The 50 Minute Hour Cory Banta

Submission

The boys sit down with their French friend Symeon, a scholar of Pharsi and Islam and student-teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris, to discuss neo-Platonism’s influence in Islamic and Christian thought, and its relationship to universalist thought in both traditions.

The boys discuss salvation, Calvinism, universalism, and the history of soteriology. 

The boys discuss the culinary achievements of White Castle milkshakes, Lexington’s heritage as both the Athens of the West and the Horse Capital of the world and, in honor of Derby Day, the philosophy of sports. 

The boys join Daniel, a long-time friend of Cory’s, renegade exorcist, lay theologian, and metaphysician. They discuss spirits, the occult, djinn, the nature of demons, why Satan rebelled, and more. 

The boys discuss Cory’s misadventures in his youth doing educational reconnaissance, then St. John of Damascus’ strange propagandistic attack on Islam but why it scandalizes only modern Christians. For dessert, a foray into the very notions and hierarchies of truth at play in modernity and their evolutions parallel to academia and why the latter must be burned to the ground for there to be any hope of a true education, to rise from its ashes like a Phoenix. 

The boys pull a Lacan and go over the 50 minute hour with our special guest Ryan, a psychonaut alchemist, as they explore the darker depths of the Pharmakon.

We apologize for the electronic buzz on Ryan's mic. During the recording session, the mic cable came loose and caused an un-fixable electronic sound in the audio. We hope it isn't too distracting.