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A review of In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address:...

Justin D. Garrison is a scholar of American literature and political thought who frequently applies René Girard's mimetic theory to his research, demonstrating its utility for understanding topics in American culture, literature, and politics. Garrison has published reviews and articles, including a review of Girard's All Desire is a Desire for Being, highlighting the value of Girard's...

Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany. His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies. In this episode we discuss UFOs, UAPs, and Esotericism. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irP...

Karl White is a graduate of King’s College London where he tutored for several years in ethics, philosophy in film and literature. He has published work on Samuel Beckett and has also authored work on Shakespeare for secondary-level education. His writings have appeared in several philosophical and literary magazines. Book link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/e-m-cioran-and-the-human-condition-9781...

Raphael Christian Cormack, is a British writer and scholar of the Arab world and Assistant Professor of Arabic at Durham University. He obtained his PhD in Egyptian Theatre from the University of Edinburgh. He has also been a visiting researcher at Columbia UniversityCormack's X: https://x.com/raphaelcormackBook link: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/holy-men-of-the-electromagnetic-age/---...

James Harpur is a British-born Irish poet who has published eight books of poetry. He has won a number of awards, including the Michael Hartnett Award and the UK National Poetry Competition. Harpur's site: https://www.jamesharpur.com/Book link: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/dazzling-darkness/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Hermitix Disc...

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Luis Moris is from the south of Chile. After finishing high school, he left his home country to spend six years studying psychology in the United States. After receiving a Master's degree specialized in clinical psychology he departed from the US to live in Lagos, Nigeria, where he volunteered for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a program against AIDS. Following this experience, he spent six...

A review of Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by Rebecca GransdenBook link: https://thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-FCTFTTG/Gransden's site: https://rebeccagransden.wordpress.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchan...

Christoph Schuringa is a philosopher and associate professor in philosophy at Northeastern University London. He is known for his works on German philosophy and is Editor of the Hegel Bulletin. Schuringa site: https://christophschuringa.com/Book link: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3018-a-social-history-of-analytic-philosophy---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / her...

Allison P. Coudert, PhD, is the Paul A. and Marie Castelfranco Endowed Chair in the History of Christianity in the Religious Studies Program at the University of California, Davis, CA.Coudert's academia: https://allisoncoudert.academia.edu/Gallowglass Yates' edition: https://gallowglassbooks.shop/products/giordano-bruno-and-the-hermetic-tradition-by-frances-a-yates---Become part of the Her...

Gabriel Kennedy, aka Prop Anon, is an actor, musician, and writer whose work has been featured in BoingBoing.net, Realitysandwich.com, Mondo2000.com, and his own website, Chapelperilous.us. Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson is his first book. Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chapel-Perilous-Thought-Crimes-Robert-ebook/dp/B0DHV9PLTX---Become part of the Hermitix...

Victoria Walker researches twentieth-century British women’s prose fiction, especially experimental writing. She has published widely on Anna Kavan and edited a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review – ‘Anna Kavan: New Readings’ (Winter 2017-18), a collection of Kavan’s short writing, Machines in the Head (2019), and Anna Kavan: Mid-Century Experimental Fiction (2023)Book link: https://edinburg...

A review of Give Me Your Answer, Do by Peter MarchantBook link: https://toughpoets.com/marchant_givemeyouranswerdo.htm (including the cited review by Michael Joseph)---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/...

In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to his book Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience: Reading Huysmans, Proust, McCarthy, and CuskBook link: https://anthempress.com/books/four-moments-of-aesthetic-experience-hb---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Hermitix Discord - ⁠⁠ / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - ⁠⁠https://hermitix.net...

Guy Stagg is an award-winning British writer interested in travel, religion, mental health and the places where they meet. In 2013 he walked from Canterbury to Jerusalem. His first book, The Crossway (Picador, 2018), was an account of this journey. It was a BBC Book of the Week and shortlisted for several prizes. His second, The World Within (Simon and Schuster, 2025), looks at the role of retreat...

Joseph Turner is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the dialogue between continental and Japanese philosophical traditions. His dissertation explores the development of a political ontology that bridges Nishitani Keiji's concept of emptiness with Jean-Luc Nancy's shared ontology of "being-with."He holds an MA in Literary Studies from the...

A review of Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth ---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a3...

Mark Vernon is a British psychotherapist and writer In this episode we discuss his book Awake! William Blake and the Power of the ImaginationBook link: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/awake/Vernon's site: https://www.markvernon.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Hermitix Discord - ⁠⁠ / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - ⁠⁠h...

A review of Words in Commotion and Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donatio...

Jim Newman talks about Nonduality. Jim's site: https://www.simply-this.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Addre...

A review of The Forest Passage by Ernst JüngerBook link: https://www.telospress.com/store/The-Forest-Passage-paperback-p30633407Berman link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsaYNeHPqyU&ab_channel=HermitixPodcast---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpo...

Ryan R. Holston is Professor and holder of the Jonathan Myrick Daniels ’61 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. In this episode we discuss his paper We Are All Victor Frankenstein: Our Romantic Dream of Artificial Intelligence Paper link: https://voegelinview.com/we-are-all-victor-frankenstein/ Second paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10457097.2023.219622...

Review of Riddley Walker by Russell HobanNew Directions link: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/killing-stella/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2p...

Will McMorran is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University, London. His research is increasingly drawing on psychology past and present as well as literary studies to explore reading fiction – and fictional violence in particular – as an embodied experience.120 Days of Sodom: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/253956/the-120-days-of-sodom-by-sade-the-marquis-de/978014139...