We turn our attention to the Fall of the Song, and examine the posthumous influence of the military legacy of the three great generals, Yue, Han and Zhang, on drawing out the final demise of the Dynasty.

In this episode we discuss the article "Make Xing Yi Wild Again" from Graham Barlow's Tai Chi Notebook, touching on subjects like rewilding, degrowth and shamanic practice.

This episode we head to the movies with the Heretics' review of The Art of Self-Defense, a 2019 film starring Jesse Eisenberg.

Finishing off Day One of the Chymical Wedding, we examine the significance of energy to the esoteric traditions, linking the allegorical representations and numerology in the Chymical Wedding to other traditions that we have discussed.

Today we look at the Chymical Wedding's allegorical depiction of the Miasma, and how and why Christian Rosenkreutz escapes from the pit.

We continue our journey into the Chymical Wedding, discussing why shamanic experience can come as a surprise even to people who are well prepared for it. We also look at the influence of Erasmus, and consider his outlook on the esotericism vs exotericism issue.

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz is the primary allegory of the Rosicrucian Tradition. The work is divided into 7 days, and in this episode we start out on day 1.

The Rosicrucianism that developed at the beginning of the Fifteenth Century did not spring into existence from nowhere. In this episode we jump far back in time to the origins of the Vedic traditions and explore the early origins of the shamanic fire magic movement that eventually gave birth to Rosicrucianism, as well as setting the scene for future episodes on Alexandrian Syncretism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Yoga.

We turn our attention to the founder of Rosicrucianism, Christian Rosenkreutz, his times, and his relationship to Martin Luther and the Reformation. This will be the first part in a long running series on Rosicrucianism.

In this episode we delve into the convoluted and unusual world of the Shinshukyo, which are often mistranslated as "Japanese New Religions". Pana-Wave is one of the Shinshukyo that illustrates very well both the instinctive feeling that people have for loss-of-Nature and also what the Miasma can do to the responses they come up with.