Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMindMatters: Interview with Rod Dreher: How to Survive the Coming Soft Totalitarianism
In 1974 world-renowned author of The Gulag Archipelago Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote a short essay to his Soviet compatriots beseeching them to live i…
5 years, 7 months ago
MindMatters: Why Pop Culture Gets the Hero Archetype Wrong, and Ertugrul Succeeds
We've all seen them: Hollywood superhero blockbusters where the protagonist is a two-dimensional cardboard cutout, a shallow reflection of what makes…
5 years, 7 months ago
MindMatters: Navigating The Chaos
As current events and crazy people continue to spiral downhill with ever greater frequency and intensity, we find ourselves challenged not to react o…
5 years, 7 months ago
MindMatters: The Impenetrable Fortress of Thoughtitude: When Belief Trumps Truth
We all have belief systems, maps to reality that inform our perspectives and help us form the bedrock values we have about ourselves, others, and the…
5 years, 7 months ago
MindMatters: Brainwashing Is Easy, Thinking Isn't
Covid-19. Trump. Social Justice. War. Human rights. Economics. Whatever the issue, it seems that every day we are being told we must adopt a particul…
5 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: The Weird World of Color Perception and Adaptation: Interview with Dr. Katie Tregillus
Everyone likes a good optical illusion, but fewer understand them. Today we interview Katie Tregillus PhD about her research on color perception and …
5 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: What Is Our Place in the Cosmos, and Why the New Atheists Are Wrong
Today on MindMatters, Harrison and Adam use one of David Ray Griffin's recent books as a jumping-off point to bring together many threads from previo…
5 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: Susannah Hays Interview: Polyvagal Theory, Gurdjieff and the Evolution of Man
In recent years researchers like Stephen Porges have brought a newfound understanding of the body's all-important polyvagal system to greater and dee…
5 years, 8 months ago
MindMatters: The Allure and Contagion of the Criminal Mind
In such works as Inside the Criminal Mind and The Myth of the Out of Character Crime criminologist Dr. Stanton E. Samenow conceptualized and gave cre…
5 years, 9 months ago
MindMatters: Ibn 'Arabi's Alchemy of Human Happiness: Interview with Stephen Hirtenstein
The philosophy and practice of alchemy, in one form or another, has been around for millennia and espoused by many different cultures, the idea cente…
5 years, 9 months ago