Further Light Podcast

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we explore the Four Cardinal Virtues so center to Freemasonry.  What are they important and what do they stand for in Masonic teaching?

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Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we explore logical fallacies.  What are they and how can you identify and avoid them in your thoughts, arguments and discussions.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we continue our conversation with Worshipful Brother Jonathan Schroeder who recently wrote a paper on the history of Prince Hall Masonry and their relations to Blue Lodge Masonry.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we speak to Worshipful Brother Jonathan Schroeder who recently wrote a paper on the history of Prince Hall Masonry and their relations to Blue Lodge Masonry.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we look at a simple symbol with incredible depth to its many lessons.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this installment we explore the often overlooked teaching on the five senses by looking back at an old lesson and delving into the lessons we should take from each.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we explore the great schism in Masonry, how it happened and how an 18th century dispute is impacting 21st century Freemasonry.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we will discuss the history, both myth and truth of the Forget-me-not.  We will delve into where the idea came from and most importantly why and what it teaches us today.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this installment we explore the return of Freemasonry to Germany after WWII.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this installment we look at Masonry practiced in the POW and Political prisoner camps in Europe during WWII.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this installment we examine the Craft throughout Europe as well as in Germany during the war 1939-1945.  We will discuss the amnesty, what happened to the Craft in conquered territory and the Anti-Masonic Exhibitions.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we examine the interaction between the Craft and the Nazi Regime from 1933-1938.  What did suppression look like? How was it carried out? Who resisted and how did most react?

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we set up for an exploration of Masonry under the Reich looking at the Lodges and cultural issues that would influence later events in Germany under Nazi rule.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we will explore the Volume of Sacred Law or VSL.  What is it, why not just use the Bible and what do Masons in Non-Western religions do? How do Masons beyond the western world understand and treat the VSL?

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Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today something a bit different as I review "Stolen Focus," by Johann Hari.  I will discuss focus, why your willpower is not enough to focus and what you can do to improve focus.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we discuss the five orders of architecture, so often forgotten by those who learn about them.  We will explore their meaning and their lesson for Freemasons.

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Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Music is perhaps the most misunderstood of the Liberal Arts.  Here We will explore how music was understood, why study it now and its lessons for modern Masons.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we explore Geometry.  What is it? Why is it important and what lessons should we take from it as Freemasons?

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we discuss Mathematics, the basis of the last four Liberal Arts. We will explore why we need it and what makes this field unique as well as its lessons for Freemasons.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Logic, or in practical terms, critical thinking, has become so important today.  Here we explore logic, dialectic and its application to making a good man better.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. Today we discuss Rhetoric, or the art of persuasion.  What is it, why is it important and what lessons does it offer to Masons.

Send your feedback and ideas for future episodes. In this episode we will discuss grammar, its meaning, use and lessons that can be applied to our Masonic journey.