễn viên: Haruka Aoki, Makoto Tanaka, Ari Ozawa, Yuka Iguchi, Takayuki Asai, Yuma Uchida, Miyuri Shimabukuro, Momo HarumiThể loại: Hoạt HìnhBộ ba Chiikawa, Hachiware và Usagi nhận được một lời mời tham gia chuyến đi đến hòn đảo đặc biệt với những phần thưởng và đồ ăn miễn phí. Cả nhóm cùng lên đường phiêu lưu ra đảo cùng với nhân vật Rakko – người vốn mang lòng hoài nghi về những lời hứa hẹn trong tờ rơi. Hòn đảo tưởng chừng vui vẻ này lại ẩn chứa nhiều điều kỳ bí và bí mật lâu đời liên quan đến người cá.SIÊU CHÓ ĐẠP GIÓ ĐÓN LỄĐạo diễn: Shea WagemanDiễn viên: Owen Wilson, Vincent Tong, Tabitha St. GermainThể loại: Gia đình, Hài, Hoạt HìnhCharlie – chú chó cưng đáng yêu của Danny – bất ngờ bị người ngoài hành tinh bắt cóc và trao cho những siêu năng lực đặc biệt. Nhưng Charlie không phải là “siêu thú” duy nhất trong khu phố khi Puddy – chú mèo tinh quái nhà bên – cũng sở hữu những năng lực phi thường. Cuộc đối đầu giữa hai “siêu thú” mở ra hàng loạt tình huống hài hước, bất ngờ và đầy thú vị, đồng thời mang đến những khoảnh khắc đáng yêu về tình bạn, tình cảm gia đình và tình yêu dành cho các loài vật. Liệu Charlie có thể làm chủ sức mạnh mới và vượt qua những thử thách đang chờ đợi phía trước?HARRY POTTER VÀ HÒN ĐÁ PHÙ THỦY: PHIÊN BẢN KỶ NIỆM 25 NĂMĐạo diễn: Chris ColumbusDiễn viên: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman,...Thể loại: Phiêu Lưu, Thần thoạiLà phần phim đầu tiên chuyển thể từ bộ tiểu thuyết nổi tiếng của tác giả J.K. Rowling, phim xoay quanh Harry Potter - cậu bé mồ côi phải sống nhờ vào gia đình Dursley, và cuộc sống của cậu tưởng chừng sẽ mãi mãi trôi qua trong sự ghẻ lạnh cho đến sinh nhật lần thứ 11. Cậu bất ngờ phát hiện mình là một phù thủy và cha mẹ cậu từng là những phù thủy nổi tiếng. Đặc biệt, Harry Potter sở hữu năng lực phép thuật đặc biệt khi đã sống sót sau lời nguyền của Chúa tể Voldemort. Thoát khỏi gia đình Dursley để nhập học vào trường Hogwarts, một trường đào tạo phù thủy có tiếng, Harry tình cờ dấn thân vào một cuộc phiêu lưu đầy gai góc cùng hai người bạn thân Ron và Hermione. Cậu phát hiện ra một con chó ba đầu đang canh giữ một căn phòng trên tầng ba và nghe nói đến một viên đá bị mất tích sở hữu những sức mạnh lạ kì. Nhân dịp kỷ niệm 25 năm ra mắt bộ phim, phiên bản đặc biệt lần này sẽ mang đến 12 phút hậu trường độc quyền chưa từng được công bố, tạo thêm trải nghiệm thú vị và bất ngờ dành cho người hâm mộ khi thưởng thức bộ phim trên màn ảnh rộng.HÀNH TRÌNH BẤT HẢOĐạo diễn: KIM MI-JODiễn viên: LEE JUNG-EUN, KONG HYO-JIN, PARK SO-DAM & LEE YEONThể loại: Hài, Hành Động, Tội phạmBị bóp nghẹt bởi nỗi đau mất đi đứa con gái út, bốn mẹ con quyết tâm thực hiện kế hoạch bắt cóc kẻ giết người vừa được tại ngoại sau 8 năm thụ án. Chuyến du lịch ‘chữa lành' sẽ là chứng cứ ngoại phạm hoàn hảo hay sẽ là hành trình đầy sóng gió cho những “sát thủ nghiệp dư”?---------------------------------------#8saigon #reviewphimrap #taubuonnguoi #hanhtrinhbathao #chiikawabimatdaonguoica

Nú fer sumrinu að ljúka og þetta er síðasti þáttur sumarsins. Við byrjum af fullum krafti næsta laugardag með splunknýjar Heimskviður, þar sem við ætlum að gera upp það helsta í fréttum sumarsins á erlendum vettvangi. Í þættinum í dag ætlum við að rifja upp umfjöllun okkar frá því í vor um eitt flóknasta og umfangsmesta manntal sögunnar. Indverjar eru langt komnir með að telja fjölmennustu þjóð heims. Núna í lok september lýkur fyrri áfanga þessa flókna verkefnis en því á ekki að ljúka fyrr en um mitt næsta ár. Svo fjöllum við líka um Harry Potter og höfund bókanna um galdrastrákinn J.K. Rowling, og að lokum áttræðu rapparana Pete og Bas.

Harry Potter cumple 25 años y, aunque la primera película ya es cosa del pasado, seguimos hablando de esta saga. ¿Por qué?En esta primera función de SODA CINEMA me voy hasta el inicio del fenómeno: cómo llegué a la película, el papel de David Heyman, el salto de J.K. Rowling al grupo de grandes escritores británicos, el elenco completamente inglés y las decisiones detrás de las ocho películas.También hablamos de algo que me parece particularmente interesante: cómo los libros pudieron terminar la historia sabiendo ya que Harry Potter era un fenómeno mundial, qué pasó con la franquicia después de su final y qué podemos esperar de la nueva serie.Pero, sobre todo, intento entender qué hizo que Harry Potter se quedara con nosotros durante 25 años.¿Por qué seguimos hablando de esta saga hoy?Si disfrutas la función:1. Síguenos en Spotify.2. Califica el podcast.3. Déjanos en los comentarios tu respuesta: ¿por qué crees que seguimos hablando de Harry Potter hoy en día?Bienvenidos, mamaescuchas, a SODA CINEMA.

J. K. Rowling continue sa croisade transphobe. En début juin 2025, l'écrivaine de la saga Harry Potter a annoncé créer un fond de pour soutenir les organisations “qui luttent pour maintenir les droits des femmes fondés sur le sexe biologique”, sous entendu : transphobe. Et le soutien financier de J. K. Rowling ce n'est pas rien puisqu'en mai 2025, le magazine Forbes estimait sa fortune à 1,2 milliards de dollars américain.  Ce n'est pas la première fois que l'autrice écossaise tient des positions transphobes… Ce qui peut en surprendre certains puisque comme l'explique un article de nova du 17 juin 2025, “c'est elle qui en 2015 applaudissait quand un théâtre recrutait une Hermione noire pour rejouer Harry Potter, qui a défendu les exilés, le système de santé publique, l'avortement, le respect des homosexuels…” En fait, J. K. Rowling se revendique tout simplement TERF. Ça veut dire quoi TERF ? Pourquoi font-elles polémique ? Qui sont les représentantes des TERF en France ? Écoutez la suite de cet épisode de Maintenant vous savez ! Un podcast Bababam Originals écrit et réalisé par Hugo de l'Estrac. Première diffusion : juin 2025 À écouter ensuite : ⁠Qu'est-ce que l' “homonationalisme” ?⁠ ⁠Comment la créature Méduse est-elle devenue une icône du féminisme ?⁠ ⁠Pourquoi le violet est-il la couleur du féminisme ?⁠ Retrouvez tous les épisodes de "Maintenant vous savez". Pour rester informé et recevoir le meilleur de “Maintenant vous savez” chaque semaine, abonnez-vous à notre newsletter. Suivez Bababam sur Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alice Irizarry and Andrew Devis present the story of author J. K. Rowling whose storytelling began with an idea on a train ride and months of writing in her notebooks in a small Scottish coffee shop.https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/the-birth-of-harry-potter/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment.Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.com

