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The Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood

“Little Red Cap:” A little girl, beloved by her grandmother and known for her red cap, is sent by her mother to bring her grandmother a meal.  Little Cap assures her mother she’ll follow all directions, and goes off on the trail.  
 
She is not afraid of the wolf when she sees him, and he peppers her with questions, learning of her destination, where he’ll get two victims.  They walk together and he points out the natural life around them she is not paying attention to.  She raises her eyes and runs after nosegay after nosegay off the path for her grandmother, and the wolf runs ahead of her.
 
At G-ma’s house, the wolf pretends he’s Cap, gaining entry into grandmother’s cottage, devours the old woman and disguises himself as her.  Little Cap, arms full of flowers, is surprised to see the door open, crying “good morning” as her mother had admonished, and walks in.  The famous dialogue proceeds, with the little girl noticing the wolf’s features, crescendoing into his devouring her.  
 
Wolf, sated, snores loudly, drawing the attention of the Woodsman, who goes to check on grandmother.  He snips open the carnivore’s stomach and his meal pops out.  Little Cap fetches stones, and they fill the wolf’s belly with them and he falls dead.  Grandmother is revived with the cake and wine her granddaughter brought.
 
Another time, Cap took cakes to her grandmother and was approached by another wolf, and they shut the old Greybeard out after she arrived, and he lurked.  Grandmother got Red Cap to carry sausage water outside and pour it into the trough, and the wolf, smelling it, slipped off the roof and drowned in the trough.  And Little Red Cap was free of the wolf menace.
 
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Little Red Riding Hood Reading
08:59 Beloved Little Girl Goes Out to Visit Grandmother
10:23 Mother Sends Riding Hood Off
12:10 Naïve Hood
14:21 The Wolf’s Knowledge
16:04 Finally, Red Cap Feels Unease
17:33 Stories End with Her Being Eaten
20:02 Crafty Red Riding Hood
20:51 A Didactic Tale
22:20 Wolf vs Red Cap
22:52 Red Cap’s Innocence and the Wolf’s Lust
26:08 The Wolf’s Sinning
28:05 The Hunter vs. the Wolf
28:38 The Female Characters Weaknesses
30:01 This Tale Warned You
32:50 The Second Wolf & Sausages
34:30 The Black & White Contrasts of this Story Heighten its Drama
 
(A Clip from the Episode “The Red Silk Ribbon” by Franx Xavier Von Schönwerth)
 
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The Mermaid’s Manipulation (Clip)

The mermaid's deal with the fisherman: she gives him an abundant catch without telling him, and then takes it away unless he'll agree to her demand.  In order to get his livelihood back he must sacrifice his child to her.  He appeals to a higher authority in a Christian society, and this forstalls the child offering.  These complexities and moral ambiguities remind me of great power negotiations, which, unlike those within a country and a system of laws, are more like those done in a state of nature.
(A Clip from the Episode “The Red Silk Ribbon” by Franx Xavier Von Schönwerth)
 
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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
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

Ancient Greek Theater was Nothing Like Our Own (Clip)

Why Dionysus May Be the Patron of Theater: A well-told story will shake you and has the power of psychological transformation.  A death to your former self.  A communal experience with a large part of those you grew up with and knew well, seeing a story that you knew deeply, with the reflection of your reactions in the chorus on stage.  It seems that Greek theater could be a transformative religious experience. 
 
