Heavy Things Lightly

 Part 2 of our bathing miniseries. Today John takes a historical look at getting clean, both culturally and ritually.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org Like the podcast? Join Inside Baseball with John Heers...

 Bathing. Washing. Immersing in water to become clean. What is bathing and by extension...baptism?  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org   Like the podcast? Join Inside Baseball with John Heers to support our w...

Our final installment on war. Is there really a thing as "Just War?" How can we understand modern war as it relates the "Just" theory? Finally, where does the ancient Orthodox East land when dealing with war?  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more...

Kiltz sits down with us again to talk about what's happening in France (and around the world), the notion of race, homage, and so much more.  Kilts is a Medieval thinker, poet, concept artist, and co-author of two books (and counting) published by the Dragon Common Room.  Dragon Common Room: https://tinyurl.com/2r376syz   Kilts' latest article "Normans in Paris": https://tinyur...

 What happens when the gods go away and war becomes secular? We dive into this by taking a look at the Battle of Bull Run and what it heralded for the New World.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org   Like the...

Our continued exploration of war. Today we take a look at the ancient understanding that war and heaven were tied together. Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrnos@first-things.org   Like the podcast? Join Inside Baseball with Joh...

 War. Probably as old as mankind itself. But was it always understood to be the same as our modern age? What of ancient, bloody war? And today's wars of drones and surgical strikes? To start the investigation we will try and understand what total war means in our more modern age.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join...

It's the final chapter on usury and it's...well, we will let modern advertising tell the story. (Hint: It's not great). But the story is far from over, who knows what future generations will choose?  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email...

 Uncle Seth is back and A.I. is the battleground. Where does this technology lead and what does it ultimately mean for all of us? Big shout out to Greg Gilbertson and crew for the great music! Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at danielpadrn...

Why was the Old World so fearful of usury? What did ancient scholars have to say about it? And how were all the warnings slowly ignored to land us in the land of usury today?  Big shout out to Greg Gilbertson and crew for the great music!  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunitie...

 Usury. An empire building tool? A necessary evil? A path to build wealth? John walks us through the beginnings of usury in the Old World and in later episodes how we arrived at modern usury (like pre-approved credit cards aimed at unemployed teenagers with unreasonable interest rates).  Big shout out to Greg Gilbertson and crew for the great music!  Does the deep immersive experience interest you...

Orthodox poet, author, and essayist Graham Pardun joins John to talk about modern Orthodoxy, enlightenment, and the value of choosing the right words, in the right order. He has gained recent notoriety for his self-published collection of essays titled, The Sunlilies. Graham's Substack: https://sabbathempire.substack.com/ Order Graham's books: https://treedweller.net/books For a more aca...

As we wrap up this White JuJu series, John looks at the future. Is magic, spiritualism, religion, or "how we make meaning in the post-modern world" really gone? And what happens when the irrational world view gets its revenge? Big shout out to Greg Gilbertson and crew for the great music!  For a more academic, written dive into WAWTAR themes, head over to the Heavy Things Done Lightly Su...

 White JuJu. Public Schooling. And this week the rise of the mechanistic mind. The expulsion of magic from society. Join John as we take a look at the beginning of how the West today started to expel "magic" and "religion" from society.   Big shout out to Greg Gilbertson and crew for the great music!  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming...

John is joined by his brother Fr. Peter Heers to talk life, Orthodoxy in America, and his current state of affairs in an almost perfect rendition of heavy things done lightly.  Take a moment to visit the Orthodox Ethos here: https://www.orthodoxethos.com/   Big shout out to Greg Gilbertson and crew for the great music!  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming...

Last week was Juju, both here in the Americas and overseas, and the Old World mindset that accompanied it. And like magic, religion would be "explained" to us by those uncomfortable with mystery. Join us as we peel back history to reveal the roots of Babylon (maybe) and future America's DNA in the guise of the 5x winner of best named things, the New York State Buffalo Normal School....

Magic. Juju. Voodoo. It's Old World and for us new worlders, incomprehensible, nonsensical, and quite often frightening. Using magic as our springboard, we are going to explore how we went from a time of mystery to quantity. From magic to data and beyond. Links: Documentary on Appalachia Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwaUcSRsQPQ Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You sh...

 John is delighted to welcome back Paul Kingsnorth for a fascinating look at some of the narratives the modern world is wrestling with. Evolution, transhumanism, and more. Discover Paul's work: Substack: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/ Website: https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/ Youtube:  @Peekay72 Does the deep immersive experience interest you? You should consider becoming a Field Worker...

 Ben Stamper is a director, cinematographer, editor and production designer whose body of work includes acclaimed short films like "The Deep Place," "Jonah," and "Stay With." In his own words, his work looks to "[...] capture intimate and moving portraits of everyday humans doing the extraordinary."  Discover Bens work here: https://benstamperpictures.com/  ...

Austin Klise, former Field Worker for FTF, entrepreneur, businessman, and all round great guy talks about the transition back to America, the perception of money, and a little on foreign NGOs.  Does the deep immersive experience interest you? We want you to join us in Georgia and Guatemala! Check out our Join FTF page: https://first-things.org/opportunities for more info, or email Daniel at daniel...

Esther Lightcap Meek is a professor emeritus at Geneva College and author of multiple books examining our understanding of knowledge. More specifically she aims to illumine how we know what we know. She talks with John today about the erosion of embodied learning in the modern world and how we can work back towards reality as it is. Books by the author: Longing to Know - https://tinyurl.com/4h7a9p...

 Texas Slim joins WAWTAR to talk about food intelligence and the state of American health (spoiler alert: it's not great). What happened to our healthy foods? How can we get back to quality, high-energy proteins that aren't full of filler? And what does this look like for our communities and neighbors?  Texas Slim is the founder of the Beef Initiative and you can discover more here: http...

Today John sits down with Joshua Gibbs, writer, philosopher and educator. Joshua's books, including "How to Be Unlucky" have received national acclaim and his forthcoming book "Love What Lasts" is due to release this year. Josh and John take a deep look into the enlightenment and what exactly that has led to in our modern world. Josh's website to find out more about h...

John's head popped off, but he managed to get it placed back on long enough to deliver his thoughts on a discussion between Matt Walsh and Joe Rogan (the very discussion that caused the head popping). What is marriage? What is it for? And where do we all get it so wrong? Does the deep immersive experience interest you? We want you to join us in Georgia and Guatemala! Check out our Join FTF pa...

Reisha Perlmutter is a painter (and we would say philosopher of sorts) whose paintings have captured the fascination and acclaim of both critics and lovers of art in general. Her "classical" training has complemented her drive to answer life's most profound questions to produce incredible pieces of art and John sits down to discover just what that all means. Discover all of Reisha&a...