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The Metaphor of the Apocalyptic Disasters: Before the apocalypse in "Revelations," there is a series of disasters, and that can be taken as the mental disorder before the personal "revelation" in spiritual development. Something much like this has been discovered in other religions and philosophies.

(From a discussion on “Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (Chapter 3, second half)

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The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/gyJIFSjpqho

Audio episode:

https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/the-meaning-of-the-zombie-apocalypse/

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

“Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (Chapter 3, second half):

http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0113

Zombie Photo Clips:

Gerardo Martin Fernandez Vallejo on Unsplash

Direction and cinematography both by George A. Romero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Leandro De Torres on Unsplash

Daniel Lincoln on Unsplash

Thumbnail: Photo by Rowan Heuvel on Unsplash

Four Horsemen: Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

Hair of the Dog that Bit You: the hair of a rabid dog used to be thought of as a cure for rabies, which seems to operate on the logic of like cures like.

In the Brothers’ Grimm’s “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was,” he boy--now a young man married to the princess--is finally able to shudder when water with fishes--a symbolic parallel of the moat into which he'd thrown the haunted castle's demons--is thrown onto his face while he is sleeping.

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was." Listen to it here: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/grimm-s-the-youth-who-went-forth-to-learn-what-fear-was/?token=b1497cc5135ac68b6450557c266e14ef or Watch it Here: https://youtu.be/LfftGkZOJyw)

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:

If you’re interested, please enjoy–by yourself or with your children–this comedic story with a powerful, yet light ending.

Full Texts of the Story:

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm004.html

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2591/pg2591-images.html#link2H_4_0060

Wikipedia:

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

The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/LfftGkZOJyw

Audio episode:

https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/grimm-s-the-youth-who-went-forth-to-learn-what-fear-was/?token=b1497cc5135ac68b6450557c266e14ef

The Podcast Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

The Episode Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIzpG3to882A

For more in this podcast, please go to:

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

Image Source:

Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Originally from Grimm’s Household Tales (1910)

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Ian and I discuss Vervaeke et. al.’s writing on the symbol of the zombie apocalypse.  They show that our use of “apocalypse” is a telling transformation of the original Christian one.  The modern, secular apocalypse gradually lost vestiges of its Christian roots, and it and the zombie found each other almost magically, in an unholy marriage.  Then this union broke out into the real world.

We discuss the meaning of zombies and this apocalyptic symbol.  We interpret it partly as a movement within the individual soul and link it to other kinds of spiritual transformation.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Vervaeke et. al.’s idea of the Zombie Apocalypse

04:20 The Coming of the Christian Apocalypse

10:48 Memory Reconsolidation: World Slides Away

14:53 The Resurrection of the Body

18:21 Zombies Mean Lack of Awareness

24:15 The Secular Apocalypse and the Crisis of Modernity

28:31 Looking Within

29:32 How to Look Within?

34:17 Giving Yourself

39:53 The Progression of Secular Apocalypses in Stories

43:33 The Zombie Apocalypse Heals the Earth

48:11 The Progression of Secular Apocalypses in Stories

55:58 Violence and Masculinity: Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”

01:01:47 The Zombie Apocalypse, Worldview, and Sense of Wonder

01:06:58 Know how to Approach Change

01:12:29 Demonizing Others in the Epistemological Crisis

01:18:21 The Surprise of Becoming Someone Else

01:20:03 The Leader Sacrifice in Western Culture

01:24:19 The Old Dies Away, and the New Comes Forth

01:29:28 Final Thoughts

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for more conversation:

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

“Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (Chapter 3, second half):

http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0113

Zombie Photo Clips:

Gerardo Martin Fernandez Vallejo on Unsplash

Direction and cinematography both by George A. Romero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Leandro De Torres on Unsplash

Daniel Lincoln on Unsplash

Thumbnail: Photo by Rowan Heuvel on Unsplash

A poor man’s son leaves his large family with great sorrow so he will not be a burden.  He joins the army of an emperor and turns the tide of a large battle and is given treasures and the chance to marry the princess.

She has a strange requirement, however: whoever marries her must agree to be buried with her if she dies first.  He agrees because she is so beautiful.

She gets ill and passes away, and he is put in the tomb with her.  He survives by rationing bread and wine set out, and he kills a snake that slithers in.  But another enters and heals it with leaves, and he revives the princess with them.  They leave the tomb.

