History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Keep this work free for everyone and unlock my entire corpus for $5 per month on Patreon!⁠Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.People Mentioned:⁠Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers⁠⁠H. P. Blavatsky⁠⁠William Wynn Westcott⁠Aleister Crowley⁠John Dee⁠Edward Kelly⁠A. E. Waite⁠⁠Erich Fromm⁠ and ⁠Wilhelm Reich⁠References:⁠Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances⁠"On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring."⁠Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of Blackness⁠⁠Crowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. Yeats⁠⁠Victorian Mummy Powder⁠⁠Mahayana Buddhism⁠⁠Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in America⁠⁠The "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky)⁠⁠Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky)⁠⁠Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British Ships⁠Out of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s army could Allied submarines. Scientific progress proved a major factor in Allied dominance, with the development of Radar and Sonar technology significantly upping the odds of locating German vessels in deep water. But Germany Navy officials had a different strategy in mind: U-boat captain Hans Roeder convinced colleagues in arms the British were using pendulums to predict their boats’ location underwater. As an amateur pendulum dowser himself, the enterprising captain established the Pendulum Institute to pinpoint British ships, enlisting pendulum dowsers and occultists from across the country and tasking them with applying their clairvoyant powers to search for British vessels. Results were, unsurprisingly, not altogether successful.Books Mentioned:⁠Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski⁠⁠The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune⁠⁠The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky⁠⁠John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv⁠⁠The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie⁠⁠A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry By A. E. Waite⁠⁠Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm⁠⁠The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich⁠⁠The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with a Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidanada⁠Aleister Crowley:⁠Liber 777⁠⁠Eight Lectures on Yoga⁠⁠Konx Om Pax - Light in Extension

The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this the task and mighty labor lies.-Vergil, AeneidYou can support the continuation of this effort, and get unlimited access to my entire body of work for$5 per month on Patreon.My favorite translation of the Aeneid is the Modern Library edition by Shadi Bartsch, which is richly introduced and essayed/footnoted, although the Fitzgerald and Dryden translations are also classic for their poetry.Read more about the late, great Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus here.Music Credit: (Intro and Outro): Max John, Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, Creative Commons (YouTube). Interlude is Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, from Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 4, Movement 2 (IMSLP).This series will have X parts:The Odyssey and the Archaic Greece (Done)Aeschylus and Greek Tragedy (Done)Aeneas and the Roman Tradition (This)Catholic Christianity: The Gospel of John, Dante's Comedy (Upcoming)Protestantism: Pascal's Pensées and Moby Dick (Upcoming)Stay tuned...

Kick in on Patreon to support the both of us!This is the new work.Movies:The Master (2012)There Will Be Blood (2007)Magnolia (1999)Boogie Nights (1997)Music:Violin Concerto in D Major, Movement III Allegro Giocoso by Johannes BrahmsEnter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang ClanEtude Op 10 No 3 in E Major "Tristesse" Composed by Frederic Chopin, (Best) Performed by Maurizio PolliniSong: "No Other Love" by Jo Stafford-//-No other love can warm my heartNow that I've known the comfort of your armsNo other love, oh the sweet contentmentThat I find with you everytime, everytimeNo other lips could want you moreFor I was born to glory in your kiss, forever yoursI was blessed with love to love youTill the stars burn out above youTill the moon is but a silver shellNo other love, let no other loveknow the wonder of your spell-//-ReferencesFor the general conversation of " God wants me to destroy you, obviously" see especially the Melian Dialogue.If you want to watch a Scientology documentary I would recommend Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief by Alex Gibney (2015).

Come join the Patreon!https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonThe best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi translated by Alexander Bennett, which is available in audiobook form and is quite short and scholarly to boot. Goodreads link.Books and Movies:Silence, Martin ScorsesePi, Darren AronofskyIntroduction to Zen Buddhism - D. T. SuzukiLinks:Eleusinian MysteriesErgotamine (LSD)Sekiro (From Software Game)Music Credit (Drums, Intro/Outro) by RelaxMusicPro on YouTube:https://youtu.be/M3cJs_m351AEdit: removed the part where Shogun Richard and I discussed the YouTube parody AI Am a Jedi, which you should look up just in case:https://youtu.be/v6So-4uvruU

