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The Daily Eudemon
by Eric Scheske
A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?
Episodes
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How to Drink Like an Occultist
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McGilchrist Explains What Huxley Experienced
Show notes. If the left hemisphere's grip on people's minds can be loosened, McGilchrist says, their perceptions will change. They will see "into the depth of things . . . all at once [and] recognize them for what they are, no longer overlaid by our projections." When this happens, the…
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The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature
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Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger
00:10: Thomas Sowell 04:15: The Death of Chevron 11:25: Fatty Bolger Show Notes: Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres The Death of Chevron Fatty Bolger
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Gardening and Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
Gardening is just a hobby, and it might not always be practical. But it is arguably the pursuit that postmodern man needs the most. A Copernican revolution in metaphysics explains why. Link to essay from which this podcast is adapted
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Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary
Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that thrived during the twentieth century and has today settled in as the dominant cultural disposition that...
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How to Brand Yourself
Pick four traits. The last one must be "victim." It's because we live in a gnostic culture that rails against the evil "structure." If there's a structure, there must be victims of the structure. Show notes
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The Gnostic Hates the Structure
Belief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose. Ancient Gnosticism Presupposed an Elaborate Cosmological Structure of Evil Ancient gnosticism used the ancient cosmic system: The earth was in the center, surrounded by the air and spheres: sun,...
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The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About
Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure and works its way through the socio-political superstructure. Natural economic evolution would eliminate it, but...
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The Gnostic is a Believer
Did you take a sociology class in high school or college? Did you know sociology’s founder, August Comte (1798-1857), was kind of a dick? The Encyclopedia Britannica says he was “ungrateful,” “self-centered,” and “egocentric.” If those aren’t bad enough, other biographers say he was a…
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Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop
This is a podcast episode from "Outside the Modern Limits," a whimsical newsletter that comes out every Saturday that is geared toward helping people understand and thrive in modernity. You can subscribe and find the show notes here.
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The Gnostic Never Blames Himself
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau Rousseau’s passage from the beginning of The Social Contract contends for the most famous in philosophy. Rousseau’s point was simple: Humans are good, but there’s a lot of suffering, so social institutions must be corrupting everything....
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These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic
A Diagnostic of the Gnostic Eric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover modern gnosticism, but they took their subjects to much higher levels. The Swiss theologian, Hans urs Von...
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A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease
Brains beat brawn. The Titan Prometheus knew that. He joined Zeus in his battle against the Titans. Prometheus later befriended the race of men. He saved them when Zeus thought about extinguishing them. He taught them arts and science. He gave them tools. Zeus increasingly found Prometheus’...
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The Tao: The Transcendental Router
For the fortunate few, that router is hard-wired with fiber optic. Most of us only get a wireless connection, and a wobbly one at that. Show notes here
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Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness
If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world. Show notes here
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Solon was a Man of the Tao
Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao. Show notes here.
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Why David Hume is Important
Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume yanked God and mind out of these conclusions and the Cartesian Jenga tower…
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The First Amendment’s Separation of Church and State Goes Back to 500 BC
Something really bizarre happened around the year 500 BC, all across Eurasia. We started to realize that we live in the metaxy: an area comprised of transcendence and immanence. These ten thinkers, from Italy to China, led the way. Show notes here
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Introducing Eric Voegelin
Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or movement. But he’s important. Show notes here
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We're All Machiavellians Now
Before he published the Prince, Machiavelli published the seducer. Before he published a masterpiece of political philosophy, he published a comedy. The Mandragola (The Mandrake) tells the story of Callimaco, a handsome young man and seducer of women. He hears about the Florentine beauty Lucrezia...
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Keep Sweet and Have Sex
A 50-year-old man had ritual sex with a 12-year-old girl while adult women assisted. And everyone was cool with it. That’s just part of the bizarre story told in Netflix’s Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey and the exploits of its prophet, Warren Jeffs. Keep Sweet’s Fascination It’s the story of a…
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How to Cure Yourself of Modernitis
You're soaked in modernity. You think like a modern. It's not good. Consider doing the opposite of whatever your rationality tells you to do. Show note here
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Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis”
Your reason isn’t reasonable. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it. And smoke it and smoke it and smoke it, until you smoke rationality out of your head, until a love for the absurd fills your lungs, and until you breathe the fresh air of freedom. Let me explain. “I Don’t See Why” When I look…
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When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy
Descartes was a philosophical surgeon who lobotomized common sense from the modern mind without most people even noticing. It helped that western civilization was thoroughly prepped and anesthetized for the procedure. Show notes here.
