The 50 Minute Hour: Recent Episodes
Cory Banta
A corybantic exploration into the annals of history, philosophy, theology, and mind. Join Cory and Calvin as they peer into the forbidden and maddening darkness that is reality. And over a nice beverage!
Therapy boys are joined by American expat in Russia, Evan, to discuss the phenomenon of the neurosis of religious conversion and the strange psychology of modern times.
The boys discuss Dante, the angelic hierarchy, raccoon hunting, and classical astronomy.
The boys are joined by special guest Peter AKA “The Moon Man”, a man on a mission to educate about geomorphology and alternative cosmology. We also touch on the Nephilim and meta-epistemology.
Cory and his guest Gabriel discuss the art of hosting symposiums: parties that marry Apollo and Dionysius in a ceremony of good wine and conversation.
The boys sit down with dream scientist Jesse Lyon to discuss the nature of dreams and the original meaning and tradition behind the concept of the university.
The boys sit down to discuss French gourmand Savarin, food, the philosophy of taste, and the future (or lack thereof) of dining out.
The boys discuss crypto, Kanye, modern therapy, and why any hope in the immediate outer world is a distraction from inner virtue.
The boys discuss atheism, ontology, and necrotheology. As well as the everyday presence of black magic.
The boys discuss the calendar, the ontotheology of time, light pollution and looking beyond the Christian/pagan dichotomy of holy days.
The boys gather to with Jonathan and Alexander to discuss the strange phenomenon of furries.
The boys sit down initially to discuss the phenomenon of furries and feces, but end up instead discussion anti-industrialism, Tolkien, anarchism, agriculture, and the natural farming philosophy of Japanese thinker Masanobu Fukuoka.
The boys are joined by returning guest Jonathan who wishes to critique and deconstruct asceticism as an escape from the true struggle. Cory gives an apology for the ascetic path as one that is not for most but nonetheless valid perennially in many traditions.
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The boys sit down with their French friend Symeon, a scholar of Pharsi and Islam and student-teacher at the Sorbonne in Paris, to discuss neo-Platonism’s influence in Islamic and Christian thought, and its relationship to universalist thought in both traditions.
The boys discuss the culinary achievements of White Castle milkshakes, Lexington’s heritage as both the Athens of the West and the Horse Capital of the world and, in honor of Derby Day, the philosophy of sports.
The boys join Daniel, a long-time friend of Cory’s, renegade exorcist, lay theologian, and metaphysician. They discuss spirits, the occult, djinn, the nature of demons, why Satan rebelled, and more.
The boys discuss Cory’s misadventures in his youth doing educational reconnaissance, then St. John of Damascus’ strange propagandistic attack on Islam but why it scandalizes only modern Christians. For dessert, a foray into the very notions and hierarchies of truth at play in modernity and their evolutions parallel to academia and why the latter must be burned to the ground for there to be any hope of a true education, to rise from its ashes like a Phoenix.
The boys pull a Lacan and go over the 50 minute hour with our special guest Ryan, a psychonaut alchemist, as they explore the darker depths of the Pharmakon.
We apologize for the electronic buzz on Ryan's mic. During the recording session, the mic cable came loose and caused an un-fixable electronic sound in the audio. We hope it isn't too distracting.
Jonathan returns to discuss with the boys good and evil, the garden of Eden, moralism, the life of Crowley, and Plato’s concept of the good.
The boys sit down with returning guest Jonathan (of seminal fame) to discuss the illusion of morality, the failure of the west to deal with the Euthyphro dilemma, caste hierarchy as the medium of determining one’s ethical status and rules, and the theology of St. Dionysius the Areopagite who discovered the God beyond good and evil long before Nietzsche.
The boys meet up with a physicist and AI aficionado to discuss the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, the philosophy of science, and the mythology of epistemological certainty.
The boys discuss the rise and fall of psychology and its inherent relation to religion.
The boys return from hiatus to discuss what’s been happening during their absences, Freud, Jung, Kant, and 9/11
The boys return to discuss the highly misunderstood perennial or Hermetic tradition. Are all religions true? Don’t they all contradict each other? What is the Dao, the Way, the Logos, the Light?
The boys have a special guest on to discuss alchemy and the ancient wisdoms of retaining one’s semen.
The boys discuss pharmakon per Plato and the Bible, the nature of magic, shamanism and its relation to psychoanalysis and the media, hypnotism, and the ontotheology of eye contact
The boys return to discussing the demons and the occult, including vampire cults, voodoo dolls, giants, and the levels of demonic possession.
The boys discuss the realm of the demons, spirits, the occult, and their everyday effects on the world and ourselves.
The boys discuss ideology as fashion and sexuality as identity, and how unique modernity is in respect to sexuality and sexual identity compared to the rest of history.
The boys give a quick rundown of tarot and how it got corrupted in the enlightenment and the new age into becoming a divinatory art, but that at heart it has nothing to do with the "occult" or divination, and proceed to give a live reading to one of Calvin's friends, Hank.
The boys discuss over a nice pipe the (false) dichotomies of lucid dreaming and astral projection, myth and history, monotheism and polytheism, esoteric and exoteric, science and faith, dragons and dinosaurs, the word of God, and The Word of God.
The boys discuss wine moms, St. Dionysius the Areopagite in relation to Aquinas and the west, ideology, and the subliminal object of ideology.
Cory and the gang discuss icons, Plato's Phaedrus, the danger of photography, art, the Unabomber, and the perversion of religion towards the totalizing ideology of our pornographic spectacle of the modern world.
Hail! Initiation! Welcome to the first episode of "The 50 Minute Podcast!" In today's podcast, Cory Banta (host) discusses his background. Cory explains who he is, where he's from, his education, and some of what he believes. We hope you enjoy the podcast, and we are excited to bring you episode two next week.