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Masks as Veils
Symbolism of masks in the current context and how they relate to religious veils.
Original Sin and the Meaning Crises – with John Vervaeke
This is a discussion I had with John Vervaeke’s for his podcast Voices with Vervaeke. We discuss a reinterpretation of Original Sin, Covid the protest and how the meaning crisis has been brought into our bodies.
Creating A Cosmic Image
I describe my most recent drawing in which I try to create a synthesis of the Symbolic World.
July 2020 Q&A
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Jordan Peterson and the Stories We Live In.
I look at the effect of Jordan Peterson on culture, the similarities in our though as well as my differences with him regarding the importance of stories. Th…
The Ecstasy of 2020 – Stoa Discussion
This video was taken from an even I did for the Stoa in which I gave a synthesis of the madness we have seen in 2020. We look at Covid, BLM protests, the upc…
Articles
A Symbolic Meditation on Hiroshima at 75: Divine-Human Transfiguration and Transhuman Disfiguration
We tend to forget that the advent of the Atomic Age, with the destruction of Hiroshima in a single bomb blast 75 years ago on August 6, 1945, was...
Marshall McLuhan and Eastern Christianity: Probing an Interfaith Interface with the Symbolic World in Mind
Canadian literary critic Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) became at once a media personality and a media guru in the 1960s, with his ground-breaking...
The Beheaded Woman Still Alive
Be astonished: a beautiful woman, beheaded 1,700 years ago, still lives. She is the patron of miners, tunnellers, armourers, military engineers,...
The Symbolism of Maximillian Robespierre’s Final Moments
Maximilian Robespierre was the leader of the French Revolution, which promised to free France from the tyranny of despots. For centuries, the French...
The Symbolism of Anti-Vaxxing
I will look at the symbolism of anti-vaxxer (anti-vaccination) conspiracy theories. First, anti-vaxxers validly intuit …
Garden of Earthly Delights
Recently, an unhappy person who has been living on the fringes, sent a message to her friends that the darkness was lifting. She now understands the...
Joyful Suffering in Christ – How The Cross Brings Cosmic Meaning to Our Afflictions
In a previous post, I introduced St Paul’s head-body symbolism. In this post, I want to examine one of his richest and most meaningful uses of this symbolism.
From Mines to Mountains – How the World’s Best-Selling Video Game Mirrors Ancient Cosmology
Video games are the pinnacle of modern entertainment for many. They can be complex storytelling devices that allow us to explore new worlds. In...
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About
Jonathan Pageau
Professional Icon Carver
Jonathan Pageau is a professional artist, writer and public speaker, giving workshops and conferences all around North America. He teaches carving, speaks on art, but mostly explores symbolic structures that underlie our experience of the world.
Through his YouTube channel and podcast, The Symbolic World, he also furthers the conversation on symbolism, meaning and patterns in everything from movies, to icons, to social trends.
Articles on the The Symbolic World are contributed by several writers engaged with Jonathan in the exploration of Symbolism across all fields.
To see the Jonathan’s art, please visit his carving website, his Patreon Art page or follow him on social media.