Best Eleusinian Podcasts (2025)

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 6.2 The Patterns of Reality 9:55

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Persephone sneaked out into the gardens the next morning, grateful to have a few quiet moments to reconnect with her plant companions. Everything had spirit in the Underworld, even the rocks and the streams, and her beloved trees were the goddess’s most trusted friends. The poplars flittered in the twilight, their gold leaves shimmering in ways whi…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 6.1 Going Home 10:02

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She said goodbye to her mother at the mouth of the cave of Taenarum, crumbling under the weight of her sorrow and tears, and harboring guilt over feeling relieved when she finally stepped into its dark depths and its silence. Hecate was supposed to meet her and lead the way, but Persephone had walked that path so many times she really didn’t need t…

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On Venus Cycles 38:00

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In this little solo pod, I reflect on 16 years (2 Venus cycles) of podcasting and doing astrology. It’s been a journey. The show is part educational and a moment to check in with you all. A lot has changed in the 16 years of doing these, and I do feel there will be another 8, yet for now, I’m still pupating…. enjoy, adam to learn Astrology: ....to …

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 5.3 Thesmophoria III 9:21

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To say that everybody woke up the next day nursing a headache would be an understatement. The wine and the herbs left a parting gift - a vicious nausea, amplified to epic levels by the main part of the ceremony. The Antleriai, the wailers, descended into the Megara pits, specially outfitted with snakes for the occasion, to retrieve decomposed piece…

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Ep. 24 The Vatican: Napoleon's Wild Connection to the Vatican, Exorcisms, Vatican Archaeology etc. 52:20

21d ago52:20

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Send us a text We filmed this episode weeks before Pope Francis' passing (may he rest in peace), but thought we'd still share this really interesting episode. We delve into the wild connection between Napoleon and the Vatican, exorcisms and some fascinating archaeological finds unearthed within the Vatican walls itself. This was a really fun episod…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 5.2 The Thesmophoria II 9:28

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A mournful song and the unmistakable scent of winter filled the mist the next morning, when the festival attendants woke up to an eerie landscape. The meadow grasses were covered in a thin dusting of ice, and their dried flower heads, which the freezing rain had pounded relentlessly overnight, were encased in transparent globes of ice that acted li…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 5.1 Thesmophoria I 9:25

1M ago9:25

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“Have you prepared yourself, daughter? You have to set an example for all the married women: fast for nine days, refrain from the pleasures of the flesh and purify yourself to be worthy of the Goddess’s blessing.” “Yes, mother. Although I find it a bit ironic that I need to prepare myself so I’d be worthy of my own blessing.” “You are a role model,…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 4.2 Kore 8:51

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“Mother, aren’t we going the wrong way?” she asked Demeter when the ship left the shore and started following the sun due west instead of sailing towards the sunrise. Demeter smiled, but said nothing. “Where are we going?” “Sicily.” “Why?” “You’ll see, the latter smiled in anticipation.” Anthesphoria was a festival of flowers, and as such, dedicate…

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EP 67: Strange & Obscure Tales 26:25

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Send us a text EP 67 — Strange & Obscure Tales Four tales in one episode, all little known. Each focuses on the relationship between gods and men. One may well reveal the origin of werewolves. Come play with Zeus, Demeter, Artemis and Hermes. Support the show Tweet me comments at @Garner_images, or email any episode suggestions to patrickgarner@me.…

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Ep. 23 The USA! 1:01:33

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Send us a text We are back with a brand new episode on all things archaeology in the USA! We cover a lot of different topics, some of which left us a little speechless... we hope you enjoy!By Archaeologists Behaving Badly

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 4.1 A Trip to Magna Grecia 9:28

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The delegation left early in the morning, poised to reach the shores of Magna Graecia at sunrise. Everywhere else Persephone was just another goddess of the Pantheon, but in Locri, she was the goddess. Two majestic temples were raised for her worship, and the city had bestowed upon her the additional honor of being the protector of childbirth, thus…

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EP 66: Aphrodite & The Golden Apple 24:56

2M ago24:56

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Send us a text This episode looks at the infamous Judgment of Paris, which sounds like a French court decision, but was actually a beauty contest between Greek goddesses! Join Hera, Athene and Aphrodite for the lead-up to the Trojan War and all the chaos that followed. And we re-introduce the goddess Eris, a nasty purveyor of war and destruction. S…

