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Becoming-Spooky #1: Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher

October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

Welcome to Becoming-Spooky! This is the first of three episodes in this special, seasonal series. Join me and deterritorialize the domains of sanity, the familiar and the human. Patrons will receive two additional episodes! The first half…
152: Voltaire - Candide

October 20, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min

Do we live in the best of all possible worlds? Join me and find out as we explore the most famous novel of Voltaire, one of Nietzsche's most important influences. Candide is a satirical novel that lambasts the optimism of Leibniz, the…
Untimely Reflections #48: Neema Parvini (Academic Agent) - Disenchanting Politics

October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

Neema Parvini is well known on Youtube for his channel, Academic Agent, and for his para-academic work at the Academic Agency. He discusses a broad range of topics in political philosophy, and does not shy away from any topic, from elite…
Untimely Reflections #47: Melanie Coughlin - Nishitani, Nietzsche & The Kyoto School

October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Melanie Coughlin, a scholar whose work focuses on Nishitani and the Kyoto school, joined me for a conversation that will hopefully provide a nice conclusion to the recent focus on Buddhism. We discussed karma, the misleading nature of…
151: Julian Jaynes, part 2 - The Witness of History

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

How did the bicameral mind emerge, and how did consciousness eventually take its place? Join me for an exploration of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, in which Julian Jaynes traces the evidence over the centuries that suggest a…

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150: Julian Jaynes, part 1 - Hearing Voices

September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

What is consciousness? Julian Jaynes rejects all of the popular answers: that consciousness is thinking, reason, memory, or the capacity for learning. Nor does he think it can be accounted for as a merely accumulative development of…
149: The Laṅkāvatāra Sutra

September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 56 min

In this episode, we're going to discuss what is likely the founding text of the Zen tradition, the Laṅkāvatāra Sutra. According to some of the earliest sources on Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen in China, the "Lanka" was the teaching whose…
148: Keiji Nishitani - Religion and Nothingness, part 2

September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

This episode begins with an analysis of Baizhang's wild fox koan found in the Wumenguan, which we will use as a jumping off point for understanding the paradoxical relationship of the enlightened person with karma. This opens up into the…
147: Keiji Nishitani - Religion & Nothingness, part 1

September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min

UPDATE: I accidentally uploaded part two to Spotify instead of part one. This has been fixed. To those who got to listen to the entire two-parter already already, lucky! But, the audio should now be part one. Join me for a deep dive into…
146: Extinction (Nietzsche vs Buddhism, pt. 2)

August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

For all that is admirable in Buddhism, Nietzsche fundamentally opposes the movement towards the Last Man that Buddhism not only cannot oppose, but may even help bring forth. Why does the notion of a "European Buddhism" haunt Nietzsche's…
145: The Religion of Self-Redemption (Nietzsche vs Buddhism, pt. 1)

August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min

Welcome back to The Nietzsche Podcast, Season Seven! We're beginning with a two-part episode concerning Nietzsche's view of Buddhism. This episode, we will consider some of the basic teachings of Buddhism, and explore why Nietzsche viewed…
Q&A #16

August 11, 2026 · 2 hr 51 min

Season seven begins soon! For now, enjoy a selection of fascinating questions.

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A podcast about Nietzsche's ideas, his influences, and those he influenced. Philosophy and cultural commentary through a Nietzschean lens. Support the show at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections A few collected essays and thoughts: https://untimely-reflections.blogspot.com/