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Back to SearchThe Empty, Ugly Palace (Clip)
Episode 443
When you've got your basic needs met, like the father does when he takes shelter in Beast's castle, one looks for transcendence, including beauty.
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4 months, 1 week ago
"Beauty and the Beast:" The Need for Beauty
Episode 442
A rich merchant with three sons and three daughters– the eldest daughters hold out on marriage to a Duke or Earl, but the youngest, aptly-named Beaut…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Finally Gaining Sight (Clip)
Episode 441
Hans, beset from childhood with violence from his parents, finally makes it in life, and is to be the king of his wife’s town. However, the people r…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
A Fairy Tale of A Good but Endangered Boy
Episode 440
VonSchönwerth’s “The Knight’s Sash” is a story about an intrepid son without a father, who continually does his duty, eventually wins love and devoti…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Acceptance of Folly & Death
Episode 439
LL and I do a short breathing meditation, then a zoom out contemplation. After checking in about recent challenges, we discuss Marcus Aurelius’s Med…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Bearskin and Vulnerability (Clip)
Episode 438
The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest full of thieves and conceals his skin with a bearskin, and passes through unmolested.The Gold Child goe…
5 months ago
"The Gold Children," by the Brothers Grimm
Episode 437
A fisherman catches a gold fish, which makes a deal with him: he’ll have a nice big house if he lets the fish go, on the condition he tell no one how…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths (Clip)
Episode 436
In the fairy tale time logic, the fisherman's son practically becomes a priest after he is born, and after he leaves the house he doesn't see his par…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood
Episode 435
“Little Red Cap:” A little girl, beloved by her grandmother and known for her red cap, is sent by her mother to bring her grandmother a meal. Little…
6 months ago
The Mermaid’s Manipulation (Clip)
Episode 434
The mermaid's deal with the fisherman: she gives him an abundant catch without telling him, and then takes it away unless he'll agree to her demand. …
6 months ago