Podcast Episodes

Season 28 Episode 10

Rob and Luke sit down with Sheer Zed to talk about his experience traveling to Thailand to receive sacred tattoos, captured in his book Thai Tattoo M…

4 months ago

28.9: Margery Wept

Season 28 Episode 9

Margery Kempe cried so much and so loudly that she became one of the most annoying women in her hometown of Lynn as well as neighboring Lincoln and N…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

28.8: The Dark Pool Project Part 3 of 3

Rob's strange experiment in subconscious exploration and creation comes to an exciting conclusion in this final installment of our Dark Pool project.

4 months, 3 weeks ago

28.7: The Dark Pool Project Part 2 of 3

Season 28 Episode 7

The story continues. The actors blend subconscious exploration, devised theater, and occult theory in this experimental storytelling experience.

5 months ago

28.6: Dark Pool Project Part 1 of 3

Season 28 Episode 6

After four years, we have taken down the website for our experiment in audio storytelling created during the pandemic lockdown and so we're posting i…

5 months, 1 week ago

28.5: The Cloud of Unknowing (Part Two)

Season 28 Episode 5

Where did the medieval via negative come from? In large part, it was inspired by Plato and those who followed him an innovated on his way of thinking…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

28.4: The Cloud Unknowing (Part One)

Season 28 Episode 4

Blind love is the only way to experience God according to the anonymous medieval mystic who authored the Cloud of Unknowing. In the first of two part…

6 months ago

28.3: Kabbalah

Season 28 Episode 3

Kabbalah has its roots in early rabbinic Judaism and became a distinct school of thought in the medieval period with the work of Isaac the Blind, Mos…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

28.2: Hildegard von Bingen (Interview Special Part Two)

Season 28 Episode 2

Magnolia Strange returns to complete her account of the life and significance of Hildegard. Included is some of Hildegard's music performed by Magnol…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

28.1: Hildegard von Bingen (Interview Special Part One)

Hildegard von Bingen was a medieval polymath—writer, philosopher, musician, physician, artist, mystic, and in the twenty-first century she’s been nam…

7 months, 1 week ago