On an ocean voyage, the princess, who has lost her love for her husband, throws him overboard with the help of the skipper.  The prince’s servant, however, rows out to him and revives him with the leaves, and they return before the princess and her new consort and tell the king what happened.

When the princess disembarks, she tries to laud the skipper to the king, but their perfidy is revealed to the king.  She pleads for mercy but is sent out on a perforated ship along with her conspirator by her father.

In this episode, we summarize the story and then discuss the characters of the poor man’s son and the princess.  We talk about its reviving the princess with a serpent, the vanity of the princess, and the earnestness of the poor man’s son to prove himself and protect the group.  We also talk about the character of the king, who reminds one of Shakespeare’s Prospero.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:16 Summary of the Grimm’s “The Three Snake Leaves”

08:18 Special Details About This Story

10:18 Devotion, Justice, and Protecting the State

15:33 Poetic Justice

17:33 The Selfish and the Selfless

21:03 Narcissistic Princess

21:51 The Snake in the Tomb

26:47 The King, like Shakespeare’s Prospero

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Three Snake-Leaves”)

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About our guest:

LL is a graduate of UC Davis.  She majored in psychology and has worked for years in mental and behavioral health.  She is a metalhead who is now training in accounting and loves almost all things strange to modern man: aliens, cryptids, ghosts, and sacred beauty.

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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

BG Music: 

Intro: Doug Maxwell, Media Right Productions

Story Summary:

"Reign Supreme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Thumbnail Photo:

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These rational characters do not accept what others say, in their fear, and go forth.  Hamlet's story continues with his indecision, but this boy is oriented to action.

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s “The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”)

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:

If you’re interested, please enjoy–by yourself or with your children–this comedic story with a powerful, yet light ending.

Full Texts of the Story:

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm004.html

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2591/pg2591-images.html#link2H_4_0060

Wikipedia:

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

The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/LfftGkZOJyw

Audio episode:

https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/grimm-s-the-youth-who-went-forth-to-learn-what-fear-was/?token=b1497cc5135ac68b6450557c266e14ef

The Podcast Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

The Episode Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIzpG3to882A

For more in this podcast, please go to:

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Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

Image Source:

Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Originally from Grimm’s Household Tales (1910)

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Choosing to be Oblivious: Zombies may be a warning from our unconscious.  "The danger of the zombie is the danger of unconsciousness to life's problems." --Jordan Peterson

The etymology of monster is "omen, divine portent," and the fact that zombies are a monster of our time must be reflected on.

(From a discussion on Vervaeke’s “Zombies in Western Culture,” Meaning, and Ritual)

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:

Vervaeke et. al.’s book:

“Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic:

http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0113

The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/faT09EsCOzk

Audio episode:

https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/zombies-meaning-and-ritual/?token=6cd071c0a6e3f2de9cd8af38150177ae

The Podcast Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

The Episode Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB0_2IilULR4

For more in this podcast, please go to:

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Who Do You Think You Are?   Anyone interested in the education of the individual might enjoy a few minutes with this light, yet important tale.  There is a folktale trope of the dummling who, useless at home, ventures forth to find his fate.  This story’s idiot seems to lack something fundamental–the ability to shudder at ghost stories or at fearful experiences–but he knows this, and reminds himself continually that he wants to learn.  

A waggoner who was striding behind him heard this and asked, “Who are you?” 

“I don’t know,” answered the youth. 

Then the waggoner asked, “From whence do you come?” 

“I know not.” 

The anonymous protagonist is contrasted with established figures all around him that act and react normally.  And yet it is his lack–a kind of ignorance–that is the key to his journey through many frightening experiences, and when he overcomes those, he is able to rid his country of the multifarious evils that are barely contained in its castle.

Enjoy the story summary and discussion with us of this surprising tale!

Chapters: 

00:00 Introduction

00:31 Story Summary

18:48 The Stubborn Idiot Becomes King

26:34 Hamlet and the Boy Who Could Not Shudder

30:24 The Older, Mature Self and the Younger

38:16 The Boy Knows He’s Incomplete

44:08 The Boy’s Mysterious Fault is His Gift

50:40 Every Gift Needs its Inhibiting Energy

52:56 Hair of the Dog that Bit You  

58:04 The Sibling Split

1:00:17 Authentic but Incomplete

1:06:02 Now He Has Beautiful Eyes

1:09:54 The Anonymous Hero Become King

1:15:44 The Lost Psyche in Modern Times

1:23:55 The Prestige of Neuroticism

1:33:01 Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah 

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for more:

If you’re interested, please enjoy–by yourself or with your children–this comedic story with a powerful, yet light ending.