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Chapter 3.3 - Summer Festivals 9:51

2M ago9:51

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“Welcome back, daughter,” her mother greeted her, all smiles, at the mouth of the cave. Persephone felt a little stiff from sleeping on the ground and still a little turned around after traveling back and forth twice between worlds within the boundaries of one night. “I take it you had a pleasant journey home,” Demeter continued, way too cheerful s…

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Chapter 3.2 - The Eleusinian Mysteries 9:09

2M ago9:09

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The communicants started their descent into the depths of the earth, with nothing to light their way other than the high priestess’s torch. The latter was tall, and her pallid members stood in stark contrast with her long hair, black as night, which flowed freely and draped around her shoulders like a mantle, and the black chiton, tied around her w…

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Lunar Standstills with Gemini Brett pt. 2 1:19:06

2M ago1:19:06

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In this episode, Gemini Brett returns for the 2nd part of our little astronomy discussions. It's an essential lesson around the lunar standstill. Something clicked for me in this conversation. I hope it does for you as well. enjoy, adam his site: https://geminibrett.com to learn Astrology: ....to support my work and learn astrology all at the same …

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Chapter 2.3 - The Moirae 10:27

2M ago10:27

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The world is surface, a shimmery veil of illusion, woven from gossamer and dreams by the Moirae to give the unbound consciousness a home. Behind this elusive veil, the fundamental action principles of existence, known only to the gods, continuously transform reality, sometimes unseen, sometimes picking at its back and putting waves through its diap…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 3.1 The Dionysia 7:50

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Persephone used the pretext she had to oversee the progress in the barley fields to take her leave from the city, which was bursting at the seams with crafting festival paraphernalia, cooking, and the stress people always experience on the eve of major holidays. The city’s noise and bustle gradually disappeared as the goddess ventured into the fiel…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - Chapter 2.3 The Moirae 10:27

3M ago10:27

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The world is surface, a shimmery veil of illusion, woven from gossamer and dreams by the Moirae to give the unbound consciousness a home. Behind this elusive veil, the fundamental action principles of existence, known only to the gods, continuously transform reality, sometimes unseen, sometimes picking at its back and putting waves through its diap…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - 2.2 Charming Dionysus 10:44

3M ago10:44

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“Good morning, princess!” Dionysus entered the room, surrounded, as always, by a large posse of obviously impaired maenads and satyrs. He never went anywhere without them, and sometimes Persephone wondered if he’d ever been alone. Huge Etruscan amphorae filled with wine had been brought to the room for his visit, a welcome escape from the white on …

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - 2.1 The Healings of Epidaurus 10:05

3M ago10:05

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It was almost midnight when the goddesses and their suite reached the temple, where they were welcomed in complete silence by the priests, who took them to the Thollos and retreated respectfully, content with the privilege of watching the ceremony. Persephone parted the veil between worlds, allowing the denizens of her kingdom safe passage to the l…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - 1.3 The Haunted Caves 10:18

3M ago10:18

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They saw it from afar, as they were traveling among the clouds in Helios’s chariot, the strange city of caves, carved in the soapstone of a cluster of spiky cliffs, sometimes by nature, sometimes by man, displayed amid the arid landscape like a giant sculpture, maybe an artifact the titans left behind, before his love of humankind landed Prometheus…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - 1.2 Praise Olympus! 10:00

4M ago10:00

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The sun woke her up the next morning, the memory of her dream still fresh. She was picnicking in her orchard, eating pomegranate seeds at dusk, while Hades, who sat beside her, watching, brought each seed to life with a light of its own as her lips touched it, just to amuse her. A group of nymphs burst into the room, giggling and shoving each other…

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EP 65: In Plain Sight 25:10

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Send us a text This episode looks in depth at the unexpected themes of Greek pottery and how gods and heroes are depicted. We also examine the strange effigies of the god Hermes. You’ll meet a Hermes unlike any you’ve encountered. This episode is also unusual in that it is not suitable for underage listeners. Support the show Tweet me comments at @…

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The Gates of Horn and Ivory - 1.1 Spring 9:55

4M ago9:55

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Persephone had a secret, one she could never tell her mother. She had never enjoyed the gossip, the pointless aggravation, and the churning of vanities and ambitions that surrounded her life in the living world, the daily rehashed dramas of the nymphs’ latest trysts, the self-centered empty dalliances of the male gods, the petty envies of the spurn…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Rose 4:35

