362: A Planetary Girdle of Light - The Origins of the Holy Order of MANS
Release Date: 02/18/2026
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Rey wraps up the Theosophy series by alking about the extraordinary life of Jiddu Krishnamurti, from his days as a "child prophet: adopted and indocrinated by the Theosophical Society, to his later days as a part of California elite society and a world teacher...on his own terms. --- Subscribe to
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TENE & friend take a look at David Myatt's latest attempt at humor, check up on the tradcath world as well as suffer through Steven Crowder's new idiotic love affair with fascism and Pinochet. --- Subscribe to
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TENE takes a trip to Polaris, Lemuria, and Hyperborea to try and make sense of Helena Blavatsky's "Root Races," a fundamental component of Theosophist cosmology and Blavatsky's totally-not-sketchy contribution to evolutionary theory. --- Subscribe to
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Boris takes a look at the biographies of two Orthodox priests from Pennsylvania and Ohio whose activities during WW2 earned them medals from Tito, and got them into hot water with the US Government as dangerous reds. --- Subscribe to
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Taking a break from the usual cast of characters, Boris examines two Yugoslav-American anti-fascist publications published in the US in the 1940s. --- Subscribe to
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Near the end of the Theosophy series, Rey examines the strange lives of Peter Ouspensky and John G. Bennett, who were followers of Gurdjieff, but also gurus in their own right with many followers of their own. They struggled with the legacy of Gurdjieff in different ways, but both were in pretty sad states by the end of their lives.
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Courtesy of Elon Musk, Uwe Boll goes on a paid vacation to Croatia where he enjoys restaurants, the nightlife, and also films a movie starring Armie Hammer about how it's cool and based to murder immigrant families because of woke. --- Subscribe to
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George Gurdjieff was never formally a theosophist, but his "doctrine" contained a very similar backstory, and many of his followers were former theosophists. Gurdjieff was a practice-oriented despotic cult leader, whose follwers believed him to be one of the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood described by Helena Blavatsky.
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In the fourth episode of our series on Theosophy, Rey talks about the founder of Anthroposophy, Austrian guru Rudolf Steiner. Steiner started started out as a Theosophist, but was much too ambitious and much too German for that movement. --- Subscribe to
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The story of the Theosophical Society takes a dark turn, as we examine the malignant influence of Charles Leadbeater, how he took an Indian boy from his family, and together with James Wedgwood formed the Liberal Catholic Church and proclaimed himself a Bishop. --- Subscribe to
info_outlineBoris begins a short series on how a relatively obscure New Age religion from the 1960s lay the foundations for the modern right wing "Orthobro" phenomenon in Orthodox Christianity. To do this, we take a journey back to 1960s San Francisco's world of mystics, American Sufis and Christian Yogis.
Music Credits:
Christian Yoga Church - Untitled 6
Christian Yoga Church - Turn On (Music for the Hip at Heart)
The Sufi Choir - Turning
Allen Ginsberg / Reverend Adjari & Buddhist Chorus - Pacific High Studio Mantra’s (Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum)
Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
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