Out of the Average

Did you know you could calculate the numbers of your birthday and name to uncover different parts of your path and personality? Piggybacking off of last week's episode about our main man, Pythagoras, we are diving into some Chaldean and Pythagorean numerology, which sets the basis for popular Western numerology, as well as chatting about our own personal numerology!

Remotely Recorded by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music credits to Michael Vontas.

Sources:

https://divinityworld.com/ancient-secrets-revealed-of-how-pythagorean-numerology-works/ (Chart)

https://numerologist.com/numerology/pythagorean-numerology-what-is-it/

https://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology

Chaldea

Chaldeansystem.html

https://cafeastrology.com/numerology.html

https://numerology.astro-seek.com

https://www.starsandtarot.com/post/arrows-of-pythagoras-in-numerology

Throwback to mentioning Pythagoras in our episode "Cults, Crackers, and Cornflakes" - we are releasing a whole episode on (potentially?) our favorite "semi-divine" mathematician. There is a lot more mysticism and suspicion around Pythagoras than just the famous "Pythagorean Theorem" (and there are debates if that was even his!). A callback to a lost fifteen page paper from her Mathematics Degree days and the re-found sources to prove it, Allison discusses with Meghan the mysteries around Pythagoras, his beliefs, and his famous "cult-like" school and rules. Enjoy and happy listening!

Recorded Remotely and Edited by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music Credits to Michael Vontas.

Sources:

https://classicalwisdom.com/philosophy/cult-of-pythagoras/

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/pythagoras-504.php

https://askastrologer.com/pythagoras-numero.html#:~:text=Pythagoras%20believed%20that%20every%20planet,represented%20this%20sound%20using%20numbers.&text=Pythagoras%20assigned%20a%20particular%20number,and%2022%20as%20master%20numbers.

https://numerologist.com/numerology/pythagorean-numerology-what-is-it/

https://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/pythag/pythag.html

http://personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/PhiloHistory/pythagoras.htm

http://www.deepspirits.com/ancient-sages/pythagoras/

James Luchte - Wandering Souls: The Doctrine of Transmigration in Pythagorean Philosophy

https://www.equip.org/article/mystery-religion-what-were-the-mystery-religions/

http://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub401/entry-6206.html

This week we have a short and (not so) sweet episode about a mysterious disappearance across the pond in the Outer Hebrides. Meg tells Allison about the story of three lighthouse keepers who vanished without a trace in 1900. Take a listen and let us know what you think!  

Recorded and Edited by Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca. Music by Mike Vontas.

Sources:

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Eilean-Mor-Lighthouse-Mystery/

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usebooks/martin-westernislands/index.html

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/islay/finlaggan/index.html

https://www.adventure-life.com/articles/scotland-flannan-islands-467

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles_Lighthouse

Flannan_Isles

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Happy Fourth Friday of the Month (oops...we broke the rule last month!) - we present to you our Out of the Average Media episode of February.

Below are timestamps so you can see what we are talking about and featuring in this episode! 

Apps:

Randonautica Experience 0:45

CE5 App 7:50

Documentary:

Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind 9:20

Books:

Conjure Woman 14:24

Streaming Shows:

Pushing Daisies 21:00

Recorded and Edited by Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca. Music Credits to Michael Vontas.

*Trigger Warning: Death and Grief, Sex.

We love guest episodes! Jamie Schumann joins us this episode to chat about her work as a budding breathwork practitioner in her business, Inner Collective Garden. While on the pod, we talked about dreams and dream symbolism, astral projecting, and how breathwork can affect sleep, as well as whether or not it can even facilitate astral projecting! Jamie also speaks to us about her only two astral projecting experiences that have left a profound effect on her and her healing. 

You can find Jamie and her work on Instagram @collectiveinnergarden or at her website www.collectiveinnergarden.com

Recorded and Edited by Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music credits to Michael Vontas.

Warning: Contains some explicit content.

Cults, crackers, and cornflakes, oh my! This week Meg dives into the weird history behind a few popular food items in the U.S. - Celestial Seasonings, graham crackers, and cornflake cereal. These seemingly innocuous foodstuffs have rather peculiar creation stories and are seemingly connected historically as wel, though the links may not be obvious. This research was sparked by the supposition that Celestial Seasonings, the famous tea company, may have started with a cultish background, a notion that had been explored by food writer Megan Giller who's website can be found here. Let us know what you think!

Recorded and Edited by Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca. Music by Mike Vontas.

Sources: 

http://www.celestialseasonings.com

https://www.inverse.com/article/10731-cults-conspiracies-and-the-twisted-history-of-sleepytime-tea

https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2021/01/the-insane-true-story-of-the-racist-eugenics-book-your-inspirational-teabag-tag-might-be-based-on/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sadler

https://www.foodandwine.com/drinks/sleepytime-tea-and-little-known-religion-behind-it

http://www.megangiller.com/features#/cults-conspiracy-history-sleepytime-tea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker

https://time.com/3958070/history-of-veganism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement

Sylvester_Graham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_vegetarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granula

It’s that time of the month where Meghan and Allison take a dive into the out of the average media they've consumed and boy, do they have an episode for you! First they give a Baba Yaga call back in some media that cropped up, then they touch on some thought provoking concepts like the idea of children exploring past lives. But the biggest takeaway of all may be found in the question, is Tom Nook the new John Doe? Take a listen to find out the answer (maybe) and let us know your thoughts in the comments! 

*Trigger Warning* around the 15:11 mark there is conversation around death that may induce anxieties 

Recorded and Edited by Meghan Pavlovsky and Allison Varca. Music Credits to Michael Vontas

We tried to keep the spoilers really limited but here’s a list of timestamps in case you’d like to jump around:

Baba Yaga - related: 

Teeny Tiny and the Witch Woman - 0:40  

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés - 4:49 

Streaming Shows: 

WandaVision 6:49 

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 12:49 

Surviving Death 15:11 

Fate: The Winx Saga  22:58 

The Promised Neverland 30:51 

Movies: 

The Secret World of Arrietty 37:44 

Books: 

Howl’s Moving Castle 43:59

This week, Allison covers the ambiguous mythological figure of Baba Yaga from Slavic Folklore. She's been seen and depicted in multiple different kinds of media, although is she really as "wicked" as they say? Allison explains where she had come to learn of Baba Yaga, briefly described her mythology, and then recounts two similar stories where Baba Yaga is the main antagonist - "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and "Baba Yaga and Natasha." Happy Listening, Friends!

Recorded and Edited By Allison Varca and Meghan Pavlovsky. Music Credits to Michael Vontas.

Sources:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/baba-yaga-confounding-crone-slavic-folklore-002836

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baba-Yaga

https://www.grunge.com/216412/the-legend-of-baba-yaga-explained/

https://www.therussianstore.com/blog/tale-of-baba-yaga-the-russian-witch/

https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/65r.pdf

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