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Merrily Duffy is a Hermetic Qabalist, astrological magician, and intuitive energy reader and healer. She is also the host of the podcast and YouTube channel called the Casual Temple, in which she has created a space to interview people from different perspectives and spiritual backgrounds. This conversation was a ton of fun. I hope you enjoy it as well. Feel free to join in the convo and leave some comments if you got them, they are very much appreciated. Also! - check out her youtube channel / podcast. Links posted below. youtube: https://youtube.com/@CasualTemple?si=NrAQMHsxGBsS8Piv spotify podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/show/3o6NE2ztTTq0WiFrDPKl8v?si=a2W7ad4gRSyhRPbp31am5w

A fun conversation with Robert Peter, christian mystic who specializes in working with different deities and christian saints. Enjoy the chat and please check out his instagram in the link below. https://www.instagram.com/deityspecialist/?igsh=MXBldG52bHZuMzQ1cA%3D%3D

A look at a Hindu story on Parashurama.

"Abstract": Standard approaches to the problem of evil seem to treat good and bad events as objective and rank-ordered on an absolute scale. Intuitively, however, whether something is good or bad depends on what you value, and what you value in turn depends on what kind of person you are and the events that have shaped the course of your life. In desiring any significantly different existence, therefore, you risk wishing away the very circumstances that make it possible for you to appreciate whatever it is you are wishing for. Conversely, the best of all possible worlds--or at least the best possible past--has a way of being whatever actually happened, almost purely in virtue of the fact that it happened. These reflexive observations make the problem of evil--effectively the question of whether our circumstances bespeak divine providence or negligence--"inevaluable" as standardly posed. Such "inevaluability" is the key theme that this episode circles around. For it and other insights I am indebted to my friend Luke Thompson, to whom this episode is dedicated.

A series of clips I strung together from some other conversations about the fractal pattern of the trinity.  check out Kal's podcast, links below: https://open.spotify.com/show/3d4QlAnRwp51f9psDU04xh  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/universalism-against-the-world/id1537264569

Christa Elisha's conversation from Elijah Stream's link below:  https://youtu.be/aJKEPql8U40

A followup conversation to the previously posted AI discussion. John Bell, Mitchell Capps and Jason Schweizer talk about AI development and then end talking about John and Mitch's childhood experiences with demonic space heaters.   Previous discussion on AI link: https://youtu.be/0Y1n6ZXWqQI

Kal Rivet, Mitchell Capps, and Jason Schweizer talk about AI art images and the relationship of Artificial Intelligence to a creator.  video link: https://youtu.be/0Y1n6ZXWqQI

Kal and Luke unite as a magnificent force in this intense, palm sweaty conversation that will have us all on the edge of our seats. Please go over to Luke's channel and like and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteStoneName   Other references below  Roy Schoeman's conversion story: https://youtu.be/EWDevlijGUI   Luke freestyling on consciousness: https://youtu.be/6B0D3QVYTas   Chris Langan on Godel and self-reference: https://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/Common_CTMU_objections_and_replies#Russell.27s_paradox_and_Godel.27s_incompleteness_theorem_prove_that_the_CTMU_is_invalid.

This episode is an attempt at doing a Christmas movie review. We never quite got the timing right where our schedules lined up. Probably because of the other gods.  Anyway, I tried to splice together pieces of what we talked about.  The Green Knight is an amazing movie (-Christmas movie-), and I encourage anyone to watch it.   "Remember, it is only a game."

Craig Fay, Darragh Mason, Wae Wang and I attempt to explore the topic of beauty but get distracted by different side trails, although I believe it was still related, even if indirectly. It was a fun conversation and I really enjoyed it. I hope you do as well.   Darragh's podcast and info below: https://anchor.fm/spirit-box https://linktr.ee/darraghmason  Wae's info below: https://www.colorwaefiberarts.com/ https://youtube.com/@waewang9606 https://instagram.com/colorwae_fiberarts?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=