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Hermina considers memory, recollection, the memory palace, artificial intelligence, medieval mystics, and intentional creativity. Repetitio est Mater Studiorum (?) This episode includes an interview with NeuralMonk, who works with artificial intelligence.

CREDITS

From Musopen:

Uppon la mi re by Thomas Preston, played by Peter van der Zwaag

From Wikimedia Commons: Chorale from Bach's Cantata 140

Bethena by Scott Joplin played by Richard Zimmerman

From Freesound:

drone_key-d.WAV by AntonDrone of 12-inch C# Crystal Bowl by easy_thunder

drone_key-d.WAV by Anton

Summer Rain by X3nus

From the Internet Archive:

3 Ghosts 1 by Nine inch nails

From Bandcamp:

Pink Marshmallow Mouth by City of the Asleep

By Hildegard von Bingen: "O" from O Virtus Sapientiae sung by me

Quotations from:

Plato's Phaedrus
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso
Rene Descartes
Julian of Norwich

Special thanks to NeuralMonk <3

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Hermina considers Plato's Cave, the steep path out of the cave, esoteric wisdom, pain, everyday work, cataclysmic possibilities, and hope.

Credits All music was either excerpted/edited from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.

From IMSLP: Chopin's Etude in A minor, Opus 25 #11 played by Kimiko Ishizaka Chopin's Nocturne Opus 9 No 3 in B major played by Xuan He

Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 played by Marie-Claire Alain

From Freesound.org

⁠D phase drone.wav⁠ by user Kyster

⁠Drone, Dishwasher, A.wav⁠ by user InspectorJ

From the Internet Archive: 34 Ghosts IV by Nine Inch Nails (Creative Commons)

Created by me: O frondens by Hildegard, sung by me

Quotations from:
Plato's Republic
The Wizard of Oz

Hafez, Sīne mālāmāl-e dard ast ("My heart is brimful of pain")
Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
Kafka's Zürau Aphorisms

Additional heartfelt thanks to The Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast (SHWEP).

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Hermina shares recent thoughts about the July 26th hearing, time, disclosure, fear, dread, and history. What a time.

UFO #UAP #UFOs #UAPs #disclosure #time

CREDITS:

All music was either excerpted from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.

From Freesound:
breakziq: the birth of electronic by user Qleg breakziq » the birth of electronic.wavOrchestral Cinematic Sounds » WADOT_Drone_02_D.wav by user WAProd

dark ambient » alien sky.wav by user X3nus

Purple Mountains.wav by user LeadBackToSines

Ice Cream Truck - "The Entertainer" by user soundadvices

symphony_background.wav by user X3nus

cello » cello-G2-down-bow-bridge.wav by user xserra

Music Beds 1 » Dandelion.mp3 by userTexasMusicForge

From MusOpen:
Kwartet Japoński II by Maciej Zolnowski

Congaudeant Catholici from the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus for St. James (feast day July 25) sung by me

quotes:
The Kybalion “identical in nature but different in degree”
Walt Whitman “contain multitudes”
Jesus Christ “the kingdom of God is within”
Meister Eckhart “the innermost part of the soul”

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Hermina discusses disclosure, religion, performance, symbolism, robots, and AI. 

UFO #UAP #disclosure #AI

Credits:

Quotes from Joscelyn Godwin and Albert Einstein. Also Nietzsche (briefly--"the abyss")

Additional thanks to Jocelyn Godwin whose books continue to inspire me.

All music and sounds were taken from online libraries or made by me.

From Freesound:

Cascade 1 from user be-steele

Folk tune on the lip jew's harp from user urupin 

alien sky.wav by user X3nus

From IMSLP: 

Sarastro's aria In diesen heil'gen Hallen from Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sung by Kurt Böhme with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Karl Böhm

From Youtube: 
Mein Freund ist mein by Johann Christoph Bach, recorded by Voices of Music (Ciaccona)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04VyEsm5QEU&ab_channel=VoicesofMusic-Topic

Made by me: 

clip of a piece by Perotin with added echo, sung by me

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Springtime. Grace. Meditation.

I still don't know what's going on.