Documentaries:Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (Netflix)Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)Hollywoodgate (Ibrahim Nah'at)The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald)Books:Jason Burke, Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical IslamAlfred W. McCoy: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug TradeJoseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq ConflictPeter Dale Scott, Drugs, Oil & War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and IndochinaRuss Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for AmericaValerie Kaur, See No Stranger (Link)Barton Gellman: Angler: The Dick Cheney Vice Presidency and Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance StateRobert Fisk, Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle EastMichael C. Ruppert: Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (Note to reader: serious conspiracy/crank material is found mixed quite freely with fact herein, read with due hazard in mind)Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánmo DiaryFollow Sabrina Jennings on Bluesky or Patreon:⁠Note To Self // Patreon⁠Sabrina Jennings // BlueskyFollow William Engels on Bluesky or PatreonBlueskyPatreonFundraisers, Palestine Support, and Good Programs:⁠⁠Amjad Hamad and his Family⁠⁠⁠⁠Rulin and Family⁠⁠⁠⁠Sammar and her Husband⁠⁠⁠⁠MSF (Doctors Without Borders)⁠⁠⁠⁠Palestinian Youth Movement⁠⁠Further References:The Carlyle Group (US-Saudi Investment Firm of Bush Family Provenance)Clinton Destroys Pharmaceutical Factory in Sudan as DistractionUS Military Attacks on Journalists in Iraq War / Gulf War 2 (Wikipedia)False Intel on Iraqi Buildup at Saudi Border in 1990 (Christian Science Monitor)FDR and Abdul Aziz Meeting in 1945The Onion Router (Tor) Web Anonymization ToolPEGASUS - Zero Day iPhone Exploit

A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.⁠Music by Anapse⁠, track Bisector off Streamsafe EssentialsBooksHells Angels by Hunter S ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S ThompsonScrewjack by Hunter S. ThompsonBetter Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S ThompsonFreak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph WatkinsDark Alliance by Gary WebbGoebbels by Peter LongerichHST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott SowerFilm⁠Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb⁠⁠Fear and Loathing in Aspen⁠⁠Inherent Vice⁠⁠Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas⁠⁠The Rum Diary⁠Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military InitiativesCOINTELPRO (FBI)MHCHAOS (CIA)Project Plowshare (DARPA)

With special guest Deputy Dick filling in (for) Richard Sinex.⁠Music by Anapse⁠, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials--Books--Hells Angels by Hunter S ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S ThompsonScrewjack by Hunter S. ThompsonBetter Than Sex: The Gonzo Papers Vol 4 by Hunter S ThompsonFreak Power: Hunter S. Thompson's Campaign for Sheriff by Daniel Joseph WatkinsDark Alliance by Gary WebbGoebbels by Peter LongerichHST's Best Audiobook Narrator: Scott Sower--Film--⁠Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb⁠⁠Fear and Loathing in Aspen⁠⁠Inherent Vice⁠⁠Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas⁠⁠The Rum Diary⁠--Sundry Fed, Spook, and Military Initiatives--COINTELPRO (FBI)MHCHAOS (CIA)Project Plowshare (DARPA)

Music Credit: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 30 performed by Paavali Jumppanen, available on Museopen.The Alan Shapiro translation of the Oresteia is my favorite.Another episode (Hemlock #5) I did about Aeschylus can be found here. It talks in greater depth about the metaphor of the net, and centers Clytemnestra as the hero/main character of the post-Trojan scene.For fun and profit: reading the Wikipedia page on the Eleusinian Mysteries.He who learns, must suffer.Even in our sleep, pain: which time cannot forgetFalls drop by drop upon the heart.Until, in the fullness of time, against our will and in our despairThrough the awful grace of GodComes wisdom--Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.Matthew 26:48Watch Judas and the Black Messiah:https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/judas-and-the-black-messiahFollow Sabrina on Bluesky or Patreon:⁠Note To Self // Patreon⁠Sabrina Jennings // BlueskyFundraisers, Palestine Support, and Good Programs:⁠⁠Amjad Hamad and his Family⁠⁠⁠⁠Rulin and Family⁠⁠⁠⁠Sammar and her Husband⁠⁠⁠⁠MSF (Doctors Without Borders)⁠⁠⁠⁠Palestinian Youth Movement⁠⁠References, Books, MentionsSouthern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)The Riot Report (DocDocs 6)Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)WeathermenRainbow CoalitionG-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly GageOne Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (Two Volumes) by Whitney WebbFBI Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King JrAn African American and Latinx History of the US by Paul OrtizCaste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonCOINTELPROMHCHAOS / Operation CHAOSDark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary WebbDrugs as Weapons Against Us (Documentary)-//-

⁠Support me on Patreon⁠ - or leave a review for the show.Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a ⁠professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley⁠ who specialized in phenomenology, 20th century Continental philosophy, artificial intelligence, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and the aesthetics/literature of existentialism from Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard to ⁠Terrence Malick⁠. He is probably most famous for his ⁠exposition of Heidegger's early masterpiece⁠ "Being and Time" (German: Sein und Zeit), and for his ⁠negative predictions about artificial intelligence.⁠ He taught multiple courses through MOOCs from roughly 2006-2012 about Greek philosophy, existentialism in film and literature, Heidegger's opus Being & Time, and the limits of AI. In this course he uses the ⁠Fitzgerald poetic translation⁠ of the Odyssey with his own amendments and R. Lattimores' meaning-literal translation.He was also extremely kind to me.Arete, techne, poesis, aletheia, gnosis...Books Mentioned:The Discovery of the Mind - Bruno SnellThe Greeks and the Irrational - E. R. Dodds-//-