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January 09, 2018 — Philip Menchaca & Jonathan Young
Who was Joseph Campbell?
Applying the idea of the monomyth to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Can we disentangle myths from culture?
Cinderella and mental health
How Jonathan uses mythology in psychotherapy
Is it healthy to think of yourself as a hero on a quest?
Religion and the experience of meaning vs. the idea of meaning
December 02, 2015 — Philip Menchaca & Ash Yezuita
Meet Ash, a practicing Norse Pagan
The Norse gods, creation story, afterlife--and trolls!
Are these beliefs metaphoric or literal?
Ash's spiritual path from atheism to Paganism
Ragnarok and accepting chaos as a part of life
Why Norse Paganism appeals to some white supremacists
September 24, 2016 — Philip Menchaca & Anthony Silvia
The Gnostic version of enlightenment
Modern Gnosticism's Christian roots
Aeons, Archons, and the Demiurge
What do Gnostics do?
Salvation and the Gnostic afterlife
A brief history of the Johannite Church
April 25, 2017 — Josh Summers & David Barash
David's fusion of existentialism, Buddhism and biology
Triangulating the meaning of life
Buddhist doubts about the existentialist view of freedom
Free will and the hard problem of consciousness
The myth of Sisyphus
Being an existentialist bio-Buddhist
March 14, 2017 — Nikita Petrov & Tony Ortega
How the Church of Scientology managed to run a "prison"
L. Ron Hubbard's theory of the mind
"Auditing" and the "superpowers" it leads to
Did Hubbard believe his own mythology?
The cruel humor of LRH's space opera
The SeaOrg: A billion years of snitching and interrogations
Scientology after Hubbard and outside the U.S.
January 10, 2018 — Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Emotions and the Brain
Stephen and Rami present: "The Evolution of Emotion" puppet show
How ancient societies managed their earthly impulses
The human anger displayed in Greek mythology
Marcus Aurelius's concept of the "wise man"
Hafez, the drunk Sufi poet
How does culture influence our core emotions?
Are animals capable of feeling anger?
Stephen on how horror plays on our most primal fears
November 27, 2016 — Nikita Petrov & Robert Place
Anticipating Trump
How to read cards
The Renaissance and the birth of Tarot
Basics of neoplatonism
Neoplatonic and Buddhist philosophy in the Tarot
Tarot as a philosophical card game
Card reading, therapy, and meditation
The Great Work of alchemy
How art revived the occult
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