This episode kicks off with a question about Hollywood and what goes into deciding who gets to become a celebrity with the power to influence the public. This unfolds into an eye-opening exploration of celebrities with known ties to the intelligence apparatus. A few curveballs later, and we learn...

Opinion Scholarship on the birth of Islam! In this episode we examine the life of Muhammad and discuss the psychological significance of the tragedies that shaped his life…and, by extension, the religion of Islam. This is history, as told from the psychologist’s couch, but not just that. We delve...

In this episode Kyle and Chris get together to catch up on our thoughts and the state of the world since our last conversation. In the first half, Chris regales us with his observations about the Prophet of Islam, after having recently made him a focus of study. We...

Opinion Scholarship on one of the very earliest (and strangest) ancient Egyptian funerary texts, which just so happens to feature…cannibalism. I bring you the Cannibal Hymn from the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara (2350 BC). This hymn is enigmatic. It contains references to mythological ideas found in no other...

In this episode Chris returns to Opinion Scholarship on Carl Jung’s infamous Red Book. We cover 3 of Jung’s visions, which pick up where we left off…when Jung discovered that he and God are not distinct beings, but One. Today’s visions take us into Jung’s depths, where he must...

In this episode Kyle and Chris discuss off-the-cuff life advise including the dangers of dating out of one’s league (and benefits of dating below them), before pivoting to novel challenges of psychedelic experience. The conversation then turns to religion where Chris introduces the little-known lost gospel called the Egerton...