Garden of Thought

We all know the story. England is divided along Norman and Saxon lines. A young noble returns home only to learn his father has lost his lands and title, merely because he's Saxon. The Regent Prince John is supposedly taking these rash actions to pay a ransom for his captured, crusader brother: Richard the Lion Hearted. However, John is taxing and levying not to raise the ransom, but to enrich him...

Louis O'Connor is a founder of Strategic Metals Invest, a German based company which is both a seller of rare Earth metals and provides an investment option as well. It's as if Exxon offered an internal investment internally. We discuss what rare Earth metals are. Why are they in demand. How their business works. While not a financial show at all, I felt this was interesting enough to discuss as i...

Dudeism is a recognized religion with members throughout the world. It's based on an intentional fiction: The Big Lebowski. It's a modern take on an old world view. Whether Epicureanism, Buddhism or Laotzian, Dudeism builds upon these foundations with a modern update. So, what is Dudeism? How does a movie become a religion? What are it's majot tenets? Enter Rev. Gary Silvia, one of the primary dud...

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is Co-Director of the Air and Space Law Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law and its Center for Air and Space Law. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law, the world’s oldest law journal dedicated to the legal problems arising out of human activities in outer space and its sister publication, the Journal of Drone Law and Policy. Michelle is a C...

David Edward was in the U.S. Army, was the President of a university, is the author of almost 50 books, and he just might have found Atlantis. More to the point, he confirms one of the prevailing theories with a pragmatic look at the written record, the twin myths, the geographic record, etc. He also debunks certain misconceptions and rules out other theories. Join us on this journey through the p...

PROFESSOR ROBERT TEMPLE is author of a dozen challenging and provocative books, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. His books have been translated into a total of 44 foreign languages. He combines solid academic scholarship with an ability to communicate with the mass public. He is Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in...

Marlene Sharp has held many roles in entertainment. She's a producer, creator, actor, writer and veritable Jane of all trades. She's worked for companies including Disney, Sega, Dreamworks. and others. She's worked on properties including Sonic and the Power Rangers. She's been integral in movies, video games and TV series'. We discuss many aspects of the entertainment business, licensing, IP law,...

Ricardo Calvario has been a student of the priesthood and a student of psychology, but he's mostly been a collector of information. He's read as much as could and watched as many documentaries as possible on the variety of subjects that intrigued him. He has an extensive collection of books and documentaries and has formulated a narrative he calls "The Helix Myth". While it's a fictional rendering...

Today's guest is one of my new colleagues from the Space Court Foundation. He's a law student from India and we discuss Indian space law and policy, as well as his interests in space law and his policy focuses. Pankaj Mehta is a Rapporteur on the Editorial Board with the Space Court Foundation, in his final year of law at Dharmashastra National Law University in Jabalpur, India. His interests lie...

Rev. Jim Willis fearlessly re-enters the Garden to discuss perhaps the most on brand episode yet: Doom. What are some of the major versions of the end of days. What are the differences? What are the similarities? Are we there now as many believe? Or is the old Chinese curse (may you live in interesting times) an eternal condition of human consciousness? From Ragnorak to Revelations to Judaism to D...

It's definitely more Garden this episode as we're joined by Eileen Meyer and Eduardo Griego Gonzalez. Eileen is a lifetime experiencer and interpreter of light resonance communicated to her through an intelligent entity; which is simultaneously internal and external. Eduardo is a student, although some would call him a priest, of a Mayan tradition. We discuss their origin stories, how they met, th...

Mexico Unexplained explores the magic, the mysteries and the miracles of Mexico. Topics range from ancient mysteries to myths and legends to strange anomalies and religious curiosities. We also look into bizarre history, legendary creatures and otherworldly phenomena. The podcast’s purpose is to provide information not confirmation (or affirmation). We will present what we have researched and it i...

Patricia (Tricia) DeGennaro is a Senior Fellow and Project Lead for the Balkans Next research initiative at Joint Special Operations University (JSOU). She came to JSOU from US Central Command’s(USCENTCOM) Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) where she was a Senior Social Scientist focused on strategic communications and influence in the USCENTCOM area of responsibilit...

