Burning Phoenix Podcast

We'll look at two books in this episode: “More than Allegory” by Philosopher & Scientist Bernardo Kastrup, and “The Age of Utopia” by Historian and College Professor John Strickland.

Our video talk with Tom LA Books is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01AUovOS3Bo

And our GoodReads page is here:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21804137.Richard_Emerson

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We'll briefly look at a recent conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer and Douglas Murray, and recommend some of their books. The full conversation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2u54a1FL28

And we'll also be on the lookout for Young Renaissance Minds and Artists in the coming months; starting with this little video about life, the joy of exploration and the big mysteries in the world, by Ryan Trahan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYnVf9XnDLI

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We'll look at how CS Lewis had a precise intuitive understanding of the nature of the brain hemispheres, and how the story of Orpheus turning back and losing Eurydice as they are trying to leave the Underworld, contains deep insight into how a left brain overreach dissolves the deeper wisdom and meaning.

The Free Hillsdale Course is here:

https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/an-introduction-to-c-s-lewis

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We'll look at the century/milliennia picture and consider new factors that might contribute to a much bigger regeneration of culture, as well as goals and aims for this process of Rebirth and Renaissance. And we'll close with a vision of beauty and inspiration, that could provide a bright mental picture to apprehend and gradually move towards.

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We'll look at Tom LA Books' videos, a Hillsdale course on CS Lewis, Jordan Peterson's last episode on the first half of Exodus, and some overall thoughts on the big picture for 2023 and the coming decade or two.

The emerging good things and the earliest stages for rebalancing the culture in the hemispheric sense, might seem to be starting to manifest themselves.

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We're having the first guest on the show: Tom LA Books is here to talk about his new 100 episodes Youtube series about Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpiUReQm8Y8YbRuhXc2r0j9lL5WwbrCzk

We'll also briefly talk about the videos by Iain McGilchrist and Alex Gomez-Marin where they are walking through the whole "The Matter with Things" Opus chapter by chapter. The first video from Part III of the book is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAZ2a-vawMk

And the trailer for the new Dante Movie is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKgn_n_DgOQ

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We'll have a quick review of four of the excellent courses from Hillsdale College, some thoughts on Jordan Peterson's speech on the Logos at the Ancient Greek temple of Ephesus (one of the Seven Wonders of the World) - and a little "Tercet Meditation" from Dante, as inspiration for 2023.

The courses are here:

https://online.hillsdale.edu/course-list

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https://burningphoenix.substack.com

Thanks for tuning in, and Happy New Year!

We'll look at the Hillsdale College's course on Dante's Divine Comedy, and the new videos from Tommaso Todesca on Dante's Comedy in Italian.

We'll also reflect on a couple of excerpts from Dante about the conseqences of your own moral choices in life, and about not judging things or people too quickly.

Hillsdale's free courses are here:

https://online.hillsdale.edu/course-list

And Tommaso's Booktube Channel is here:

https://www.youtube.com/@tomlabooks3263

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and wishing you a peaceful and merry Christmas!

We'll look at a couple of highlights from Episode 5 in Dr. Jordan Peterson's Exodus Series, and see how the idea of morals as consequences of virtues and vices has been expressed in both Ancient Greek and Late Medieval Times.

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We'll look at Nietzsche's argument for the "Will to Power" in light of Left Brain Hemisphere domination, and also the effect of the more modern ideas of fragmented moments of happiness vs. the Ancient Greek concept of overall life happiness: Eudaimonia.

Both as reflections on the latest book from John Strickland, “The Age of Nihilism”.