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Godward: A Lit-Wisdom Podcast

An ex-professor continues the search for wisdom in literature, philosophy... and parenting. Try to avoid Mammon and Moloch along the way because this show affirms Jesus Christ! More reactionary than progressive, but trying to stay optimistic. Look for new episodes at least once a week.

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Episode 33: Nathaniel Hawthorne on the Masks We Wear:...

Godward: A Lit-Wisdom Podcast ·

2021/01/06

In this shady & obscure episode, hear an enthusiastic summary of Hawthorne's short story, "The Minister's Black Veil," and listen as your host tries to make it relevant in 2021 -- what do veils & masks signify psychologically? Do we wear them instead of simply repenting? Are we trying to hide from God? From each other? Has it become impossible to live truly -- has the punitive culture of "political correctness" forced us all to hide, even from ourselves? Questions of authority and authorship are

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Episode 32: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature and the Soul

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2021/01/03

In this all-American episode, we’ll talk about the German Higher Criticism, the Rosetta Stone, heiroglyphs, and Emerson’s notion of the Self. American Transcendentalism wasn’t the first iteration of Perennialist thinking, but it became one of the most interesting. It was a refuge for the intellectuals in Boston who couldn’t fit themselves in with the remnant of Puritanism that lingered in the 19th century, but who also weren’t satisfied with the strictly empirical worldview of the Enlightenment

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Episode 31: Stoicism & Logos

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2020/12/28

The stoics, Marcus Aurelius -- be a better person. Attain virtue, etc. You know all that. This episode is about how Stoicism understood the Logos, and how we can tie together personal responsibility with... international politics? Yes!

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41:52

Episode 30: Dante on Bitcoin, Usury... and other...

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2020/12/23

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44:47

Episode 29: Psychological Realism in Dante's Inferno

Godward: A Lit-Wisdom Podcast ·

2020/12/20

In this multi-layered episode, you'll find yourself becoming an expert in the first seven lines of Dante's Inferno. We'll talk a little about his biography a little, but I tried to focus on explaining the most important literary elements (aside from rhythm and rhyme, which can't be translated perfectly). You know what, this one's about Dante and hell, and the way he was basically a psychologist before Psychology... but just go listen.

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Episode 28: Parmenides: the One after Heraclitus

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2020/12/16

It's about Parmenides & Heraclitus! Mysticism, monism, and the real purpose of Philosophy. Also ontology & metaphysics, but also like, swimming & just talking with buddies all day!

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42:48

Episode 27: What was Philosophy? Heraclitus and the...

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2020/12/14

In this brain-tingling episode, hear more from Peter Kingsley, as well as Casey's better-than-average hot take on what Heraclitus was all about. Do I have a Philosophy degree? Am I qualified to have authority on this topic? No. Do I have a serious opinion about it, yes. Heraclitus was a shaman, just like Parmenides and Socrates -- and that's the main thing. Comparing "what they said" is a mid-wit thing to do. It's like contrasting the different homily styles of 13th century Roman Catholic priests,

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43:28

Episode 26: William James on Conversion and Mysticism

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2020/12/10

In this heady episode, hear more from Hubert Dreyfus, as well as some choice cuts out of William James's classic, The Varieties of Religious Experience. Are there non-ordinary states of consciousness that are nevertheless not dangerous, and maybe even positively advantageous? Can those who have not experienced mystical experience ever understand those who have? Finally, is modern Psychiatry just another mechanism of institutional control? Is Thomas Szasz right? Is Tom Cruise!?

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44:12

Episode 25: Social Status and Psychology in...

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2020/12/08

In this episode of Godward Podcast, we learn why eye-contact is so interesting, and what it has to do with social status -- and we learn of the psychology of depression and anxiety, although I don't like to use those labels. Dostoevsky seems to pull a trick on unwary readers, and shows them that the sad sack anti-hero main character of "Notes from Underground" may not be very different from most of us. In fact, he might be just a little more honest.

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43:57

Episode 24: Dostoevsky, Contrarianism, and the Threat...

