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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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Oct 12, 2022
Oct 12, 2022
1hr 22 min
In this episode we return to Erich Neumann's Origin and History of Consciousness to try and make sense of the Oedipus complex as described by Freud. We take on the strange motifs of incest and patricide and explain how and why they aren't as taboo as you might think. We also explore the connections between our most ancient myths and our experience of being conscious. Here goes...
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Oct 9, 2022
Oct 9, 2022
2hr 8 sec
In this episode Chris and Kyle share stories about disgusting things they've encountered over the course of their working life. Talking of disgust and interest, we ponder where such feelings come from and whether or not they constitute some form of communication from God (or our deepest Self). We talk "divine revelation" and in what ways man may actually commune with the spiritual domain. Oh, and we ask Satan to lend us a dollar.
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Oct 4, 2022
Oct 4, 2022
1hr 3 min
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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Oct 2, 2022
Oct 2, 2022
1hr 55 min
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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Sep 28, 2022
Sep 28, 2022
1hr 16 min
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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Sep 25, 2022
Sep 25, 2022
1hr 51 min
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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Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022
1hr 15 min
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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Sep 18, 2022
Sep 18, 2022
1hr 51 min
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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Sep 16, 2022
Sep 16, 2022
1hr 50 min
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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Sep 11, 2022
Sep 11, 2022
1hr 33 min
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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