Nick Jeffery and freshly Shorn & Clean Shaven John Granger sit down to discuss John's two posts about the symbolism of the Letter ‘G' in Strike 8. Part One of the series did the necessary work of demonstrating that, yes, the letter ‘G' is all over Hallmarked Man, from the online guess that the murderer carved that initial into ‘William Wright's back to the Witness G echoing with Green-jacked Gorilla-bearing man and a bit of calligraphic terrorism on the Agency door at street-level. The first also covered the accepted Masonic interpretations of why the ‘G' is featured in the Compass and Square symbolism of their fraternity.Part Two was a deep dive into more esoteric meanings given to the ‘G' by Freemasons and by Rene Guenon, notable Perennialist, and into what associations Rowling-Galbraith tried to make between the seventh letter and the key hallmark of the book. It concluded with three answers to “So What?” including some fun speculation about a possible shape for the series, a shape highlighted in Strike 8, and with a discussion of whether Rowling-Galbraith's subliminal artistry with ‘G' worked or failed.Perhaps the biggest take-away of this series of posts was to introduce subliminal coloration as the common denominator of Rowling-Galbraith's signature seven Shed tools. Nick and John open their conversation about the letter ‘G' with that subject and everything they discuss in the end folds back into that covert artistry.As always, the Dynamic Duo covet your comments and feedback as the best follow-up to their conversation. Please jump right in!Hogwarts Professor is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Ten Questions and Relevant Links1. Okay, John, let's talk coloration. You mentioned some examples in famous authors' work in Part One of your deep dive into Letter G Symbolism in Hallmarked Man; do we have coloration in Harry Potter? Another Strike novel? * ‘Donegality' in Planet Narnia, Michael Ward, the subliminal artistry of C. S. Lewis' Narniad;* From ‘Literary Alchemy: Sacred Science, Sacred Art, and the Alembic of Story'C. S. Lewis, according to Michael Ward, author of Planet Narnia, also felt appreciating the “manner of the author,” his “various special tricks,” especially those connected to creating atmosphere, were critical to understanding the style of the Greats.Again and again, in defending works of romance, Lewis argues that it is the quality or tone of the whole story that is its main attraction. The invented world of romance is conceived with this kind of qualitative richness because romancers feel the real world itself to be ‘cryptic, significant, full of voices, and the mystery of life.' Lovers of romances go ‘back to fruit tree for its taste; to an air for… what? For itself; to a region for its whole atmosphere – to Donegal for its Donegality and London for its Londonness' (Ward, 16).Donegal was one of Lewis'favorite vacation spots as a child in Northern Ireland. Ward defined Lewis' stylistic atmosphere as his ‘Donegality:'By donegality we mean to denote the spiritual essence or quiddity of a work of art as intended by the artist and inhabited unconsciously by the reader. The donegality of the story is its peculiar and deliberated atmosphere or quality; its pervasive and purposed integral tone or flavor; its tutelary but tacit spirit, a spirit that that the author consciously sought to conjure, but which was designed to remain implicit in the matter of the text… the more influentially to inform the work and so affect the reader (Ward 75).Ward's concern is especially with Lewis' character Aslan, in whom this donegality is “concentrated and consummated” as a “Christologically representative character” (Idem), but the thesis of Planet Narnia is that the “kappa-element,”[xiv] Lewis' phrase for the informing, hidden “tutelary but tacit” style of a work, is astrological symbolism, each of the Narnia chronicles representing one of the seven traditional planets. Ward argues that Lewis' subliminal artistry, the “inner weave” or style of his work in Nabokovian language, is the embedded mythological and astral metaphors to be found beneath the surface of each story. Twain is supposed to have said, “”If you would have your fiction live forever, you must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach, but you must covertly preach and covertly teach.” Lewis, believing as he did that “an influence which cannot evade our consciousness will not go very deep” (Lewis no date), wrote in astrological glyphs to reach covertly his reader's unconscious depths or noetic heights.* ‘The Eyes of Deathly Hallows' in The Deathly Hallows Lectures, John Granger, and, briefly, here, and 2010 lecture at New York Public Library; and* ‘The Cross Symbolism of Troubled Blood,' John Granger2. You list those eyes and crosses and I confess it didn't strike me on my first and repeated readings that there were so many of those. What made you notice all the ‘G's in Strike 8? * I confess that I didn't make anything of the letter ‘G's repeated appearances in Hallmarked Man until I saw that Rene Guenon, the most famous and profoundly metaphysical of the first 20th Century Perennialists, had written a brief essay in his youth, ‘The Letter G and the Swastika.' I made that discovery inadvertently when looking for something else in Fundamental Symbols, a posthumous collection of his writing (downloadable as pdf here).3. Let's play ‘Name a G passage;' I'll start with the G supposedly carved into William Wright's back and you name another until we're both out of examples... Robin's research into the death of ‘William Wright' in the Ramsey Silver shop vault begins with an online observer saying out of the blue that a ‘G' was carved into the victim's back and that this was tied to the Secret Word of Freemasonry and the legend of Hiram Abiff's martyrdom. Rowling-Galbraith has Robin mention this to Murphy at their first unofficial briefing on the case and Murphy all but explodes; he denies it was a ‘G' and says he heard it was a “hallmark” instead.The letter is associated with Freemasonry as their symbolic center (GAOTU) via a telephone message and in Strike's meeting with ‘Hiram' Hardacre.We learn after Robin's being attacked in Harrow's that she was ‘Witness G' in her rapist's trial, the letter being to her something like a secret identity.Strike not long thereafter finds a blood Red Letter ‘G' painted on the street level door to the Agency which he hopes is a Masonic terrorist marker rather than the pointed suggestion that the Angel of Death is coming for Witness G.I'd add that the Gorilla mask and doll of the Green jacket man that haunt Robin have some of their subliminal effect on her and the reader because of the initial guttoral sound of ‘Gorilla' and ‘Green.'4. The Freemason connection is the most interesting one even though the Masonic G isn't carved into Powell's back (it's a Salem Cross and the only other twice played symbol is the orb and cross pendant Strike buys for the charm bracelet Christmas present). Who knew that the capital ‘G' was such a big deal in Masonry? 5. At the end of Part One, I thought you'd pretty much covered the symbolism and were going to close in Part Two with what God and Geometry are about in Hallmarked Man, hence the coloration. Instead you wrote that the G being a one-letter acronym wasn't enough. Why not? * not Masonic -- no edges! * not ancient Greek, Hebrew, or Sanskrit, * not tied to craft symbolism, * not a symbol!, * the catechism answer “By letters four and science five, this G aright doth stand in due art and proportion'.”6. So was Guenon's essay the key to Rowling's use of the letter ‘G'? * Yes and no!* His Symbolism of the Cross, Lord of the World, and The Great Triad chapters help a lot but from ‘The Letter G and the Swastika' we learn that * yod is God is gamma, * catechism answer means four gammas or four yodhs which both yield swastikas (gammadion cross), * GAOTUmeans Christ the keystone/cornerstone, * the sequence of jumps from letter ‘G' to Murphy's Salem Cross...7. Who backed Guenon up on this connection so you weren't using the Perennialist hammer to drive in a screw or fasten a bolt? * Cockburn, Crypto Curry, Albert Pike (via Tamara/Tamspells!)8. If I accept the preponderance of ‘G's in Hallmarked Man as coloration/Donegality (I do) and the meaning of the symbolism per your readers (I'm withholding skeptical judgement), what effect was this supposed to have on me the reader so I can tell you if it worked or not? If it was supposed to confuse me, boffo job! * Nabokovian potustoronost, * numinous quality in the air, * Robin as ‘Witness G, ‘* Strike channeling Tyler Powell at finish in Ironbridge9. Will we see Freemasonry and its symbolism in Strikes 9 and 10? Maybe! [Rowling-Galbraith] certainly has made us long for a big pay-off with respect to ‘G;' see Sarah Keeler's idea that it may be a pointer to Gillespie reappearing in Strike 9. I love that possibility and it certainly is in keeping with the HogwartsProfessor working thesis that Hallmarked Man is what it is to set up the next two books. If we're going to see characters and themes bleed between the first book of the last three and its successors, why not its symbolism?If I had to bet money on it, though, I think we probably won't see more Freemasonry or Big ‘G' payoffs. It kills me to say that given the investment I've made in books about the Masons (they're on a shelf beneath the dust-collecting little library on Mormon history and scriptures I collected while writing about Stephenie Meyers' Twilight books). I just cannot see her weaving the Mason characters from Hallmarked Man into story lines that give us resolution with respect to Charlotte's and Leda's supposed suicides twenty some years apart, Shanker's family history, and the mysteries around Strike's time with the military police, especially the IED that nearly killed him.10. I thought you promised not to get into the Strike Series Shape Sweepstakes? You've already said you think it's a seven part ring with a triangle-trilogy addendum and in Part Two you give us a Harry Potter shape for the decalogy structure -- or is it Christmas Pig? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

Alice Irizarry and Andrew Devis present the story of author J. K. Rowling whose storytelling began with an idea on a train ride and months of writing in her notebooks in a small Scottish coffee shop.https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/the-birth-of-harry-potter/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradioAre you learning English? Are you looking for a way to practice your English? Listen to Spotlight to learn about people and places all around the world. You can learn English words, and even practice English by writing a comment.Visit our website to follow along with the script: http://spotlightenglish.comCheck out more Spotlight English content at: www.SpotlightEnglish.com 

