In this first episode of our new series on Wicca, we look at the historical origins of Wicca in the New Forest Coven in Dorset, England, as well as the background of some of the coven members in the Rosicrucian tradition.

In this episode we discuss the role of General Zhang Jun in the survival of Yue Fei's tradition, as well as in the survival of members of Yue Fei's extended family. We also discuss how Zhang Jun managed to protect himself from the purges carried out by Qin Hui.

In this episode we explore Heraclitus, an ancient Greek who was more Chinese than the Chinese. There are not just parallels between this remarkable man's essential worldview and ancient Daoism - more than that, he was more fundamentally Daoist in outlook than are many contemporary Daoists today.

We head at last to Ancient Greece, and look at the attempts of Thales to challenge the miasma of his time. We also discuss how he agreed with (or perhaps even originated the ideas of) Genesis in a way that modern Christians generally don't.

Forbidden fruit, cruel gods and the Apocryphon of John.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed that Jesus and Christianity were much less unique developments than previously thought. In this episode we start to explore these ancient documents and what they can tell us about the origins of both Christianity and Judaism.

A discussion of how ancient elites used the figure of Adam's first wife Lilith as the ancient "Bogey Man" to preserve their position in society, and examples of the same strategy employed by modern media and politicians to the same ends.

We continue our investigation of the Book of Genesis, looking at the ways in which Genesis 2 contradicts Genesis 1 and both modern Christianity and Judaism. We also start talking about the figure of Lilith, in legend Adam's first wife before Eve was created.

This episode is about Song Dynasty arms and armour. This is a slightly shortened version of the episode from which a few of the more controversial topics have been omitted. The full uncensored version can be found inside Patreon.

As a background to our upcoming discussion of late Song Dynasty armour and weapons, in this episode we give a brief overview of a few animal strategies applied on the battlefield at strategic and tactical levels, as well as in individual combat.