web01.fireside.fm Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:30:14 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Angelology” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/angelology Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:30:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot https://www.weirdstudies.com/153 2cd94504-6af7-4222-b3ab-eccc71d99ae5 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:30:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 153 Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF discuss the fourteenth arcanum, traditionally known as Temperance. 1:19:04 yes <p>Even learned commentators on the tarot are likely to point out at the fourteenth major arcana, Temperance, is a bit of a boring card. At least, it comes off as dull until you look at it closely, as JF and Phil do in this episode. What they find is that the Temperance card is actually a diagram, a kind of blueprint for a celestial machine that underlies human technology, beckoning us to restore even the most mechanical contraption to the raw weirdness at the source of everything.</p> <p>Header image by Rolf Dietrich Brecher via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olive_Oil_on_Water_%2847993245783%29.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener">Wikimedia Commons</a></p> <p>It's not too late to join JF's Nura Learning course, ["Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."](<a href="http://www.nuralearning.com" rel="nofollow noopener">www.nuralearning.com</a>)</p> <p>Support us on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies" rel="nofollow noopener">Patreon</a> and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's <em>Ring Cycle</em>.<br> Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, <em><a href="https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">Cosmophonia</a></em>.<br> Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, <em><a href="https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue" rel="nofollow noopener">Mer Bleue</a></em>.<br> Visit the Weird Studies <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies" rel="nofollow noopener">Bookshop</a><br> Find us on <a href="https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp" rel="nofollow noopener">Discord</a><br> Get the T-shirt design from <a href="https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s" rel="nofollow noopener">Cotton Bureau</a>!</p> <p><strong>SHOW NOTES</strong></p> <p>Anonymous, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619" rel="nofollow noopener">Meditations on the Tarot</a></em> <br> Aleister Crowley, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686" rel="nofollow noopener">The Book of Thoth</a></em> <br> Adrien Lyne, <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/" rel="nofollow noopener">Jacob’s Ladder</a></em> <br> <a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel" rel="nofollow noopener">Weeping Angels</a>, <em>Dr. Who</em> creatures <br> Joel Schumacher, <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099582/" rel="nofollow noopener">Flatliners</a></em> <br> Lawrence Halprin, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP_cycles" rel="nofollow noopener">The RSVP Cycles</a></em> <br> Gregory Bateson, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226039053" rel="nofollow noopener">Steps To an Ecology of Mind</a></em> <br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm" rel="nofollow noopener">Hesychasm</a>, monastic practice <br> Yoav Ben-Dov, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781492248996" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarot: the Open Reading</a></em> <br> <a href="https://chrisleech.wixsite.com/mysite" rel="nofollow noopener">The Gnostic Tarot</a> <br> Jeffrey Kripal, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226453873" rel="nofollow noopener">Authors of the Impossible</a></em> <br> Nagarjuna, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%ABlamadhyamakak%C4%81rik%C4%81" rel="nofollow noopener">Verses of the Middle Way</a></em> </p> technology, temperance, tarot, interpretation, meaning, angels, demons, christianity, cybernetics, buddhism, nagarjuna Even learned commentators on the tarot are likely to point out at the fourteenth major arcana, Temperance, is a bit of a boring card. At least, it comes off as dull until you look at it closely, as JF and Phil do in this episode. What they find is that the Temperance card is actually a diagram, a kind of blueprint for a celestial machine that underlies human technology, beckoning us to restore even the most mechanical contraption to the raw weirdness at the source of everything.

Header image by Rolf Dietrich Brecher via Wikimedia Commons

It's not too late to join JF's Nura Learning course, ["Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."](www.nuralearning.com)

Support us on Patreon and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia.
Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue.
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop
Find us on Discord
Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau!

SHOW NOTES

Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
Adrien Lyne, Jacob’s Ladder
Weeping Angels, Dr. Who creatures
Joel Schumacher, Flatliners
Lawrence Halprin, The RSVP Cycles
Gregory Bateson, Steps To an Ecology of Mind
Hesychasm, monastic practice
Yoav Ben-Dov, Tarot: the Open Reading
The Gnostic Tarot
Jeffrey Kripal, Authors of the Impossible
Nagarjuna, Verses of the Middle Way

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Header image by Rolf Dietrich Brecher via Wikimedia Commons

It's not too late to join JF's Nura Learning course, ["Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."](www.nuralearning.com)

Support us on Patreon and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia.
Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue.
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop
Find us on Discord
Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau!

SHOW NOTES

Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
Adrien Lyne, Jacob’s Ladder
Weeping Angels, Dr. Who creatures
Joel Schumacher, Flatliners
Lawrence Halprin, The RSVP Cycles
Gregory Bateson, Steps To an Ecology of Mind
Hesychasm, monastic practice
Yoav Ben-Dov, Tarot: the Open Reading
The Gnostic Tarot
Jeffrey Kripal, Authors of the Impossible
Nagarjuna, Verses of the Middle Way

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