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2020/12/07

This provocative episode features a nice audio drop from Douglas Rushkoff and Duncan Trussell, as well as obscure references to 2010 articles published in the New York Times -- but the main thing is, we read chunks from Dostoevsky's (Dostoyevsky's) "Notes from Underground," and we try to figure out what's so interesting about the main character. It definitely has something to do with atheism and modernism, but there are even more subtle psychological things going on here, and this episode tries to

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44:10

Episode 23: The Remnant of Monologic Thought in...

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2020/12/06

In this monomaniacal episode, hear your humble host summarize the Odyssey and then offer a close analysis of the part involving the conflict between Odysseus and the Cyclops. There are powerful political ramifications when a dialogic culture like the Greeks' bumps up against a monologic culture like the one they discover among the Cyclops. Which is the better way? Let's get realpolitik. Hear clips from Jordan Peterson and some other guy!

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Episode 22: Authority and Mysticism in Derrida, The...

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2020/12/02

In this groundbreaking episode, hear about how Melville was likely what psychiatrists call "bipolar," and learn about how that allowed him to write some of the most mystical scenes in the history of literature. We'll talk about non-ordinary states of consciousness, near-death experiences, and the relationship between trauma and revelation. Hear quotes from Melville's novels "Pierre" and "Mardi," and receive upon your eardrums some of the sweetest passages from Moby-Dick that you'll ever hear read

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Episode 21: Moby-Dick, Cosmopolitanism, and American...

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2020/12/01

In the best episode to date, you'll hear our boy Hubert Dreyfus along with some stuff about the Enlightenment, but mainly, just take huge quaffs of straight up literary, philosophical, and metaphysical TRUTH... or at least, hear good questions about those, including: is Captain Ahab really an okay guy, maybe, in some ways? Ahem. There's lots of talk about whether Moby-Dick is gay (it is Romantic and Hellenic, not gay) and whether the whiteness of the whale is really because Sperm Whales are

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44:09

Episode 20: Moby-Dick, Moral Seriousness, and The...

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2020/11/27

In this super-serious episode, you'll accept responsibility or else be banished to outer darkness! Hear quotes from numerous professors and a country Bible preacher, but more importantly, some finely chosen excerpts from Moby-Dick itself. Morality matters, even if Ishmael pretends like it doesn't.

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Episode 19: Thanksgiving and the Challenge of...

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2020/11/24

Yes, the Puritans hated art and subverted the Catholic hierarchy, but they weren't totally without insight. In this episode, hear a few sections from William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation," including the primary source for the Thanksgiving story. It includes mention of eating wild turkey!

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Episode 18: Melville, Moby-Dick, and Modernism

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2020/11/24

In this fiery episode, the first of a three or five part series on Melville, you get to hear clips from Dreyfus and some expert on painting, but more importantly, you hear a relaxed summary of Moby-Dick and just the right amount of Melville biography to whet your appetite for the greatest novel ever written.

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Episode 17: The State of the Podcast & Apologizing...

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2020/11/21

In this improved episode, your host merely follows the Holy Spirit and goes on a 44 minute tirade about what's wrong with everything and offers tentative suggestions about how we can begin to fix it.

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Episode 16.1: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

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2020/11/16

This special episode is simply a reading of Stephen Crane's short story, "The Open Boat," and it's meant to accompany episode 16.2, which will be a wide-ranging discussion concerning Truth, epistemology, metaphor, lying, postmodernism, and the nature of Nature.

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Episode 15: Josephus on War, Identity, and God's Favor

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2020/11/15

In this razor sharp episode, hear the story of the destruction of Jerusalem as told by the Jewish historian, Josephus. Clips from Rabbi Tovia Singer and Pastor Chuck Baldwin form the poles of the discussion, and the outro music is especially poignant this time!

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Episode 14: The Gospel of John and Process of...

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2020/11/13

In this controversial and borderline heretical episode, we delve into the process of moving from a synopsis to an interpretation -- how does History come to have meaning? Quotes from Hubert Dreyfus illuminate us and a backdrop of Vivaldi makes this episode extra perfect for late Fall.

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