Podcast Benomtad

The Virtue of Beauty, the Beauty of Virtue: A king is cursed to live as an old man with his servant– now animal attendants–until they are saved by one with kindness for all life.  A poor woodcutter goes hungry while his three daughters get lost in the wood.  The birds of the forest bewilder them to save the kingdom from darkness.
 
Plot Synopsis of the Story: 
 
A poor woodcutter, his wife, and three daughters live on the edge of the forest.  When the woodcutter goes out to work, he tells his wife for his eldest daughter to bring his dinner.  He strews a path of millet on the ground so that she can find him, but by dinner-time when she goes out with the soup the birds of the forest have eaten all the seeds up. 
 
Lost, she sees a glimmer through the trees and finds a hut with all its windows lit up.  She calls to it, and a gravelly voices tells her to come in, where she finds an old man with a beard down to the floor at a table, and three animals around the stove: a hen, a cock, and a brindled cow.  She asks for food and shelter, and he asks the animals, who reply, “Duks.”  She makes dinner from the plentiful cupboard, and she and the old man eat.  She asks where she should sleep, and the animals reply in a jingle that she has had no thought for them and must find her own.  The man directs her upstairs to beds she should make; she does so and falls asleep without waiting for him, and he sends her through a trap door into the cellar.
 
The woodcutter comes home without his dinner, and the next day he sets out lentils, which are bigger and harder for the birds to pick up, but the birds get them anyway.  The middle daughter goes out with the soup, and the same thing happens.  Down to the cellar.
 
Then it was the third and last daughter’s turn.  Mother objects, but father says she’s always been the most caring and obedient, and she’ll come through, especially since he will strew the heaviest food–peas.  This time the wood-pigeons get it, but when the youngest comes into the hut, she caresses the animals, and when she makes dinner, she goes out and gets food and draught for the animals, and she eats what is leftover of the man’s dinner.  The jingle of the animals praises her, and she waits for the old man after making the beds, and she is not sent down to the cellar.  
 
In the middle of the night, she is awoken by loud creaking and bursting sounds, but she falls asleep again, and wakes up in an ivory bed with a velvet canopy.  The man is now a handsome youth, and three servants come to do her bidding.  The man–a King cursed until a girl whose heart was full of love not only for mankind but for animals came and rescued them–orders the servants to get her parents for the wedding.  Her sisters, however, would be servants of charcoal-men deep in the woods until they learned to be kinder, and not let poor animals suffer.
 
Chapters:
 
00:00 “The Hut in the Forest” Summary
10:50 Like Beauty and the Beast
13:50 Love Breaks the Spell 
20:50 The Hyperfocused Woodcutter
21:46 In the Fullness of Being
22:18 Why was the Prince Bewitched?
 
(From a discussion on “The Hut in the Forest”)
 
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About Our Guest: LL is a graduate of the Immaculate University of California, Davis.  She majored in psychology and has worked for years in the field of mental health.  She is currently getting training in accounting and loves almost all things weird: aliens, cryptids, ghosts, and sweet bovine love.
 
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Thumbnail Background Illustration: Arthur Rackham

In “Fight Club,” the protagonist tries to find meaning in life through filling his life with purchases.  But that doesn’t give him fullness–he feels dead.  So he goes to cancer support groups, and then group violence in fight clubs.
 
The zombie culture is a feverish emptiness eating itself.  It has no depth and builds nothing. Everything is seen as a commodity.
 
(From a discussion on “Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” Ch. 1)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
Photo by Jose Rueda on Unsplash
 
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Zombies are everywhere in our culture, in movies and shows, and even in real life, on zombie walks.  They’ve gone from being an object of horror to one of fascination, one that seems to reflect something back to us.  In “Zombies in Western Culture,” zombies are analyzed as a myth of Western culture and a symbol of the meaning crisis.  In this episode, we discuss chapter one, where Vervaeke and his coauthors discuss the zombie as part of the zeitgeist, of something hugely significant in and about our culture.  They think this reflects the crisis based in the loss of the “sacred canopy” of Christianity.  
 
We briefly summarize the chapter and the riff off it.  We compare the zombie with other monsters and discuss its link to consumerism.  We discuss other attempts to awaken us from our slumber and the difficulty to doing so, and we talk about returning to the senses, the body, knowledge, and life.
 
“Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic:
http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0113
 
Chapters:
 
00:00 Introduction 
03:31 General Thoughts & the Aesthetic of the Zombie
05:35 “A Choice to Sleep Through Modernity”
16:00 The Hebrew Golem
17:22 Play Acting a Walking Dead
22:15 Zombie Walks and Serious Play
30:15 Muay Thai, Civilization, and “Fight Club”
34:54 No Meaning Out of Consumption
42:42 The Zombie Mirror, Marketing, & Anger in Society Now
48:45 “The White Zombie” 
52:15 Everything is Seen from Your Own Need
56:55 The Zombie & Christian Resurrection
1:01:49 Healthy Seeing by Returning to the Body
1:08:01 The Nightmare of Descartes’ Idea
1:10:30 HP Lovecraft’s Monster and the Desacralization of Our World
1:15:10 The Artist as Shaman
1:22:03 The Usefulness of Form in Art & Twisted Messages
1:29:45 Articulate the Meaning of Your Monsters
 
(From a discussion on “Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis,” Ch. 1)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
Photo by Jose Rueda on Unsplash
 
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At the beginning of the story, the man has had his 13th child, and in a panic he runs out into the street looking for a godfather, and God shows up.  He turns him down, pontificating to the Almighty, and showing the creator his puny reasoning and narrow focus.
 
(From a discussion on the Brothers’ Grimm’s “Godfather Death”)
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
Illustration by Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919)
Illustrations by Otto Ubbelohde, 1909
 
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A man works very hard but there is no one left to ask to be the godfather as his 13th child is on the way.  He rushes out into the street and is approached by three prospects.  The first is God, whom he rejects because of the unfair assortment of lots, the second, the Devil, he rejects because of his trickery.  The third, however, he accepts because he treats everyone equally: Death.
 
The boy starts to grow up, and his godfather gives him a gift that will make him rich and famous: he will be a physician who will be able to tell who will die and who won’t.  His fame spreads, and when the king is ill, he sees that the king will die.  However, thinking the godfather will be indulgent with him, the physician uses trickery to save him.  He does get a pass, but then when he sees that the beautiful daughter of the king is sick and he can marry  her if he saves her, he counts on his relationship with Death to spare him once again.
 
This time, Death grips him with his icy hand and takes him down into a cavern filled with candles.  These, he explains, are the lives of each human on earth, and the more one is burned down, the less that person has to live.  The physician asks to see his own, and it’s a mere nub.  He asks to be saved, and he is told another would have to die in his place.  When Death goes to light the big candle with the little one’s flame, he drops it and kills his wayward godson.
 
Chapters: 
00:00 Reading of “Godfather Death”
07:27 The Original Tale Without Death’s Trick
09:00 Death is Friendly
11:36 God Shows Up at the Beginning
20:00 First Thought, Best Thought
25:50 The Devil as Godfather?
30:49 Why He Says No to God’s Offer
35:36 Death’s Gift of Life
47:25 “Be on Time, Death”
48:18 Why Does the Physician want to Save the King?
57:58 Death’s Revenge
1:06:31 The Doctor and his Godfather, Death
1:16:24 Living in the Present and Learning how to Die
1:25:10 Religious Need for a Figure of Death
1:26:43 Does Closeness to Death Help the Physician Heal?
1:28:46 There’s No Changing Your Nature
1:34:42 Trying to Control Others is Like Necromancy’s Dark Side
 
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
 
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

The queen bathes in the stream in the garden with her angelic babe, a scene of pure life and innocence.  Into this scene slinks the power-hungry cook, who manipulates the scene to look like that of a beastly killing, leading to the imprisonment of the mother and his absconding with the young princeling.  
 
The story goes from one of God's grace to one of greed and justice.
 
(From a discussion on the Brothers’ Grimm’s “The Pink (Carnation)”)
 
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A queen was without child, and an angel came to her and told her she would have a child who would have the power of wishing.  After she had the child, the cook, who knew of the son’s ability, staged the son’s death and blamed the queen, who was imprisoned by the king for seven years. 
The cook, who was afraid the son would have him discovered, had the boy wish for a palace to live in, and then a beautiful companion.  The cook would go out and hunt like a nobleman every day.  But soon, he was again afraid the boy would tell the truth, and told the girl to kill him, on pain of death.  She refused, but he persisted, and she eventually told the boy of the plan. He had her kill a hind and present the cook with the heart and tongue.  He had the cook turned into a poodle
 
The girl was afraid to accompany him back to his kingdom, so he turned her into a carnation and put her in his pocket, and they walked with the poodle chained behind him.  He visited his mother in the tower, then worked as a huntsman for the king, and during a feast he wished for others to bring up the topic of his mother.  He revealed the truth to the king, who rejoiced and freed the queen.  Hot coals were poured down the poodle’s throat, and then he was executed; the father and queen soon died of grief and relief.  The boy and girl were married.
 
