Podcast Benomtad

Ben Lundy
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Open, friendly, philosophical discussions about folktales, society, culture, and wisdom.  

  1. 4d ago

    Xenia: Ancient Greek Guest-Friendship (Clip)

    This ancient Greek concept was a big part of their culture as well as Homer’s “Odyssey,” and according to translator Emily Wilson, the poem can be treated as a study in xenia.  It facilitated travel in a time with far less safety, no hotels, etc.  There was a series of actions to the custom:   Welcome Wash Food Guest gives identity Guest given gifts to help him on his way   The suitors back at Odysseus' home horribly violate this value.   (From the episode “Xenia: Odysseus’ Blessing and Curse”)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/0b5yLnBz7e4   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/xenia-odysseus-blessing-and-curse/?token=53ae6153dd40c724465f3a9e26d0e0cd   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBXC0eYK6zoc   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Thumbnail Painting: Odysseus before Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians Malmström 1853 (Wikimedia Commons, Swedish National Museum)

  2. Aug 18

    Our Dual Nature and the Culture Wars (Clip)

    Humans participate both in the animal and the divine nature, and I think this is behind much of the culture wars.  We veer between overemphasizing the divine or, especially, our immanent nature.  This reminds Ian of Odysseus’ need to bear his sufferings.  We, on the other hand, often try to find the easy way out.   (From the episode “Xenia: Odysseus’ Blessing and Curse”)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/0b5yLnBz7e4   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/xenia-odysseus-blessing-and-curse/?token=53ae6153dd40c724465f3a9e26d0e0cd   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBXC0eYK6zoc   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Thumbnail Painting: Odysseus before Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians Malmström 1853 (Wikimedia Commons, Swedish National Museum)

  3. Aug 10

    Sing, Muse, Remember the MAN Odysseus (Clip)

    Homer’s second epic starts with an incantation of a man, a man who rejected godhood with alluring Calypso, a man who pined for years to be at home and hearth with his family.  This is in contrast to the rage of Achilles that begins the first epic.  Odysseus’ not forgetting through all the twists and turns of his journey and ruses reminds us of the concentration of the Buddha.   (From the episode “Xenia: Odysseus’ Blessing and Curse”)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/0b5yLnBz7e4   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/xenia-odysseus-blessing-and-curse/?token=53ae6153dd40c724465f3a9e26d0e0cd   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBXC0eYK6zoc   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Thumbnail Painting: Odysseus before Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians Malmström 1853 (Wikimedia Commons, Swedish National Museum)

  4. Jul 30

    Xenia: Odysseus' Blessing and Curse

    In Homer’s “Odyssey,” Book 7, Odysseus, who has at this point lost all his men and washes up alone on the Scherian beach, has through his wit and bearing, and with the goddess Athena’s help, been accepted into the royal Phaeacian court.  Here, he throws himself at the mercy of Queen Arete, and then settles himself in the ashes.  An elder at court reminds everyone of their duty under Zeus, Xenia–guest-friendship– and they honor Odysseus the wanderer.  In fact, they offer their beautiful daughter to Odysseus in marriage.  We discuss Xenia, this all-important custom in the ancient Greek world that allowed for people to trade and travel, and which was used and abused in so many ways in Homer’s epic poem.   00:00 Xenia (Hospitality & Guest-Friendship) 01:30 Book 7 Summary 20:02 Poseidon’s Wrath for Odysseus Falls on His Hosts 29:19 The Lost Paradise of Mythology (Utopia) 33:03 Royal Cousin Marriage Among the Phaeacians 38:13 The Humanity of Odysseus 44:43 The Man Who Rejected Godhood 52:16 Achilles’ Regret 54:27 Odysseus Learns from Achilles’ Regret 56:55 The Culture Wars and Our Divine & Emanant Nature 1:01:28 Why Odysseus and Penelope Suffer  1:07:50 Xenia (Ancient Greek Guest-Friendship) 1:18:05 Giants are Precivilizational Primordials 1:19:40 What is Natural? 1:23:11 The Phaeacians and the Fear of the Stranger 1:31:06 The Gut Feeling   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for more Open-Minded content:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/0b5yLnBz7e4   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBXC0eYK6zoc   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Thumbnail Painting: Odysseus before Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians Malmström 1853 (Wikimedia Commons, Swedish National Museum)