Full Texts of the Story:

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm004.html

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2591/pg2591-images.html#link2H_4_0060

Wikipedia:

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

The Podcast Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

The Episode Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIzpG3to882A

For more in this podcast, please go to:

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

Image Source:

Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Originally from Grimm’s Household Tales (1910)

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

The zombie might be a sign that people feel a lack of purpose in the world.  Ian and I discuss this idea from John Vervaeke et. al. in their book.  We go on to talk about developing meaning in life through getting back to one’s true nature, as we discuss the aspects of the zombie and its story.

“Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (Chapter 3):

http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0113

(From a discussion on “Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century Crisis,” Chapter 3)

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

In the Brothers Grimm’s “Fur-of-All-Kinds,” the princess demands a fur made of all the kingdom’s animals for a marriage gift from her widowed father.  It doesn’t prevent his wicked proposal, but she takes it with her on her escape.  We see this as psychological protection from trauma.

Later in the story, the neighboring kingdom’s king rips the fur off, and we talk about the reason for this.

(From a discussion on the Grimm’s “Fur-of-All-Kinds (Allerleirauh)”)

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A Summary of the Story:

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

The Story’s Full Text:

https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm065.html

The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/Tgb98hCPvMA

Audio episode:

https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/grimms-fur-of-all-kinds-allerleirauh/?token=20bdb9a95dac2d9296787ba60430da79

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

A wealthy, childless peasant feels something is missing and is mocked for not having a child.  He wishes, “I wish to have a child, even if it is a hedgehog!”  He and his wife are given one, and they have it baptised but do not give it a godfather.  The priest says its quills prevent its sleeping in a bed, and they put it behind the stove for several years. Father is going to the fair and asks people what they want.  Hans asks for bagpipes.  He soon asks to have the cock-rooster shod, and promises to go away and never return.  

In the forest, they fly up into a tree and he plays his bagpipes, and the donkeys and pigs he’s brought with him multiply.  A lost king comes to him and Hans leads him out, agreeing that the king will give him the first thing that comes to him when he returns to his palace, but the king wrote in the contract that he would NOT give it to him.  Hans plays his bagpipes merrily, watching over his asses and pigs.  Another lost king comes to him, and he helps him likewise, with the same agreement, although without chicanery on the part of the second king.

Hans’ pigs fill the forest and he returns home, filling the town with meat.  He has his father have the blacksmith shod his cock-rooster again and promises again to never return.  

Hans now goes to the first kingdom and is met with hostility.  He flies over their defenses, forces the king and his daughter to honor their marriage agreement, but then quills the daughter all over and sends her home in disgrace.  At the second kingdom, the reluctant daughter honors her father’s agreement, and Hans has his skin burned on their wedding night.  He is scrubbed, and is now a handsome young prince.  They return to his father and he announces his identity, and his father is now glad to see him, and they all return to the kingdom, happy and whole.

"The stone that was rejected has become the cornerstone"--from Psalm 118:22

00:00 Introduction

00:45 Summary of the Story

13:18 Hans, Rejected from Birth, Fulfills His Father’s Wish -16:45

17:37 The Hedgehog is what the Father Lacks

 24:40 Hans the Hedgehog is Indefatigable

27:45 Hans at Home Behind the Stove

30:20 Hans is asked a Life-Changing Question

34:58 Our Own Hedgehogs

36:18 Hans Asks for His Bagpipes -38:40

40:15 Now the Ball Keeps Rolling

41:25 The Hedgehog and the Hidden Creative Gift

50:25 The Two Kings’ Different Reactions to Being Lost and Helped Out

52:31 The Second King Equivocates

55:48 Hans’ Wounding the Princess and Trauma Work

59:09 The Instincts Come Through, Despite Society

1:04:17 The Barren Father 

1:08:30 The Reluctant Second King and Princess

1:12:00 The Burning of the Hedgehog Skin

1:15:20 Hans Can Finally Rest, and Rule

1:18:40 “I am the one!” Reclaiming Rejected Parts of the Self 

(From a discussion on The Brothers Grimm’s “Hans My Hedgehog”)

Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:

The full video episode:

https://youtu.be/BJ-PNzn37Ns

The Podcast Playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T

For more in this podcast, please go to:

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Apple Podcasts:

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About our guest:

Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:

 https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services

I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.