In this episode, Patrick and Jonah begin the new year by returning to a central question of our time: how do we face evil without losing freedom, discernment, or love? Drawing on the Gospel of John and Rudolf Steiner’s reflections on the work of the angels in the human soul, the conversation explores compassion, individuality, technology, medicine, and the danger of “automatic” spirituality. Along the way, they ask whether what feels like apocalypse today might actually be an unveiling — a revealing of what we desire, neglect, or refuse to see.

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Patrick and Jonah continue their Facing Evil series by reflecting on Rudolf Steiner’s picture of Christ’s activity in our time and the work of the angels in human life.

They explore the idea of a “second Golgotha,” consider the spiritual consequences of modern materialism, and touch on Steiner’s image of a kind of spiritual “smog” surrounding the earth. As Christmas approaches, the conversation turns toward the angels as messengers and guides, and toward Christ as a presence encountered through inner awakening rather than outward spectacle.

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Patrick and Jonah continue their “Facing Evil” series by reflecting on the tension between automatic spirituality and a purely material, technical way of thinking. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s images of Lucifer and Ahriman, they ask what it means to remain free, responsible, and awake in a world shaped by instant answers and constant stimulation.

The conversation touches on silence, screens, artificial intelligence as a source of guidance, and the challenge of making space for discernment. Along the way, they introduce the striking idea of a “second Mystery of Golgotha” and what it might mean for human consciousness today.

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Patrick and Jonah continue their “Facing Evil” series, returning to Steiner’s Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body. They explore what happens when we sleep through the spiritual impulses meant to awaken us, and how Ahrimanic materialism and Luciferic automatic spirituality can distort those impulses. The conversation touches on the New Testament image of Christ coming “as a thief in the night,” the danger of losing moral discernment, and Steiner’s striking idea of a renewed Mystery of Golgotha in the etheric world.

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In this week’s episode of The Light in Everything, Patrick and Jonah continue exploring Rudolf Steiner’s lecture The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body by turning to a central spiritual question: What happens when the guidance meant for human beings is met by resistance—both within us and around us?

They revisit the three core impulses the angels weave into humanity:
 • a deepening sense of human solidarity,
 • meeting each person as a revelation of the divine,
 • and a redeemed form of thinking that can receive the life of the Spirit.

Then they follow Steiner’s claim that if these impulses are not consciously received, they do not simply disappear—they transform. Patrick and Jonah describe how Luciferic forces can turn spirituality into something automatic and coercive, while Ahrimanic forces draw us toward cold materialism and a purely technological future.

Along the way, they consider scriptural motifs, inner freedom, cultural examples, and Steiner’s “Representative of Humanity” sculpture as an image of Christ holding the balance between these extremes--to see this examination, please find and follow our YouTube page!

This episode invites us to reflect on how spiritual currents work through our culture, our choices, and our thinking—and how freedom becomes the meeting place where the human being can stand upright in the midst of them.

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After weeks exploring Revelation’s cosmic images, Patrick and Jonah turn to something far more intimate and immediate: the mystery of sleep and wakefulness. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s research in spiritual science, they explore what actually happens when the human being enters and exits the body each day, and how these daily rhythms reveal deeper layers of consciousness.

They outline seven distinct modes of human awareness—from the darkness of dreamless sleep to the clarity of waking thought, and further into the higher states Scripture hints at through the prophets: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. Along the way, they reflect on why these thresholds matter, how they shape our moral development, and what it means to stay awake to the spiritual impulses being woven into human life.

This episode sets the groundwork for understanding not just the “enemies” described in Scripture, but the spiritual helpers whose work continues in the background of every human soul.

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In this episode, Patrick and Jonah continue their exploration of Rudolf Steiner’s lecture What the Angels Do in Our Astral Body. They trace how the human being becomes a meeting point between higher and lower worlds, and how the angels are quietly weaving three impulses into our inner life: a deepening compassion for others, a growing recognition of the divine image in every human being, and the transformation of thinking into a living, spiritual organ.

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After weeks immersed in Revelation’s visions of dragons, beasts, and the woman clothed with the sun, Patrick and Jonah turn to another revelation—the angelic world. Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s The Work of the Angels in Man’s Astral Body, they explore a living hierarchy of beings—angels, archangels, archai, and the Elohim—each shaping humanity’s unfolding in its own way.

This conversation moves from Genesis’s image of God hovering over the waters to Steiner’s picture of a cosmos alive with helpers. Rather than fighting evil, the task becomes learning to recognize guidance—to breathe in the breath of spirit and breathe out creative love.

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Discernment alone isn’t enough. The sword must find its counter-movement in worship.
 In this conversation, Patrick and Jonah explore Revelation 12’s great battle—Michael’s sword casting down the dragon, and the Lamb whose gentleness completes the victory. They linger on how clarity without reverence can harden into pride, and how only devotion to the Lamb protects the soul from the very forces it tries to understand.

Through Vladimir Soloviev’s Tale of the Antichrist and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, they trace the subtle temptation to know evil but never kneel before the Good. True discernment, they suggest, leads to communion: the sword prepares the way, but worship restores life.

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As billionaire Peter Thiel takes his Antichrist lecture tour around the world, Patrick and Jonah return to Scripture to ask what John actually meant by “Antichrist.” Drawing from Revelation, the letters of John, and Vladimir Soloviev’s haunting story The Antichrist, they explore how this archetype appears whenever the self refuses to bow, refuses to be wounded, refuses to love through sacrifice.

Against the world’s fascination with power and control stands the Lamb—wounded yet overflowing with life.

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Thanks to Elliott Chamberlin who composed our theme music, “Seeking Together."