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In this week’s episode we explore the well-documented history of ghosts as they were recorded in classical Greek and Roman culture, owing to older motifs that originated in Sumeria. In the free side of the show we discuss Greek skepticism, spooky Roman holidays to propitiate the dead and an eerily vivid description of Thessalian necromancer Erichtho including a lengthy example of her method of invocation. I probably cursed myself reading. In the extended show we discuss the classical relationship between ghosts and dreams, the restless shades that dead Roman Emperors tend to produce, a revenant love story and what it means when the specter happens to be an enormous woman. Thank you and enjoy the show.

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Ancient Sumerian Afterlife
Roman Ghost Rituals and Ghost Holidays
Ancient Ghost Hauntings
Necromancy: Erichto of Thessaly
Ancient Skepticism: Lucian of Samosata
Pliny the Younger’s Accounts of Ghosts

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further and discuss:
Dream Visitations
Restless Roman Emperors
A Revenant Love Story
Warning Apparitions
Where to Invoke Achilles

This episode was written by Tim Hacker and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra and Mari Sama

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Sources:
All About History: History of Ghosts: Featuring Over 55 of the World's Most Famous Ghosts
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1805214942?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_9PD5K4HEMNQ52W63XDAD&bestFormat=true

GREEK AND ROMAN GHOST STORIES BY LACY COLLISON-MORLEY
https://a.co/d/0bFBEHKl

Erichto
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PharsaliaVImaster.php

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In this week’s episode we accomplish part 2 of our deep dive into the sickly yellow abyss of Kane Parson’s Backrooms to reveal the unthinkably dense amount of symbolism, mythology and religious allegory lurking just beneath the surface. In the free side of the show we discuss how Mary’s shadow can be related to The Wheel of Fortune and the Blasted Tower of the Tarot expanding on the themes already present and giving dimension to Backroom's lore outside the film. In the extended show we discuss Ivan Beck, the Red City, Odin, the Tower of Babylon, the Voyager Disk, The Qlippoth of Kabbalistic Tree of Death and even the Gnostic Demiurge because damn it, Kane Parsons go so hard with easter eggs and clever symbolism I think we may need to determine if he is actually a Moonchild created by Aleister Crowley himself. Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
The Formation of the Psychological Shadow
The Wheel of Fortune
Palm Reading
Mother-Daughter Complex
The Blasted Tower
The Purpose of the Psychological Shadow
The Tower of Babel
The Red City
The Glorious Sun Face
Ivan Beck

In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go further into the Backrooms than anyone else (at least I’m pretty sure) and discuss:
A Sync and Odin
Fault of Memory
The Qlippoth: Kabbalistic Tree of Death
Still-Lives
Ein Soph
The Gnostic Demiurge: Yaldabaoth
Barbelo and The Pleroma
… and more….

This episode was written by Tim Hacker and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra and Mari Sama

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In this week’s episode we grab our “They Live” glasses and descend down into Kane Parson’s summer blockbuster horror hit: “The Backrooms” to explore its clever symbolic use of Jungian archetypes and Eastern mysticism to create a cerebral and spooky allegory with the same narrative depth we find in masterpieces like Kubrick’s The Shining, Lynch’s Twin Peaks or Owaku’s Silent Hill 2 but with a retrowave drip that weaponizes nostalgia in a tour of the collective unconscious with obscure doorways straight into Buddhist hell. In the free side of the show we discuss Clark and the symbolism that haunts him, the Backrooms and his shadow; breaking down what it has to do with the infinite, changing and cyclical nature of the Backrooms itself. In the extended side of the show we discuss the Capn Carl, Tarot symbolism, the shadow of the retrowave aesthetic and how the Backrooms are a perfect allegory for the Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Join us next week for part 2. That gives you a whole other week to go watch the movie before listening! Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Origins of the Backrooms
Clark Character Analysis
Water Symbolism
The Helm and the Wheel of Karma
Samsara, Maya and Dukkha
The Biology of Memory and Repetition
Bird symbolism
Carl Jung’s Psychological Shadow

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go deeper down the rabbit hole to discuss:
Black Mirrors
Descending Into the Unconscious
Weaponizing Nostalgia and the Retrowave Aesthetic
Tarot: Two of Swords
Gematria
Davey Jones Locker
Mary and the Window
Navigating the Bardos

This episode was written by Tim Hacker, Mari Sama and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra.

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