Two New JMG Podcasts

[ecosophia]

Two more podcasts have gone live for your listening pleasure. The first was kind of a special experience for me -- a conversation with Arthur Versluis and Christopher Macintosh. If you know your way around the last quarter century or so of writing on the Western esoteric traditions, you know both names; they're among the writers I studied closely when I was in the process of clawing my way up out of the mosh pit of practical occultism into the more refined balcony of occult philosophy. Our conversation was on paths forward into the future, and what the Western esoteric traditions have to offer along those lines; my book The King in Orange got a fair amount of discussion. Interested?  Check it out here.

The second was equally pleasant but a little less unexpected, at least for me. I was back on the Hermitix podcast with host James Ellis, and the theme of the discussion was much the same: cycles of history, the writings of Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee, and what we can expect as the United States and the modern world stumble blindly forward into a future for which very few people have made any preparations at all. You can take this one in on Spotify here, or on YouTube here.  Enjoy!

Comments

[tritumi]

Thoroughly enjoyed your discussion wth James. Early age exposure to Toynbee also shaped my life view.

[(Anonymous)]

Just listened to the Hermitix one and enjoyed it thoroughly! I remember first coming across JMG on a Hermitix podcast a few years ago.

Was anyone able to think of other advancements which might be useful and crop up in the far future?

[(Anonymous)]

Have I dreamed, but have you ever been into engineering before being in comparative history of ideas?

[ecosophia]

Nope. I don't have the math skills to be an engineer.

[escorcher]

Just finished listening to your Hermitix chat. Plenty to mull over from that - thank you. (Metatastic!)

I've remembered which concept the cyclic rise and fall of human systems takes me straight to:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_Metaphysics_of_Quality

Particularly Pirsig's idea of static and dynamic 'quality' and the (I guess somewhat predictable) interplay between them. Static 'habits' or patterns only last for so long, temporally speaking. Zoom out and then we're slap bang spinning in a Cosmic Doctrine.
What fun. :-) :-/ :-(