Thanksgiving is a harvest time festival with corollaries in past civilizations. 

Topics include: Thanksgiving holiday, turkey, meal, holiday myths, Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, pilgrims, symbolism of agriculture and cultivation, civilization, tribal life, harvest Winter and death, stones as foundation of work, Native Americans, reckoning time for American history, corn, Demeter and Persephone, Eleusinian Mysteries, seasons, nature, Classical Civilization, rise and fall of civilizations, comparative religion, general discontent part of larger alchemical process, destruction, shared experience, cooperation, China protests, global wave of nationalism

The great filmmaker Godfrey Reggio is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. Most famous for his Qatsi series of films, he continues creating to this day. Godfrey also just received a lifetime achievement award at the Santa Fe International Film Festival. 

Topics include: Estrangement cells, posthuman, human environment has changed, our miracles are our afflictions, cannabis, sun gazers, monasteries, apostle, rename the world, sacrament, sound is the beginning, The Word, language, telepathy, minds are chemical zones, black ground, color, our schizophrenic nature, actors, under standing, masks, three as one, Darwin, fathers of the desert, open for contemplation, fragility of humanity, jaw bones, right brain Hell, monitored by the cloud, good and evil as twins, to be bardic, hope the most confusing virtue, hour before the dawn, end of the age, future present, eternity, the blue, the black, souls, circle the square

The many promises of technology fuel so much of our drive toward the future. To giant rocks this passing of time is next to nothing. 

Topics include: Patreon content, Godfrey Reggio interview, Sunday nights, Landers, Giant Rock, time relative to geological history, Millenarianism, Y2K, technological promises, fire symbolism, alchemy, art of multiplication, creative outlets, circadian rhythm, Ochelli poker scheme, Friday nights, livestream karaoke, Chris Graves, bad wifi connection, upload speeds, AOC and Elon Musk, blue checkmark on Twitter, social media rules don’t always apply, Musk loves publicity stunts, Geraldo, remembering phone numbers, video versus audio broadcasting

Civilization was grown, as crops are grown, from the seed that is agriculture. 

Topics include: Halloween, Trunk or Treat, evangelical take on holiday, theocracy, superstition, civilization, technology and science influence on society, leaders as gods, agriculture prime element in dawn of civilization, holidays relation with seasons and growing crops, harvest, death and rebirth, life and death, human influence over nature, Freemasonry, Great Work, apotheosis, Fertile Crescent, dark forest, archetypes, fear of wilderness and wild animals, clearing land for fields, Anarcho-Primitivism, politics, Christian Nationalism, elections, Nancy Pelosi home invasion