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The Two Tongues Podcast explores the most interesting topics that aren't "fit" for popular consumption (or polite dinner conversation). Here you will find honest, unfiltered and unedited conversation between two life-long friends on the state of the world as we see it; politics, religion, mind-altering substances, psychology and philosophy are fair game. Let the fun begin!
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
In this episode we explore the ancient Greek fables of Aesop. I hoped to find psychologically significant parallels to myths and fairytales, but I found something entirely unexpected. In Aesop we find parallels to the Bible, we find the origins of many common expressions still in use today, but more than that, we get a glimpse into the social and cultural life of ordinary Ancient Greeks. He get to see what they valued, what they criticized and all their prejudices laid bare. Surprising. Entertaining.
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Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
In this episode Kyle and Chris get the ancient Greek perspective on totalitarianism from, of all places, the fables of Aesop. We discuss the role fungi might be placing in cancer and Chris tells us about having a strangely mystical experience in the moments just before falling asleep the other night. All this and more on the Two Tongues Podcast!
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
This one is for the ladies... In this episode we round out our psychological exploration of Jung's Archetypes as seen through the personalities and stories of the Ancient Greek gods. This episode hones in on the goddesses of Olympus and attempts to outline the journey of womanhood through the various personalities exemplified by Hera, Artemis, Athena, Hestia and Aphrodite. We see represented the girly-girl who uses her beauty as a tool, the fierce feminist who proves herself the equal of any man, the matriarch who rules and the preserver of family, clan and identity itself.
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Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
In this episode Kyle and Chris discuss the British Monarchy and speculate as to when having a King may actually come in handy. Derogatory things were said about the French and English (but mostly in jest...mostly). We talk delicious steak and things Chris can no longer eat. Great fun was had by all.
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
In this episode we dive deeper into Ed Edinger's "The Eternal Drama." We are presented with the heavenly realm of Olympus as a projection of the unconscious and with the 12 Olympian Gods as projections of our own in-born psychological forces. Edinger describes a "Zeus personality," an "Apollo personality," a "Hermes personality," and so on. He tells us their stories and helps us to see ourselves in them and to experience the gods within.
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Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
In this episode Chris and Kyle make a social commentary out of the free love movement of the 1960s and the free use movement today. Then we change gears to discuss what historical time periods holds the most appeal and our favorite period movies.
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Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
This episode concludes our discussion of Rudolf Steiner's--How to Know Higher Worlds. We explore more practical instructions for how to train in the "occult sciences," which surround increasing our capacity for empathy and systematically tearing down the psychological boundaries of identity...between yourself and others, between subject and object, between God and its creation. The ultimate goal of this striving took me by surprise. Steiner is not teaching ritual magic, he doesn't point to gods or demons, but rather points to the God-within. Steiner lays out a pattern of behavior and thinking that leads inevitably to an ego death and mystical enlightenment. It is endogenous. Lying in wait for each of us to become ready for its manifestation.
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Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Kyle and Chris get political again in this one. We talk about the importance of borders, the disgraceful lack of respect for one another that prevails today and the consequences this has had on our society. We talk about society as a more effective version of policing (and far cheaper) and wrap up with a foray into the occult.
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Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
In this episode we introduce the early 20th century philosopher and occultist--Rudolf Steiner. We explore his book "How to Know Higher Worlds" and compare and contrast his methods with those of Carl Jung. Steiner and Jung were contemporaries of each other and, while they likely never encountered each other, came to eerily similar conclusions from wildly different perspectives. If you're looking for instructions on how to become a mystic, you came to the right place.
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Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
In this episode we return to Jung's mystical "Red Book" and recount 2 of his "visions." We meet (and kill) a destitute man and then chat with a monk in the desert. Through these experiences Jung comes to realize he exists as two worlds--one conscious, the other unconscious, one individual, the other collective, one as being, the other becoming. He can no longer hold on to the one-sided image of himself and of God that we wants to. He can no longer think of them as all good or as only its highest manifestation...he must complete the picture, embrace the whole and recognize that he is a "piece of the darkness" too.
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