The Gnostalgia Podcast

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The Gnostalgia Podcast

Field-sporting philosopher and polemicist Sebastian Morello, along with wine-trader and esoteric weirdo Brian Scarffe, discuss the anti-rationalist, enchanted, theurgical, sophiological, Hermetic, liturgical, and alchemical means of recovering Platonic England, centred on sacred ecology and cosmic Christianity.

Episodes

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    Sacred Royalty w/ Charles Coulombe

    Sebastian Morello, Brian Scarffe, and Charles Coulombe on monarchy as a divine vocation.

    1h 14m

  2. DEC 2

    Sacred Urbanism

    Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe explore the concept of sacred urbanism, arguing that urban environments can realise the transcendent through principles such as sacred geometry, biophilic design, and context-sensitive development. What would an architectural movement look like that privileged public places as communal fostering arenas for spiritual transformation, prioritising harmony between the built environment and the natural world of which it is an extension?

    1h 10m

  3. NOV 25

    Are We 'Paganising' Christianity?

    In defence of the role of natural wisdom in reestablishing Christendom.

    1h 4m

  4. NOV 18

    Against Paul Kingsnorth

    Sebastian and Brian criticise the high priest of “rewilding Christianity”, Paul Kingsnorth, in the light of his Erasmus Lecture, delivered at the invitation of First Things journal, in which he condemns “Christian civilisation”.

    1h 12m

  5. NOV 11

    Nostalgia as Gnosis

    On cultivating deep nostalgic wisdom, connecting with ancestors, and overcoming uprootedness.

    1h 2m

  6. NOV 4

    The Gift of a Burning Heart: Dante w/ Jason Baxter

    Jason Baxter, the translator of a wonderful new edition of Dante’s Inferno, joins The Gnostalgia Podcast to discuss with Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe how Dante’s theological world offers an initiatory pathway into mystical transformation in the heart of the Christian Mystery.

    44 min

  7. OCT 30

    Reclaiming Halloween

    In this Halloween special, recorded at the request of one of The Gnostalgia Podcast’s regular listeners, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe defend the celebration of All Hallows’ Eve, even in its modern, degraded form. The day may be, they claim, Christendom’s last feeble attempt to confront the curse of death with which we’re all afflicted.

    51 min

  8. OCT 28

    Sacred Ecology II

    Continuing their Sacred Ecology discussion, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe sing the praises of the nascent rewilding movement, discuss how to break free from the spell of modernity, and insist that any form of Christian conservationism must take seriously the theological principle of grace ... for the alternative is red in tooth and claw.

    1h 17m

  9. OCT 21

    Sacred Ecology I

    In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss Neoplatonism as a foundation for a Christian approach to ecology, arguing that participating in the cycle of the landscape through hunting and farming can open us up to the sacral vision of stewardship over creation that’s necessary to retrieve the ‘green movement’ from rapacious globalists who posture as environmentalists.

    1h 11m

  10. OCT 14

    The Maledict Option

    In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss the forgotten practice of Christian cursing, arguing that placing curses on one’s enemies is an important part of our Holy Tradition.

    1h 5m

  11. OCT 7

    The gods on their knees

    In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss the role of the gods in Christianity, and why, as Psalm 136 puts it, we worship the God of gods.

    1h 11m

  12. SEP 30

    Arimathean Spirituality

    On how a hawthorn bush in Glastonbury is a portal to the mysteries and the depths of the English soul.

    54 min
  • 12 Episodes

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Field-sporting philosopher and polemicist Sebastian Morello, along with wine-trader and esoteric weirdo Brian Scarffe, discuss the anti-rationalist, enchanted, theurgical, sophiological, Hermetic, liturgical, and alchemical means of recovering Platonic England, centred on sacred ecology and cosmic Christianity.

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  • Episodes
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