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Can Artists Predict the Future – With Neil DeGraide
Neil De Graide is a musician, composer and singer for Dirt Poor Robins. We discuss how artists can sometimes intuit what will happen and manifest that in their work.
How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Humanity – With Dr. Paula Boddington
Dr Boddington is the author of “Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence”. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities and has held academic positions at the University of Bristol, the Australian National University, Cardiff University, and Oxford University. She has received research awards from the Future of Life Institute, the National Institute of Health Research, and the Wellcome Trust.
Old World vs New World – with John Heers
This is an episode of the WAWTAR (why are we talking about rabbits) podcast where we look at the difference between the Old World and New World and why that is relevant today.
St-Margaret the Dragonslayer – Peaceful Protest and The Feminine Hero
For a literature class at Saskatoon University, I discuss St-Margaret (Marina) of Antioch with Mark
The Dark Knight – How to Be a Hero in an Upside Down World.
We look at how Batman in The Dark Knight shows us how to be a hero in an upside down world in the scene where kidnappers dress up their victims as perpetrators. We compare this story to Christ turning the tables over in the Temple to chase away the money changers.
Articles
Perilous Ascent: An Exploration of Actaeon and Revolution
The myth of Actaeon expresses the pattern of revolution. The purpose of this article is to analyze how this pattern is imaged within the story. In...
Thine Own of Thine Own: Symbolic Musings on the Eucharist
(Custom Artwork from David Flores)((Thanks to David Flores for his artistic collaboration. Further examples of his work can be found here and on...
Prayer, Time and Causality
In a video on the story of the prophet Jonah, Jonathan mentioned that when we pray, we connect to God through memory: The relationship between the...
Food, Sex and Communion
This post is a transcript of a video from June 2018. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. This video is based...
Chasing Inspiration – How Western Art Moved Away From Christianity
During the last seven centuries, the history of painting has been marked by a series of liberations - some intentional, others accidental. As the...
Jonah and the Upside-Down World
This post is a transcript of a video from October 2020. Thanks to Magda Andronache for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. I'm sure...
The Death of God and The Need for Symbolic Literacy
In a world where the scientific worldview is considered to be ultimate, the study of symbols, stories, and myths is looked down upon. Facts,...
The Symbolic Structure of Movies – Conan the Barbarian (1986)
For all the works of cultured man Must fare and fade and fall. I am the Dark Barbarian That towers over all. Robert E. Howard, Collected Poems 452,...
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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.