38 min

Secret Societies Everything I Know About

    • Society & Culture

We dive into the Western Esoteric Tradition, how its shaped our stories, symbols, and secret societies. From the Knights Templar to Beyonce as a member of the Illuminati, we traverse centuries of history and question fact vs conspiracy.

Topics covered:
-The origins of secret societies in the Western Esoteric Tradition
-Its relation to Dark Academia as a genre of fiction: Babel by RF Kuang, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Harry Potter
-The history of the Freemasons and what we know about their practices today
-The Anti-Masonic party and the pushback against secret societies
-The Knights Templar and their potential ties to the Masons
-The history of the Illuminati and modern conspiracy theories
-How secret societies relate to modern Greek fraternities, Phi Beta Kappa
-The history of secret societies at universities, and how the Skull and Bones society at Yale has changed over time
-Research on in group, out group psychology in relation to empathy vs apathy



Sources & transcript available to anyone at our ⁠Patreon⁠ ❤️

We dive into the Western Esoteric Tradition, how its shaped our stories, symbols, and secret societies. From the Knights Templar to Beyonce as a member of the Illuminati, we traverse centuries of history and question fact vs conspiracy.

Topics covered:
-The origins of secret societies in the Western Esoteric Tradition
-Its relation to Dark Academia as a genre of fiction: Babel by RF Kuang, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Harry Potter
-The history of the Freemasons and what we know about their practices today
-The Anti-Masonic party and the pushback against secret societies
-The Knights Templar and their potential ties to the Masons
-The history of the Illuminati and modern conspiracy theories
-How secret societies relate to modern Greek fraternities, Phi Beta Kappa
-The history of secret societies at universities, and how the Skull and Bones society at Yale has changed over time
-Research on in group, out group psychology in relation to empathy vs apathy



Sources & transcript available to anyone at our ⁠Patreon⁠ ❤️

38 min

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