This episode we are back into GRS Mead's translation of "Thrice Greatest Hermes" and discus the third and fouth book of the Hermetic text; The General Sermon to Asclepius and The Sacred Sermon. Interesting talk about what god is and isn't and some of the common ideas between Hermetic and Christian teaching and where they may have stemmed from.  Enjoy!

Smorgasbord: Random stuff- We talk about the origins of western philosophy, the book "The cave and the light" by Arthur Hermann, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self help books, Thomas Paine's lesser known book "The age of reason" and Brandon shares one of his poems with us!  Enjoy!

We dive into Stoicism philosophy and Seneca the philosopher as we discuss "On the shortness of life" translated by John W Basore.  This is an interesting one as we explore the idea that knowing  we all die in the end can help us live better now. Enjoy!

We continue to explore GRS Mead's translation of Poemandres from his volume two of his three part book "Thrice Greastest Hermes". In this episode we get through verses 10-18

In this episode we begin to explore the teachings contained in the Corpus Hermetica.  We discuss the foggy history of the 17 books that make up the basic texts and start to read the first in G.R.S. Mead"s translation of Poemandres, The Shepherd of Men.  We get through the first 9 verses and there is a lot to discuss and discover as we explore.  Enjoy!

In this Smorgasbord we discuss lots of different things. 

Topics include:

Dancing Wu Li Masters, Joe Rogan Episode #1352, Many worlds theory, Theories on perfection, our plans for future episodes, fuzzy history and Psuedo-Science, and Brandon shares a story of how he  can sort of bend time and space.  Enjoy!

In this episode we talk about the prophet Enoch's encounter with the Giants (big, giant, Giants!)We take our narritive from RH Charles' translation of "1 Enoch" and also from the Dead Sea Scrolls "Book of the Giants"

We introduce 1 Enoch translated by RH Charles, give some of the background history of the Book of Enoch, talk about the sparse biblical references found in the Bible about Enoch, etc