Ab Immemorabili - From Time Beyond Memory Ancient wisdom meets modern minds in this philosophical exploration podcast from The Most Ancient Anamnetic Order of Trikala. Join hosts Drake and Holly as they journey through the hidden patterns connecting consciousness, transformation, and timeless truth. Created for both MAAOoT students and acolytes walking the path of the pillars and curious seekers exploring life's deeper questions, each episode offers layers of insight accessible to all. For t ...
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The Primary Texts is a podcast that explores philosophy's essential works completely, carefully, and deeply. Each series takes you through an entire philosophical text - Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the Bhagavad Gita, Laozi's Tao Te Ching, and more - one chapter or book at a time. We don't skim. We don't summarise. We read the actual words of history's greatest thinkers and explore every angle, every argument, every practical application. Each episode combines scholarly r ...
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184: The Emerald Tablet - Decoding "As Above, So Below"
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What if reality operates on just one principle, endlessly reflected? What if you are both the mirror and what it reflects? Drake and Holly decode the thirteen cryptic lines of the Emerald Tablet, revealing how its central teaching—"as above, so below"—appears everywhere from fractals to consciousness, from quantum physics to personal transformation…
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S01E03 - Book 2 - The Morning Reflection
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In this episode of The Primary Texts, we explore Book 2 of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, where philosophy becomes daily practice. Gone is the gentle gratitude of Book 1. Now Marcus faces forward into another day of imperial duties, preparing himself with honest morning reflections. He acknowledges he'll meet difficult people who are "meddling, ungr…
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S01E02 - Book 1 - Debts and Lessons
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In this episode of The Primary Texts, we explore Book 1 of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, his remarkable gratitude list written at the end of his life. Unlike the rest of the Meditations, Book 1 isn't philosophical struggle but pure acknowledgment. Marcus thanks seventeen people who shaped his character: his grandfather's courtesy, his mother's simp…
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S01E01 - Introduction to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
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Welcome to The Primary Texts, where we explore philosophy's foundational works completely and deeply. In this introduction to our Meditations series, we meet Marcus Aurelius - the Roman Emperor who never wanted to rule, writing desperate notes to himself by candlelight on the frozen Danube frontier. Discover how the most powerful man on Earth used …
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Welcome to The Primary Texts, where we explore philosophy's foundational works completely and deeply. Not summaries or overviews, but genuine engagement with the actual texts - Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Laozi, Buddha, Confucius, and more. In this introduction episode, we explain our approach: reading primary sources one chapter at a time, providing h…
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183: The Cave You're Already In - Plato's Allegory for Modern Times
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What if your entire reality is just shadows on a wall? What if your news feed is Plato's Cave? Drake and Holly explore Plato's timeless Cave allegory and its startling relevance to our digital age. From social media as shadow-puppetry to the painful journey of awakening, they reveal how we're all prisoners watching screens, mistaking shadows for re…
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182: Wu Wei - The Art of Effortless Action in a Forcing World
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How do you accomplish everything by doing nothing? Why does water defeat rock every single time? Drake and Holly explore the ancient Daoist principle of wu wei - effortless action that achieves more than force ever could. Through stories from martial arts masters, quantum physics, and everyday life, they reveal how not-forcing might be the most pow…
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181: The Oracle's Paradox - When Not Knowing Makes You Wise
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How can someone who knows nothing be declared the wisest person alive? Drake and Holly unpack the paradox that birthed Western philosophy: the Oracle at Delphi declaring Socrates wisest precisely because he knew he knew nothing. From the Dunning-Kruger effect to Zen's beginner's mind, they explore why intellectual humility might be the highest wisd…
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180: Marcus Aurelius at War - Stoic Philosophy Under Ultimate Pressure
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How does a philosopher-emperor maintain wisdom while commanding armies on a frozen battlefield? Drake and Holly explore Marcus Aurelius' extraordinary Meditations, written not in comfort but in military tents during brutal Germanic campaigns. They examine how the most powerful man in the world used Stoic philosophy to stay human amidst plague, betr…
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179: The Wound and the Gift - Why Your Greatest Pain Holds Your Purpose
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What if the very thing you're trying to hide or fix is actually the key to your life's purpose? Drake and Holly explore the profound paradox found in every wisdom tradition: how our deepest wounds often become our greatest strengths. From Chiron the wounded healer to the Japanese art of kintsugi, they examine why transformation requires breaking, a…
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178: Indra's Net - The Buddhist Vision of Infinite Interconnection
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What if every atom in the universe contains the reflection of every other atom? Drake and Holly explore the profound Buddhist metaphor of Indra's Net - an infinite web of jewels, each reflecting all others endlessly. This ancient image reveals how individual and universal are inseparable, why your smallest action ripples through all existence, and …
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177: The Music of the Spheres - Pythagoras and the Hidden Mathematics of Reality
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What if the universe is literally made of music that only the wise can hear? Drake and Holly explore Pythagoras' revolutionary insight that reality operates on mathematical harmonies - from planetary orbits to musical scales. They uncover how this ancient Greek mystic discovered that numbers aren't just descriptions of reality but its actual archit…
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176: Why Socrates Chose Death - The Philosophy of Living Your Truth
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What truth is so important that you'd choose death over abandoning it? Drake and Holly examine Socrates' final days and his shocking refusal to escape execution. Through his choice to drink hemlock rather than flee Athens, they explore what it means to live - and die - with philosophical integrity, and why Socrates saw his death as the ultimate tea…
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175: The Butterfly Dream - Zhuangzi's Question That Changes Everything
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Are you a human dreaming you're a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming you're human? Drake and Holly dive into Zhuangzi's famous paradox that has captivated philosophers for over two millennia. This ancient Daoist parable reveals profound questions about the nature of reality, identity, and consciousness that remain startlingly relevant to modern dis…
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174 : The Second Axial Age - Are We on the Brink of Another Great Turning?
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Could humanity be standing at the threshold of another transformation as profound as the one that gave birth to philosophy itself? Drake and Holly explore whether we're entering a Second Axial Age - a transformation of consciousness rivaling the first (800-200 BCE) when Buddha, Socrates, and Confucius emerged simultaneously worldwide. They examine …
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