الديستوبيا مجتمع غير فاضل تسوده الفوضىٰ، فهو عالم وهمي ليس للخير فيه مكان، يحكمه الشر المطلق، ومن أبرز ملامحه الخراب، والقتل والقمع والفقر والمرض، باختصار هو عالم يتجرد فيه الإنسان من إنسانيته يتحوّل فيه المجتمع إلىٰ مجموعة من المسوخ تناحر بعضها بعضاً. ومعنى الديستوبيا باللغة اليونانية المكان الخبيث وهي عكس المكان الفاضل يوتوبيا. ولقد ظهرت قصص مثل هذه المجتم ... Show More
Jul 2022
Episode 47: The Weekend University
In this latest Rupert Spira Podcast episode, Rupert presents a fascinating lecture on 'Non-duality and the Nature of Consciousness' for The Weekend University as part of their 'A Day On Consciousness' event in January, 2022. During the talk, Rupert delves into all facets of consc ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2021
The Underground Man - Dostoevsky's Warning to The World
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground in 1864 which is considered to be one of the first existentialist works, emphasising the importance of freedom, responsibility and individuality. It is an extraordinary piece of literature, social critique and satire ... Show More
24m 49s
Nov 2022
51: Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, part 2: Conflict of the Orders
Having discussed the ancient foundations of the religion that governed the minds of the Hellenes and the Romans, we now discuss how life in the city developed. The social order and the laws governing the cities were rooted in religious beliefs that were so old that they were now ... Show More
1h 44m
Aug 2023
122: Finding Agartha: The Search for the Hidden City in the Center of the Earth
Cultures around the world have myths that speak of a mysterious underground kingdom that exists deep within the earth, hidden away from the primitive and violent surface-dwellers: which is us.
Picture a society untouched by time, unscathed by war, and unaffected by natural disast ... Show More
35m 26s
Sep 2023
Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation, and mass death. For nearly four years the deadly crisis reshaped society, killing untold thousands and transforming how people live ... Show More
1h 23m
Jun 2023
Pandemics Cause Misery and Death, But They Also Created Agriculture and Put Humans on Top of the Food Chain
Three years into a global pandemic, the fact that infectious disease is capable of reshaping humanity is obvious. But seen in the context of sixty thousand years of human and scientific history, COVID-19 is simply the latest in a series of world-changing pathogens. In fact, the r ... Show More
49m 56s