On this podcast Aaron continues reading his notes from the book Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, by James H. Billington. On this installment some links to modern day transhumanism are mentioned. There is also plenty of exploration of occult subjects.
Topics include: Bavarian Illuminati, Illuminists, Adam Weishaupt, political occultism, secret societies, Bonneville, death and rebirth ritual, mass initiation, Dan Brown, Marechal, revolution of the mind, Buonarotti, private property, socialism, no such thing as bad publicity, Pythagoras, Philadelphia, Napoleon, Greece, Rome, numerology, nature, radical simplification, lower animal nature in man, Rosicrucians, Bonneville, Universal Brotherhood, Masonry, one world political system, primordial language, Benjamin Franklin, pentagon symbolism, hand, dialectic, extremist politics, Italian Carbonari, Greek revolution, student revolutionaries, Decembrists, Russia, France, nationalists and socialists, Giuseppe Mazzini, tricolor flags, Poland, Italy, The Outlaws, Marquis de Lafayette, aristocrat, Thomas Jefferson, volcano, sun, Swiss revolution, James Fazy, intelligentsia, Saint Simon, George Hegel, scientific method, technocracy, Saint Simonianism, Social Darwinism, eugenics, secularize society, recreate human biology, androgyny, transhumanism, East, feminine, University of Berlin, Prussia, zeitgeist, alchemy, dissolution, cybernetics, Trentowski, creative destruction, social transformation, Louis Phillipe, conservatism, propaganda, Society of Flowers, communitarian, atheism, England, coffee houses, phrenology
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