We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “religion”.
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Episode 183: On Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'
Episode | January 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 21 mins
buddhism, enlightenment, literature, religion, transcendence
JF and Phil discuss Hesse's literary exploration of the spiritual journey.
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Episode 182: Providence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'
Episode | January 8th, 2025 | 1 hr 20 mins
cinema, evil, horror, occult, paranormal, religion
Phil and JF discuss Rogert Eggers' reimagining of F. W. Murnau's classic vampire film.
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Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
Episode | July 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
enlightenment, magic, metaphysics, occult, religion
Magical practitioners Duncan Barford and Alan Chapman join JF and Phil to talk about magic, truth, and the Holy Guardian Angel.
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Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot
Episode | June 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
archetypes, occult, psychology, religion, tarot
Phil and JF continue their series on the tarot with a discussion of the twelfth major arcanum.
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Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
Episode | March 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 26 mins
cosmic horror, decadence, literature, religion
Phil and JF discuss four stories from Robert W. Chambers' pioneering work of weird fiction.
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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, guest episode, memory, meredith michael, 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.