This week, Jonathan and Jaime cover Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S04E05, Silo S03E07 and Lanterns S01E01.Duty shift | Memory AlphaHayden Panettiere suffered apparent overdose, 911 call indicates‘X-Men' cast confirmed: Sadie Sink, Adam Driver, and ‘Obsession' star Inde Navarrette among the MCU's new mutantsAvengers: Doomsday | Special Look | In Theaters December 18Marvel Television's VisionQuest | Official TrailerStar Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 | Teaser Trailer | Streaming January 20 on Disney+Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Says the ‘Optics' at Marvel Are ‘Obvious' After ‘Wonder Man' and ‘Blade' Canceled: ‘If I'm Disney, I Do Not Want to Be Attached to These Optics'Blue Eye Samurai: Season 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix'Blue Eye Samurai' Renewed For Third & Final Season At NetflixGolden Axe | Official Trailer | Paramount+Dave Bautista Officially Set as Kratos in 'God of War' TV Series‘Black Mirror' and ‘Loki' Directors Say They Rejected HBO's ‘Harry Potter' Due to J.K. Rowling's Transphobia: ‘Absolutely F—ing Not'The Mandalorian and Grogu | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 22IF DESTRUCTION BE OUR LOT #1 | Image ComicsThe Amazing Digital Circus, YouTube Playlist, by GLITCHObsession | Official TrailerAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Help Persecuted Christians TODAY: https://csi-usa.org/quickstart/ Christian Solidarity International On today's Quick Start podcast: NEWS: The U.S.-Iran ceasefire expires as Tehran threatens to shift to “fully offensive” operations, while Jared Kushner points to potential progress toward Hamas disarming in Gaza. FOCUS: Two directors reportedly walk away from HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series over J.K. Rowling's outspoken views on transgender issues. MAIN THING: Peaceful pro-life demonstrators are arrested outside the Alamo. Tré Goins-Phillips and Raj Nair break down what happened. BIBLE VERSE: Matthew 5:10 — “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” SHOW LINKS Radical Revelations with Raj Nair https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radical-revelations/id1888511250 Faith in Culture: https://cbn.com/news/faith-culture Heaven Meets Earth PODCAST: https://cbn.com/lp/heaven-meets-earth NEWSMAKERS POD: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/newsmakers/id1724061454

