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  1. Dr Sledge, just to confirm that as promised I have sent you the link to my now marked MRes thesis where I reference your work and channel. Your knowledge and acumen provided me with the much-needed validation that my thinking and processing were worth pursuing academically. And now, I'm off to a PhD! Thank you, Matilde
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  2. Can't figure out who is 'disliking' these videos. Feeling lucky to have found this channel. Taking critical thought into these manifestations of our past feels priceless. Thank you Esoterica :)
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  3.  @TheEsotericaChannel  Good Sabbath, my friend.
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  4. It’s alright Dr. Sledge. As an Alumni of Temple U., who watched the student union fight it out last year, I feel you. It’s an uncanny thing to be talking about The Inquisition one day and find some concerning parallels in our modern times the next.
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  5. He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
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  6. This one really spoke to me. I wouldn't call myself a kabbalist (or any specific single thing), but my spiritual life is heavily influenced by Kabbalah. I have been studying all the kabbalistic classics by myself for over 13 years now, but I can't say I understand any of them, it's more like I am revealing the essence of an extra-dimensional picture of ideas piece by piece, deepening my personal relationship with Torah and G-D, something I had much difficulties when only studying Talmud and other more rational, philosophical (in academic sense) and maybe dogmatic approaches to Torah interpretation. I don't believe one even can really understand the mysteries for they are not understandable by common human measurements, only experienced or perceived with a kind of extra-sensory intuition that one must first create for themselves. Same goes for studying ancient Hebrew and Aramaic; it's not really (at all) about how to speak these languages in some practical setting, but how the languages have formed around the ancient ideas, and how the very substance manifests itself through them. I find it's the personal relationship or belief what in the end really separates Kabbalah from the current mainstream forms of traditional Judaism. Maybe it's also my background living in a strongly protestant Lutheran society, and working with a strange combination of both art music and computer programming for livelihood.
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  7. I’m telling you Justin, if that gig ends up not working; consider stand up ;) 😂 loved it!
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  8. Seems like the channel’s been blowing up a bit recently Justin! Congratulations man, couldn’t be more well deserved.
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  9. It's not easy to find a summary of Bataille on this platform, especially such a good summary! I became interested in him through (the early) Nick Land. Now it seems to make much more sense how Land came from a hardline materialist viewpoint, but then also became interested in magickal traditions…
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  10. Thank you Dr. Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed this episode of esoterica,how you cram so much information into your presentation without it just becoming a long list of facts is nothing short of astounding,being educated while simultaneously being entertained wins my admiration and appreciation,thank you very very much🙏🏻🥷❤️
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  11. Deleting my social media was the best thing I've ever done for my mental health, so no insta, no regrets. I'd love to be the custodian of something that's been passed down through the ages like that book. There's an inherent magic in the fact that it survived
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  12. The limited 'history' of religion, I find more interesting than the 'dogma' of religion. The only reason people like myself get a peak is due to the insightful work of people like Dr. Sledge. So proud you refernce your Mississippi roots in your bio. Thank you for publishing some of your work on YouTube. You are an informed and gifted communicator. You have a large box of pieces to this jigsaw puzzle of religion.
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  13. Would love a video on the alchemical roots of chemistry. Where does chemistry start and alchemy end?
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  14. That was fabulous!!! Thank you for sharing your incredible demonstration of ancient alchemy. This was such a treat to watch and enjoy. I hope you do more experiments like this in the future to show us what alchemy really looked like 👍❤️❤️
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  15. Thank you so much for giving these amazing women their voices back for the modern ear.
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  16. just in time for dinner! cant wait to watch, I recommended your channel to my medievalist professor with a special interest in witchcraft and spirituality. he now shows your stuff in our class :))
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  17. Loving your content. I am fascinated by all of the historical mythos. You make the connections much easier to understand than a lot of the dry texts I’ve read over the years. I knew a little bit about El & Yahweh but this gave me a broader foundation. Do you have a book published in addition to your videos?
