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In this week’s episode we invite our friend Julian the Philosopher back on the show to discuss the mythic source material from which Christopher Nolan’s new film is based: The Odyssey. We discuss not just Nolan’s new film, but Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, quite a bit of the historical context around these works of epic poetry, how these stories were thought of initially, criticized by Plato, recontextualized by Virgil, translated countless times and transformed into Nolan’s new blockbuster film. As part of our larger conversation, we discuss the dichotomy between the Homeric hero and the Platonic Hero of the mind, considering how each incarnation of the story fits into this framework or not. Thank you and enjoy the show :)

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https://medium.com/@jsolonin

In this week’s episode we discuss:
-The Homeric Hero
-Nolan’s Odysseus
-The Emily Wilson Translation
-The Presence / Absence of Gods
-Hanging of the Servants
-The Life and Times of Homer
-The People From the Sea
-Achilles and the Ethiopian Fleet

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go off script to discuss:
-Virgil’s Aeneid
-The Telegony
-Rome, Ancestors of Troy
-The Christianization of The Odyssey
-The Boatman Charon
-John the Baptist
-The Sirens
-Philip K. Dick, Christ and the Sacraments

This discussion was impelled by the research and study of Julian Soloninka with additional contributions made by Luke Madrid, Heka Astra, Mari Sama and Tim Hacker. Recorded in unscripted, Socratic discussion style.

I did have notes ready but I did not use them. They are available for our rabbit tier. Good stuff in there. We just didn't talk about it!

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In this week’s episode we explore the many classical superstitions of sailors from all times and places. In the first half of the show we discuss cursed fruit, taunting the wind, the dangers of women, the rich cultural origins of the Klabautermann and the devilish inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In the extended, underside of the episode we continue the discussion with Jonah's, the power of specific tattoos, traditional Greek water wenches and how to beguile the courteous Japanese sea giants. Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
The Flying Dutchman
Bananas and Boners
Whistling Up a Storm
Women On Deck
Figureheads
The Klabautermann, Kobold and Gremlins

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further down the rabbit whirlpool to discuss:
Jonah
Traditional Sailor Tattoos and their Powers
Sirens and Scylla
Sea Monks
Umibozu
Pirate Eye Patches

This episode was written by Tim Hacker, Luke Madrid with some additions by Mari Sama and commentary by Heka Astra.

Sources:
Lieutenant Fletcher S. Bassett's 1885 work, LEGENDS and SUPERSTITIONS of the SEA AND OF SAILORS (In all Lands at all Times):
https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/legendssuperstit00bass/legendssuperstit00bass.pdf

Gabaool
https://x.com/eternalclassic_/status/2077558076979241232?s=20

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In this week’s episode we are joined once again by the Mighty Julian the Philosopher to continue our discussion about the world’s most important philosophers, the ideas they championed and how we can use their wisdom to untangle the madness that has come to define our modern world. In this episode we focus on the most important mind to ever grace Western civilization; Plato, with some emphasis placed upon his dialogues in the Symposium and various arguments made in The Republic. In the extended side of the show we begin to explore how Plato’s teachings intersected with Nietzsche and Aleister Crowley, stopping to read some poetry from a number of the authors we discuss and conclude with a view of the dark, science fiction dystopia that stretches out before us on our next leg of the journey to seek the good life. Thank you and enjoy the show.

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In this week’s episode we discuss:
The Symposium
The Republic
Might Makes Right
Plato: Hero of the Mind

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go off script to discuss:
The Homeric Hero
Nietzsche's thoughts of Plato and Jesus Christ
Poetry Reading of Crowley, Yeats and Parsons
The Dionysian
Mecha Epstein

And much much more…

This discussion was impelled by the research and study of Julian Soloninka with additional contributions made by Luke Madrid, Heka Astra, Mari Sama and Tim Hacker. Recorded in unscripted, socratic discussion style.

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In this week’s episode we explore how Christianity began to shift ideas about ghosts which had been around since ancient times, specifically the concepts championed by theologian philosopher Thomas Aquinas regarding intercessory prayer and purgatory. Along the way we discuss how indulgences helped pave the way for the reformation and how Tibbie Mortimer disguised herself as a ghost for love. In the extended side of the show we discuss how to create your own custom ghost, ghost fire, inappropriate ghost bread, Truckstop Shintoism, doppelgangers, the devil’s footprints and the mysterious case of the Winchester Mystery Mansion. Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s show we discuss:
Thomas Aquinas
Conditions of Purgatory
Catholic Indulgences
The Wild Hunt
Spectral Evidence
Tibbie Mortemer

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
Queen Victoria’s Obsession with Mediumship
Thursday of the Dead and the Ghost Bread
Allhallowtide and Day of the Dead
The Philip Experiment
Shinto America
The Winchester Mystery Mansion

This episode was written by Tim Hacker and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra and Mari Sama

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Sources:
All About History: History of Ghosts: Featuring Over 55 of the World's Most Famous Ghosts
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1805214942?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_9PD5K4HEMNQ52W63XDAD

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In this week’s episode we explore the well-documented history of ghosts as they were recorded in classical Greek and Roman culture, owing to older motifs that originated in Sumeria. In the free side of the show we discuss Greek skepticism, spooky Roman holidays to propitiate the dead and an eerily vivid description of Thessalian necromancer Erichtho including a lengthy example of her method of invocation. I probably cursed myself reading. In the extended show we discuss the classical relationship between ghosts and dreams, the restless shades that dead Roman Emperors tend to produce, a revenant love story and what it means when the specter happens to be an enormous woman. Thank you and enjoy the show.