In this week's episode, we take a look at some of the common scams targeting indie authors and offer tips on how to detect and avoid them. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Blood, Book #3 in The Ghosts series, (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store: CAINASUMMER The coupon code is valid through August 31, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook this summer, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 316 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is August the 14th, 2026, and today we are discussing common scams targeting indie writers. We also have a Coupon of the Week and a update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. So let's start off with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Blood, Book #3 in The Ghosts series (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store. That code is CAINASUMMER. As always, the coupon code and the links to my Payhip store will be available in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through August the 31st, 2026, so if you need a new audiobook for this summer, we have got you covered. Now let's head on to a progress update. As I mentioned last week, Cloak of Frost is done and it's published and you get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and my own Payhip Store. It is doing quite well. Thank you all for that, and people seem to be enjoying it. So if you haven't checked out Cloak of Frost yet, you can get it at your favorite ebook store. Now that Cloak of Frost is done, my next main project is Blade of Visions, which will be the sixth book in the Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series. I am 28,000 words into that. I think the rough draft will be about 100,000 words, but we will see. Might be a little more, a little less. I'm hoping to wrap it up early in September so that the book can be out to you sometime in the second half of September, if all goes well. In other news, my secondary project now is Elven-Warlock, the seventh Rivah book, and I am 1,500 words into that. If all goes well, I hope to have that out in October. In audiobook news, we have three things coming your way. The first one is Blade of Thieves, which Brad Wills is currently narrating and should be wrapped up before too much longer. Hollis McCarthy is narrating Cloak of Worlds, and I believe we'll be able to start proof listening to that soon, so that should be available before too much longer. I just finished uploading Stealth and Spells Online: The Complete LitRPG trilogy in audiobook form. So, the entire trilogy in one audiobook comes to about 32 hours long. So hopefully that will get through ACX processing before too much longer, and then you can listen to it. So that is where I'm at with current writing and publishing and audiobook projects. 00:02:22 Main Topic: Common Scams for Writers Now let's move on to our main topic, common scams to avoid for writers. Authors, especially new ones, but to be honest, all of us are hungry for praise, recognition, and professional opportunities. They also have a hunger to be the big new publishing phenomenon, ideally as fast as possible. Unfortunately, scammers are very aware of this and use it to prey upon authors. An example I use for this is if you've read the Heir to the Empire books by Timothy Zahn, the villain, Grand Admiral Thrawn, makes a habit of studying his opponent's artwork to discover their psychological blind spots. Then he tailors his strategies around those psychological blind spots. Now, the reason I mentioned this is that scamming or falling victim to a scam is not necessarily an indication of base intelligence or savviness. Everyone has their psychological weak spots. If a scam hits your psychological weak spot at the right time when you're in the right state of mind when you're tired or sick or have had some additional bad news recently, that might hit. For myself, the scams I've nearly fallen victim to have been ones based around bad news because I'm essentially a very pessimistic personality, so I always kind of half expect bad news. One example was I got a fake email allegedly from Spotify saying that my tax information was wrong for my Spotify audiobooks and that needed to be fixed immediately. This was one I could have fallen for because it arrived during tax time. As we know, tax time is often very onerous and unpleasant and involves a lot of work and digging through papers. So I was inclined to believe it, but still, fortunately, I didn't click on any links in the emails. I went directly to the portal, double checked, and then realized it was a scam. Another example was that recently I got a phone call purporting to be from my local police department. I was thinking, "Oh man, this is going to be a mess." I was listening to it and then thankfully before I gave out any information, I realized that it was in fact a scam and then hung up. Just to be thorough, I called the actual local police department and double checked that it was a scam. But again, that played out my psychological weak point of being a pessimist and expecting bad news. I mention this because if you're aware of your psychological weak spots, like many writers, as we mentioned, are hungry for praise or quick opportunities, then you're more likely to be aware of scams. The other thing I should mention in sort of the introduction here is that thanks to the rise of ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude and all the other LLM slop machines, it's become a lot easier to scam people than it used to be before. I heard it said that Web 1.0 was a static content. Web 2.0 was interactive content like social media. Web 3.0 is scams in the forms of NFTs, cryptos, and LLMs. For example, as I mentioned, I just recently published Cloak of Frost. Since I published Cloak of Frost, I've gotten like 20 scam emails that for the most part read like this: "Dear Jonathan, I'm Stephanie Davis and the thing that caught my attention about Cloak of Frost was how quickly an obligation Nadia would rather avoid turns into a situation where the fate of earth is suddenly on the line. She's supposed to be attending the Winter Frost Games. Then an old friend arrives being chased by clone soldiers with a mysterious magical artifact and suddenly this isn't just another duty for the Marshall of the High Queen of the Elves. The fact that losing the game can mean earth burns gives the whole premise a wonderfully sharp sense of consequence. I partner with Around the World in 80 books, a vibrant community of readers who enjoy discovering books from different authors." It goes on and on in this vein. Since Cloak Frost came out six days ago, I've gotten 20 different emails along those lines, all of them clearly generated by LLMs. In fact, I didn't have to save that email. I just opened up my inbox, picked the most recent one, and that was it. Of course, if I responded, what would've happened would've been a few more emails and eventually they would ask for payment for attending their book festival and I would provide payment and then they would promptly disappear off the face of the earth and go on to target someone else. So you can see how that kind of scam would be dangerous. Imagine you're a brand new author who's just published your first book and doesn't know all that much about ChatGPT and the other LLM slop generators out there and you get an email like that, you'd think you'd won the lottery and you'd be very susceptible to giving payment to the scammer. So today, that's why we're going to go over a few of the more common scams out there and provide some general tips for spotting a scam. #1: Publishing Packages You will frequently be contacted by scamming companies offering to help you publish, market, and work on social media for your book. Some of them will even have official sounding names like Amazon Author Hub or Amazon Book Publisher, which are using the Amazon name but not affiliated with Amazon. It's very, very important to be skeptical of these types of publishing companies in general. At best, most of these publishing services companies greatly overcharge for basic services. At worst, they're outright thieves and scammers. David Gaughran has written about these types of publishers if you're interested in learning more. Writer's Weekly's website keeps a running list of confirmed scam publishers and publishing services, but even if they're not on a list and you find reviews that seem to be good, it's best to be extremely skeptical. It's very easy to accumulate fake Google reviews. For example, without naming names, a local business that I used to frequent recently changed owners a couple months ago. And before that, the local business had two five-star reviews. Since the new owner came in, suddenly there's like 500 five-star reviews popping up, all of them having a variety of names that do not seem like they come from the geographic region in which I live. So what he probably did was use a ChatGPT type service to automatically write a bunch of fake reviews for his business. A lot of these scammy companies can do that as well, so it's best to be very skeptical about this kind of thing. #2 Fake conference/book festival/book club speaking invitation This scam is incredibly common, but comes in a variety of types. You will be contacted by a book club/conference/book festival coordinator saying that they love, love, love your book and offer some praise or comments about it and then invite you to their event. The scam part will also come in after you accept when they will want money for this privilege. It's bad to work for free, but it's also very foolish to pay money to show up for a professional event, especially one located outside your immediate area. The email I read earlier in the show is a good example of one of these. You notice the danger of these comes in because they're using ChatGPT for these. ChatGPT can ingest your book or the book description and then spit out some seemingly plausible praise that makes it seem like the scammer has read your book, but they actually haven't. So I'd be very, very, very wary of any unsolicited conference or book festival invitations, especially ones that are fulsome in their praise for your book. #3: Fake or scammy beta readers/editors/agents Many people will cold email you asking to be hired. They might cite actual typos they can fix in your book, specific connections they can make for you, and praise your book as the next big thing. In reality, reputable and established people in these positions usually have long wait lists for their services. They're not wandering the Internet for just-established authors to add to their client lists. It's far more effective to find reputable and established people in these areas and contact them yourself instead of taking up offers from whoever randomly emails you. One thing I've found both as a writer and as a homeowner is that really good contractors don't need to cold call people to look for business. Really good contractors are so busy that you have to call them and try and get on their schedule. The same thing can be said of beta readers, editors, and agents. #4: Impersonation of famous authors John Grisham, Brandon Sanderson, and your favorite romance writers are not actually randomly emailing random minor authors, telling them that their book shows real promise and might be the next big thing. Don't let praise from a famous name take down your guard. Anyone can pretend to be anyone on the internet and is increasingly easy for pretending to look very real. For example, earlier this year I received an email from British author Hilary Mantel praising one of my books. This is especially remarkable because I got the email, I believe in March of 2026, and Hilary Mantel died in 2022. So while my ego would like to believe that my book was so good that Hillary Mantel returned from death to praise it, I think it is more likely instead that a scammer was impersonating Hilary Mantel using a Gmail account. There have been frequent examples of this over the past year or so as ChatGPT and LLM usage becomes more widespread. People will occasionally receive emails purporting to be from Brandon Sanderson offering to work together on a project. However, if you watch Brandon Sanderson's social media, you'll know that he is busy writing the screenplay for the Mistborn movie from Apple. I think it is safe to say he probably does not have time to email random strangers on the Internet asking to work on their books. So if you get an email from a big name author purporting [to say] that they love [your] book and want to work on it with you, it is almost 100% certain that it is a scam. Since scams are constantly evolving and mutating and developing new forms, I'm going to focus the rest of the episode on some general principles of what to watch out for when people are contacting you as an author. #1: Cold emails or cold calls Legitimate editors, agents, cover designers, and even library event coordinators are absolutely inundated with unsolicited emails and most tend to dismiss or ignore what isn't submitted through proper channels (or depending on their position, might even be required to ignore it as part of their job). The hard truth is they're not going to spend their busy workdays hunting around the Internet for authors with 10 reviews or someone writing an obscure topic. Although it's flattering to think that you've been discovered at random, it really, really doesn't work this way, especially as staffing at publishing houses and libraries has been cut down quite a bit due to corporate consolidation and tax cuts. Reputable publishers are not crawling the Internet to find authors unless they have a jaw-dropping sales record (like Dungeon Crawler Carl level sale records). Publishers and agents want guarantees of success and so it doesn't make sense to turn away from their usual group of celebrities, influencers, and blockbuster authors to go out and spend countless hours actively recruiting unknown authors with only a handful of reviews and a sales rank so low that more than one comma is needed to display it. As your following grows, the number of cold emails or messages you get will grow. Like I mentioned before that when I published Cloak of Frost, I've gotten at least 20 of those scam emails so far, and I will probably get at least another dozen or so more before the initial sales spike of the release week dies off. These messages might be more sophisticated, but they'll use the same general tone of ChatGPT flattery to try and lure you into their schemes. Don't let your excitement at being praised or recognized as the next great American novelist or the next BookTok sensation cloud your judgment. #2: Urgency As with any internet scam, urgency is a major part of the strategy. There will probably be a short deadline to accept their offer, a limited number of available spots, or some alleged deep discount for acting quickly. In reality, if people are contacting you because they want something in good faith, they rarely make this type of demand in the initial request because that is a terrible way to get someone to do what you want. For example, in my previous example about the call from the fake local police department, I became increasingly aware that it was probably a scam once it sounded like they were going to offer me the opportunity to pay my fine over a payment portal they would provide for me, in which case it became obvious that it was a scam. Though just to be sure, I still did call the local police department to double check. Now that kind of urgency is used to force you into a decision. Take a step back, look for more information online, contact someone with more expertise than you, and don't respond just because of a time limit or the fear of missing out on a request or offer. And remember, as I said before too, actual contractors, whether you're a writer or a homeowner, are usually so booked up that they don't go around looking for clients. You have to contact them to get on their calendar. #3: Request for payment This is the big one. At no point should you be paying someone unless you have an established relationship with them and have signed a contract with them such as a cover designer or a social media manager. Do not pay random companies or individuals to do absolutely anything. The best defense against companies that offer publishing services is to get educated on what services you actually need and what a reputable person actually charges for them instead of paying for a package with all sorts of grandiose promises attached. In no universe should it cost tens of thousands of dollars to format your books, create a cover, and make a website from a generic template. It's better to pay reputable people individually for these services once they've been vetted than to trust a company to do it, especially if they're primarily using AI generic templates. You'll receive higher quality services this way and it should be cheaper as well. There are no, none whatsoever reputable book clubs, libraries, or conferences that ask for money for a writer to speak or present. A key exception is paying for vendor tables at events and conferences. A community group, library, or nonprofit organization might ask you to speak for free, but no reputable organization will ever ask to pay for the privilege of showing up and doing something for them. #4: Gmail/non-organization emails A big thing to watch out [for] with a lot of these LLM scams is if the email is coming from a Gmail account or not. For example, in the fake author ones I mentioned with Hillary Mantel or Brandon Sanderson, these emails are coming from a Gmail account. Even if Hillary Mantel hadn't died four years ago, I'm pretty sure she would not be emailing random people from a Gmail account. The same goes for Brandon Sanderson, John Grisham, Matt Dinneman, and the other well-known authors who've been targeted by this kind of scam. John Grisham's favorite editor or the hottest new literary agent are not conducting their business out of random Gmails or accounts that look like domains that are named after alphabet soup. Although accounts can easily be spoofed, a blatantly unprofessional looking account is an easy way to weed out scammers. The flip side of this is unfortunately, if you are a reputable cover designer, editor or so forth, you're probably going to need your own domain email the same way I have jonathanmoeller.com, given how it is increasingly common for scam emails to come from Gmail accounts. #5: Praise that could fit any book or has nothing to do with your book Authors love being praised and the scammers can feed into that easily by throwing your book or a bunch of your book reviews into an LLM to create some targeted compliments. Once you see an example of this type of writing, it becomes extremely easy to spot. For example, this isn't what I've saved. This is literally one that came in as I was recording this episode: "Dear Jonathan, I recently discovered Stealth and Spells Online: The Complete LitRPG trilogy and was immediately drawn to its exciting blend of epic fantasy, virtual reality, gaming, and mystery. The trilogy's fast-paced adventure and immersive world could strongly appeal to LitRPG and fantasy readers." Now, I published the ebook of Stealth and Spells Online: The Complete Trilogy two days ago. It is 290,000 words long. There's absolutely no way anyone could read it that fast and have cogent opinions about it. But if you just throw the book description into a LLM, it can cough up some sincere sounding praise and flattery for you. Likewise, flowery comments that have nothing to do with your book are a great way to spot scammers. Your horror novel should probably not be making anyone think about an important and timely reminder about the importance of being organized during the holidays. So that kind of overwrought praise is usually a good sign that something has been LLM generated. Weirdly, one thing I've noticed is that when I get emails from actual readers who are sincere about what they're saying, there'll usually be typos or bad grammar or so forth. Another telltale spot of LLM-generated scam emails is the utter grammatical perfection of them, not a word or a punctuation mark out of place. whereas if you're getting an email from a real person, there are more likely to be some mistakes. So in general, as scams get more sophisticated, you'll have to be a lot more skeptical than you already are in the internet. As an author, you can eliminate a lot of the scams by taking the time to learn the industry well. Once you know what an average keynote pays at a small bookselling conference, no obscure conference coordinator can convince you to pay $5,000, not including travel expenses, for the privilege of agreeing to do one. Once you know how to format your own book (and I should mention that I formatted Cloak of Frost on a laptop on my couch using a $150 piece of software), no one can convince you to pay them $12,000 to do it. Once you self-publish your first book, you realize that you never need an agent, much less one that wants $40,000 to make you the next J.K. Rowling. Education, caution, skepticism, and a healthy sense of one's place in the greater universe are strong weapons against the most common schemes writers are facing. I hope this episode will have given you greater tools to defend yourself against scams. So that's it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy, and we'll see you all next week.  