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Rose Brecht had an enchanted childhood, rendered even more so because she’d been born blessed with a vivid imagination. Her mind made up worlds and stories, so complex and filled with detail that even the grown-ups had trouble telling them apart from reality some times. Though they got her in trouble more often than she liked to admit, these worlds…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Only Echoes, Endlessly Repeating - Local 11:10

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Local: Denoting a variable or other entity that is only available for use in one part of a construct, relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these. My beloved child, there are so many things I wanted to teach you! We all live in a subset of reality that only reaches as far as our minds and our senses. We occupy a small…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Only Echoes Endlessly Repeating - Fractal 12:59

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Fractal: A complex geometric pattern exhibiting self-similarity in that small details of its structure viewed at any scale repeat elements of the overall pattern. [This observation is unrelated to the manuscript, but it refers to an event so unusual for the climate of this region I thought it would be worth recording. Today, July 24, at four in the…

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EP 64: Artemis & the Ouija Board 19:49

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Send us a text Engaging one night with an old Ouija board, podcaster Patrick Garner conjures up the ancient goddess Artemis. Over the course of many hours, the goddess remembers Athena, Poseidon, Hecate, her brother Apollo and other divinities. The episode is largely narrated by a new voice, Lily, an urbane English woman who has long been enthralle…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Only Echoes Endlessly Repeating - Scale 12:40

5M ago12:40

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Scale: The relative size or extent of something. The first thing you should consider when you ask yourself how something works is at what scale. A grain of sand is the same as a rock or a planet, it is our specific experience that renders it minute. Our sense of proportion, rooted in our own size, makes some processes obvious and others obscure, we…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Always and Forever - Clarity 11:21

5M ago11:21

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Clarity: The quality of transparency or purity; the quality of being coherent and intelligible. [Nowhere in the document is the fact that somebody arranged the pages out of sequence more clear than here. The writing is neat and correct, but labored, betraying a hand still striving to achieve full control of its fine motor functions. There is no dou…

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Financial Astrology with Ray Merriman 1:12:07

5M ago1:12:07

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I’m excited to share with you the long-overdue conversation with Ray Merriman. He’s been on my radar since the beginning, I just never felt the time was right to invite him on…until now. I’m glad I waited. I was able to keep up and we had an engaging chat about all things related to financial astrology. Even if you aren’t interested in the topic, I…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Always and Forever - Constant 10:53

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Constant: A number expressing a relation or property which remains the same in all circumstances, or for the same substance under the same conditions. The universe is a living contradiction, and I stopped trying to reconcile its paradoxes a long time ago, so I will state this knowing it doesn’t yield to logic. Existence is constantly in motion, end…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Always and Forever - Rapture 15:13

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Rapture: A state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. I will describe a personal experience for you, because it is the best way I can think of to illustrate the concept we’re about to discuss. I went out into nature just before dawn, during that ghostly hour that puts a chill through one’s bones no matter what the season. It…

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EP 63: Nyx, The Darkest Goddess 20:38

6M ago20:38

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Send us a text Nyx. the goddess of night, appeared before the Olympic gods, even before the Titans. Her progeny were almost all beings of terror and dread, and included Doom, Death, Sleep, Dreams, Blame, Misery, The Fates, Retribution, Old Age and Strife. Yet as terrifying as her family was, civilization may have resulted from their enforcement of …

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Understanding the Zodiac with Gemini Brett 1:27:47

6M ago1:27:47

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This show was meant to be about lunar standstills, yet that's not quite what happened. It often happens with Brett and I. Lots of Gemini between us. What ended up being discussed were the three main zodiacs, some astronomy, and a hint of the lunar standstill. We will treat this one as part 1; part 2 will cover what we originally set out to explore.…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Divided by Zero - Revelation 14:34

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Revelation: The divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something unexplainable relating to human existence or the world. The expectation to understand everything, while worthy, is unreasonable. Some things can’t be counted in the time frame of existence, some knowledge is so alien to our mind we can’t put it in a structure of understanding.…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Divided by Zero Shift 15:20

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Shift: A slight change in position, direction, or tendency. Let’s talk about a quality of existence which escapes the inattentive eye: its movements are not smooth, it advances in jerks and jumps, in sudden shifts, going from one state to another without passing through the stations in between. This works for gaining understanding and knowledge as …