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Ancient Sumerian Afterlife
Roman Ghost Rituals and Ghost Holidays
Ancient Ghost Hauntings
Necromancy: Erichto of Thessaly
Ancient Skepticism: Lucian of Samosata
Pliny the Younger’s Accounts of Ghosts

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further and discuss:
Dream Visitations
Restless Roman Emperors
A Revenant Love Story
Warning Apparitions
Where to Invoke Achilles

This episode was written by Tim Hacker and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra and Mari Sama

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Sources:
All About History: History of Ghosts: Featuring Over 55 of the World's Most Famous Ghosts
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1805214942?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_9PD5K4HEMNQ52W63XDAD&bestFormat=true

GREEK AND ROMAN GHOST STORIES BY LACY COLLISON-MORLEY
https://a.co/d/0bFBEHKl

Erichto
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PharsaliaVImaster.php

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In this week’s episode we accomplish part 2 of our deep dive into the sickly yellow abyss of Kane Parson’s Backrooms to reveal the unthinkably dense amount of symbolism, mythology and religious allegory lurking just beneath the surface. In the free side of the show we discuss how Mary’s shadow can be related to The Wheel of Fortune and the Blasted Tower of the Tarot expanding on the themes already present and giving dimension to Backroom's lore outside the film. In the extended show we discuss Ivan Beck, the Red City, Odin, the Tower of Babylon, the Voyager Disk, The Qlippoth of Kabbalistic Tree of Death and even the Gnostic Demiurge because damn it, Kane Parsons go so hard with easter eggs and clever symbolism I think we may need to determine if he is actually a Moonchild created by Aleister Crowley himself. Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
The Formation of the Psychological Shadow
The Wheel of Fortune
Palm Reading
Mother-Daughter Complex
The Blasted Tower
The Purpose of the Psychological Shadow
The Tower of Babel
The Red City
The Glorious Sun Face
Ivan Beck

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further into the Backrooms than anyone else (at least I’m pretty sure) and discuss:
A Sync and Odin
Fault of Memory
The Qlippoth: Kabbalistic Tree of Death
Still-Lives
Ein Soph
The Gnostic Demiurge: Yaldabaoth
Barbelo and The Pleroma
… and more….

This episode was written by Tim Hacker and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra and Mari Sama

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In this week’s episode we grab our “They Live” glasses and descend down into Kane Parson’s summer blockbuster horror hit: “The Backrooms” to explore its clever symbolic use of Jungian archetypes and Eastern mysticism to create a cerebral and spooky allegory with the same narrative depth we find in masterpieces like Kubrick’s The Shining, Lynch’s Twin Peaks or Owaku’s Silent Hill 2 but with a retrowave drip that weaponizes nostalgia in a tour of the collective unconscious with obscure doorways straight into Buddhist hell. In the free side of the show we discuss Clark and the symbolism that haunts him, the Backrooms and his shadow; breaking down what it has to do with the infinite, changing and cyclical nature of the Backrooms itself. In the extended side of the show we discuss the Capn Carl, Tarot symbolism, the shadow of the retrowave aesthetic and how the Backrooms are a perfect allegory for the Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Join us next week for part 2. That gives you a whole other week to go watch the movie before listening! Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Origins of the Backrooms
Clark Character Analysis
Water Symbolism
The Helm and the Wheel of Karma
Samsara, Maya and Dukkha
The Biology of Memory and Repetition
Bird symbolism
Carl Jung’s Psychological Shadow

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go deeper down the rabbit hole to discuss:
Black Mirrors
Descending Into the Unconscious
Weaponizing Nostalgia and the Retrowave Aesthetic
Tarot: Two of Swords
Gematria
Davey Jones Locker
Mary and the Window
Navigating the Bardos

This episode was written by Tim Hacker, Mari Sama and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra.

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In this week’s show we finally take a glimpse at what psychonaught Danny Goller has been trying to tell us for years; that if you smoke enough DMT and stare at a diffused laser you can see the code of reality. After talking about how Danny figured it out, we discuss why such a strange idea might not only make sense but falls in line with cutting edge research and a long tradition in the West of combining cutting edge optics and spirit communication to advance our understanding of reality. We even get into how Danny says to do the experiment… which we do not endorse, condone or promote in any way because drugs are bad and I am not responsible for any damage you do to your eyes while on them. In the extended show we discuss what spirit conjuring wizards throughout history have a strangely concordant interest in the field of optics, the bizarrely specific experiences shared by participants and what kind of strange entities are most contacted while a user is on DMT. We discuss the Back Rooms, the City of Pyramids and the occult reason why the entities that reside there might be hideous clown creatures. Thank you and enjoy the show.

On this week’s show we discuss:
Danny Goller
Rick Strassman’s “The Spirit Molecule”
ECCO the Dolphin
Dose Dependent Effects
How to do the experiment
Snell’s Law

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further down the rabbit hole and discuss:
Optics and Wizardry in the West
How do lasers work?
Shared experiences
DMT entities
Lila
City of Pyramids

This episode was written by Luke Madrid, Heka Astra and Mari Sama with additional commentary by Tim Hacker.

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Sources:
The Experiment:
https://youtu.be/I4JGLyrV7cQ?si=KAR4ptg0taHsfItN

Research Gate - Pilot Study “The Code…”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387824795_Detailing_a_Pilot_Study_The_Code_of_Reality_Protocol_A_Phenomenon_of_NN-DMT_Induced_States_of_Consciousness

Laser Speckle:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/laser-speckle

Snell's Law:
https://www.britannica.com/science/Snells-law

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