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Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking
Descartes, by placing ultimate importance on one's ideas, gave credibility to the outrageous ideas that littered modernity. Lycurgus put the “Spartan” into Sparta. Before Lycurgus, Sparta was like other Greek cities. Its citizens sang, celebrated love and good food, wrote poetry, and crafted fine...
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This Monk Understands David Foster Wallace
A Cistercian monk in Austria writes eruditely about David Foster Wallace. He appears to embrace "The Bridge Option" when dealing with modernity: embracing postmodernity and premodernity . . . bypassing modernity. Show notes here
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Jack Kerouac: The Tao on Steroids
He sat on his mother’s couch, smoking marijuana and watching the McCarthy hearings, cheering Tail Gunner Joe. He was 32 and it was 1954. In his 20s and the 1940s, he said he’d like to join his Russian comrades and fight against Fascism. He coined the term “Beat Generation” which became the...
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New Course/Newsletter: Raising Intellectually-Sound Children. Maybe
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Montaigne: Godfather of 4Chan?
Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us modernity, its fierce subjectivism, and the parade of “little gods” that have marred the last 200 years.…
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71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts
Show notes here. 1. The wise know they start each morning as beginners. Robin Daniels 2. "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." Simone Weil 3. "My experience is what I agree to attend to." William James 4. "To enjoy the kind of...
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Why Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of Modernity
Show notes here. Bacon’s books proposed a new method of inquiry. In technical language, he proposed that we rely on induction instead of deduction. Put a little more simply: Instead of trying to deduce truth from a priori principles and making our observations match the principles, he said we...
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Top Ten Mystics of the 14th Century
The fourteenth century was an era of singular richness in the history of Christian mysticism. Frank Tobin, Henry Suso, The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons. The 1300s. Europe in the grips of economic depression, war, and natural catastrophes. Europe still experiencing the spiritual wake left by...
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Blaise Pascal: First Anti-Modern
Show notes here Rene Descartes was kind of a dick. His famous saying, “I think, therefore I am,” is nothing less than a wholesale rejection of all authority—even objective truth—in favor of a defecated rationality and fierce subjectivism that belittles anything outside one’s own mind. The modern...
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Four Quirky Post-WWI Utopians
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Mystical Erections, Violence, and Theft
No, that isn’t a passage above the front door of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence on Little Saint James. It’s a popular saying of a medieval sect known as the “Brethren of the Free Spirit,” which has long been regarded, according to historian Norman Cohn, as “one of the most perplexing and mysterious...
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From Renaissance "Follow the Magic" to Modernity "Follow the Science"
The Renaissance Believed in Magic Like Moderns Believe in Science In 1598, a huge renegade friar organized a revolt to liberate Calabria from Spain. Tommaso Campanella started the revolt with astrology: he announced to his followers that the stars portended great changes and revolution. He then...
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The Black Arts Have No Nonsense About Them
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150 Years that Shook Europe
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The Satoshi Nakamoto of Mysticism
He first articulated the western mystical tradition. We don’t even know who he was. But he pointed to the Tao. Show notes here.
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Dr. Faust and Mr. Lao-Tzu
When Dr. Faust insulted the Tao, the devil appeared. Show notes here.
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We Golf. Therefore, the Tao is.
We intuit the Tao. That’s why our active hobbies engage us. Show notes here.
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Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters
Thomas Aquinas was an existentialist, in his own way. His existentialism was forgotten . . . to western civilization's detriment. Show notes here.
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How to Kill the Tao
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Seven Great Quotes About Money
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How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?
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How to Survive the Atheistic Hurricane
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How to Kill that Feeling of Thankfulness
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How to Escape the Selfishness Paradox
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Five Pieces of Furniture for Your Intellectual Living Room
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A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?
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Eric Scheske
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