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Divided by Zero - Options 15:20

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Option: An act of choosing; a thing that is or may be chosen Like all naturally evolving systems reality doesn’t behave according to a predetermined plan, it runs on repeated trial and error and on eliminating the fruitless branches in the tree of choice. Even though you can’t see it, reality presents and tests options for itself constantly and aut…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Mirror Reality Synapse 15:36

7M ago15:36

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Synapse: A junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter. There is an interstitial stretch that fills the space between knowledge and learning, a field where ideas roam free. Inside that space there is no organizing structure, everything melds together in a chaotic jumble,…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Mirror Reality -Sympathetic 14:40

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Sympathetic: Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises in response to a similar action elsewhere. Frequently actions, states and events emerge simultaneously in various parts of reality, acting exactly the same, like synchronized ripples in its fabric. Sometimes an event gets reflected by another, completely bound to it like an obj…

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Ep. 22 Medical History: Soutra Aisle, Ancient Medical Practices and Wild 19th Century "Cures" 58:30

7M ago58:30

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Send us a text We are back with a brand new episode, talking all things wild in medical history and archaeology! Belle begins by telling us of an incredible medieval hospital in Scotland which has had some fascinating finds relating to healthcare. Belle also gives us some insight into ancient medical practices - some of which we still use today! Ra…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and Offshoots - Concentration 16:03

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Concentration: The relative amount of a given substance contained within a solution or in a particular volume of space; the amount of solute per unit volume of solution; the action or power of focusing one’s attention on mental work. You are familiar with concentrated essence from the flower oils and hydrosols you have sampled in the apothecary sho…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and Offshoots - Derivative 14:59

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Derivative: An expression representing the rate of change of a function with respect to an independent variable. Some phenomena are not about themselves. They take you one level, one dimension down into the substance of things, they are measurements of change, gauges of the inner workings of the world, consequences of movement. Every atom in existe…

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Goddess Asteroids & the Venus Cycle with Andrea Michelle 1:29:21

7M ago1:29:21

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In this show, Andrea Michelle joins me to discuss her fascinating work with fusing the Goddess Asteroids with the Venus synodic cycle. It's a novel approach, and one that I learned a lot from in talking with her. If you are a student of either, you are going to enjoy her insights tremendously. -adam her site: https://andreamichellehaeckel.com to wo…

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Ep. 21 Ancient Greece: The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Antikythera Mechanism 33:46

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Send us a text We are back with another episode, deep diving into Ancient Greece! In this episode, Raquel starts by giving the low-down on a topic quite close to her heart - the Eleusinian Mysteries! This ancient mystery cult (and other mystery cults along the same vein) are an absolute wonder... involving ecstatic experiences and absolute secrecy.…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and Offshoots - Precursor 15:47

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Precursor: A substance from which another is formed, especially by metabolic reaction You can think of precursors as the ancestors of an event. Everything that is has evolved from something else, which also evolved from something else. The universe is a giant chain reaction still in progress. What you are looking at right now is a step in a very co…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - In Motion Current 15:56

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Current: A fluid motion in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of fluid in which there is less movement We all see the world as a collection of solid objects independent of each other and relying on external impulses to set them in motion. I would like you to set aside that view for the duration of this lecture, and imagine …

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - In Motion - Timing 14:14

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Timing: The choice, judgment, or control of when something should be done. Don’t mistake timing for scheduling, or planning. It is difficult to explain what timing is, some things are easier to demonstrate than to describe. You have already encountered timing, and you take it for granted, because it is woven into the fabric of reality and occurs na…

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Ep. 20 Famous Battles: The Emu Wars, War of the Oaken Bucket, the Pastry War and Others 1:00:19

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Send us a text Hello friends! In this episode we discuss some famous (and not so famous... although quite ridiculous) battles in history! Now if you're wondering where episode 19 is, it will be available soon Patreon - we discuss some pretty heavy topics around the Aztecs and even though it was such a great episode, we felt it was better on that pl…

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The Blue Rose Manuscript - The Round World - Folding 14:18

8M ago14:18

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Folding: Bending (something flexible and relatively flat) over on itself so that one part of it covers another. Today we will talk about folds. The purpose of folding is to minimize the surface of a thin flat object for better storage or transportation. Just like a tablecloth, all things that get folded will display distinguishable characteristics:…

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