UFO #UAP #Meditation

Credits:
All music was taken from royalty-free, public domain materials online.

From Freesound.org:

G-string drone by user Quilt

G-string_drone.wav

From MusOpen:
O Primavera, SV 68 by Claudio Monteverdi
played by Michel Rondeau
https://musopen.org/music/4318-o-primavera-gioventu-dellanno-sv-68/

Traccia IX by 

Massimiliano Pascucci ,

performed by Vox Àltera Ensemble

https://musopen.org/music/43822-a-te-che-per-sempre/

From Bandcamp:

Zefiro Torna by Claudio Monteverdi 
Performed by Magnificat 

https://magnificat.bandcamp.com/track/monteverdi-zefiro-torna
Classically Inclined
Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst

https://classically-inclined.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets-suite-op-32

https://bandcamp.com/download?id=1431362003&ts=1680630619.3960612377&tsig=730f8edc7ac54319def44750ffde5e33&type=album

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Et in Arcadia ego. Hermina discusses the struggles of this journey and the concept of "unknowing," a term from the medieval text The Cloude of Unknowyng.

unknowing #cloudofunknowing #growingpains #humility #etinarcadiaego #bookeofnature #beauty #truth

Credits:

From Musopen:
Omnes amici mei by Carlo Gesualdo, sung by Vox Altera ensemble

Lachrimae, or Seven Tears, 1. Lachrimae Antique by John Dowland, performed by I Solipsisti

The Bells of St. Anne de Beaupré by Alexander Russel, played by Paul Pitman

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Hermina discusses thoughts on darkness, faith, intention, virtues, psychedelics, prayer, and alchemy.

collective #consciousness #UFO #UAP #alchemy #faith #prayer #mythology #virtue

Credits:

All music was either excerpted from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings in the public domain, or created by me.

From MusOpen:

O Magnum Mysterium by William Byrd, recorded by Ensemble Morales
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, cantata for choir and orchestra by Buxthehude BuxWV 76a

From Freesound.org:
Night across the stars by user x3nus

G Drone by user Strathamer

Text sources:
Julian of Norwich, music by me

Psalm 121 and chant oral tradition, pointed by me

Text and music sources:
My faith it is an oaken staff in contrafactum by me, Tune by Amzi Chapin and text by Thomas Lynch

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Hermina shares some thoughts on etymology, binauaral beats, chant, and storytelling.

binauralbeats #chant #incantation #storytelling #meditation

Credits : Music and sounds were from online free libraries of royalty-free recordings, or made by me using compositions in the public domain, in this case by Hildegard von Bingen.

From MusOpen:

Solo e pensoso for 5 recorders – Eijkhout performed by Papalin

from me:

O virtus sapientiae by Hildegard

From freesound.org

Binaural Beats (Theta Waves 4 Hz) by Fabrizio84

The Last Mystery.wav by X3nus

From Wikimedia commons:

Schola Gregoriana-Antiphona et Magnificat.ogg

From MusOpen:

Wachet auf, Bachwerkverzeichnis 645 by JS Bach, played by Michael Schopen

I'd also like to credit both Joscelyn Godwin and Jeffrey Kripal, whose ideas have influenced my thoughts about some of the topics I discussed in this episode.

If I sounded different on this episode, I apologize but I was at the very end of recovering from a cold.

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Hermina tells the story of her UFO sighting.

UFO #UFOs #UAP #UAPs #meditation

Show Notes

The following sounds came from MusOpen:

Quartet Japonski by  Maciej Żołnowski

John Dowland's Mr. Bucton's Galliard by I Solipsisti

Anonymous Medieval Dance Tunes performed by Paul Arden-Taylor (shawm, bombarde, recorder, rauschpfeife) Elizabeth Wright & Malcolm Peake

The following sounds were used from FreeSound:

``` "CHOIR FROM 5000 SINGERS : ALUNKI as CANON" by GRAS_SG  

“pigeon_wings.flac " by Zabuhailo

“G-string_drone.wav” by Quilt

“chant.mp3” by christislord

“DSGNDron_The Breath And Rumble Of Otherworldly Menace_EM.wav**” by user newlocknew

“cambodian music 02” by user rucisko** ```