Articles
Zombies and the Eucharist
Jonathan and JP explain how the zombie is a symbol of the materialism and nihilism of our society. Further, they explain how the Eucharist is the solution to the zombie problem.
A Logos Runs Through It: Heraclitus Reveals A Symbolic Framework for Psychological Identity
The presocratic philosophers recognized the world is diverse, dynamic, and that human beings were prone to illusions. At the same time, they at least tried to understand the world in a coherent manner. The context of the presocratic, ancient world was one suffused...
The Mandalorian, the Nativity, and the Seed of Hope
The arrival of a mysterious green child a long time ago in a galaxy far far away has a surprising correlation to the events surrounding the advent of a child born in Bethlehem 2,000 years in the past…
The Symbol of Faith(fulness)
This article will analyse the symbol of faith (the “symbol of Nicea”). The intent is to show that faith is not about a passive epistemological naivety, but rather the ground of knowledge actuated through a (communal) relation to God and active participation (faithfulness).
The Green Knight and the Paradigm of De-souled Symbolism
In my last article, I presented the symbol of Joan of Arc as an antidote to the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of symbolic inversion, the technique of turning archetypal symbols upside-down. In doing so, I made brief reference to the use of this technique in the...
The Real Is Returning: Why Is Symbolism So Popular Today?
Look and make it according to the pattern, that was shewn thee in the mount.
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…