  5. Jul 28

    Beauty is Sus to Us (Clip)

    Modern German philosophers like Marx, Nietzsche and Freud have spread the "hermeneutics of suspicion" in our culture.  We have a deep suspicion of appearances and, therefore, beautiful things (the beauty of which is often seen as merely on the surface or subjective).     This is connected to the ugliness of modern buildings. It seems we are blind to beauty around us.     I think this has something about the values of society's elites.  They don't seem to believe in an edifying transcendent.  Instead, it's more about "edginess," transgression of some sort.   (From a discussion on Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/WsujhE2muTQ   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/odysseus-nausicaa-beauty-s-education/?token=9ad8205849556b9910a95e0b5885fc5a   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIszqVpagDQ   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Sea Short Photo by Henrique Hanemann on Unsplash Photo of Nausicaa by Leighton (1878), courtesy of picryl

  6. Jul 20

    Odysseus Appreciates Nausicaa's Beauty (Clip)

    Pornography participates in beauty, but also is consumptive, and especially, unappreciative.  This is contrasted to Odysseus' paise of Nausicaa in his speech to her, without the ritual supplication at her knees.   Perhaps in trying to own beauty, we lose it.   (From a discussion on Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/WsujhE2muTQ   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/odysseus-nausicaa-beauty-s-education/?token=9ad8205849556b9910a95e0b5885fc5a   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIszqVpagDQ   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Sea Short Photo by Henrique Hanemann on Unsplash Photo of Nausicaa by Leighton (1878), courtesy of picryl

  7. Jul 13

    Beauty Herself Greets Odysseus (Clip)

    Odysseus, when he sees nubile and beautiful Nausicaa when he washes up on shore at the beginning of Book 6, does not try to capture her in any way.  This in a time with raiding parties and the famous r*pes of ancient myths.   Ian links this true appreciation of her beauty to what he needs to go on on his journey.   (From a discussion on Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/WsujhE2muTQ   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/odysseus-nausicaa-beauty-s-education/?token=9ad8205849556b9910a95e0b5885fc5a   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIszqVpagDQ   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Sea Short Photo by Henrique Hanemann on Unsplash Photo of Nausicaa by Leighton (1878), courtesy of picryl

  8. Jul 4

    Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education

    Man is he who suffers, and Odysseus is the man “of twists and turns,” the builder and destroyer, the journeyer trying to reach his beloved homeland.  Here Ian and I discuss what draws this man forward at his nadir in Book VI of Homer’s sequel epic.   Beauty, sing to me of that man of twists and turns! He who washed up on shore, belched from the belly of the raging sea god. Wisdom roused young Nausicaa, who stood rooted to the ground, Odysseus’ welcome into the world.   This crusted roaming lion remembered her in a palm. Eternal sun shimmering through its leaves near the navel of the world Now the maw with guardian of Truth, the twinned virtue; He sung her praises, and she acknowledged his manifold sufferings, Counseled him to bear them silently.   He accompanied the retinue up to the haven,  And prayed, waiting in Wisdom’s grove For the right time.   Please join us for this discussion of “The Odyssey,” Book 6, and the discussion of beauty in Elaine Scarry’s wonderful exploration “On Beauty & Being Just.”   Chapters:    00:00 Introduction & Summary of Book 6 16:00 Ancient Soap 17:40 Prepossessing Beauty 26:21 Beauty & Pornography 31:45 Beauty & Truth 36:37 Beauty and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion 40:04 The Ugliness of Our Buildings 47:39 Ian’s Photography 51:50 Calling all Artists 54:25 A Humble, Loose Call to the God 1:02:41 Beauty and Being Wrong 1:08:43 Beauty and Nature 1:09:50 Beauty and Relationality 1:15:30 Beauty is an Ally of Truth 1:24:46 You Forgot What Beauty Is   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for more on us:   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/WsujhE2muTQ   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIszqVpagDQ   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality.  He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness. You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Sea Short Photo by Henrique Hanemann on Unsplash Photo of Nausicaa by Leighton (1878), courtesy of picryl

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  • Creator
    Ben Lundy
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
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