The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese

Often referred to as the “Master Teacher” or the number of “Christ Consciousness,” 33 represents the highest level of spiritual evolution, the union of the physical and the divine, universal compassion, and ultimate self-mastery—the point where the initiate perceives the divine blueprint behind the material world.

Esoteric anatomy teaches that the human body is a microc...

In Hermeticism and other esoteric occult traditions, The Great Work, or Magnum Opus, is the process for spiritual evolution of the human soul, the dismantling of the ego and attainment of enlightenment within a physical lifetime. And the 22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot are a visual timeline of this lifetime enlightenment.

The 22 Major Arcana are typically divided int...

For most of our human history, winter was an existential struggle for everyone, and late October in the Northern Hemisphere was a season of visible death. The daylight collapses fast, the harvest is in, vines and fields are put to bed, and animals are slaughtered. Up until very recently, there was no fresh produce and frozen meats all winter long at the grocery store. And any...

A reasonable, educated guess tells us that about 10 million monkeys are alive on Earth today. And based on their distribution, less than 5% of them will ever see a human being or any evidence that humans exist. The big monkey-city tourist spots are rare, the overwhelming majority of monkeys live within tropical rain-forests where humans do not venture. And since the beginning...

Human evolution has been effected by calendars, and the calendars we use have changed throughout history. Classical writers like Aristotle, Apollonius of Rhodes, and others recorded traditions of a Greek tribe, the Arcadians, who claimed to have lived in the land “before the moon was in the sky.” This concept is sometimes called Proselenos, which translates to “those...