Content & Media
The Symbolic World provides content which attempts to awaken a new symbolic vision of the world. Jonathan Pageau explores traditional symbolism from religious imagery as well as other legends and stories. He also uses symbolic patterns to interpret the modern world, its cultural manifestation and historical movements. Most content featured here appears as YouTube videos, podcasts made by Jonathan as well as guest appearances on other platforms.
Understanding the Icons of Holy Week
During Holy Week, the Orthodox faithful will see several icons in the center of the church being commemorated. These icons speak to each other regarding their elements and brought together with other liturgical elements, they participate in a powerful symphony of meaning.
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Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy Exist
We help people understand how beings that are not concrete and measurable, can nonetheless exist, and inevitably so.
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Accelerationism and Dancing with Death
Accelerationism, the notion that we should aggravate the current chaos in order for things to break down and bring about a better world is an idea that has been resurfacing now for some time. We look at the issues it can bring about on a social, but also a personal scale.
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Mass Shooters and The Tyranny of The Individual
The recurring image of the mass shooter is a symptom of celebrity culture, where our attention, rather than being taken by our transcendent purpose and common identity is rather tyrannized y a succession of excesses.
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Put your questions in the comment section of this post. Looking forward to seeing you on April 30th at 9pm EDT. link-https://youtu.be/SHEoKWKhCMc https://youtu.be/SHEoKWKhCMc
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Looking forward to seeing you on April 30th at 9pm EDT link-https://youtu.be/SHEoKWKhCMc https://youtu.be/SHEoKWKhCMc link-https://youtu.be/SHEoKWKhCMc
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Food, Sex and Communion
Explaining some of the symbolic relationships between eating, the fall of Adam, sex and how all of these elements come together in the sacrament of communion.
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The Langauge of Creation | with Matthieu Pageau
Matthieu Pageau’s book, The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis is now available on Amazon. Matthieu and I discuss the impetus for writing such a book on Biblical symbolism. We look at the basic ideas in the book as well as how these answer the major problems we are faced today in terms of world view.
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Kabbalah, Occultism, Freemasonry and Jordan Peterson – Stop Being Silly
In the wake of many attacks on Jordan Peterson, I look at the danger of reducing symbolic structures to their historical association with groups, schools of thinking and occult personalities.
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Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse | The Web of Identity
I discuss the symbolism of Spider-Man into The Spider-Verse with Thomas Wijnaendts van Resandt of the Storytellers channel. We look at how the movies shows us the manner in which we enter and participate in a common identity.
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