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The Gnostalgia Podcast
by Gnostalgia
Field-sporting philosopher and polemicist Sebastian Morello, along with wine-trader and esoteric weirdo Brian Scarffe, discuss the anti-rationalist, enchanted, theurgical, sophiological, Hermetic, liturgical, and alchemical means of recovering Platonic England, centred on sacred ecology and cosmic Christianity.
Episodes
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Who Are the Watchers?
Brian and Sebastian discuss the spiritual dimension of the madness of crowds: egregores.
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On Perennialism
With apologies for the hiatus... Brian and Sebastian explore the wonders and dangers of Perennialism.
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Mysteries Of The Divine Wisdom w/ Michael Martin
Brian and Sebastian sit down with poet-farmer Michael Martin for a wide ranging conversation on the renewal of metaphysical imagination. The discussion moves through sacramental perception, the life of symbol and myth, beauty as a discipline of thought, and the practice of reading texts and...
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Enter Purgatory w/ Jason Baxter
Professor Jason Baxter returns to discuss his newly released translation of the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy the Purgatorio. https://jasonmbaxter.substack.com/ https://angelicopress.com/products/the-divine-comedy-inferno...
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On The Stars w/ Michal Paszkiewicz
Brian and return guest Michal discuss the meaning of the stars and the history of cosmic narratives.
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Talking to Animals
Brian Scarffe and Sebastian Morello wander off the paved roads of modern piety and into the wild of the Christian imagination, where animals are fellow creatures addressed, admonished and occasionally instructed. They explore the serious conviction that creation itself speaks, and that the…
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On Holy Wells w/ Theo Howard
Brian Scarffe and Theo Howard meet to explore the strange and venerable world of the holy well. Their conversation moves through stories of healing, dreams, folk tradition and Christian sanctity, tracing how water has long been understood as a point of encounter between the visible world and the...
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The Cosmic Role of St. Michael
In this conversation, Brian and Sebastian explore the significance of St. Michael within angelic cosmology, the historical importance of the Feast of St. Michael, and the works of Wolfgang Smith that bridge ancient wisdom with modern science. They discuss the Neoplatonic tradition's relevance to...
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Viriditas: Nothing Can Grow Without Roots w/ Ross Arlen Tieken
Viriditas – that greening force extolled by Hildegard of Bingen, signifying life’s inexhaustible power to heal, to renew, and to bind together heaven and earth. To remain rooted in an age of severance is to resist the centrifugal pull of modernity. Recovering our vital connection to place, to...
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Servants of the Secret Fire w/ Nina Power
Philosopher Nina Power joins Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe for a roaming conversation on fire: its ancient sanctity, its capacity to protect and to destroy, its place in the hearth cults of antiquity, and its neglected spiritual symbolism in Christian life. From the oracular invocation of...
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Astrology and the Renaissance w/ Michal Paszkiewicz
Brian and Sebastian speak with Michal Paszkiewicz about the life and times of one of astronomy’s earliest historians.
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On Sacred Healing
Sebastian and Brian discuss the sacred history of healing, from its roots in pre-Christian rites of anointing and balance to its transfiguration in the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church. Moving between early Christian miracle accounts, medieval herbals, Byzantine hospitals, and the...
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Sede Vacante
On what has ended and what may come.
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The Areopagite & First Century Christian Platonism w/ Evangelos Nikitopoulos
In this episode, Brian Scarffe sits down with Evangelos Nikitopoulos to reconsider one of the most contested figures in Christian history: Saint Dionysius the Areopagite. Nikitopoulos unpacks the theological depth, historical reception, and unmistakable Christian Platonism of these writings,...
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Liturgy as Sacred Magic w/ Dr Joseph Shaw
Gnostalgia pod is joined by Dr Joseph Shaw to discuss the theurgical mysteries of the Christian liturgy.
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Nietzsche & the Christian Knight w/ Raw Egg Nationalist
We are joined by the Raw Egg Nationalist to discuss whether Christianity has a place for the masculine virtues in today’s Church and how it relates to the ‘vitalist right’.
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Saint Death & The Wizard Popes W/ Fr Robert Nixon OSB
Fr Robert Nixon OSB returns to discuss the folk Catholic cult of Santa Muerte and the 'wizard' papacy of the 11th century.
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The Black Virgin
Brian and Sebastian discuss the mysteries of the Black Virgin.
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Imperium
Brian and Sebastian discuss empire and nation.
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Cosmic Toryism w/ Esme Partridge
You’ve heard of High Tories, Low Tories, Tory scum, and Tori Amos, but have you heard of Cosmic Toryism?
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Deep Magic - The Highest Mariology? W/ Fr Robert Nixon OSB
An exploration of the stranger forgotten parts of the Catholic tradition with the great scholar and monk Fr Robert Nixon OSB.
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Angels & Demons w/ Rod Dreher
Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe sit down with Rod Dreher to discuss the insights and themes of his new book, Living in Wonder.
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Sacred Royalty w/ Charles Coulombe
Sebastian Morello, Brian Scarffe, and Charles Coulombe on monarchy as a divine vocation.
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Are We 'Paganising' Christianity?
In defence of the role of natural wisdom in reestablishing Christendom.
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Against Paul Kingsnorth
Sebastian and Brian criticise the high priest of “rewilding Christianity”, Paul Kingsnorth, in the light of his Erasmus Lecture, delivered at the invitation of First Things journal, in which he condemns “Christian civilisation”.
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Nostalgia as Gnosis
On cultivating deep nostalgic wisdom, connecting with ancestors, and overcoming uprootedness.
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The Gift of a Burning Heart: Dante w/ Jason Baxter
Jason Baxter, the translator of a wonderful new edition of Dante’s Inferno, joins The Gnostalgia Podcast to discuss with Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe how Dante’s theological world offers an initiatory pathway into mystical transformation in the heart of the Christian Mystery.
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Reclaiming Halloween
In this Halloween special, recorded at the request of one of The Gnostalgia Podcast’s regular listeners, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe defend the celebration of All Hallows’ Eve, even in its modern, degraded form. The day may be, they claim, Christendom’s last feeble attempt to confront the...
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Sacred Ecology II
Continuing their Sacred Ecology discussion, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe sing the praises of the nascent rewilding movement, discuss how to break free from the spell of modernity, and insist that any form of Christian conservationism must take seriously the theological principle of grace…
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Sacred Ecology I
In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss Neoplatonism as a foundation for a Christian approach to ecology, arguing that participating in the cycle of the landscape through hunting and farming can open us up to the sacral vision of stewardship over creation that’s necessary to...
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The Maledict Option
In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss the forgotten practice of Christian cursing, arguing that placing curses on one’s enemies is an important part of our Holy Tradition.
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The gods on their knees
In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss the role of the gods in Christianity, and why, as Psalm 136 puts it, we worship the God of gods.
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Arimathean Spirituality
On how a hawthorn bush in Glastonbury is a portal to the mysteries and the depths of the English soul.
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Field-sporting philosopher and polemicist Sebastian Morello, along with wine-trader and esoteric weirdo Brian Scarffe, discuss the anti-rationalist, enchanted, theurgical, sophiological, Hermetic, liturgical, and alchemical means of recovering Platonic England, centred on sacred ecology and cosmic Christianity.
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Field-sporting philosopher and polemicist Sebastian Morello, along with wine-trader and esoteric weirdo Brian Scarffe, discuss the anti-rationalist, enchanted, theurgical, sophiological, Hermetic, liturgical, and alchemical means of recovering Platonic England, centred on sacred ecology and cosmic...
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