We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “religion”.
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Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot
Episode | February 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
divination, esotericism, evil, religion, tarot, the devil
Phil and JF continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the tarot with a discussion on the fifteenth Arcanum, the Devil.
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Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael
Episode | December 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
buddhism, control, memory, music, politics, religion, song swap, time
Music scholar Meredith Michael joins Phil and JF to discuss songs by Vienna Teng, Lili Boulanger, and Iron & Wine.
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Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot
Episode | September 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
angelology, art, cybernetics, religion, technology
Phil and JF discuss the fourteenth arcanum, traditionally known as Temperance.
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Episode 147: You Must Change Your Life
Episode | May 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 33 mins
aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, poetry, religion
Phil and JF discuss the famous poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Episode 135: On 'The Secret Life of Puppets,' with Victoria Nelson
Episode | November 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
art, guest episodes, hermeneutics, imagination, platonism, religion
Independent scholar and novelist Victoria Nelson joins JF and Phil to discuss her masterpiece of weird studies, The Secret Life of Puppets.
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Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin
Episode | June 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 21 mins
horror, literature, mysticism, religion, teaching
Matt Cardin joins JF and Phil to discuss daimonic reality and the idea of dark enlightenment.
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Episode 114: On the Wheel of Fortune, the Tenth Card of the Tarot
Episode | January 19th, 2022 | 1 hr 34 mins
divination, esotericism, religion, tarot
JF and Phil continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the Tarot with a discussion on the tenth major arcanum, the Wheel of Fortune.
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Episode 102: On Pan, with Gyrus
Episode | July 7th, 2021 | 1 hr 18 mins
guest episodes, mythology, nature, psychology, religion, symbolism
Writer and independent scholar Gyrus joins JF and Phil to talk about Pan, the Greek god of fear and desire.
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Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country'
Episode | May 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 30 mins
class, religion, spirituality
Phil and JF work through the differences between spirituality and religion in the context of the documentary series about Bhagwan Rajneesh.
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Episode 97: Art in the Age of Artifice
Episode | April 28th, 2021 | 1 hr 25 mins
aesthetics, criticism, metaphysics, religion
Phil and JF discuss the ideas in JF's 2015 book, 'Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice.'