Traversing the Strange World
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What Makes a Man? The History of Masculinity
Oct 8, 202615 min
Maimonides and the Good Life: Wisdom, Balance and Purpose
Oct 5, 20269 min
The Temple Fell: Rome, Revolt and the Survival of Judaism
Oct 1, 202616 min
The Good Life According to Epicurus: Freedom From Fear and Endless Desire
Sep 28, 202614 min
The Jewish Jesus: Understanding His First-Century World
Sep 24, 202620 min
Why Nothing Ever Feels Like Enough: Arthur Schopenhauer and the Good Life
Sep 21, 202612 min
America’s Divorce: When a Nation Loses Its Shared Story
Sep 17, 202613 min
The Good Life According to Confucius | Character, Harmony and Responsibility
Sep 14, 202612 min
Who Wrote the Torah? The Documentary Hypothesis
Sep 10, 202614 min
The Good Life According to Viktor Frankl: Meaning, Freedom and Responsibility
Sep 7, 202611 min
From the Cave to the Stars: Civilization, AI & the Future of Humanity
Sep 3, 202614 min
The Man Who Needed Nothing | Diogenes and the Good Life
Aug 31, 202611 min
Escaping the Matrix: Freedom, Propaganda & the Patterns That Control Us
Aug 27, 202612 min
The Good Life According to Machiavelli | Power, Fortune & Virtù
Aug 24, 202614 min
Live It Again? | Nietzsche on Will to Power, the Übermensch & Eternal Recurrence
Aug 20, 202614 min
Albert Camus and the Good Life: The Absurd, Sisyphus & How to Live
Aug 17, 202610 min
The Renaissance Mind: How to Begin Again
Aug 13, 202614 min
What Is the Good Life? | Hasidic Wisdom on Joy, Meaning & Presence
Aug 10, 20269 min
Christ After Christianity: Carl Jung, the Shadow, and the Self
Aug 6, 202614 min
The Ego, Your Forgotten Companion: 4 Jungian Mantras for Seeing Yourself Clearly
Aug 3, 202611 min
Stoicism After Faith: Finding Meaning and Inner Strength After Religious Deconstruction
Jul 30, 202615 min
Take Your Power Back: A Nietzschean Mantra for Dealing With a Narcissist
Jul 27, 202613 min
Before Heaven: Ecclesiastes, Ancient Religion, and the Examined Life
Jul 23, 202612 min
The Shadow, the Mask, and the Self: 4 Jungian Mantras for Becoming Whole
Jul 20, 202611 min
Nietzsche’s Warning: What “God Is Dead” Really Means
Jul 16, 202616 min
4 Stoic Mantras for Dealing With Difficult People
Jul 13, 202610 min
Forgotten Gods: How Christianity Absorbed the Ancient World
Jul 9, 202611 min
No Mud, No Lotus: A Buddhist Mantra for Pain
Jul 6, 202610 min
Gnostic Christianity: The Forgotten Belief in Two Gods
Jul 2, 202620 min
3 Stoic Mantras for Humility in an Age of Ego
Jun 29, 202610 min
How Christianity Became Christianity
Jun 25, 202619 min
Fall Seven Times, Rise Eight
Jun 22, 202612 min
The Snowball of Faith: Heaven, Hell, Satan, and the Ideas We Inherited
Jun 18, 202616 min
When You’re Burned Out: 5 Mantras for Rising Again
Jun 15, 202614 min
God Is Mystery: Faith After Deconstruction
Jun 11, 202622 min
When Life Changes: 5 Ancient Mantras for Enduring the Season
Jun 8, 202613 min
God Beyond Words: Ein Sof and the Infinite
Jun 4, 202615 min
Fear Is the Door: 5 Mantras for Courage
Jun 1, 202614 min
Why Nothing Fully Satisfies Us | God as the Divine Beloved
May 28, 202614 min
The Anvil of Existence: 7 Mantras for Resilience
May 25, 202618 min
God as the Still Small Voice: Conscience, Jung, and the Inner Mind
May 21, 202616 min
Face Yourself | 5 Mantras for Accountability
May 18, 202613 min
God as Logos | The Mover Behind the Wheel
May 14, 202612 min
The False God of Ego | Breaking Free from the Loops of Self
May 11, 202612 min
The Universe Looking Back | God in All Things
May 7, 202616 min
5 Mantras for New Beginnings | BECOME
May 4, 202610 min
Why Beauty Feels Divine | God, Awe, and the Human Soul
Apr 30, 202614 min
5 Old Truths for a New Week
Apr 27, 202614 min
The Return Home and the Repair of the World
Apr 23, 202622 min
20 Lessons Your 20s Teach You the Hard Way | Turning 30
Apr 20, 202615 min