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  18. One does not need to engage in extreme self-hating behavior in order to experience the ecstasies of the Mystic Saints.
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  19. Another great video Dr. Sledge. Though I grew up rigidly catholic... iv come to really appreciate your honest and intellectual approach to religion and mysticism. Your videos have helped me expand my theological views greatly. So thank you for that and keep up the good work sir.
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  20. As someone who has attempted to go very deeply into Spare's philosophy myself, I must say this presentation represents a very brave and impressive attempt at understanding and summarising it: bravo, Dr. Sledge!
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  21. Wow. I knew about the scene in the Talmud where Metatron is whipped. (Which I took as a simple common sense "Don't mistake even this powerful Archangel for God!" message.) And I knew Metatron was popular among Jewish mystics, especially in the Merkavah school(s). I even knew about the tale of the Rabbis who practiced Merkavah - one going insane, another apostate, another became a heretic, and only the Baal Shem Tov returned intact. BUT - I had never realized all of these things were connected in a massive "Two Powers in Heaven" heresy that went down around the same time Christianity was getting started... Great episode!!! :) :) :)
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  22. This channel is a hidden gem, Thank you Dr Justen Sledge! ☮
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  23. Well this one certainly lived up to the Esoterica logo, covering the arcane. philosophy and religion! You've introduced me to something I had never heard of Dr S thanks for another mind bending episode!!!
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  24. I’ve been watching this series and the series on the Kabbalah you did and I appreciate how much you make context front and center. I feel like if you did a series about StarWars you’d have two episodes to start just describing the national mood of the post-Vietnam 70s to put the story in its proper time and place, and I like that.
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  25. Just listening in my kitchen, dying of laughter with my roommate. That was incredible, and I'm such a massive nerd for loving it. Well done.
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  26. The "bombastus" part of his name rocks my world, bombastic!!!!
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  27. Ever since I saw your first video on a necromancers manual and you mentioned the 'clerical necromantic underground' I have been absolutely fascinated by it.
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  28. And he gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark majesticness of his beard. O cruel needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast of their athenaeum! Two absinthe-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was alright, everything was all right, the struggle for affordable and accessible academic publications of the esoteric was finished. He had won victory over himself. He loved Big Brill. - Orwell paraphrased on the first day of April in the year of our Dutch overlords two thousand and twenty four.
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  29. Against the advice of your disclaimer, I watched the video being almost completely unfamiliar of Mishima (I only knew of him from a reference in a Metal Gear game). I have to say I totally get why Paul Schrader of all people would make an entire movie about him. Definitely will dive deeper into Mishima's work and finally cross that Schrader movie off my watchlist
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  30. Torture elicits confession, not evidence. That's more than a legal distinction. People confess in order to make torture stop. Jacques Fournier, the future pope, rarely used torture during his Cathar inquisition. Like all the best police interrogators, he preferred to develop rapport and have conversations with suspects.
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  31. As someone that’s a luciferian, ( being highly interested in any and all types and forms of magic as well as being fascinated by demonology, ) I find your content, extremely interesting. Keep up the good work and I hope your doing well.
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  32. Absolutely amazing! Subscribed! I searched so long for someone who has this level of insight! Congratulations!
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  33. Thank you so much! the clarity, precision and profound historical expertise of your presentations are beyond anything. This work is truly a unique and invaluable resource
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  34. Uneven is a considerable understatement. It’s been largely through your channel and Dr. Angela that I’ve distilled my library down to the good stuff
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  35. 🧠The retrospectively obvious insight that "the Bible" is fundamentally a library of diverse texts, diverse theologically, diverse of genres, from a massive stretch of time, etc, etc...is absolutely mindblowing to me no matter how obvious it seems in hindsight. 🤯 Fantasy authors (and D&D DMs) should be picking up calling sacred texts The X Library or The Library of X or what have you. Fires me up to think about!
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  36. Jonathan was my first mentor! He raised my consciousness from the graveyard of ignorance!! I owe him much!! Ive been watching since you started... keep going bro!
