Cele mai bune Secret History podcast-uri (2025)

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 12 54:52

1d ago54:52

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In the backwaters of America, one of the most gruesome criminals imaginable will provide the basis for a Hitchcock film that will change not just cinema in general, but the way that films themselves are exhibited for all time... To become a patron of the show, and to unlock every single story, sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Le…

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The Strife of Love in a Dream: James O’Neill Introduces the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 43:17

6d ago43:17

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We introduce one of the strangest and most nigglingly-intriguing esoteric books of the Italian Renaissance, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. James O'Neill is our guide through nested dream-landscapes, erotic initiations, and weirdly-specific garden design.De către Earl Fontainelle

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Introducing the Qur’ān, Part II: Ambiguity and Esoteric Themes 1:12:22

11d ago1:12:22

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We begin to explore the esoteric side of the Qur'ān, examining several case-studies in terms of ambiguity and esoteric themes. It turns out that every letter of the Qur'ān is an esoteric text.De către Earl Fontainelle

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 11 55:24

7d ago55:24

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In complete control of his creative powers, Hitchcock is about to embark upon the making of what will turn out to be the most lauded film in his career. But elsewhere, a shadow has appeared in his home life... To become a patron of the show, and to unlock every single story, sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 10 50:03

16d ago50:03

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Alfred Hitchcock is about to conquer an all-new art form, and one taking the world by storm. And he's about to do in a way that will prove as groundbreaking as any feat achieved so far in his cinematic career. Elsewhere, trouble brews for one of Hitchcock's most notable leading ladies when he begins to pay attentions in ways that may cross a line..…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 9 49:56

21d ago49:56

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In this episode, Hitchcock enters that most dangerous of territories - the remake... And alongside this, hear the curious tale of one of the most mysterious actors to have ever appeared in a Hollywood movie... To become a patron of the show, and to unlock every single story, sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 8 1:11:59

29d ago1:11:59

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 7 1:05:49

1M ago1:05:49

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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When Gamblers and Newspapermen Ruled The Cool Grey City of Love 10:14

1M ago10:14

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Ever wondered who really pulled the strings in San Francisco during its post-war golden age? It wasn't the mayor or the board of supervisors. When the war ended in 1946, San Francisco experienced an unprecedented boom. Servicemen who'd fallen in love with the city returned to stay, nightlife flourished, and business thrived in what appeared to be a…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 6 1:06:06

1M ago1:06:06

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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Introducing the Qur’ān, Part I: Revelation, Text, and History 57:03

2M ago57:03

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We cover some basic territory in introducing the Qur'ān, the holiest text of Islām. We introduce the text, discuss the traditional story of the Qur'ān's revelation, the modern text-critical enterprise of Qur'anic studies, and try to pin down the elusive character of this book-that-is-not-a-book.De către Earl Fontainelle

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 5 1:07:25

2M ago1:07:25

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 4 1:02:06

2M ago1:02:06

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 3 1:47:44

2M ago1:47:44

1:47:44

In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 2 2:44:45

2M ago2:44:45

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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Fred Donner on the History of Early Islām 53:35

3M ago53:35

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We discuss what little we know and how much we don't know about the nature of the early ‘Believers' movement’, the nature and origins of the Qur'ān, the curious case of the so-called Constitution of Medinah, and what went on during the earliest decades of the Arab conquests. Fred Donner is our guide into unknown territory.…

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The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 1 2:39:35

3M ago2:39:35

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of ep…

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Matthew Melvin-Koushki on Islam, ‘the West’, and Western Esotericism 1:04:29

3M ago1:04:29

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We welcome Matthew Melvin-Koushki back to the show to discuss how we might improve our historical picture of western esotericism by including the vast majority of the surviving historical dossier of western esotericism. There's only one problem: in order to do this, we need to embrace the Islamicate world as a major part of the west.…

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Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on Theosophy and the Study of Religions 1:05:22

4M ago1:05:22

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What if the scientific study of religions, a.k.a. Comparative Religions, History of Religions, and so forth – the academic discipline wherein the academic study of western esotericism largely finds its home – was founded by, well, western esotericists? In this interview we examine the history of the history of religions with two historians of relig…

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Introducing Islām 1:13:03

4M ago1:13:03

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With Episode 200 the SHWEP has reached a milestone of sorts. We are in the seventh century, and the world-order suddenly changes irrevocably as a new political force arises from Arabia: the Believers. We discuss three main respects in which the history of Islam is the history of western esotericism.De către Earl Fontainelle

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Paul Pasquesi on the Book of the Holy Hierotheos 57:40

4M ago57:40

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We discuss one of the lesser-known, but most esoterically-important, classics of Syriac spiritual literature, the Book of the Holy Hierotheos. Hierotheos was said to have been the teacher of Dionysius the Areopagite, but he wrote in Syriac, and taught a suspiciously-Evagrian practice of ascent to god.…

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The Pseudo-Dionysios, the Esoteric, and (Christian) Mysticism 1:06:05

4M ago1:06:05

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We turn to the questions: What is ‘mystical’ in the Corpus Dionysiacum? What is esoteric? The answers we come up with involve pretty much every aspect of the western esoteric traditions, and, after all the initiatory liturgy, esoteric scriptural hermeneutics, and theandric activity are cleared away, there remains the ascent to ‘the ray of the divin…

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Naming Divine Nothingness: Introducing the Pseudo-Dionysios 1:09:18

4M ago1:09:18

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Into the divine darkness of a hyper-non-existent god walks the Pseudo-Dionysios. In this episode we join many esoteric currents from the antique and late-antique past into a new synthesis which will forever shape western esotericism going forward.De către Earl Fontainelle

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Sebastián Moro Tornese on Anagogic Music in Ancient Platonism 1:19:53

5M ago1:19:53

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Music was seen as a crucial tool for the elevation and transformation of the human soul in ancient esoteric philosophy from Pythagoras to Olympiodorus, and beyond into the western esoteric traditions of later eras. We discuss the theory and practice of anagogic music in the ancient Pythagorean/Platonist tradition with Sebastián Moro Tornese.…

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Michæl Griffin on the Virtues in Ancient Platonism: Painters, Dancers, and Godlike Sages 56:36

6M ago56:36

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In the first of a short series of synoptic episodes looking at the esoteric in ancient Platonism as a whole, we approach the scale of virtues, the ladder by which the Platonist sage, following in the footsteps of Socrates, was to practice ascent to likeness with the gods, while still engaging in daily life.…

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Judith Noble on Magic and Artistic Practice 59:09

6M ago59:09

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We explore the intersections of fine art practice and magic with artistic practitioner Judith Noble. Tricksterish subversion as standard.De către Earl Fontainelle

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Cary: Part 4 3:59:37

6M ago3:59:37

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Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton's wedded bliss begins with an adventure upon a lake, and a very starstruck pastor, but it isn't long before the shadows of doubt begin to cast across their happiness, made all the worse by the threat of war, and the spiralling effects of Barbara's vices... If you’ve enjoyed this episode, and would like to aid in its cr…

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One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis 1:22:25

6M ago1:22:25

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We are delighted to speak with Anthony Kaldellis about ‘Byzantium’, fabled empire full of Greek-speaking Romans which never fell until the fifteenth century, and which plays an outsize role in the history of western esotericism. Come for the historiographical debates about the term ‘Byzantine’, stay for the ‘Byzantine’ court astrology.…

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Contested Esotericisms at the End of Antiquity: Simplicius, Philoponus, and Olympiodorus 1:00:17

6M ago1:00:17

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We discuss three of the most important thinkers from the final generations of philosophical teaching at Alexandria. One is an upstart Christian. Two are esoteric Platonists of the Golden Chain. One may or may not have been an alchemist.De către Earl Fontainelle

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The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria 42:34

7M ago42:34

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We discuss how Platonist philosophical teaching played out at Alexandria before Justinian's edict of 529 and in its aftermath. Featuring cameo appearances from the fall of the western Roman empire and Horapollo's Hieroglyphika.De către Earl Fontainelle

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All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius 51:00

8M ago51:00

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We discuss the great Damascius, final scholarch of the Athenian Academy, with Sara Rappe. Things become very apophatic.De către Earl Fontainelle

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Hagia Sophia and the Problem of ‘Esoteric Architecture’ 1:04:02

8M ago1:04:02

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We discuss Justinian's great church, Hagia Sophia, the gem of Constantinople and of Orthodox Christianity. We then look at a number of theories out there which read Hagia Sophia as encoding esoteric messages beneath her Orthodox exterior, and use this case-study as a springboard for discussing the thorny problems involved in interpreting architectu…

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Kevin van Bladel on the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Fate of the Athenian Academy 54:46

9M ago54:46

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We discuss the fascinating town of Ḥarrān (in present-day Türkiye), a place known from late antiquity until at least the eleventh century for its continued tradition of astral, polytheist worship. Kevin van Bladel tells us much to enthral us about this place, but also crushes the dream of a continued tradition of Athenian Late Platonism at Ḥarrān.…

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Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy 1:09:36

9M ago1:09:36

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We discuss the life, times, and reign of Justinian, ‘probably the most consequential Roman emperor, at least since Constantine, and maybe since Augustus.’ He transformed the empire; nothing would be the same after his reign. Said reign also saw the closure of the Athenian academy and a number of crucial crises within Christianity, all of which are …

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Levan Gigineishvili on Ioane Petritsi and the Mediæval Georgian Proclus-Reception 1:05:01

10M ago1:05:01

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We discuss the work of Ioane Petritsi (eleventh to twelfth centuries), a Georgian intellectual whose translation of, and commentary on, the Elements of Theology of Proclus is a historical anomaly in a number of ways. It turns out that everything in Proclus' metaphysics – even the henads – could and did make it through into a Christian work in twelf…

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Jonathan Greig on the East Roman Proclus Reception, Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries 57:34

10M ago57:34

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We discuss the long, convoluted, and often tendentious reception of Proclus and Proclean ideas in the eastern Roman empire. From late-antique debates about the nature of being and participation, through medieval reappropriations of philosophy, through to the radical debates of Plethon and Scholarios in the final days of the empire, Proclus emerges …

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Danielle Layne on Proclus’ Religious Life and Thought 51:40

11M ago51:40

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We are delighted to discuss what you might call Proclean spirituality with Danielle Layne. Platonic prayer as a way of living, the erotic quest for the Good, and the ever-elusive Platonic Dyad feature in a wide-ranging conversation combining proper philosophical-historical rigour with the true love of wisdom.…

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