Logos of Experience and Truth
This podcast is for the curious Catholic interested in understanding Gnostic, Occult, Hermetic, New Age, and Ancient World mystery school teachings to strengthen their faith through knowledge, as well as for practitioners of those mystery schools interested in Catholic mystical traditions to see the internal Church alongside the external. I find myself somewhere in between these divergent trains of thought and have determined that when the layers of external meaning are peeled away, there's a harmony when it has to do with the mystical vision and experience. This podcast reflects my lifelong curiosity to uncover the allegorical symbols in the languages of different mystical schools, exploring the similarities and differences that exist specifically when it comes to the mystical vision and experience, and systematizing the path and the steps that lead one to the experience drug free. Join me on the Logos of Experience and Truth as I navigate these dark hallways of the ancient mysteries and mysticism with the light of illumination I've received from my own mystical visions and experiences.
Episodes
August 11, 2022 • 2 mins
The end goal of all religion and spiritual practice is to have or receive some type of vision. In Catholic Christianity this is called the Beatific Vision, but it is also known as Gnosis, Enlightenment and in general, the mystical union. The core to understanding what mystical vision is and how it comes about begins with the Knowledge of the Self. Who, what and why are we? The quest for answers to these questions, to these enigma...
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August 12, 2022 • 8 mins
Know thyself. This concept is what permeates every episode in the first season of this podcast. I talk about many things during these ten episodes, but I speak constantly on the self, the false self and what the Self of God is. The true mystic uncovers answers to these questions during their experiences. It takes time to fully grasp the concepts but once grasped, they can be shared. I am sharing what I have discerned with you ...
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August 13, 2022 • 59 mins
Introduction to the mysteries of the mystical Beatific Vision of God and an explanation of one such ascension experience I've witnessed. This was my first recorded podcast and is exceptionally dense as an introductory episode.
- Introductions to mystical religious visionary experiences
- The question that needed answering that has propelled me towards this podcast
- Re-telling of the mystical visionary experience I had of ...
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August 14, 2022 • 35 mins
This episode follows the immediate events of the mystical ascension described in the previous episode. Having never taken astrology in any meaningful way, the mystical vision seen, and the accompanying eye-opening dream forced me to question further.
- I dive into astrology and its relevance to a mystical experience
- Speak on my prior detestation to anything having to do with astrology as I explain the astronomical and as...
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August 15, 2022 • 39 mins
What is the Beatific Vision of God? The first half of this episode will be technical definitions so we're on the same page. The second half is an overview of the life-altering, mind and habit destroying mystical experiences that the host believes he's had over the past twenty years.
- Deep dive into Beatific Vision; what it is and the traditional definitions surrounding it
- Struggles within the Christian religion and var...
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August 16, 2022 • 40 mins
Pierce through the illusion of maya, the illusion of the Matrix in your own mind with Christian, Gnostic, Buddhist, and neurological understandings to see the truth of the human condition of thinking and consciousness. Regain control of your mind by learning what is and is not your mind.
- Getting tongue-tied at the impossibility of describing that which is beyond being described (God), and what that means exactly.
- Use o...
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August 17, 2022 • 42 mins
Ever had a dream come true in some way when you woke up? That’s called synchronicity. Was String Theory a modern interpretation of the occult principle of vibration? That’s why science got rid of the theory? How is Christ the Logos, the Word of God, yet also the Son of God, separate from God, yet begotten not made by God and somehow the same as God, yet still separate and subject to the Will of God? Yes. I answer this.
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August 18, 2022 • 46 mins
With what is our Self and the Self of God in the Logos or Christ analyzed and identified, the next logical question is asked: How is our self like the Self of God if we are made in the image of God?
- Dense material that spans across the gender of mind, against Sola Scriptura, what a mystic seeks and answering an especially important question to any listener of these types of subjects: Why should I care about prayer or medit...
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August 19, 2022 • 32 mins
When is the Self not the Self? How are the Gnostic and Buddhist paths of self-negation capable of leading one to truth of no Self just as the Christian and Hindu paths of self-affirmation lead to truth of a Self? It is a paradoxical mystery that I aim to answer in this episode.
