01
Further Beyond
An introduction to PLUS ULTRA and the ideas that made it necessary.
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Eight episodes exploring the territories of Western mysticism, philosophy of consciousness, history of ideas, Christianity, and Jungian depth psychology.
02
As Above, So Below
In the third century, in the intellectual crossroads of Alexandria, a collection of texts began to circulate under the name of Hermes Trismegistus.
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What the Fires Couldn't Burn
On the seventeenth of February 1600, Giordano Bruno was led into the Campo de' Fiori in Rome with his tongue nailed down and burned alive.
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The Country Below
In December of 1913, Carl Jung descended. He was thirty-eight, recently broken from Freud.
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Into the Dark Night
In 1577, a Carmelite friar named Juan de Yepes was imprisoned in a cell six feet wide.
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The Great Work
The alchemists believed they were making gold. They were also doing something else.
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The Light That Sees Itself
In 1995, the philosopher David Chalmers named a question that every tradition in this season had been circling.
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Beyond the Last Pillar
Seven episodes later, the Season One finale. The arc is traced in full.
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