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Ab Immemorabili

The Most Ancient Anamnetic Order of Trikala

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 those

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192: Sacred Geometry - Why Certain Shapes Appear in...

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2026/01/02

Why do identical geometric patterns appear in cultures that never had contact with each other?Drake and Holly explore the mysterious universality of sacred geometry, from Egyptian pyramids to Tibetan mandalas, revealing how certain shapes and ratios appear across all human civilizations. They examine scientific evidence that these patterns exist at every level of reality - from quantum particles to galactic structures - and discuss why human consciousness seems naturally attuned to recognise and

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BONUS - The Primary Texts

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2025/12/26

What if you could sit with Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, or the Bhagavad Gita line by line, with a brilliant guide walking you through every argument?In this special bonus episode, Drake and Holly introduce their sister podcast, The Primary Texts. Hosted by Adam, this companion show does something rare in the philosophy podcast world: it reads the actual texts. Not summaries. Not greatest hits. Eighty percent or more of each chapter, explored in depth over episodes that run two

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40:39

191: The Dao That Can Be Spoken - Language and the...

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2025/12/26

If the true Dao cannot be spoken, why did Lao-tzu write 5,000 words about it?Drake and Holly dive deep into philosophy's greatest paradox - how mystics across all traditions use language to point beyond language itself. From Lao-tzu's opening declaration through Wittgenstein's limits, from Zen koans to Sufi poetry, they explore the sophisticated strategies developed to express the inexpressible. Key Topics: The Daodejing's opening paradox and Chinese linguistic ambiguity Apophatic theology across

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190: Gilgamesh's Failure - The Teaching Hidden in Defeat

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2025/12/19

Why does humanity's oldest story end with the hero losing everything—and what wisdom lies hidden in that defeat?Drake and Holly explore the Epic of Gilgamesh, the 4,000-year-old tale where the mighty hero fails at every major quest. Unable to prevent his friend's death or achieve immortality, Gilgamesh's cascade of failures reveals profound teachings about mortality, meaning, and what truly lasts. The story that began literature itself suggests that failure might be our greatest teacher and that

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32:47

189: The Vedic Fire Altar - Consciousness as Sacred...

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2025/12/12

What if consciousness could be rebuilt brick by brick through sacred geometry?Drake and Holly explore the Agnicayana ritual - humanity's oldest continuously performed ceremony where ancient India discovered that constructing precise geometric structures in the physical world reconstructs awareness itself. Through 1,009 carefully placed bricks, specific mantras, and mathematical relationships that predate Pythagoras, practitioners have been architecting consciousness for over 3,000 years. Key

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25:42

188: Eleusinian Mysteries - What Happened in Ancient...

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2025/12/05

How did ancient Greeks keep the ultimate secret for 2,000 years—and why did breaking it mean death?Drake and Holly explore the Eleusinian Mysteries, antiquity's most profound spiritual tradition that transformed everyone from slaves to emperors. For two millennia, initiates emerged claiming they no longer feared death, yet not one revealed what actually happened in the sacred hall. Through myth, possible psychedelics, and masterful ritual design, the mysteries offered direct experience of death and

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30:08

187: The Olmec Enigma - The Mother Culture's...

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2025/11/28

What if the most influential civilisation in the Americas is also the most mysterious?Drake and Holly explore the Olmec civilisation - the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica whose colossal stone heads and were-jaguar imagery reveal a sophisticated understanding of consciousness transformation that predates Greek philosophy by a millennium. Through jade mirrors and jaguar shamanism, the Olmecs developed technologies of transformation we're only beginning to understand. Key Topics: Colossal heads as

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30:21

186: Lost Libraries - What Burned in Alexandria and...

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2025/11/21

What if humanity's greatest tragedy wasn't a single fire, but a slow forgetting that continues today?Drake and Holly explore the burning of the Library of Alexandria - not as one catastrophic event, but as a pattern of knowledge loss that haunts human civilisation. From the Tigris running black with ink to NASA's unreadable tapes, they uncover how wisdom dies and, more importantly, how it survives. Key Topics: Multiple destructions of Alexandria over centuries Lost Greek tragedies: seeing

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34:42

185: The Egyptian Book of the Dead - A Manual for Living

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2025/11/14

What if the most famous ancient text about death was never about dying at all?Drake and Holly uncover the profound mistranslation that's hidden the Egyptian Book of the Dead's true purpose for centuries. Far from being funeral literature, the Pert Em Hru ("Coming Forth by Day") is actually humanity's oldest surviving manual for navigating consciousness transformation - a practical guide for the living, not the dead. Key Topics: • The mistranslation that changed everything • Heart weighing as daily

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184: The Emerald Tablet - Decoding "As Above, So Below"

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2025/11/07

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. This ancient key to correspondence might explain how inner and outer worlds mirror each other perfectly. Key Topics: The mysterious origins of Hermes

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183: The Cave You're Already In - Plato's Allegory...

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2025/10/31

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 reality - and why escape is both possible and terrifying. Key Topics: Plato's Cave as prophecy for the digital age Social media as modern

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39:57

182: Wu Wei - The Art of Effortless Action in a...

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2025/10/23

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 powerful approach to life's challenges, from difficult conversations to creative breakthroughs. Key Topics: • The paradox of "when nothing is done, nothing

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23:38

181: The Oracle's Paradox - When Not Knowing Makes...

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2025/10/16

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 wisdom, and how admitting ignorance opens doors that certainty keeps locked. Key Topics • Socrates' investigation of the Oracle's pronouncement • The three

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180: Marcus Aurelius at War - Stoic Philosophy Under...

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2025/10/09

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, betrayal, and the death of his children - and why his private notes still offer profound guidance today. Key Topics • Writing philosophy on the barbaric

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179: The Wound and the Gift - Why Your Greatest Pain...

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2025/10/02

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, and how your specific pain qualifies you for specific service. Key Topics • Chiron and the archetype of the wounded healer • Post-traumatic growth vs

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16:54

178: Indra's Net - The Buddhist Vision of Infinite...

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2025/09/29

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 what happens when you truly grasp that separation is illusion. Key Topics • The mythology of Indra's celestial net • How infinite mutual reflection

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23:11

177: The Music of the Spheres - Pythagoras and the...

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2025/09/29

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 architecture, and why his students believed philosophy could tune the soul. Key Topics • Pythagoras' discovery of musical ratios • How planetary movements

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24:36

176: Why Socrates Chose Death - The Philosophy of...

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2025/09/29

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 teaching moment. Key Topics • Socrates' trial and the charges against him • Why his friends' escape plan was refused • The difference between life and a life

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25:31

175: The Butterfly Dream - Zhuangzi's Question That...

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2025/09/29

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 discussions of simulation theory and the nature of self. Key Topics • Zhuangzi's original butterfly dream story • The dissolution of fixed identity • Dreams

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174 : The Second Axial Age - Are We on the Brink of...

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2025/09/29

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 modern signs suggesting humanity might be evolving from individual to integral consciousness, using crisis as catalyst for collective awakening. Key

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