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Let's Talk Religion — 178 episodes
The History of "Hare Krishna" (Gaudiya Vaishnavism)
Rabi'a - Mystic, Saint, and the Mother of Sufi Love
Religion in Ancient Greece
The Lost Suras of the Quran?
Mazdak & Mazdakism - Ancient Persian Communism?
Atlantis of the Sands - The Legend of the Lost City of Arabia
Abd al-Malik - The Caliph Who Shaped Islam?
The Islamic Idealism of Ibn 'Arabi
al-Ghazali, Ibn 'Arabi & The Sufi School of Love | w. Omid Safi
The Sufi School of Love
Zurvanism - The Zoroastrian Heresy?
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi - The Man Who Discovered Mental Health 1,000 Years Too Early
Nicholas of Cusa: Life & Philosophy
What is Taqqiyya?
What is Sharia Law, Really?
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani & The Qadiri Sufi Order
What is Alchemy?
What Is a Ghoul? (The Terrifying Monster of Arabian Myth)
The Sabians of Harran: A Lost Religion
Who were the Sabians? - The Lost Religion of the Quran
Who are the Druze?
Who are the Jesuits?
Thomas Aquinas - the Greatest Christian Philosopher?
The Amalricians - Pantheist Christianity?
What is Pantheism?
What is Jihad?
Who are the Augustinians?
Was Alcohol Always Forbidden in Islam?
Nasir al-din al-Tusi: The Greatest Islamic Astronomer?
What is the Bektashi Order?
Is Islam a Western Religion?
Sri Ramakrishna & Universal Vedanta
The Book of the Holy Hierotheos
Religion in Ancient Egypt
Pseudo-Dionysius: The Father of Mysticism?
Inayat Khan & Universal Sufism
Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim): The World's Most Famous Book of Magic?
Satanism, Feminism & The Occult | Per Faxneld
The History of Halloween
What is Satanism?
The History of Vampires
Yurei - Japanese Ghosts & Hauntings
The Spooky History of Ghosts
Zar: Spirit Possession Rituals in Egypt
Jinn Possession in the Islamic World
The Ethiopian Orthodox (Tewahedo) Church
al-Hallaj: Mystic Martyr of Sufism
Porphyry, Vegetarianism & Animal Sacrifice in Antiquity
Xuanzang & The Journey to the West
Yoga & Islam
Seidr - Norse Mystical Practice?
What is Yoga?
Fusus al-Hikam (The Bezels of Wisdom) - Ibn Arabi's Controversial Masterpiece
Hypatia & The Death of Classical Antiquity
Fazlallah Astarabadi & Islamic Lettrism
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) - The Greatest Muslim Philosopher?
Dune, Islam & Religion
Qalandariyya - The Muslim Hippies Who Drank Wine?
Who are the Zaydis?
Emir Abd el-Kader - The Sufi Muslim Warrior Who Protected Christians
What is Zoroastrianism?
Mysticism in Ancient Greece?
What is Jewish Mysticism?
Christmas with Meister Eckhart: Sermon 3
Christmas with Meister Eckhart: Sermon 2
Christmas with Meister Eckhart: Sermon 4
Arianism, Heresy & The Council of Nicea
What is the Gospel of Philip?
What is Christian Mysticism?
The Nordic Religion of Nature
Rumi - The Most Famous Sufi Poet in the World
What is Sufism?
What is Stoicism?
Christmas with Meister Eckhart: Sermon 1
Neoplatonism & Christianity
What is Zen Buddhism?
Ibn al-Farid - The Mystical Poet of Love
Lal Ded - The Mystic Poetess of Kashmir
The Origins of Andalusian Mysticism
What is Kashmir Shaivism?
Islamic Pacifism in West Africa
Islamic Non-Dualism: The Sufi Poetry of al-Shushtari
The Gospel of Mary - A Lost Gnostic Text?
What is Ramadan?
Pythagoras & The Music of the Spheres
Neoplatonism in Islamic Thought
What is Neoplatonism?
What is the Gospel of Judas?
What is Shia Islam? - The Isma'ilis
What is the Gospel of Thomas?
The Essenes & The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Pagan Jesus? - Apollonius of Tyana
Mulla Sadra & Islamic Existentialism
Yunus Emre - The Sufi Poet Who Shaped the Turkish Language
Christmas according to Meister Eckhart
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Music in Jewish Mysticism
Ahmadou Bamba & The Mouridiyya
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Are all things empty? - Nagarjuna & The Buddhist Middle Way
Attar's "Conference of the Birds" - The Greatest Sufi Masterpiece?
Who were the Ebionites
What is Salafism?
The "One God" in Ancient Egypt
Pythagoras & His Weird Religious Cult
The Jewish-Sufi Mystics of Medieval Egypt
What is Shia Islam? - Twelverism
What is Tantra?
Organized Daoism & Internal Alchemy (Neidan)
Shams al-Ma'arif - The Most Dangerous Book in the World?
Demons in Ancient Mesopotamia
The Mare
Astrology in the early Islamicate World
Talismanic Magic in the Islamicate World
Introduction to Islamicate Occult Sciences
What are the Jinn?
The Mythical Creatures of Arabia
What is Sufi Music?
Madhva & Dvaita Vedanta
Ibn Taymiyya - The Father of Salafism?
Shadhiliyya - The North African Sufi Order
Suhrawardi & The Philosophy of Illumination
Who were the Cathars?
Dara Shikoh & The Meeting of Islam & Hinduism
Emperor Akbar & Din Ilahi
The Origins of Arabic
What is Hesychasm?
Marguerite Porete & The Mirror of Simple Souls
Tayyibi Isma'ilis: Heirs to the Fatimids
Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia
How is Sufism related to Islam?
What is Spinoza's God?
The Real Assassin's Creed? - The Nizari Isma'ilis at Alamut
Abraham Abulafia & Ecstatic Kabbalah
Did Jesus Exist?
Shah Ni'matullah Wali & The Ni'matullahi Sufi Order
What Happens to Religion When People Migrate?
Meister Eckhart & Christian Mysticism
Zhuangzi - The Sage of Uncertainty
Ramanuja & Vishishtadvaita Vedanta
Shankara & Advaita Vedanta
What is Vedanta?
What are the Vedas?
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) - Champion of Reason
Al-Ghazali - The Reviver of Religious Sciences
Naqshbandiyya - The "Orthodox" Sufi Order?
The Mystical Origins of Coffee & Tea
Music in the Islamic World (Part 2)
Music in the Islamic World (Part 1)
The First Monotheistic Religion?
Reason vs. Literalism? Kalam & Early Islamic Theology
Al-Shushtari: Sufi Poet of the People
Ibn Sab'in & Radical Unity
Ibn 'Arabi & The Unity of Being
Ikhwan al-safa' - a secret society in medieval Iraq
Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi & The Translation Movement - A historical review
Nasir Khusraw & The Reconciliation of Science and Religion
Who are the Quranists?
Ibadi - Islam's third major branch
Sunni & Shia - What is (really) the difference?
Who wrote the Bible?
What is Sikhism?
What is Hasidism?
What is Gnosticism?
What is Orientalism?
What is Hermeticism?
What is Jainism?
What is Manichaeism?
What is Daoism?
The Bahá'i Faith [Part 2]
The Bahá'i Faith [Part 1]
Who are the Alawites
Who are the Druze?
Who are the Yezidis?
What is Mandaeism?
Why Do People Believe?
Do Religions Even Exist?
Introduction & What is Religion?