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Gods, Angels and Demons – With Fr. Andrew Damick and Fr. Stephen De Young
Fr. Andrew and Fr. Stephen are hosting a new podcast called Lord of Spirits which explores the reality of gods, angels, demons and spirits. They look at the Bible and Tradition to help modern people understand how the term “monotheism” does not apply to traditional Christianity.
The Meaning of Prince Ivan and The Gray Wolf
Prince Ivan and The Grey Wolf is one of the most famous Russian fairy tales. In the wake of the new podcast “In a Certain Kingdom” by Nicholas Kotar, where he will tell and discuss these Russian tales, I interpret the Prinve Ivan story in detail, looking at how it maps unto the pattern of reality.
Why Symbolism? – from Focul de Tabără (Campfire podcast)
We look at a basic defense of Symbolism and how it is different from hermeneutics. This is an interview I gave for the Romanian “campfire” youtube channel.
Jesus vs Barrabas
In the Gospel, we are presented with a choice between Jesus and Barrabas. This relationship is emphasized by the text itself, but it also acts as a fail-safe in the Christian story to avoid certain excesses.
August 2020 Q&A
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Emergence and Narrative – Vervaeke, Vanderklay, Pageau
John Vervaeke, Paul Vanderklay and myself discuss the question of the meaning crisis, the reality of emergence/emanation and the value of narrative. This conversation brought about many elements we have not discussed before in our one our previous encounters.
Articles
How the Lord’s Prayer Contains All of Creation
This post is a transcript of a video released in March 2020. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription, and to JP Marceau for the edition. One of...
The Consolation of Fantasy
In my previous post for The Symbolic World, I tried to show how telling and enjoying fairy tales is not a childish or simple-minded pursuit. It's a...
The Silicon Monster
Some years ago, a scandal broke out over whether a young man was cheating in an international chess tournament. Nobody knew for sure, but the...
The Way To The Country From Which The Shadows Fall: Part, The Second
This will be the second, and final installment in a short series dealing with The Golden Key by George MacDonald.
The Symbolism of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hamelin is a quaint little tourist town in the north-western state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Most of its tourism stems from the infamous folk tale...
Turning to Stone
About twelve years ago in a coal mine over half a mile deep beneath Donetsk, in Ukraine, workers found a wheel embedded in the hard sandstone,...
A Church in the Landscape
Saint Paul wrote that we could see and understand God’s eternal power and divine nature through the things he had made…
Washing Feet
Transcript of a Patreon-only video on the feet washing rituals that recently occurred in George Floyd protests.
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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.