Our culture is re-enchanting the world—but without Christ at the center.

From Grimm to The Witcher, Supernatural to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, modern media revives the pagan imagination and Kabbalistic mysticism, offering spirituality without holiness, mystery without moral order, and transcendence without redemption.

In this episode, Doug and Emily continue their deep dive into the unseen realm—examining how today’s entertainment shapes our ideas about nature spirits, magic, prophecy, and spiritual reality.

🎭 In This Episode:

- Grimm, Supernatural, Buffy, The Witcher, Carnival – media that reintroduces pagan and Kabbalistic worldviews

- Foucault’s Pendulum and The Redwing Saga – clashing worldviews engage the lure lure and danger of hidden knowledge

- What is magic—and how does it differ from the miraculous?

- The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings – how Lewis and Tolkien re-enchanted the imagination

- Prophecy, poltergeists, and the spirits that “can’t cross water”

- Pharaoh and the waters of judgment – biblical parallels to modern myths

- The Enlightenment’s “disenchantment” of the world—and our culture’s craving to reawaken it

- Native Americans and declarations to their dead and deities

🕯️ A Culture Re-Enchanted—But Christless

Our modern storytellers are rebuilding a spiritual world, but one rooted in pagan and Kabbalistic ideas:

- Nature as divine and self-powered

- Magic as neutral force, shaped by will

- Salvation through secret knowledge or bloodline

- A cosmos filled with beings—but absent its Creator

This worldview promises transcendence but ends in confusion—just as Umberto Eco warned in Foucault’s Pendulum, where seekers of hidden truth become enslaved by the myth they created.

The biblical worldview offers something far greater:

“The universe is enchanted because God is present—not because it is divine.”

Creation is alive, but it worships, not commands.

Spiritual power flows from communion with Christ, not manipulation of unseen forces.

True prophecy and true wonder come from walking with the Holy Spirit, not chasing secret knowledge.

🕊️ Doug & Emily remind us:

“You don’t need to fear the spiritual realm—or imitate it.

You just need to walk with God in it.”