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Send us Fan Mail This one is all about how to cultivate WONDER in your heart. It's the third of three episodes on the core values of the Text and Rock world, taken from some new videos in our facebook group. The group opens in October, but if you want to slide in early, HERE is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/439433967697980 Join us to discuss together the Midrashic story of Shimon...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about how to SIT with new ideas. It's the second of three episodes on the core values of the Text and Rock world, taken from some new videos in our facebook group. Puppy Moses ups his snoring game in this one... Puppy Moses = snoring par excellence ! The group opens in October, but if you want to slide in early, HERE is the link: https://www.facebook.com/group...

Send us Fan Mail This one is the first of three episodes on the core values of the Text and Rock world, taken from some new videos in our facebook group. Listen for puppy Moses snoring... it's a hoot! The group opens in October, but if you want to slide in early, HERE is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/439433967697980 Join us to discuss together what it means to be a person who digs...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about the beginning of KNOWLEDGE. It's not what you might think. Join us to discuss together where Christianity fits into ancient Judaism. how finding truth one click away is sometimes better. why the modern assumption of skepticism only gets you so far. whether God was born in a cave in France, or we just finally noticed... how human intellectual evolution is...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about the PAIN and GAIN of leaving common conception for bigger and better ideas about the divine and human thriving. This one is actually two episodes...because Eric asks a great question just as we were wrapping up. So stay tuned after the credits TEXT AND ROCKERS! Join us to discuss together another Swift-Footed Markilles poem called "You Have to Leave.&quo...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about a different definition of God and God's goodness taken from the Stoics. How to align a good divinity with good fruit in your life. Join us to talk about Why Christian theology is ultimately derivative of Greek philosophy. the Four-Virtue, or Stoic, canon of virtues. What Jesus is doing when he says good trees bear good fruit. How extreme political leanin...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about what happens when we flip the arrow of revelation, so that humanity climbs a mountain and points to the divine... not the other way around. Just think on it. We'll help! Join us to talk about Mark and Eric's poetry and suitcase drum set world tour.  Almost. We're getting there Text and Rockers.... A poem by Mark called "Arrows and Mountain...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about what to take away from the Epic of Gilgamesh series: What to do with what we've learned together. Join us to talk about how as bizarre as it is, Gilgamesh was a religious text for a long, long time. why in the world Mark picked Gilgamesh for an expanded series. how deep learning comes after fun and knowing a teacher is "for" you. whether the go...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about what to do when all seems lost. Join us to talk about The search for immortality then and now. The etymology of snakes/dragons in the ancient Near East. When you have invested so much in a dead end. How death, loss of dreams, and betrayal causes grief... but also a rare opportunity for a new life. how to treat these moments like you're already dead. how...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about how ancients write stories. Join us to talk about Wolfgang Iser's theory of CULTURAL REPERTOIRE. FLOATING MOTIFS and repeated core storylines in ancient literature. The literary stations, or steps of a floating motif, in the FLOOD STORY. Literature as reaction to event. the RIGHT question to ask about comparative stories. a little bonus rant on what make...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about how to think about your story among the stories of ancient literature. Join us to talk about how Gilgamesh's convo with "the Faraway" leads us to a pretty familiar story. why so many ancient cultures have a flood story. how to think about your story and comparative literature. all about how the ancients thought about the founding of ancient cit...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about the two key mistakes people make in reading an ancient text. Join us to talk about how digging though comparative literature changes everything. why sitting with tradition is the best way to bring a text forward. the example of Jesus as someone who pulls a text forward with brilliance... and what all REAL antiquity scholars do with ancient texts. Mark's...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about a way to think about scriptures in any tradition that you can put to work immediately and LOVE reading your story again. Join us to talk about how ancient cities get built and rebuilt, and what a TELL is... what to do with the tension of morally backwards or outdated ideas in your scripture. how thinking about texts like a dig site is a better way forward......

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about how to stop pretending to be young and how to grow into maturity. Join us to talk about how to look the reality of mortality in the eyes. why the western value of eternal youth is a charade. how aging the is journey not the enemy. leveraging limited time for the best of life. the shift to investing in young people over your own success. a little backend fun o...

Send us Fan Mail This one is all about how to enjoy life BECAUSE you die. Join us to talk about how our hero arrives at a dive bar between two worlds. leaving the map of mortality in ancient literature. the garden after the darkness in the Epic of Gilgamesh. how the reality of mortality can give you a joy for life. how the book of Ecclesiastes and Gilgamesh bring light to the dark side of wisdom....

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about the randomness the central human question about death and dying. Join us to talk about Gilgamesh's journey to Utnapishtim, the Mesopotamian Noah character. why humans have to die, gods get to live, and how to pull it forward as a modern. how the danger comes when you try to find a divine reason for sickness or death. Mark's fle...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about the randomness life and death, success and failure. Join us to talk about the gods seem unfair...because in this story they are unfair. why simply owning the randomness is its own freedom and reward. how the danger comes when you try to find a divine reason for sickness or death. Ha ha. hush that fuss. everybody move to the back of the b...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about the purpose and meaning of your life. Join us to talk about how even warriors get tired and don't want to walk home. why a god or goddess falling in love with you is not the best thing. why bad things happen to great people...and bad people go unpunished. the meaning and purpose of your life.  Runnin' the streets... 🐃🐃🐃 We h...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about taking some time to think it over! Join us to talk about how the best way to defeat an enemy is to make them your friend. the makings of the first adventure buddy dynamic duo--- mad respect bruh. how gods and divine monsters have city and wilderness zones in the ancient Near East... why you can reframe sacred texts more like a dig site a...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about taking some time to think it over! Join us to talk about How animal instincts fade to wise living if you will let it happen. Why asking what effect choices will have on your soul and other's souls is the way to go. How almost everyone has a TOP 5 in their rearview mirror... and how to reframe your reckless past through the framework...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about the upside to getting older: You start to get wise! Join us to talk about How Enkidu is a telescoped history of the neolithic revolution. How it's normal for your individual evolution to mirror cultural evolution... A new framework for thinking about your young and dumb mistakes. Fist bump. It's okay, normal, and necessary to t...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about thinking about your life as caught between you divine and animal mind! Join us to talk about How Gilgamesh reaches for the heavens but can't control his animalistic behavior. Why Gilgemesh and Enkido are star-crossed heroes. Eric asks whether we are in middle earth. Ha! Epictetus says whether you act like gods or animals is UP TO YO...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about the ancient conception of two-thirds divinity found in ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Hittite, and Egyptian lore! Join us to talk about the Bronze and Iron Age conception of the gods as humans except BIG! Gilgamesh the King, my buddy meets Frankenstein. The idea of humankind as two-thirds divine in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Adam "huma...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and YOU! Join us to talk about The dawn of sacred literature and storytelling. Going back to fifth grade English class for just a sec. Sorry I know it's painful! How to mine an ancient text for goodness and virtue...  ...while leaving the negative and regressive ideas behind. The 4 BIG questions of the author of t...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Text and Rockers! This one is all about how to understand the founder of your story as a trailblazer Join us to talk about How re-engaging your story May be as simple as looking at the story of its founder. Why a person is easier to follow than a system of doctrines. Abraham understood as treading a path for Israel—how archetype works in ancient texts. The greatest people are...