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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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32:01

200 - The Metanoia Block - Why Your Mind Resists Its...

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2026/03/22

You know exactly what you need to change. So why haven't you changed it?In this episode, Drake and Holly explore one of the most universal human experiences: the mind's fierce resistance to its own transformation. Starting with the Greek concept of metanoia, a change of mind so complete it's like becoming a different person, they examine why genuine change feels like death to the psyche and why the brain fights it with every tool at its disposal. From the neuroscience of homeostasis and prediction

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26:26

199 - Negative Capability - Keats and the Power of...

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2026/03/12

What if the most important skill for our uncertain age was articulated by a twenty-two-year-old poet in a casual letter about a pantomime?In this episode, Drake and Holly explore John Keats' concept of negative capability, the capacity to remain in uncertainty without anxiously grasping for resolution. They trace this idea from Keats' famous 1817 letter through Shakespeare's extraordinary ability to disappear into his characters, the Christian mystical tradition of unknowing from the Cloud of

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26:35

198 - The Golden Mean - Aristotle's Guide to Modern...

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2026/03/03

What does it actually mean to live a balanced life, and why is the ancient answer so much harder than the modern one? In this episode, Drake and Holly explore Aristotle's doctrine of the mean from the Nicomachean Ethics, unpacking why "everything in moderation" completely misses the point. They examine what Aristotle actually taught about virtue as excellence between extremes, why finding the mean requires practical wisdom that no formula can replace, and how this ancient Greek insight resonates

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34:24

197 - Karma Yoga - Action Without Attachment in Daily...

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2026/02/21

Title Ab Immemorabili: Episode 197 - Karma Yoga: Action Without Attachment in Daily Work --- Description How can you give something everything you have while simultaneously not caring whether it succeeds? In this episode, Drake and Holly explore the Bhagavad Gita's revolutionary concept of karma yoga, the yoga of action. Beginning with Arjuna's paralysis on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, they examine Krishna's radical teaching that we have the right to our actions but never to their fruits. What

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39:46

196 - The Beginner's Mind - Zen Wisdom for Constant...

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2026/02/12

What if everything you know is actually preventing you from learning?Holly takes the leed in this exploration of shoshin, the Zen concept of beginner's mind that Shunryu Suzuki brought from Japan to America in 1959. When Suzuki Roshi arrived in San Francisco, he discovered something unexpected: his American students, who knew nothing of Zen traditions, often demonstrated more genuine openness than Japanese monks who had trained for decades. Drake and Holly explore the profound implications of

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62:06

195 - Memento Mori - How Death Awareness Transforms Life

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2026/02/01

What did the Stoics, the Buddhists, and the ancient Mexicans all know about death that we've forgotten?Drake and Holly explore humanity's oldest spiritual practice: the conscious contemplation of mortality. Far from being morbid, memento mori was understood across cultures as a technology for becoming more alive. This episode traces death awareness practices from Marcus Aurelius writing by candlelight to Buddhist monks meditating in charnel grounds, from the vibrant celebrations of Día de los

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53:32

194 - The Hermetic Tradition - Egypt's Gift to...

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2026/01/22

In this episode of Ab Immemorabili, Drake and Holly explore the Hermetic tradition and its extraordinary influence on Western civilisation.They begin with Cosimo de Medici's deathbed decision in 1463 to prioritise mysterious Egyptian texts over the complete works of Plato, then trace Hermeticism from its origins in ancient Alexandria through its revolutionary teachings about consciousness and cosmos. The conversation examines the Corpus Hermeticum's vision of humans as microcosms, the seven

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58:17

193: The Birth of Philosophy - When Humanity Rejected...

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2026/01/12

What did humanity lose when it traded gods for logic?Drake and Holly explore one of the most revolutionary moments in human history: the birth of philosophy itself. Around 585 BCE in Miletus, Thales looked at a solar eclipse and saw not divine intervention but a predictable pattern. For the first time, someone asked not "which god did this?" but "what natural principle explains this?" This shift from mythos to logos transformed human consciousness forever, but something profound was lost in the

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30:58

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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30:38

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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