The Gnostalgia Podcast

Jason Baxter, the translator of a wonderful new edition of Dante’s Inferno, joins The Gnostalgia Podcast to discuss with Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe how Dante’s theological world offers an initiatory pathway into mystical transformation in the heart of the Christian Mystery.

In this Halloween special, recorded at the request of one of The Gnostalgia Podcast’s regular listeners, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe defend the celebration of All Hallows’ Eve, even in its modern, degraded form. The day may be, they claim, Christendom’s last feeble attempt to confront the curse of death with which we’re all afflicted.

Continuing their Sacred Ecology discussion, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe sing the praises of the nascent rewilding movement, discuss how to break free from the spell of modernity, and insist that any form of Christian conservationism must take seriously the theological principle of grace ... for the alternative is red in tooth and claw.

In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss Neoplatonism as a foundation for a Christian approach to ecology, arguing that participating in the cycle of the landscape through hunting and farming can open us up to the sacral vision of stewardship over creation that’s necessary to retrieve the ‘green movement’ from rapacious globalists who posture as environmentalists.

In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss the forgotten practice of Christian cursing, arguing that placing curses on one’s enemies is an important part of our Holy Tradition.

In this episode, Sebastian Morello and Brian Scarffe discuss the role of the gods in Christianity, and why, as Psalm 136 puts it, we worship the God of gods.

On how a hawthorn bush in Glastonbury is a portal to the mysteries and the depths of the English soul.