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Arrival & Exodus: the Sci-Fi Film’s Hidden Framework
The 2016 film, Arrival, by Director Denis Villeneuve, is subtly structured by the Exodus Journey. Louise is like Moses leading the twelve nations of humanity out of bondage…
The Incarnation of Meaning in a De-Incarnated World
“For he was incarnate that we might be made god; and he manifested himself through a body that we might receive an idea of the invisible Father; and he endured the insults of human beings, that we might inherit incorruptibility.”((St. Athanasius the Great of...
Introduction to Symbolism
Jonathan Pageau and JP Marceau introduce the symbolic worldview.
This is a transcript of a french podcast recorded in February 2021.
The Symbolic Structure of the Trisagion Prayers
More than a dozen times a day according to the Horologion (or “Book of Hours”) of the Eastern Rite, the Church prays the Trisagion prayers as part of…
On Essence and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist: Finding Identity, Community and Mission in a Meaningless World
For Mémé Darling and your life of real assent. Your “grain of wheat” continues to bear much fruit. Ours is an acedic age, one of distraction, where we wander about like chimeras, fragmented beings hungry for meaning.((Pageau, Jonathan. “March Q&A 2021,” at...
Joan of Arc: Antidote to Symbolic Inversion
Inverted depictions Symbolism expert Jonathan Pageau recently put out a video addressing a viewer’s question about the movie The Green Knight. A few months back, Pageau had made another video discussing the symbolism of the original Green...
Why Stories? Because the Cosmos is more poem than proposition
Logos without mythos is itself the great myth of modernity, the Cosmos itself is communication, Being is communion. As such, there are no other means to access truth other than narrative, imagination, emotion, and rhetoric.
On the Fairy Forest
Near my home lies a fairy forest. It started in the winter of 2020 and has gradually grown through the spring of 2021. At first blush, this folk project may seem a strange phenomenon, but its existence shows not only a longing for, but the inevitable return of...
The Symbolism of Contraception and Natural Family Planning
Now that almost everyone accepts the use of contraception, the continued opposition of traditional Christians can seem stubborn. And since many debates around the issue take place in a highly theological language that appears abstruse to many modern people, the whole...
The Transfiguration on Mount Tabor: The Symbolism of the Mountain
This article takes a look at the symbolism of the mountain in order to eludicate the meaning behind the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. To do this, it uses symbolism of the mountain across the globe (Asia, Indo-Europeans, Mesopotamia) and looks into the biblical symbolism of those higher realities.