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  37. It is refreshing to see an academic video on YouTube about Plato's possible esotericism. I actually wrote my Master Thesis on the birth of the World Soul in Timaeus and during the process I came across a couple of books about this very topic that you might find interesting enough to check them out. They are Kennedy, J. B.: The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues and Reale, Giovanni: Toward a New Interpretation of Plato.
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  38. I had never seen the material explanation for the sulphur-mercury theory. Seems so strange to us now but once we reconstruct their experiments it seems very intuitive. Great lecture as always, Professor!
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  39. Commenting on this to boost it in the algorithm. This is an incredible video as always! It's a shame that your Renaissance era videos aren't doing as well they're no less fascinating than anything else you produce.
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  40. I wonder if the complex hierarchy of Christian supra-human beings has any similarities with eastern hierarchies of gods and demigods. I'm sure the language is quite difference between the two general world views, but it'd be interesting if someone has done a comparative study of eastern and western spirits and spirit beings.
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  41. I am an eye doctor. There is a condition called Charles Bonnet syndrome. It affects people primarily with certain types of macular degeneration, or other forms of partial/full blindness, especially those suffering from recent partial blindness. It is basically where the brain tries to fill in areas that used to get stimulated in the visual cortex from the visual pathway, using “imagination”. People will often see faces or other moving “hallucinations” in those blind areas. I have a handful of patients with this condition. It is similar to the same phenomenon that causes a form of déjà vu, or other manifestations of things outside the corners of the eye. The brain does some world building to predict what’s going on around it, like a priming of the pump so to speak. It’s a leftover protective measure, according to theory. Macular degeneration is four times more prevalent and people of northern European descent than other populations. One could assume that this is a contributing factor to some of the ghost stories.
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  42. This is so fascinating. Your teaser yesterday sent me off down the history of Yahweh rabbit hole. As an… em… rather agnostic person, I've for close to 30 years been interested in origins, and specifically how did all these Abrahamic based religions come to be? I've always held the notion that there was some connection between the Bronze Age collapse and the birth of "Israel". It makes so much sense that divergent nomadic groups/tribes would have banded together afterwards, and in time a melding of cultures/gods would take place. We see much the same happen after the Romans left Britain, and the Germanic Angles/Saxons/ etal moved in. In Britain, the native Britons and Angles/Saxons etal eventually melding – many of my own families customs have their roots in both. Needless to say, thank you muchly, I just found the titles of my next few e-books.
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  43. Do you realise that you have, by far, one of the absolute best intro-music snippets on YouTube. It's short, sweet and well played and recorded. Is that your playing, Dr. Sledge?
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  44. This has got to be one of the best channels in the whole YouTube Universe. Thank you!
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  45. Always support a fellow academic of the occult. Love your channel.
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  46. In last few years,archeologists found vampire burials in Poland.
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  47. As someone who spent a lot of time studying Thomas Müntzer and the peasant revolt 'When your strategy is "God will save us" stay home' made me laugh way harder than is appropriate.
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  48. 23:42 : "Gardener of the Flesh" sounds like some kind of horrific cosmic horror character. Alternatively, it's also the black metal band name for the episode.
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  49. 5:21 The way you pronounce Urizen just opened up the whole mythos for me, Doctor. I had not heard it pronounced the way you do, but it makes perfect sense. I first heard about William Blake decades ago, as a freshman studying Western LIterature. The professor could go on and on about Homer, St Augustine, Petrarch, Dante, Shakespeare and many others-- but when we got to Blake, he shrugged and admitted he was baffled by Blake's America, for example, and all the long poems. We learned Innocence & Experience. Nevertheless, I loved Blake for his Proverbs from Hell (I think it's called) because I recognized one in a Pretenders song circa 1980-- We are all of us in the gutter But some of us are looking at the stars. 🙏
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  50. Your description and examination of the writings and history of esoteric matters in a scholastic way is exceptional and much appreciated. Your channels aim to educate the viewers on the historic nature of esoterism is a more relatable way for people in the modern era. 🙏
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