Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler heed the call to journey into the realm of Joseph Campbell. What are the unifying elements shared by myths and religions across time and culture? Does myth give us a portal into the hidden cosmic forces of the universe? Can it take us into depths of our unconscious and the nature of our own being? What is the legacy of Campbell’s thought today?

Plus, three brave scholars of fascism at Yale flee the country to form in a center of resistance at…The University of Toronto.

We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion [youtube.com]

Joseph Campbell [wikipedia.org]

The Hero with a Thousand Faces [wikipedia.org]

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell [amazon.com affiliate link]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Vizarro, having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.0	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	Whatever eternity is, is here right now.
0:21.6	I'm nowhere else.
0:23.6	Or everywhere else.
0:25.6	The maiden boss has spoken.
0:29.6	Play no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:42.3	Who are you?
0:44.3	Who are you?
0:45.3	I'm a very bad man.
0:47.3	I'm a very good man.
0:49.3	Good man.
0:51.3	They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.
0:57.0	May no attention tonight, man.
1:04.0	Anybody can have a brain?
1:08.0	You're a very bad man.
1:10.0	I'm a very good man. Just a very bad man. I'm a very good man.
1:11.9	Just a very bad wizard.
1:15.0	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:16.4	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:18.7	Dave, we were just normal academics, publishing papers, teaching courses, going to conferences, but then we heard the call.
1:27.2	The call to voyage into the unknown
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