Chapters:
00:00 Reading of the Story
10:25 The Ambivalent Power of Wishing
12:25 Like the Garden of Eden and Corruption of Greed for Power
16:34 The King’s Gullibility
18:40 The Upside Down Kingdom
22:41 The Cook Feels Himself Losing Control
29:21 Why Does the Boy Turn the Cook into a Black Poodle?
36:26 Returning Home and Seeing Mother in the Tower
40:11 Why Does the Prince Refuse to Sit Next to his Father?
43:19 The Prince Wishes His Mother Into the Room
50:33 The Queen’s Virtue
53:32 The Ironic Power of Wishing
54:58 Final Reflections
 
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Pink Carnation Girl Photo by Alka Rautela on Unsplash

When the false bride finally arrives, the true bride again almost dies.  Ian sees this as a kind of initiation, a test to see if he will finally know who she is and remember his promise--and who he really is.
(From a discussion on the Brothers’ Grimm’s “The Twelve Huntsmen”)
 
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Huntsman Photo by Kam on Unsplash
 
Lion Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash
 
Princess Silhouette Photo by Baran Lotfollahi on Unsplash

Death of the King
A Prince, betrothed to his Beloved, is called away, for his father the King is dying.  He gives his ring to his love and says he will marry her when he is king.
 
The Promise
At his father’s deathbed, bereaved, he promises to marry the King’s chosen bride for him.  He forgets his previous promise.
 
The Disguise
The princess almost dies of sadness, and her father says he will do whatever he can, and she asks that eleven maidens like herself in form and face be found.  Together with her, the twelve are dressed as huntsmen and presented to the new King, who does not recognize any of them but accepts them as his company.
 
The Tests
However, the wise Lion advises the King that they are no ladies.  Two tests are devised, but another advisor on the ladies’ side helps them pass them, and the monarch dismisses the beast.
 
Truth Revealed, the Prince is Made Whole
The king and the Huntsmen spend time together well, but the soon-to-be Queen arrives, and the true beloved almost dies again.  The king rushes to her and recognizes her, taking off her glove and seeing his ring.  They marry, the other princess is dismissed, and the lion is brought back into the king’s company.
 
Please join us for this tale of disguised truth, true disguises, getting lost at home and finding the truth in the woods!
 
Chapters: 
00:00 Introduction
00:13 Reading of the Story
05:54 The Symbolism of a Dish vs. a Key
08:05 The Dying King vs. a True Love
15:15 Forgetting the Wish
22:20 A Wily Leader in a Sick Social Order
27:42 The Power of Twelve
30:45 The Truth Revealed in a Challenge
34:35 Death & The Prince’s Character
41:35 Suddenly, the Magical Talking Lion
48:29 The Lion’s Relaxed Character
49:45 The Lion’s Tests
55:55 Why the Women are Disguised as Huntsmen
57:55 Why the Princess Almost Dies Twice
1:00:58 Why are the Girls Hunters?
1:05:05 Hunting in Stories and Maturity
1:08:40 The Prince Almost Loses All
1:10:55 Our Suspicion of Instinct and the Narrowing of Rationality
1:21:17 The Truth of a Disguise
1:26:12 True Compassion Leads to Insight
1:30:11 Compassion: The Lifeblood of Society
 
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I summarize John Vervaeke (& Allan Bloom) on problems of religion in modernism.  They often focus on identity, dogma, or stand for nothing.  
 
People don't go to it because it does not speak to them.  So why are people turning more to Orthodox Christianity?
 
(From a discussion on Religious Revival and Renewal)
 
Pew Article: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/08/religion-holds-steady-in-america/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
 
Richard Reeves’ Post:
​​https://x.com/RichardvReeves/status/2002400790208463046?s=20
 
AP Article about Modern Orthodoxy:
https://apnews.com/article/young-converts-online-eastern-orthodoxy-eef496dcd83a061d90a0b7aba33b6113
 
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Cathedral Photo: Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash