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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great question for Randy! Not sure if he’s on here!

Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Danny Layne interviews Randolph Dible about his mystical insights, focusing on his thoughts about divinity. He offers many book recommendations and the conversation eventually turns toward the erotic! #philsky #booksky #philosophy

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey there! Just here to announce "You Are God: Randolph Dible on the Infinite Sphere? The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 45" palinode.substack.com/p/you-are-go...

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You Are God. Randolph Dible on the Inifinite Sphere

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dr. Danny Layne, joined by co-host Dr. Tyler Tritten, interview Dr. Drew Dalton about his book series on #Levinas, longing, #resistance, #pessimism, #evil, and materialistic #monism. They collaboratively tease out Platonic themes and tell some fun stories in the process.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our newest podcast episode just dropped: A #Platonism Without the Good? A Conversation With Drs. Drew Dalton and Tyler Tritten The Ladder: Journeys in #Platonic Mysticism, Episode 44 palinode.substack.com/p/a-platonis... #philsky #philosophy

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A Platonism Without the Good? A Conversation With Drs. Drew Dalton and Tyler Tritten

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're at it again! Announcing "Process and Potential: Rethinking Whitehead, and Footnotes to Plato" "The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism" #43 Drs. Matthew Segall and Eli Kramer join host Dr. Danny Layne to discuss #Whitehead and #Plato. palinode.substack.com/p/process-an... #philsky

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Process and Potential. Rethinking Whitehead, and Footnotes to Plato with Dr. Matthew Segall and Dr. Eli Kramer

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Friend of the podcast Dr. Greg Shaw returns and joins host Dr. Danny Layne to talk with Dr. Sam Webster about his life and what it means to practice #Platonism according to the Order of the Golden Dawn.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Announcing: “Doing Platonism: Theurgy and the Golden Dawn” The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 42 Substack link: palinode.substack.com/p/doing-plat... #philsky #philosophy #mysticism #occult #theurgy

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Doing Platonism: Theurgy and the Golden Dawn with Dr. Sam Webster and Dr. Gregory Shaw

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The conversation begins with a recap of part I, followed by a description of theurgy, the last phase of the ascent. Subsequently, our interlocutors discuss a range of related topics, spanning Plato’s Phaedrus, the power of love, and anecdotes about exemplars of Platonic virtue. #Classics

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this much anticipated follow-up episode Dr. Danny Layne concludes the ascent of the scale of virtues with Drs. Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga and Michael Griffin. Dr. Costero-Quiroga is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, where Dr. Griffin is Professor of Greek Philosophy.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We did it. We dropped it. The sequel to the ascent. palinode.substack.com/p/ascending-... Ascending the Scale of Virtues Parts II and III with Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga and Michael Griffin The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 41 #PhilSky #Philosophy #Platonism #Neoplatonism

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Ascending the Scale of Virtues Parts II & III: with Sonsoles Costero-Quiroga and Michael Griffin

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She joins Dr. Danny Layne and Dr. Gareth Polmeer for a conversation about her book: A #History of Light: The Idea of Photography. Together they shed light on the many ways in which #Platonists think about #imagery and photography.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This week’s guest is extra special for our 40th episode! Not only is Dr. Theresa Mikuriya a Palinode team member and a photographer, she’s a Professor of #Photography and the History of Thought at the London School of Film, Media and Design, University of West London.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Big announcement. The 40th episode of our flagship podcast "The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism" just dropped a day early. Check it out here: palinode.substack.com/p/the-divine... "The Divine Imprint: Light, Photography & Platonic Illumination with Dr. Theresa Mikuriya" #philsky

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The Divine Imprint: Light, Photography & Platonic Illumination with Dr. Theresa Mikuriya

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That takes for me a lot of preparation. I think about Nietzsche writing #Zarathustra or #Julian [of Norwich] writing these things and everybody looking at her like she's a crazy lady. -Danny Layne at 51:30 of "A Potent Alchemy: Platonism and the Abrahamic Tradition."

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A Potent Alchemy: Platonism and the Abrahamic Tradition

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can't learn that from a teacher who has the PowerPoints and the elbow patches and does it the “right” way. You need these figures who are willing to saturate themselves with life even at the moment of death…

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have lived life in such a way that I am not afraid to die, that I can be put up on that cross. I can drink that hemlock. I can shut myself in my room after my family has been…cast out or whatever it might be…You can't learn that from a politician.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think of the Übermensch not in the kind of Ayn Randian way but more in the Thus Spoke Zarathustra kind of way where it is a love affair with life and wisdom…that allows #Nietzsche's Zarathustra to say, give me a free death…I can say yes when death comes…because I've had this love affair.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Danny Layne is joined by friends Gareth Polmeer and Rob Gray in a conversation rooted in a quote from #Ezekiel. The #Bible, #Julian of Norwich, and Henry #Corbin emerge prominently and intriguingly in this discussion about the intersection of Platonic #philosophy & #spirituality.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here it is, your weekly dose of #Platonic inspiration! A Potent Alchemy: Platonism and the Abrahamic Tradition The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 39 Substack Link: palinode.substack.com/p/a-potent-a... #philsky #academicsky #theology #religion #history

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A Potent Alchemy: Platonism and the Abrahamic Tradition

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We can learn to play the scale in a way that produces beauty and the good because we were doing that work of ascending and descending, of valuing the highest of high notes and the lowest of low notes. #philosophy #philsky #Plato #music #Platonism #neoplatonism

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Platonism has never been a philosophy of subjects and objects, never been a philosophy where we have to GET to the forms. We are in a radical connectivity, a radical participation. It's a matter of whether or not we can ATTUNE ourselves to them.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Music reminds us that we're not just notes all by ourselves, right? We're not alone, right? We belong to a song and that song is moving and changing...And so that music is also a testament to the living nature of virtue, the good life, what's real, what we can know...

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

which is the fact that what really is at the heart of it is this dynamism, this living connection, this more mitochondrial networking of relation than things and subjects and objects... This indefinite activity or life that's music...

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And what we need to do is get to the real and find some sort of methodology that gets us to the real objects, the real world. And one of the things that Sebastian said is something that I have always loved about Neoplatonism, but particularly Platonism

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Host Danny Layne, at 18:36 of "Untune the Sky...": We've been living in a kind of metaphysic ontological world that wants to think about identity and subjects and objects and...label things that are always...exactly the way they are...

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Dr. Sebastian Moro Tornese at 32:12 of the most recent episode of our "Platonic Mysticism" podcast series "Untune the Sky...": as #Alcibiades says in the #Symposium, #Socrates is like a Silenus. He is this ecstatic figure because his words are like #magic. He has this power of #ecstasy.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One notable response, from guest Stephen Rego at 25:25: It's interesting that music affords this dynamic approach to Platonism, which is what it should be.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Wondering why we tagged Nietzsche, Apollo, and Dionysus? Check out the podcast!

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Though the conversation remains rooted in #Platonic dialogues such as the #Timaeus and #Republic, it becomes clear throughout that the influence of these great works on the #history of music and the philosophy thereof is extensive. #classics #ancientGreekphilosophy #Nietzsche #Apollo #Dionysus

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Host Dr. Danielle Layne interviews two Palinode friends/colleagues about their scholarship and interests in #Neoplatonism and #music.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Let's Goooo! We're dropping another podcast episode for everyone! Untune the Sky: Dr. Sebastian Moro Tornese and Mr. Stephen Rego on Music and the Neoplatonic Cosmos The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 38 palinode.substack.com/p/untune-the... #philosophy #philsky

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Untune the Sky: Dr. Sebastian Moro Tornese and Mr. Stephen Rego on Music and the Neoplatonic Cosmos

Watch now | The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 38

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of our favorites! Touched upon in many of our podcast episodes! See the summaries for details!

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Our Platonic Mysticism podcast “The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism” makes us I think a relevant addition to this starter pack. Can someone please add us?

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We are a philosophy non-profit with a Substack! Though to be fair, we publish podcasts, not blog posts.

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Guest Dr. Robert Neville joins guest host Dr. Tyler Tritten and beloved regular host Dr. Danny Layne to discuss Neville’s body of work as it relates to Platonic #mysticism. Topics covered include but are not limited to #Plato’s #Republic, #Aristotle, #God, #Raphael, and Chinese #philosophy. #philsky

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Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Announcing our newest podcast episode! Rethinking Raphael, Creation, and a Few Other Things: Bob Neville’s Wild Ride Through the Ages and the Cosmos The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 37 open.substack.com/pub/palinode...

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Rethinking Raphael, Creation, and a Few Other Things: Bob Neville’s Wild Ride Through the Ages and the Cosmos

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