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Bryce sits down with author Solomon Schmidt — who started publishing books at age 12 with his "History Bites" series and went on to write about figures like Alan Dershowitz before turning his attention to J.K. Rowling — to talk about his new book, "JK Changed the World." Solomon shares how researching a Tolkien-and-C.S.-Lewis-themed UK tour led him into the world of Harry Potter, and walks through the case he makes in the book: that Rowling wove deliberate Christian symbolism and allusions throughout the series, despite not publicly identifying as a born-again Christian. He and Bryce also dig into Rowling's public stand against gender ideology, the personal history Solomon says shaped her views, and the legal jeopardy she faced in Scotland for speaking out — plus how Solomon himself has faced review-bombing and cancellation attempts since the book's release. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Intro, welcome Solomon Schmidt 00:40 — Solomon's background: starting "History Bites" at age 12 05:00 — How the Alan Dershowitz book project led him toward J.K. Rowling 06:39 — Designing a Tolkien/C.S. Lewis tour that expanded into a Harry Potter tour 09:29 — Early skepticism: growing up hearing Harry Potter was "satanic" 11:22 — Christian critiques of the series and Rowling's own interest in the occult 12:36 — The deliberate Christian symbolism Solomon says Rowling built into the books 19:11 — Biblical parallels debate — Paul at the Areopagus and "meat offered to idols" 23:26 — Rowling's public stand against gender ideology and the backlash she faced 24:29 — The personal history — domestic abuse, sexual assault — Solomon says shaped her views 28:14 — The Scottish hate crime law controversy 32:16 — Where to get the book, release date (June 23) 34:00 — Where to follow Solomon and his History Bites tours LINKS

[Workbook incluído] Diseña tu propia aventura creativa y sal a vivirla. Aquí es donde entran los viajes, librerías, museos y las mañanas en un café al otro lado del mundo con tu journal abierto inyectándole multipotencialidad a tu proyecto para que se llene con tu capacidad de hacer muchas cosas al mismo tiempo PERO ENFOCADO EN UN PROYECTO. Porque cuando todo lo que rodea tu proyecto te encanta: se te quita la necesidad y la curiosidad de irte a empezar otra cosa desde cero. En esta parte 2 del episodio vas a usar tu workbook para convertir tus fotos, canciones, lecturas y futuros destinos en las respuestas que no encuentras sentado en tu escritorio. Igual que Howard Schultz que viajó a Italia, probó un espresso en una cafetería de Milán y nació Starbucks. Walt Disney visitó los parques de atracciones de su época en Europa e imaginó Disneyland. Steve Jobs viajó a la India y regresó con la visión de Apple. Phil Knight viajó a Japón se inspiró para crear Nike. Elizabeth Gilbert escribió Come, Reza, Amar después de su recorrido por Italia, India e Indonesia. J.K. Rowling tuvo la idea de Harry Potter en un tren de Londres a Edimburgo. Y Dan Brown viaja constantemente para investigar símbolos, pistas y la historia de los lugares donde ocurren sus novelas. Así que aquí te enseño mis dos reglas para viajar como ellos y dejar de viajar como turista porque la idea que te falta está a un vuelo, tren o carretera de distancia.  

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f you grew up glued to TV, watching ‘Chandrakanta' the series, you have only a surface understanding of what the OG Chandrakanta was all about. A sensation of its time, the spell of the Chandrakanta series was no less than that of Doyle's Sherlock or Rowling's Harry Potter series. Today, a few chapters from Chandrakanta along with an introduction to the book for the uninitiated. अगर आप ने बचपन में टीवी पर ‘चंद्रकांता' सीरियल बड़े शौक़ से देखा, तो आपको चंद्रकांता उपन्यास संग्रह के बारे में कुछ जानकारी होगी, लेकिन पूरी नहीं। अपने समय में धूम मचाने वाली चंद्रकांता सीरीज़ का जादू Doyle के Sherlock या Rowling की Harry Potter सीरीज़ से कम नहीं था। आज चंद्रकांता के कुछ अध्यायों के साथ-साथ उन लोगों के लिए एक संक्षिप्त परिचय प्रस्तुत है जो देवकीनन्दन खत्री के उपन्यास से परिचित नहीं हैं।

