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The Symbolic World

421 - Deacon Seraphim (Richard) Rohlin - Recovering Our Heritage

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

I’m excited to share this powerful talk by Deacon Seraphim Rohlin, my collaborator at the Symbolic World Press and co-host of the Universal History Podcast. In this talk from the 2025 Touchstone Conference, he explores how we can recover our heritage and live an enchanted Christian life. The title of his talk originally was "The Deep Pattern: Re-Enchanting Time through Medieval Universal History".

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/EtvIpApaSrE
https://www.touchstonemag.com/

Universal History podcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVX4HUUPrIY_M2uZP3yW6EEiod3fGD6FD&si=iYKlCCZJSt_ob2oi 

Paradiso live course details:
The Symbolic World Enters Paradise
Join me and Deacon Seraphim Rohlin this November in our course on Dante's Paradiso.
-Course length: 5 weeks, 15 hours
-Dates of live classes: Wednesdays, November 5th to December 3rd, 2025
-Time: 2-5 pm Eastern Time
-Cost: 190 USD (Involved patrons get 10% off, apply discount code at checkout)
-Register today: https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/courses/dantes-paradiso
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro by Jonathan
01:15 - Intro music
01:40 - Introducing Dcn Seraphim Rohlin
03:34 - Start of talk
15:20 - Paradiso class
17:08 - Resume talk

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My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson: https://matthewwilkinson.net/

Transcript

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0:00.0

So a few weeks ago, I was invited to the Touchstone Conference with Rod Dreher and Paul Kingsnorth and also Deacon Seraphim Roland, Richard Rowland, who you know from the Universal History Podcast.

0:11.8

As you might know or not know, Deacon Seraphim and I are working together on the Symbolic World Press.

0:18.0

He is the CEO of our company.

0:20.7

Deacon Seraphim is really not only,

0:23.7

you could say, helping me create

0:26.1

some of the most beautiful things that we can.

0:28.5

He is also becoming a voice of his own

0:31.0

and his insight and his wisdom is looked after.

0:34.6

He has a podcast on ancient faith.

0:36.4

He's doing all kinds of things and so do not be

0:38.9

surprised if you see videos with him on his own on my channel because he has a lot to offer and a lot

0:44.8

of wisdom and symbolic thinking he also has a level of detail that i do not have and so he's often

0:50.3

capable of offering sources that i that I don't have access to.

0:54.7

So this is the talk that he gave at Touchstone,

0:57.6

a kind of roadmap as to how to live a newly enlightened

1:02.0

or you could say an enchanted life in the modern world.

1:07.1

What are the small steps you can do with your kids,

1:08.9

with your family, what it is that

1:10.8

you need to think of to remember to participate in. And so please enjoy. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

1:30.3

Hello everyone. We are finally announcing our Paradiso class.

1:45.8

We have done two already.

1:47.8

We have the inferno, we have the purgatory, and now we are moving to paradise.

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