(A Clip from the episode “Dionysus: Death, Rebirth, Transformation”)
 
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About our guest:
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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
 
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Von Schönwerth’s “The Red Silk Ribbon”

A fisherman employed by a Count that paid him well for how big his catches were suddenly stopped catching fish and was let go.  Sat out on water, weeping.  Mermaid came to him and said she was the one who gave him all the fish and then took them away, and that if he wanted more he’d have to give her something he didn’t know he had.  He agreed and caught a large load.
Went home and shocked his wife with the news– she told him she was with child.  They were saddened but said they’d make the boy be a man of the cloth, and comforted themselves with the catch, which the man brought to the Count and thereby became re-employed.  
When the boy, whom they named Lucas, was of age, he took the vows, but he could not perform his first sermon because he was promised to the Mermaid.  So he became a cooper (maker and repairer of casks and tubs) and went on the road with that.
One day he saw a bear, a fox, a falcon and an ant quarreling over how to divide a horse’s carcass.  Lucas gave the fore- and hindquarters to the bear, the back to the fox, the innards to the falcon and the head to the ant.  He walked away but the bear sent the fox after him to express their gratitude.  The animals gave him the power to change into any of their forms at will.  He burst out laughing and went on.
To test his power, when he came upon some partridges pecking at grain Lucas turned into a fox and got as many of the birds as he could carry.  He then went on and came to an inn, where he had the birds roasted.  After he went to sleep behind the stove.  Four men entered and started playing cards, and one amassed quite a small fortune.  Lucas became an ant, crawled over, transformed into a bear and overturned the table, scattering the money and frightening the cardplayers into fleeing.  
Lucas took his “catch” back on the road and came to a town with a black flag and people in mourning.  A king had three beautiful daughters and had decided to make the middle his heir, but the sisters looked so alike that people could not tell them apart.  Anyone who could choose the middle could marry her, but if he failed, he’d be executed.  Many had tried unsuccessfully, and that was why the town was in mourning.
Lucas decided to try his hand, and he espied in the castle, which was surrounded by a deep moat, a garden, and in it three beautiful girls.  He flew as a falcon into it and allowed one to capture him.  She put him into a golden cage in her room and went to sleep, and he emerged as a man in splendid clothing and took her hand.  He professed her love to her and she said she was the middle.  She tied a red silk ribbon around her finger to distinguish her from her sisters.
The next day, Lucas showed up at the castle to claim his bride.  The king and others mourned for this handsome lad to be the next victim of the executioner, who was getting ready off to the side.  But when the three daughters were presented, the middle stepped forward slightly and he saw the ribbon.  Everyone rejoiced at his pick and he was made heir and they lived together happily for years.
 
One day Lucas wanted to go off hunting, but his wife had a bad premonition and asked him not to go, but he insisted.  Carrying a deer he’d killed, he ignored his mother’s warning to stay away from water, and he was snatched below by a mermaid.  The wife heard the news and mourned him at the stream, and the mermaid came up and said not to worry, that he was happy.  She asked to see her husband and she was shown his face, offering her golden comb, and by giving away her ring, then her slipper, he was allowed to progressively emerge until he was in his wife’s hand, and can you imagine, he then turned into a falcon and escaped.
The mermaid disappeared and came back and blew blue sand into the face of the queen, who turned into a dragon.  The kingdom was again in trouble, and the king announced the need for help throughout the land.  A magician came and asked if the princess could endure the difficult cure.  Three ovens of progressive heat were procured, and she was put into each one, emerging first with soft skin, then split out of the skin, then naked as herself, each time cooled with water.  Lucas threw his cape on her and they lived happily ever after now that the mermaid no longer had claim to them.
 
00:00 Introduction to VonSchönwerth’s Newly Discovered Tales
03:04 Summoning of the Muse for Odysseus, Another Lost Man
04:49 Summary of Von Schonwerth’s “The Red Silk Ribbon”
11:05 The Mermaid’s Blackmail
15:36 Nature She Giveth and She Taketh Away
17:12 From Priest to Caskmaker, Lucas Struggles on the Mermaid’s Line 
21:01 Lucas and the Four Animals 
28:01 Interest in the Wisdom of the People
29:10 A Wily Man Searching for Higher Things
32:49 Getting in Touch with the Father
36:31 Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths
42:07 The Princess and the Mermaid
46:11 End of the Story: The Prince Must Be Drowned
51:33 Complications and Cross Forms in Stories
57:57 Folktales and the Unknowns of Parenting
1:00:46 You Have to Offer Something Real in Life, Something Vital
1:05:29 The Warning of the Mermaid