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Late last month, John shared two theories about the Cormoran Strike series of novels, both from Katya Slonenko, a member of the Reddit r/CormoranStrike online fandom: Dementia, Jewelry, and a Nine Inch Cock: The Mystery of Shanker's ‘Old Man,' His Given Name, and Why He's Never Killed Jeff Whittaker and Katya Slonenko: Leda Strike's 'Mistress of the Salmon Salts' Pudenda Tattoo. John corresponded with Katya while preparing those posts and invited her to join him and Nick for a discussion of her ideas, of life as a Redditor, and her thoughts about Rowling's artistry and meaning. She accepted the invitation but said she wouldn't be free until July to talk. Hence the wait! As expected, though, speaking with her about her own journey to expertise in Rowling Studies, her ideas about the clues Rowling has embedded so carefully within the first eight books and especially in Hallmarked Man, and the Reddit posts of which she thinks Hogwarts Professor readers need to be aware was well worth the wait.You'll want to read those posts from June before listening to get the most out of this conversation, but, regardless of your preparation, John and Nick believe that every Serious Striker and Rowling Reader will be charmed and challenged by Katya's remarkable insights, generous spirit, and winsome personality. The conversation includes three other Reddit community posts — about Leda's ‘Carnival' dress (Arachulia), about the real name of her first husband, and about the Harry Potter tattoo Rowling-Galbraith hid on a Strike novel character's shoulder — which took the discussion above and beyond the two Katya theories in the June posts.Nick and John close the conversation by inviting her back and they hope readers here will share the questions they want us to be sure to ask her on her return visit in the comment thread below. Or just ask her yourself! As she demonstrated on the threads beneath the June posts, she is generous with her time in responding to other Strike fans.Can't wait for more Katya Slonenko? Follow her at r/CormoranStrike, on Instagram (Tattoos!), on FaceBook, and check our her older, longer posts on Medium…The Ten Plus Questions with Links1. Welcome, Katya, and thank you for joining us! The serious readers at Hogwarts Professor have been buzzing about your Shanker and Leda r/Cormoran Strike Reddit posts and we're thrilled to be able to talk with you about those ideas. First, though, tell us about your first Rowling reading experiences and how you started posting on Reddit about the Strike series.2. I'm guessing that Reddit Strike fandom may be as unfamiliar to Hogwarts Professor readers as it was to me. What is it about the Pelican_Girl and TopRequirement670 moderated posts and that international community that you love the most?3. Shanker! I confess -- I hadn't given him a thought really beyond a doppelganger twin for Strike before Fiona from Adelaide introduced me to the ideas that he had to be involved in the death of Leda Strike and that the Riccis were also somehow party to it. Ed Shardlow shared your Reddit post on the subject and my mind was blown; you made a compelling case soon after the publication of Hallmarked Man last year that Shanker is a Ricci, the illegitimate son of Nico ‘Muccy' Ricci, but to avenge Leda Strike's death he has become a Met or MI5 informer. Let's start with the four pointers that Shanker gave Strike in one conversation that he is a Ricci-by-blood and what made you think of that connection:* Shanker's statement that his father had dementia or was senile;* Shanker's report that his dad taught that jewelry was the way to a woman's heart;* Shanker's claim that his ‘old man' was said to have a “nine inch cock;” and* Shanker's saying that his begetter “‘ad kids wiv abou' ten diff'rent women.”4. I see the trigger now that you've detailed it but you dug and made four more connections that were buried in the texts of the series' other books:* Shanker's knowledge of the Ricci clan, especially Mucky,* his Strike-witnessed working with Mucky in drug deals,* “he deals cocaine and is good with a knife;” and, best of all,* the reaction Robin had to both Shanker and Luca at their first meeting, the fun-house mirror upside-down reflection of the attraction half-siblings feel for another intuitively. Robin is viscerally repulsed and afraid of the half-sibling Ricci boys.We cannot not see these connections after you point them out, but they're nigh on invisible until they're pointed out! Why do you think you saw them when we missed them -- and why do you think Rowling has taken such care to make them invisible in plain sight?5. And Shanker is an MI5 informant? Where does that come from?5.5 Let's not forget that you also make an intelligent guess, the first one I've heard, about what Shanker's given name really is, one based on the names of Nico Ricci's two children out of ten for whom we have names.* Katya shared not only her reasoning about why Shanker's name is John or an Italian variant of the Evangelist's name but also her theory about the parentage and name of the other remaining character in the series who also remains nameless: the mysterious ‘Strike' with whom Leda ran away from Cornwall! (Be sure to read the comment thread for Redditor conversation about other possible Ricci children…)6. Your thoughts about Shanker all feed into theories about Leda Strike and her mysterious death in the end, which brings us to another aspect of her life and death about which you've brought an important and unique perspective. I'm talking about the Mistress of the Salmon Salt tattoo. Did you know anything about tattoos, Katya, before writing this piece?7. As a tattoo artist yourself, what do you make of Leda's tattoo placement?8. Tattoos are meaningful, powerful reflections or revelations of the person's interior life or self-understanding (see the post about Katya's ‘Salmon Salt Tattoo' theory for much more on this). What do you think this tattoo communicates about Leda? Is it another example of Rowling's text-within-the-text or a variant of her using cryptonyms to signal important information about a character's inner life?What Tattoos Mean in Cormoran Strike and a Catalog of Examples* From Katya's 2023 ‘Mistress of the Salmon Salt Revisited:'I hear you asking - why can't Leda's be just a tattoo, without any deeper meaning to it? That's because all the other tattoos in the Strike books have meaning and provide a clue to their wearers' characters.Here are some examples:* Kelsey Pratt's One Direction tattoo is an obvious link to her being a One Direction fan. (How Leda's tattoo is different? She chose the name of the particular song, not the more generic name of the band, to be tattooed on her)* Laing's rose pierced with a dagger bluntly means violence to women. Rose is a woman in the language of symbols, while the dagger is… well, a dagger.* Polworth's St Piran's cross means he's a Cornish patriot. I'll be surprised if it also doesn't mark him as The Hanged Man (a symbolic bearer of a cross)* Portia Bayliss's trident refers to her Caribbean roots* Edie had a small black heart on the knuckles because she was the creator of ‘The Ink Black Heart' cartoon.* Zoe's tattoos are of ‘The Ink Black Heart' characters she identifies with.* Pez Pierce has The Beatles quote around his neck - Strawberry Fields was (is?) a place in Liverpool.* Union Jack, a skull, and a Nordic “Chaos” rune give a good impression of what the Turisaz character will be about (all tattooed on visible spots like head or neck - he wears them proudly!);* Same with Algiz and Uruz, sans the Union Jack and the skull.* Noli Seymour's tattoo stands for “Golden Prophet”. It denotes her connection to the Universal Humanitarian Church and her status there as the current Golden Prophet.* An ace of spades was inked onto his left cheek, and a tattooed tiger covered his throat. - Jordan Reaney's tattoos are pretty telling, too.* Not a character, but still - JK herself has a tattoo, “Solve et Coagula”, which means - “I'm a writer of an alchemical detective series!” :DSo you see, all these tattoos are chosen to reflect their owners' personal histories. That's generally a feature of Rowling's writing: if she describes a character, every little detail works for the portrait she wants to paint. There are no details put there “just because” - everything is important. How the characters dress and speak, what they eat and drink, what music they listen to, and what tattoos they have tell us something about the character.What does Leda's tattoo contribute to her portrait?Nothing!In Career of Evil, when we learn of its existence, the tattoo adds literally nothing to Leda's portrait. Why is it mentioned in the story to which it makes zero contribution, except for serving as a plot device enabling the killer's obsession?Because it will be important later.* Katya shared in her answer her theory from experience that Rowling-Galbraith had secretly marked a character as a Harry Potter fan by giving her a shoulder tattoo that Potter-heads would recognize!9. Rowling's Solve et Coagula tattoo: what do you think she is telling the world about herself? Is there a correspondence or tie between the author's tattoo and its placement and Leda's?10. Whittaker quotes a line from the Salmon Salt song by the Blue Oyster Cult — “She was the Quicklime Girl” — while testifying at his trial on murder charges; what do you think that tells us about her death? Does it suggest it was suicide or murder? Do you think Whittaker did it? 11. And another one to make eleven! You thought at one point because of the meaning of ‘Mistress of the Salmon Salt' that we had to take seriously the possibility that Leda herself was a serial killer. But you've changed your mind. Why is that? * In addition to her own thinking on this subject, Katya shared yet another Redditor theory, this one from Arachulia about The New Dress that Aunt Joan said was the real reason that Leda had left her Nancarrow home in Cornwall with the mysterious ‘Strike.' Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Episodio exclusivo para suscriptores de Se Habla Español en Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iVoox y Patreon: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2E2vhVqLNtiO2TyOjfK987 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sehablaespanol Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/sehablaespanol/w/6450 Donaciones: https://paypal.me/sehablaespanol Contacto: sehablaespanolpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/sehablaespanolpodcast Twitter: @espanolpodcast Cuando un fracaso te lleva al éxito Hola de nuevo. Como acabamos de escuchar, Eva Soriano soñaba con ser cantante. Se presentó a programas como Operación Triunfo o Factor X, pero no consiguió entrar. Sin embargo, si lo pensamos bien, esos fracasos cambiaron por completo su vida. Porque gracias a ellos terminó dedicándose a la comedia y se convirtió en una de las humoristas más conocidas de España. Y eso me ha llevado a pensar en un tema que me parece muy interesante: los fracasos que, con el tiempo, terminan convirtiéndose en éxitos. Muchas veces vivimos una decepción como si fuera el final de una historia, cuando en realidad solo es el final de un capítulo. El problema es que normalmente solo entendemos el sentido de algunas cosas cuando miramos hacia atrás. Por eso, durante los próximos minutos vamos a hablar de varios personajes famosos que fracasaron antes de triunfar y, al mismo tiempo, vamos a aprender algunas expresiones españolas relacionadas con los errores, las dificultades y el éxito. La primera expresión que quiero enseñarte es "no hay mal que por bien no venga". Es un refrán muy popular en español. Significa que una situación negativa puede acabar produciendo consecuencias positivas. Imagina que pierdes un trabajo. En ese momento estás triste y preocupado. Pero unos meses después encuentras otro empleo mejor pagado, con mejores horarios y más oportunidades. Entonces alguien podría decirte: "Bueno, no hay mal que por bien no venga". Y eso es exactamente lo que parece haber sucedido en el caso de Eva Soriano. No la eligieron como cantante, pero terminó encontrando una profesión en la que realmente destacó. Otra expresión muy utilizada es "cerrarse una puerta y abrirse una ventana". Se emplea cuando una oportunidad desaparece, pero aparece otra nueva de manera inesperada. Por ejemplo, una persona puede suspender el examen para entrar en una universidad concreta. En ese momento siente que ha perdido una gran oportunidad. Sin embargo, acaba estudiando en otro lugar donde conoce a personas que cambian su vida para siempre. Se cerró una puerta, pero se abrió una ventana. Y aquí viene algo interesante. Muchas personas exitosas tienen historias parecidas. Pensemos en J. K. Rowling, la creadora de Harry Potter. Antes de publicar sus libros recibió numerosas negativas de editoriales. Varias empresas rechazaron su manuscrito porque pensaban que no tendría éxito. Imagínate qué habría pasado si hubiera decidido abandonar después de esos rechazos. Esto nos lleva a otra expresión muy útil: "tirar la toalla". Seguramente conoces su origen. Proviene del boxeo. Cuando un entrenador considera que su boxeador no puede continuar, tira una toalla al ring para indicar que abandona el combate. Hoy utilizamos esta expresión para hablar de cualquier situación. Por ejemplo: "Después de suspender tres veces el examen, estuvo a punto de tirar la toalla." O: "Aprender español es difícil, pero no voy a tirar la toalla." En la historia de Eva Soriano vemos justamente lo contrario. Probó varios caminos, recibió rechazos, pero siguió adelante. Y aquí encontramos otra enseñanza importante. A veces confundimos el fracaso con la falta de talento. Son cosas muy diferentes. Fracasar una vez no significa que no seas capaz. Fracasar diez veces tampoco. Simplemente significa que todavía no has encontrado la forma adecuada, el momento adecuado o incluso el camino adecuado. Piensa, por ejemplo, en el actor Harrison Ford. Antes de convertirse en una estrella internacional trabajó como carpintero. Durante años tuvo dificultades para consolidar su carrera como actor. Sin embargo, siguió insistiendo hasta conseguir papeles que cambiaron su vida para siempre. Y esto conecta con otra expresión que me gusta mucho: "dar en el clavo". Dar en el clavo significa acertar plenamente. Por ejemplo: "Probé varios métodos para memorizar vocabulario y, finalmente, di en el clavo." O: "Eva probó la música, la interpretación y otros ámbitos hasta que dio en el clavo con la comedia." La imagen es muy gráfica. Si quieres clavar un clavo en una pared, debes golpear exactamente en el lugar correcto. Y muchas veces la vida consiste precisamente en eso: probar distintas opciones hasta encontrar la adecuada. Hay otra expresión relacionada con este tema que escucharás con frecuencia. "Equivocarse forma parte del proceso." No es un refrán tradicional, pero refleja una idea muy presente en el desarrollo personal. Cuando un niño aprende a caminar, se cae cientos de veces. Nadie interpreta esas caídas como un fracaso definitivo. Forman parte del aprendizaje. Sin embargo, cuando somos adultos tendemos a exigirnos resultados perfectos desde el primer intento. Con los idiomas ocurre constantemente. Muchos estudiantes sienten vergüenza cuando cometen errores hablando español. Pero la realidad es que equivocarse es una señal de progreso. Significa que estás intentándolo. De hecho, existe una expresión muy bonita en español: "a base de". Por ejemplo: "He mejorado mi pronunciación a base de escuchar podcasts." "He aprendido mucho vocabulario a base de leer noticias." La expresión significa que conseguimos algo gracias a la repetición, el esfuerzo y la constancia. Y si observamos cualquier historia de éxito, veremos exactamente eso. No talento mágico. No suerte infinita. Constancia. Volvamos un momento a Eva Soriano. Cuando ella habla de sus intentos en el mundo de la música, lo hace con humor. Se ríe de sí misma. No parece guardar resentimiento por aquellas experiencias. Y creo que esa actitud también es importante. Porque nos lleva a otra expresión muy española: "tomarse algo con filosofía". Cuando una persona se toma algo con filosofía, acepta las dificultades con calma y perspectiva. Por ejemplo: "Perdí el tren, pero me lo tomé con filosofía." "Suspendí el examen, pero me lo tomé con filosofía y empecé a estudiar de nuevo." Eva podría haberse quedado pensando durante años en lo injusto que fue no triunfar como cantante. En cambio, decidió aprovechar las oportunidades que aparecieron después. Y ahora quiero plantearte una pregunta. ¿Qué pasaría si algunas de las cosas que ahora consideras fracasos fueran, en realidad, cambios de dirección? Porque esa es la gran paradoja. Muchas veces no conseguimos exactamente lo que queremos. Pero conseguimos algo mejor. Aunque tardemos años en darnos cuenta. Por eso me gusta tanto la historia de Eva Soriano. Porque nos recuerda que el éxito no siempre consiste en alcanzar el objetivo original. A veces consiste en descubrir otro objetivo que ni siquiera sabíamos que existía. Y quizá esa sea la lección principal de este episodio. No hay mal que por bien no venga. No tires la toalla demasiado pronto. Y si una puerta se cierra, presta atención. Porque tal vez se esté abriendo una ventana. Espero que hayas disfrutado de este episodio extra y que, además de aprender algunas expresiones nuevas, te haya dado algo en lo que pensar. Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Se Habla Español. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/171214

Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) — Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: ⁠https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join⁠ Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes and learn more at:⁠ OLDPodcast.com⁠. Episode 3632: Go Curry Cracker explains how unconventional choices, a high savings rate, and long-term investing in businesses through index funds created financial independence and allowed every dollar ever earned to effectively be returned through compound growth. He also dismantles common excuses about luck, inheritance, debt, and taxes, showing that wealth-building is more about behavior and consistency than extraordinary circumstances. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.gocurrycracker.com/how-we-saved-multi-millions/ Quotes to ponder: "Why would we spend all of our money to buy a lot of versatile solutions for modern living when we could be buying our freedom instead?" "Saving a high percentage of income is only half the battle." "You can't just put fat stacks of cash under your mattress and expect to get rich." Episode references: Lifetime Wealth Ratio: https://budgetsaresexy.com/lifetime-wealth-ratio/ J.K. Rowling: https://www.jkrowling.com/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/ MasterChef: https://www.fox.com/masterchef/ Your Money or Your Life: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relationship/dp/0143115766 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marques Ogden: From Rock Bottom to the Bison Mindset, Building Authentic Leadership and Purpose In this episode, Julie Riga welcomes Marques Ogden, former NFL offensive lineman, keynote speaker, author, business coach, and host of the Get Authentic with Marques Ogden Podcast. Marques opens up about his path from professional football to a rock bottom moment that reshaped his entire life and purpose, and what it took to rebuild from nothing. What we cover in this episode: Marques' six year career in the National Football League, and the difficult transition that followed, including a six month struggle with addiction, alcohol, nightlife, and gambling Building a multimillion dollar construction company that reached multiple eight figures a year, and how ego, greed, and the personality ethics led to its total collapse Moving to Raleigh, North Carolina with four hundred dollars to his name, being fired from two jobs in the same week, and taking a job as a custodian earning eight dollars and twenty five cents an hour The rock bottom moment on a custodial shift that became his wake up call and the beginning of phase two of his life The J.K. Rowling quote that shaped his outlook, rock bottom is the moment that rebuilt my life, and the parallel of Rowling writing Harry Potter while living in her car Marques' journey into professional speaking, starting in September 2013 and going two and a half years before his first paid engagement in April 2016 Meeting Mel Robbins in 2018, getting coached, learning the business, and going on to work with more than ninety Fortune 500 companies Becoming a six time best selling author, with a seventh book, Built From The Storm, The Bison Operating System, currently in progress The Bison mindset, a leadership framework built around being bold, having integrity, practicing self awareness, taking ownership, and never quitting Why bison move as a herd through a storm, protecting the weaker, older, and younger members while the strong and bold face the brunt of the storm, and what that teaches us about leadership and community The idea of purpose driven leadership, and why this phase of Marques' life feels more meaningful to him than football or business ever did Julie's own story of rock bottom during her divorce, and the parallels between her journey and Marques' story of resilience The importance of authenticity and vulnerability in leadership, and why judgment should never stop anyone from telling their real story A favorite quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, smooth seas never made skilled sailors, and what it means to grow through hardship rather than ease This conversation is filled with ingredients for success, insight on resilience, and encouragement for anyone facing their own storm right now. Connect with Marques Ogden: Website, www.marquesogden.com Email, marques@marquesogden.com Podcast, Get Authentic with Marques Ogden Connect with Julie Riga: Explore more from Julie Riga, including her full lineup of resources and links, at https://stacklist.app/julieriga #stayoncourse #leadership #resilience #purpose #authenticleadership Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) — Free. Want to turn today's episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I'll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It's packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: ⁠https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join⁠ Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes and learn more at:⁠ OLDPodcast.com⁠. Episode 3632: Go Curry Cracker explains how unconventional choices, a high savings rate, and long-term investing in businesses through index funds created financial independence and allowed every dollar ever earned to effectively be returned through compound growth. He also dismantles common excuses about luck, inheritance, debt, and taxes, showing that wealth-building is more about behavior and consistency than extraordinary circumstances. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.gocurrycracker.com/how-we-saved-multi-millions/ Quotes to ponder: "Why would we spend all of our money to buy a lot of versatile solutions for modern living when we could be buying our freedom instead?" "Saving a high percentage of income is only half the battle." "You can't just put fat stacks of cash under your mattress and expect to get rich." Episode references: Lifetime Wealth Ratio: https://budgetsaresexy.com/lifetime-wealth-ratio/ J.K. Rowling: https://www.jkrowling.com/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/ MasterChef: https://www.fox.com/masterchef/ Your Money or Your Life: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Money-Life-Transforming-Relationship/dp/0143115766 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the third installment of our TERF Island series, we use the case of JK Rowling herself to trace TERFism's "march through the institutions" in the UK and beyond. It's an episode about TERF self-staging as singular and "deeply personal" apostasy from "gender orthodoxy", which belies an increasingly sophisticated, well-connected and well-funded network pushing anti-trans talking points in public.This is a PREVIEW, if you'd like to hear the remainder of the episode (and the previous episodes in the series), please head over to patreon.com/inbedwiththeright to become a supporter!PLEASE NOTE: we recorded this episode before the latest re-emergence of Rowling as TERFism final boss with the release and subsequent suppression of the Amnesty International report on anti-trans hate groups. But that imbroglio certainly made us even happier we're doing this series behind the paywall.