- Reflections on the discussion and meditation on Self found in episode six along with deeper elucidations from the first-person point of view
- D...
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August 20, 2022 • 51 mins
Belief shapes the reality we see and experience. I’ve spoken of it religiously, through the occult Gnostic texts and dive deeper into it with science and neurology here. It’s what determines what side we are on in all things, the polarity, the scale, the left or the right. How do we gain control over our beliefs especially if we already believe in something as simple as the news reports the news because what else would it report...
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August 21, 2022 • 47 mins
What if God was an idea created to teach people how to reach their most inner and true Self? Our thoughts and beliefs about this would put our faith to the test and yet strengthen that same faith as well. If thoughts and beliefs shape our perception of reality, what happens if we pause belief in God and exchange it for belief in the Self using Pascal’s wager?
- I wrote something in 2009. I read that something in 2020. La...
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August 22, 2022 • 47 mins
If one has never asked if they are their true and authentic self, how can one seek to find it within the maelstrom of the mind? I discuss this difficult concept with my wife and share some of the findings along with ranting a bit on the various obsessions along the path that stood in my way of spiritual rebirth in the true self. These discussions center around something everyone knows they’re dealing with, the combat within the m...
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August 23, 2022 • 12 mins
This summary of the first season of the Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast serves several purposes. It is meant to make it easier to understand the contents of an entire seven hours of audio material and to give listeners a way to sift through the many parts where I wander in and out of tangents and subjects from one paragraph to the next. Here is an outline to make the process of understanding each episode better. Click the L...
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October 31, 2022 • 5 mins
Season 2 of the Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast begins with Hell and Death. Seems a strange way to start something since both concepts have more of a final/ending connotation to them but that is the nature of the Mysteries: life after death. This is a brief overview of what the next ten episodes will contain. Click the Link for more detailed episode notes: https://logosofexperienceandtruth.com/podcast/season-2-podcast-trail...
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November 9, 2022 • 37 mins
Is Hell a place one goes to after death or is it something here, now, all around us? This was a question I'd never once asked myself truly until I dabbled with a new drug that uncorked my mind into a hellscape of subliminal desecration. Whether a physical place or not in some afterlife matters not for it most definitely exists within the mind and the experience of and within the mind. This was the experience that opened my eyes ...
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November 10, 2022 • 39 mins
An NDE or near-death experience is somewhat of an interesting definition considering many that have the experience say it is life-changing, me included. Being so near to death brings life, rebirth, or renewal. It is a fact within nature all around and within us. I cannot say this experience was a pure mystical experience for it was drug induced, though not intentionally. The psychedelic quality of the experience existed and/or w...
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November 15, 2022 • 33 mins
The skeptic mind is a powerful one. Give me facts and make sure they are only based upon the scientific paradigm of rules I want to follow and trust in, or I will label whatever you give me as false and untrue. I came across many things leading up to what was described in the Descent into Hell and Near-Death Experience episodes. I thought about these experiences as strange and weird but utter nonsense even as the evidence was st...
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November 23, 2022 • 35 mins
The royal art as it was called in the ancient world included many different areas of expertise ranging from astrology to memorization of prayers or incantations to the alchemical art of transforming one substance into another. The true transmutation occurs in the mind versus the traditional lead into gold external idea and this episode focuses on this underlying and explicit concept and the actions taken that helped to formulate t...
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November 24, 2022 • 32 mins
In this episode I provide five different experiences of the mystery of the ensouled human, each entirely removed from any drug use from the past that may have still been circulating within my mind and body. None of these experiences of the mystery are as grandiose as the near-death experience spoken of in the first and second episodes of this season, but each of them conveys the deepening or widening of the mental faculties in und...
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November 30, 2022 • 35 mins
The Bible is littered with dreams of a high spiritual nature, dreams interpreted by those with a high spiritual acumen, dreams of portent, dreams to come and dream experiences of a high prophetic or mystical nature. To dream during sleep is human and to seek meaning from an activity we do for one third of our entire life is natural. Not everybody does so anymore currently, but I’ve taken the effort to keep track of my dreams and ...
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