Communism and Strong Men (Clip)

We talk of the danger of applying strict logic to every situation, without using discernment.  But we live in a world with a lot of mystery to our brains.  So you must have wisdom to best know how, when, and how much to apply logic.  Our conversation meanders to Lois Lowry’s “The Giver,” where there is a rigorous discipline around the use of words.  Ian opines that there is an overemphasis on belonging in this society, and he contrasts this with strong man fascism.  
(From a discussion on Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood: “Little John Lives with the Sheriff”)
 
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About our guest:
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He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
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Von Schönwerth's "The King's Bodyguard"

The king appoints his handsomest soldier to be his bodyguard and sends him to a nobleman with a beautiful daughter.  He tells the daughter not to speak to any soldiers, but she and he grow intimate.  After there is a baby, the nobleman sends the bodyguard away for three feathers from the tail of a dragon who lives on a glass mountain.
 
On the way, he comes to a country where the king has lost a golden chain, and he is only allowed to leave when he promises to learn how to get it from the dragon.  The second year he does the same with a king with a barren fig tree, and the third with two men who cannot stop ferrying people across a river.
 
At the glass mountain, the dragon’s wife tells him to hide, that she is not supposed to talk to anyone, but she ends up getting the feathers from her sleeping husband after he comes home and finding out the information.  The soldier, on the way back, tells the ferrymen to declare, “I am free!” after their last trip with him, and they are.  He then reveals the poison fruit buried under the fig tree, and in the sixth year of his journey, he tells the king where to dig to find the golden chain, and he is rewarded with an army.  
 
Upon returning, he sees the nobleman has been reduced to selling his dishes in the market.  He has his men smash the dishes, then again the next day when the nobleman still does not recognize him.  The father then recognizes his son-in-law, who is now allowed to marry his daughter, he himself is restored to the court, and they live happily ever after.
 
00:00 Podcast Intro
00:37 Summary of Von Schonwerth’s “The King’s Bodyguard”
06:26 A Drunken Storytelling  
09:05 The Highest Man 
11:32 A Very Intimate Relation, but It’s Not Enough
13:55 The Tyrant and Beauty
17:14 The Slick Feminine and the Glass Mountain
19:47 The Heroism and Beauty  of the King’s Bodyguard
24:26 The Nobleman, Hoarding His Daughter, Helps out Everyone
26:12 Beauty, Celebrity and Artifice
27:20 What’s with the Dragon on the Glass Mountain?
32:26 Make Yourself Small in the House of God
36:46 Not Knowing Your Task Until You Set Out
40:55 Proper Fear of the Lord
45:28 Judas and The Circuitous Rightness of Relations
51:27 Bad Leads to Good in Right Stories
54:33 Don’t Bring God Bad Vibes
56:16 Breaking Hoarded Plates and Daughters
1:01:10 The Bodyguard’s Useful Respect and Dutifulness
1:04:39 The Hurdle Philosophy and Aggressive Moral Emotions
1:10:24 Let People Have Their Suffering
1:15:27 Buddha, is There a God?  
1:22:59 Uncertainty
1:24:11 Plausibility, not Certainty
1:29:16 Not Everything is a Problem
 
(A Clip from the episode “Von Schönwerth’s “The King’s Bodyguard”)
 
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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
 
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The Scorned Princess Also Acted Out of Personal Motives (Clip)

The Princess’s Personal Agenda in “Knapsack, Hat & Horn”
 
I view this as a cautionary tale: be respectful of someone with great power.  This story also resembles the Von Schönwerth story “The Scorned Princess,” and I talk about that story.  
 