تاوان فرار از قلب وزارت‌خانه، سنگین‌تر از چیزی است که تصورش را می‌کردند. در این قسمت از پادکست لوموس، همراه با امید، میلاد، خشایار و ملیحه به سراغ فصل «دزد» می‌رویم. فصلی که در آن آخرین پناهگاه امن یعنی خانه گریمولد از دست می‌رود و آوارگی با جراحت دلخراش رون در حین آپارات کردن آغاز می‌شود. دربارهٔ شب‌های سرد و بی‌قرار چادرنشینی و البته رویای تاریک هری از ولدمورت گپ می‌زنیم؛ جایی که پای گرگورویچِ چوبدستی‌ساز به میان می‌آید و سایهٔ مرموز دزدی جوان از گذشته‌های دور، معمای تازه‌ای را پیش روی ما می‌گذارد.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:00:00:00 مقدمه و شروع00:01:47 پس از فرار00:08:52 هرماینی و رون00:15:55 جنگیدن یا در انتظار جنگ بودن؟00:20:28 زندگی در شرایط مختلف00:24:30 جادوهای محافظتی00:28:44 قاب‌آویز اسلیترین00:36:48 روند بزرگ شدن بچه‌ها00:46:05 از چشم گرگرویچ00:51:00 خوانش کتاب00:55:57 دزد چوبدستی01:06:45 پایان‌بندیاجراکنندگان: خشایار، امید، میلاد و ملیحهمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

In today's episode of The Quiz, we're testing your knowledge on everything from brilliant gemstone lore to the multi-talented stars of modern pop culture. Can you answer these? Literary History: Before it became a global phenomenon in the U.S. as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling's debut novel was released under a different title. What was its original name? Electrical Pioneers: We honor a legendary Serbian-American engineer whose groundbreaking inventions and visionary work completely revolutionized the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity system. Who was he? Streaming Stars: Stranger Things breakout actor Joe Keery parlayed his television fame into a successful music career, scoring a massive streaming hit with "End of Beginning." Under what unique stage name does he release music? Play. Share. Listen, with Co-Host of ‘Tea Time with Raven & Miranda, Miranda Maday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This Gay Week: A Global Crackdown on LGBTQ Rights? From Indonesia to Senegal, Bangladesh to Australia, anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric are making headlines around the world. Is the global fight for equality entering a dangerous new chapter? This week on This Gay Week, Karel and Scott Jacobsen (joining us from Ukraine) break down the biggest LGBTQ stories from across the globe:

King Charles gathers senior royals in Scotland ahead of Harry's expected return, while Catherine's return to royal work continues, Camilla meets J.K. Rowling, Sophie debuts a new look, and Meghan's latest As Ever honey sparks another online debate.Palace Intrigue is a daily British royal family podcast covering King Charles, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and the House of Windsor. New episodes every day. Follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Part of the Caloroga Shark Media network.

دادگاه‌های نمایشی وزارت‌خانه برپا شده‌اند و خشم هری دیگر مهارشدنی نیست. در این قسمت از لوموس، ایاز، میلاد، امید و خشایار سراغ فصل «کمیتهٔ ثبت‌نام ماگل‌زاده‌ها» می‌روند. دربارهٔ رویارویی با آمبریج در بیدادگاه، پس‌گرفتن چشم مودی، دزدیدن هورکراکس و فراری پرالتهاب از وزارت‌خانه برای نجات ماگل‌زاده‌ها گپ می‌زنیم.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:00:00:00 مقدمه و شروع00:02:30 وفاداری فیلم به این فصل00:05:47 عمق فساد در دستگاه00:07:56 تضاد شخصیت جعلی هری، رون و هرماینی00:12:41 اهمیت محکومیت مجرم00:16:49 فساد در دستگاه وزارتخانه00:28:32 دفتر آمبریج00:39:55 دادگاهی ماگل‌زاده‌ها00:47:32 خوانش کتاب00:51:19 قربانیان حکومت نامشروع00:58:50 گردن آویز آمبریج01:12:06 فرار و پایان‌بندیاجراکنندگان: خشایار، امید، میلاد و ایازمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

نفوذ به قلب دشمن، آن هم وقتی تمام دیوارهایش با شعار تاریکِ «جادو، قدرت است» پوشانده شده، دیوانه‌وارترین قمارِ ممکن است. در این قسمت از پادکست لوموس، میلاد، امید، خشایار و ملیحه سراغ یکی از دلهره‌آورترین فصل‌های کتاب می‌روند؛ جایی که هری، رون و هرماینی پس از یک ماه کشیک کشیدن، با معجون پالیجوس پا به لانهٔ زنبور می‌گذارند. دربارهٔ اتمسفر خفقان‌آور وزارتِ جدید و ریسکِ بزرگ جعل هویت حرف می‌زنیم. فصلی که ریتم داستان را از یک جست‌وجوی پنهانی، به یک «سرقت» تمام‌عیار تبدیل می‌کند.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:00:00:00 مقدمه و شروع00:02:10 وقفهٔ پنج ماهه00:10:42 شروع فصل متقاوت00:15:43 فضای متفاوت خانهٔ شماره ۱۲00:18:57 اول سپتامبر ۱۹۹۷00:24:09 قاب عکس پدربزرگ و چوبدستی‌ساز 00:42:13 نقشهٔ ورود به وزارتخانه00:51:23 نماد سقوط؛ جادو قدرت است01:00:59 در وزارت جادو01:02:51 خوانش کتاب01:06:13 پایان‌بندی این قسمتاجراکنندگان: خشایار، امید، میلاد و ملیحهمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingاسپانسر این قسمت: استودیو راویرالارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

Throughout the Draculae miniseries, about the Swedish and Icelandic translations of Dracula that played fast and loose with the original text, I've been wondering a couple of questions: why are cover versions of songs and remakes of films so normal and acceptable, whereas cover versions in book form cause such a stir? And do these Scandinavian Draculae count as fan fiction? And if not, why not? Fansplaining.com's Elizabeth Minkel explains what fan fiction can mean.Visit theallusionist.org/transformation for more information plus a transcript of the episode. And though this is the fourth and last part of the Draculae miniseries, it is more inspired by than directly connected to the other episodes, so you don't have to listen to them beforehand. But do listen to them, they're very fun and intriguing!Content note: this episode contains some references to (but not descriptions of) sexual content and sex slavery. There is also mention of J.K. Rowling.Sign up at theallusionist.org/donate to fund the continuing existence of this independent podcast. In return, you can join me for regular livestreams where I read relaxingly from my ever-expanding collection of vintage dictionaries, plus behind the scenes info about every episode, membership of the Allusioverse Discord community, and watchalong parties for films and TV shows.Find the Allusionist at youtube.com/allusionistshow, instagram.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, @allusionistshow.bsky.social… If I'm there, I'm there as @allusionistshow. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you want me to talk compellingly about your product, sponsor an episode: contact Multitude at multitudeshows.com/ads. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running your online forever home. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of John Solomon Reports, host John Solomon dives into the latest developments surrounding President Trump's negotiations with Iran, highlighting the significant progress made on the nuclear weapons issue. Solomon discusses Iran's agreement to allow International Atomic Energy inspectors back into the country, emphasizing the implications this could have on sanctions and diplomatic relations. He counters claims from Democrats regarding the perceived failures in handling Iran, presenting a perspective that underscores the military and economic decline of the Iranian regime.Listeners are then introduced to the day's guests, including KT McFarland, former Deputy National Security Advisor, who provides expert analysis on the Iran deal, and David Giralt, a congressional candidate from Wyoming, who shares his vision for the future. The episode also features historian Solomon Schmidt, who discusses his new biography on J.K. Rowling and the cultural shifts observed in the lives of once-liberal figures.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

** این اپیزود در تاریخ ۱۶ دی ضبط شده **در روزهایی که وحشت قدرت گرفتن مرگ‌خوارها و آزار به ماگل‌ها سایه سنگینی روی دنیای جادوگری انداخته، حتی شجاع‌ترین آدم‌ها هم ممکنه در برابر ترس‌های درونی‌شون تسلیم بشن. در این قسمت از پادکست لوموس، خشایار، میلاد و امید به سراغ فصل «رشوه» می‌رن. این بار درباره فروریختن تصویر بی‌نقص ریموس لوپین، تلاش او برای فرار از واقعیت پدر شدن و درگیری لفظی شدید و بی‌سابقه‌اش با هری گپ می‌زنیم. در کنار این تنش‌ها، بالاخره سر و کله ماندنگاس فلچر در خانه گریمولد پیدا می‌شه تا با یک اعتراف شوکه‌کننده، مسیر جست‌وجوی هورکراکس‌ها رو پیچیده‌تر کنه: گردنبند اسلیترین حالا به‌عنوان رشوه در دست دولورس آمبریجه.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:اجراکنندگان: خشایار، امید و میلادمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 4016: Steve Pavlina reframes failure as an unavoidable and even valuable part of pursuing meaningful goals, using Disneyland's disastrous opening day as proof that spectacular setbacks don't have to destroy a bigger vision. By exploring J.K. Rowling's fear of failure alongside Walt Disney's persistence, he shows how resilience, adaptation, and long-term thinking can turn embarrassment and mistakes into momentum for growth. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/06/your-relationship-with-failure/ Quotes to ponder: "Fear of failure is the saddest reason on earth not to do what you were meant to do." "Ultimately, wouldn't you rather be the person who actually finished the project you're dreaming about, rather than the one who talks about ‘always having wanted to'?" "Don't equate the failure of your projects with the death of your long-term goal." Episode references: J.K. Rowling Harvard Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices