All Episodes

How to Drink Like an Occultist

McGilchrist Explains What Huxley Experienced

The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature

Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger

Gardening and Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis

Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary

How to Brand Yourself

The Gnostic Hates the Structure

The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About

The Gnostic is a Believer

Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop

The Gnostic Never Blames Himself

These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic

A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease

The Tao: The Transcendental Router

Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness

Solon was a Man of the Tao

Why David Hume is Important

The First Amendment’s Separation of Church and State Goes Back to 500 BC

Introducing Eric Voegelin

We're All Machiavellians Now

Keep Sweet and Have Sex

How to Cure Yourself of Modernitis

Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis”

When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy

Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking

This Monk Understands David Foster Wallace

Jack Kerouac: The Tao on Steroids

New Course/Newsletter: Raising Intellectually-Sound Children. Maybe

Montaigne: Godfather of 4Chan?

71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts

Why Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of Modernity

Top Ten Mystics of the 14th Century

Blaise Pascal: First Anti-Modern

Four Quirky Post-WWI Utopians

Mystical Erections, Violence, and Theft

From Renaissance "Follow the Magic" to Modernity "Follow the Science"

The Black Arts Have No Nonsense About Them

150 Years that Shook Europe

The Satoshi Nakamoto of Mysticism

Dr. Faust and Mr. Lao-Tzu

We Golf. Therefore, the Tao is.

Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters

How to Kill the Tao

Seven Great Quotes About Money

How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?

How to Survive the Atheistic Hurricane

How to Kill that Feeling of Thankfulness

How to Escape the Selfishness Paradox

Five Pieces of Furniture for Your Intellectual Living Room

How to Start Detaching the Door of Reality from its Hinges

How to Break on Through to the Other Side

Lady, You Have One Ugly Kid

Who Exactly is Trying to Take Down Joe Rogan

An Elf Lays Down His Harp to Kill an Orc

"Live in the Now" is Bad Advice

How to Break a Maniac

Are You Engaged in the Act of Existence? Then You’re a Man of the Tao

Dostoyevsky and Flannery O’Connor Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World

I Was There When Vegas Came Back

Devil's Feast: An Ontological Meditation on the Passion

20 Books to Make You a Smarter Catholic (or Person in General)

The New Left and the Old Occult

How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance

Beyond Stoicism. Hesychasm: The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level

Three Lesser-Known Masters in the Zen Tradition

Did We Just See a Red Swan?

What is That Twitter Imp Up to?

The Diocletian Test

Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy

Civil War, Restoration, Glorious Revolution

History of the Catholic Church in 30 Minutes

Arthur, Alfred, and Other English Kings. Medium dot Com

Charles MacKay, Popular Delusions, Radical Spiritualists

Wicked Pope, Moors, Siege of Vienna

1400s, Florence Banking, Heroes, States Rights

Bonus Episode: The Merits of Snoring

The 1300s: Black Death, 100 Years War, the Renaissance

Peak Crusades, Peak Middle Ages, Peak Mongols

1000 AD to 1200ish: Seljuk Turks, Crusades, St. Francis, Cluny

The Dark Ages. Charlemagne. Vikings.

The Years 313-622: Edict of Milan to the Eve of Islam

Marcus Aurelius, Pax Romana, the Rise of Christianity

The Death of Socrates and the Rise of Rome

Autobiographical Rumblings

Gnostics v. Metaxy, GMO v. Non-GMO, Athens v. Sparta

Gnosticism: Fake Religion, Moses, Achilles/Joshua

Developing an Historical Perspective: Pre-Modern History

Psychological Disruptions and the Reformation and Alexander the Great

Thomas Sowell, Condorcet, Postmodernism, Francis de Sales

Macarius the Great, Silence, Russia, Hollywood

Battle in the Desert, Anthony the Great, Limits on Reason and Logic

Language and Control: SJWs, Deplorables, Violence

Libertarianism and Porn

Zeno and Zen, Aquinas, Realism

Hillsdale College, Stoner Talk, Existentialism, Rogan/Taibbi

The Monk Gardens

Lightning Segments

Copts, Kardashians, and Kanyes

Halloween