Order of the Lily and the Eagle: Recent Episodes
Kevin Pugh and Larry Van Vleet
These podcasts on the Spiritual Insights of Marie Routchine, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle, were assembled from a series of conversations recorded in late summer 2019 between two long time members of the Order, Kevin Pugh and Larry Van Vleet, to show how Marie’s unique understanding of traditional spiritual work can practically assist anyone interested in developing themselves first as an individual and then, ultimately, as an enlightened contributor to society. Marie founded the Order of the Lily and the Eagle a little over 100 years ago along with another individual named Dimitri Semelas. Her hope was to create a new, undistorted vehicle for the dissemination of traditional spiritual teaching so that a world of strong, free and morally conscience individuals might become something valued in the world. We believe that the powerful insights that came out of her creation are truly amazing in their capacity to empower change in one’s life and we hope to share at least some of that excitement with you here. Further information on the Order of the Lily and the Eagle is available at www.lilyandeagle.org or via email to lilyandeagle@archatoz.net .
This podcast is the 9th in our Series 3 podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode we take a quick look at some practical ways to deal with the problem of bad behaviour. We all run into unpleasant behaviour from time to time, but are we really very effective in how we deal with it? This talk aims to arm us with some new ideas and tools about how to approach this common problem. And of course, bad behaviour does not only due to people. We must also consider our own 'bad behaviour'.
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This podcast is the 8th in our Series 3 podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine, the founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode we briefly look at one self-change technique, a spiritual technique, that is particularly effective when used by someone who wishes to change themselves. This self-change is not difficult, but it does require committed and sustained effort to bring about a lasting result.
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This podcast is the 7th in our Series 3 podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode, the subject of this talk is happiness and how we can “be happy” in our daily lives. Everyone almost without exception says that they want to be “happy” but being truly happy seems quite elusive for many. Why is that, and how can we begin looking at happiness a little differently so that we may improve our chances of finding and keeping it.
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This podcast is the 6th in our Series 3 podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode we take a quick look at how the Order views freedom and how we might apply that view to ourselves and our struggles with its practical application. Freedom is a key principle for the Order and one of the foundational elements of any true Initiatic teaching. However, it is also something that can often be misunderstood and/or abused. Join us now for a short introduction to this interesting topic.
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This podcast is the 5th in our Series 3 podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode we take a brief look at why the Order considers it important to understand the place of Similarity and Difference in our life. From the Order’s perspective, dissimilarity or difference is one of the most critical yet often unrecognized Laws of Nature. It is central to any effort to discover and affirm one's personal individuality.
We build a rapport with others through our similarities, and then we can celebrate our differences.
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In this episode we continue our discussion of a person’s Triple Constitution by examining our third hypostases – the Spirit or Mind. The activity of Mind or Spirit is generally easier to distinguish than that of the Emotional nature or Soul, but again we often have only a vague understanding of the Spirit’s true place and role in the correct functioning of our being. This podcast clarifies some of these issues and show how the Spirit can act to bring about greater balance in our lives.
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In this OL+E podcast we cover the Soul or the Emotional or Psychic nature that we all have. This has always been a very confusing subject and one which is often mixed up with elements of the Spirit, Mind and Body. Understanding the Soul’s particular role and constitution is critical to any successful attempt at Spiritual work and in this podcast we attempt to shed some light on these distinctions.
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Continuing our 3rd series of OL+E podcast discussions on the Insights of Marie Routchine-Dupre, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle, this podcast examines the first (and easiest to recognize) component of our Triple Constitution – the Body. We all have a body, that is beyond dispute, but do we really understand the Body’s particular role in our overall Being or the specific elements it requires for living a healthy and balanced life? Do you ever wonder why we even have a body at all?
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This is the first OL+E podcast in our third series on the Insights of Marie Routchine-Dupre, the founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle.
In this podcast we chat about our physical Body, our Soul or Psyche, and our Spirit or Mind. Or we can say: what we sense, what we 'feel' and what we think. We can also say 'our Emotional or Psychic nature' for the Soul, and 'our Mental nature' for the Spirit. Our aim is to distinguish between these three underlying states so that we can begin our work of self-transformation. The essential start point is that we observe how we act, feel and think - in all our daily activities. After that we can start to ask 'why' we automatically act, feel and think in a particular way. And if we so decide, change what is our usual or typical response.
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This is the 5th in our second series of podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, founder of the Order of the Liliy and the Eagle. This episode explores what "Personality" is from the Order's point of view and takes a look at why developing a free and dissimilar personality is the foundation of all successful personal work.
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This is the 4th episode in our Series 2 podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. Here we explore some thoughts about what goes into knowing how to discover what is individually right or wrong for ourselves. It is difficult to know and everything around us attempts to stuff us with alien points of view that often keep us from expressing who we really are. Unfortunately, no one can discover much less express their own dissimilar personality if everything they use to measure that comes from influences outside of themselves.
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This is the 3rd in our second series of podcasts on the Insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, the founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode we take a look at something that is both critically important to successful Initiatic work and is also a genuine need in everyone's personal life - happiness. In general, we have found that there is often a great deal of confusion over what it means to really be happy. Yet, from the Order's perspective, being "happy" is essential to the first real step in true Initatic work which the Order says is to become normal and balanced. In this episode we try to examine this from a practical point of view.
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This podcast is the 2nd in our Series 2 talks on the Insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. It takes a look at what is involved in working with the Order and how we attempt to help people apply the Teachings in a practical manner to their daily life. Change comes about in a vast number of ways and our job is to help people to find out what individually works for them. You may be surprised at what this means for true initiatic work.
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This podcast is the first in our next group of podcast discussions on the Insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, founder of the Order of the Lilly and the Eagle. In this episode we talk about what the Order is and how it can provide practical guidance for someone interested in the work of personal transformation. We also speak about how our approach to the work of the Order takes place and how someone can become involved in our work.
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This is the 4th of our podcasts on the insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, co-founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. Previously talked a bit about the idea that all of us are uniquely dissimilar and cannot be truly happy and productive until we discover how to property manifest that uniqueness. We now take look at how dissimilarity can get distorted by our environment and the world around us. Understanding this distortion was Marie’s 4th insight is why we generally lose connection with that which we truly are.
This is the second in our series of podcasts on the insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, co-founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. Part 2 continues the discussion we began in part 1 and expands on how Marie’s teaching and the ideas of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle can lead to practical personal change. In addition to freedom, this episode also introduces the concept of personal happiness and how important understanding what real happiness is can be to personal growth.
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This is the third in our series of podcasts on the insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, co-founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. In this episode, we explore the idea of dissimilarity. Marie realized dissimilarity is found everywhere and is a fundamental law of Nature. It is also essential to spiritual growth and the practical creation of a strong and independent personality - an essential component of lasting happiness. Follow along as we explore this fascinating idea…
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This podcast is the first in a series on the insights of Marie Routchine/Dupre, co-founder of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle. It serves both as an introduction to Marie’s vision regarding the work of personal change as well an introduction to the on-going work of the Order today. Starting with some background on the Order itself, we then go into what is Marie’s fundamental insight - the idea of “freedom” and freedom’s absolutely essential role in support of human happiness.
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