Andrew Gough (AndrewGough.com) re-enters the Garden for the 4th time. This venture is about Tartaria. So little is known about this Eurasian race who had access to sophisticated technologies and may have been those giants of every culture's mythos or theology. Their mastery of architecture survives to date, if you just look for it. Tartaria isn't gone. Whatever it once was, it has survived as a to...

RN Vooght re-enters the Garden to discuss his recently released book, as well as the two preceding which we'll call the Osiris Codex and Tree of Life trilogy. In candor, this was intended to be a show about Tarot, but you'll hear unedited how that never happened. However, that show will occur, as will a second edition of conversations with Vooght. We pivoted almost gracefully to comparative mythol...

Chris Ambs is the first six time guest on Garden of Doom so it's only appropriate we finally tackle, head on, one of the top myths of our time: Atlantis. City, continent, allegory, other. We discuss it all. Of course this leads to flood myths and similar mythologies and theological doctrines from around the world; modern and ancient and ancienter. What was Atlantis in the literature? Where do vari...

It's Jeff against Jeffrey! Actually, almost conflict free, but Jeffrey of Meta Trek is our guest this episode. He goes...well...meta on Star Trek, and not just the original series. What's comedy? What's tragedy? What's Greek? What's Egyptian? Who's the magician? Which show correlates to which myths? How about the movies? Like Odesseus, we make divergent trips to both iterations of Battlestar Galla...

Luke Michael Ironside has been on the show several times before and is a student of knowledge seeking. He takes us through the major language groups, as well as several sub-groups and isolates. He also takes us through the 7 Root Cultures; of which 3 have not yet come into being yet. In this cycle at least. From the Polarians to the Jeffittes (Trademark asserted and pending). Don't let the short d...

First, skip the first 85 seconds or so. I can't edit and the intro, which was wonderfully hysterical, didn't record at all. Oh, the irony. It was supposed to be the ChatGPT production of "if Eminem rapped about cats". Check it out on YouTube. It's worth 2 minutes. My guest is Dan Steele, one of the forerunners of ChatGPT. He wrote a book entitled "The Book on ChatGPT". Well, he didn't exactly writ...

Just in time for St. Patrick's day, we are joined by Rab Fulton from Ireland. He hosts live storytelling shows called Celtic Tales and is the author of numerous books. We discuss how linguistics, geography and trade routes shaped Irish lore. Rab gives us an amalgamated version of the Irish creation story, the wars and peaces of the Gods, the folkloric heroes, Fae Folk, Finn McCool, St. Patrick, Br...

Mam'zelle Kamille from Voodoo Authentica joins us. She's a practitioner of several forms of Voodoo and a reader and teacher of Tarot. She tells her story and we try to get to the origins of Tarot and go over the deck and the overarching meanings of the major arcana cards. We also stumble into some excellent side hustles, which we claim intellectual property (copyright) rights over. More importantl...

Tony Viola, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland-based Realty Corporation of America, graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Realty Corporation of America, a licensed real estate brokerage and auction services business, had offices in Ohio and Florida and over 150 team members....

Ashley Knibb is an UK based paranormal investigator, researcher and author. He converted a first hand encounter into a methodical and organized approach to investigating vetted requests for investigation. He and his team seek to debunk as much as validate events. We explore the overlap with UFO reports. We discuss the fae folk and cryptids. Is the Loch Ness monster actually an amphibious ghost alm...

Kevin Castle has been in the rock n roll club and band management business for 30 years. This is his story from being the flyer pusher on up to booking major acts, he's done it all.

Dr. Russ Jones is the best selling author of 2 books and he's been a Bigfoot researcher for decades. He's also a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine and has treated over 200,000 patients. From his website: I'm Dr. Russ Jones and thank you for stopping by. I've been doing Bigfoot research for decades, operating out of my house in Teays Valley, West Virginia and my farm in Athens, Ohio. I've lived in We...