(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s ”The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn”)
 
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Dionysus: Death, Rebirth, Transformation

Ian and I discuss the Greek-Roman god Dionysus-Bacchus.  He reads an Orphic poem and then I gloss various stories put together into a narrative in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.  This is a fascinating discussion of a god with opposing features: of gentleness, compassion, and persuasion, but also of wild revelry, frenzy, and terrible violence.  We discuss this divinity of the vine, of natural vitality cultivated on a structure, and of rebirth after dissolution, whose product leads to new “creativity” and destruction.  He is a god of death and rebirth, and hence, of transformation, and we talk about his spirit’s contribution to the transformation and rebirth of individuals in life and civilizations in their lives. 
 
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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.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:12 The Meaning of BenOMTAD
01:01 Format of this Episode
01:25 Recalling the Oracle
02:46 Ian on the Orphic Hymn
04:05 Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology” on Dionysus
14:56 Thoughts on the Murder of Pentheus by the Maenids
18:05 A Possible Earlier Version of Dionysus
23:26 A Dionysian Lineage
26:45 Humanity Born from the Titans, in this Telling
28:20 Gold Leaf Possible Evidence for Dionysus’s Role in Creating Humanity
30:46 This Interesting Side Myth
32:25 Liking the Multiple Local Myths and Thinking of Renewal
34:51 We are an Ultra Social Species
36:04 Multiple Facets of Dionysus and Renewal
37:16 Dionysus’ Rebirth from Semele
39:03 Unwelcome Dionysus
40:17 A Bit on Nietzsche’s Dionysian vs Apollonian
42:53 Why Dionysus May Be the Patron of Theater
44:22 The Transformative Place of Theater in Greek Culture
50:58 How is Dionysus Transformative?
59:42 The Direct Metaphor of Grapes to the Character of Dionysus
01:05:14 Orpheus
01:14:30 Theme: If You Do Not Dissolve in the Transformative Process, You Will Be Destroyed
01:18:50 Balancing the Dionysian and Apollonian in Meditation
01:19:18 How Orpheus Lost His Faith
01:26:18 A Prophetic Warning for Our Civilization
01:28:29 This Balance is Also Our Challenge Every Day
01:37:32 If We Don’t Have Faith, It Could Come and We Won’t Even See It
01:41:25 My Own Story of Ignored Creativity
01:44:03 Our Intention with This Podcast

The Strange Power of Losing Something Every Day (Anna Mayala Clip)

If you’re mindful, you’re better able to connect to and serve others.  How does one get so?  Getting back to what naturally arises.  
 
(From a discussion on Von Schönwerth’s “Anna Mayala”)
 
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Howard Pyle’s Robin Hood: Little John Lives with the Sheriff

The Sheriff, out hunting with the town notables, wishes John were with them.  The bugle calls, and back at the castle, John awakens.  He thinks of his compadres over in Sherwood– the green men, and sees how he’s grown fat in the six Fall and Winter months with the Sheriff.  He goes to the pantry and asks the Steward for some meat and bread, and the fat man, envious of John’s closeness to the Sheriff, says it’s too late for breakfast.  John stomps over to it and breaks into the larder and starts to partake, and knocks the guard out when he intervenes.
 
The cook, spit in hand, runs over at the commotion.  The Steward bribes him to stop John, and he draws his sword and the Steward flees.  John reasons with the cook– one of us might go to Heaven by the end of the day, how about doing so on a full belly?  They size each other up respectfully as they fill up on pie and sack.
 
Time to fight: they draw and withdraw to a large corridor, but after an hour no one has gotten the better of the other.  Leaning on their weapons, they reason that they’re the strongest of the lot of the place, and John tempts the cook with the promise of camaraderie with the Green Men, so they abscond with the Sheriff’s food and silver.
 
Back in Sherwood, the men are merry at John’s rejoining them.  But Robin Hood’s face is grave: the Sheriff has not done wrong and does not deserve this recompense.  John moves to rectify his error and goes out to the Sheriff, drawing him to the group with promise of a herd of jumpy game.  The Sheriff despondently drinks with Hood and is sent back to the town bigwigs with a big lumpy sack of silver.  And that is the tale of how Little John ended his tenure with the Sheriff of Nottingham.
 
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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.