Mystrikast

This is the messy beginnings of Mystrikism and the first sparks of what later became the Union of Mystriks. I grew up with religion as background noise: Bible stories in school, weddings and funerals,...

5 Jan 7min

This episode is a walk through a Mystrikal paradox: we don’t do frozen certainty, but we do have a core practice that we treat seriously, ongoing inquiry as a kind of meta-dogma. I’m using “dogma” in ...

1 Jan 11min

Sometimes the most scientific sentence in the room is still: “I don’t know yet.”This episode is a narrated run through my 4-part essay Science and Certainty — a Mystrikal call for intellectual humilit...

24 Des 202513min

Certainty is comforting… and also kind of a liar. This episode is a guided walk through agnosticism — not as a bland fence-sit, but as a whole landscape of distinct stances with different standards, a...

15 Des 20251h 13min

This episode walks through Mystrikism’s Mantra as a full journey: from reality, to nature, to life, to kindness, to justice, to freedom, to curiosity, to science, to truth, to awe, to mystery, and fin...

11 Des 202544min

To be born today is to arrive onstage late, in a crowded theatre where the exits are already filling with smoke.This episode, Overpopulation – A Mystrikal Perspective, is a long-form dive into what it...

10 Des 202532min

This episode tackles one of the oldest headaches in philosophy: free will. Are we genuine choosers, or are we clever meat-robots running a script written by genetics, upbringing, and physics? Mystriki...

9 Des 202535min

This episode unpacks Mystrikism’s take on emergentism and reductionism: how “the whole” can feel greater than the sum of its parts, while still being entirely made of those parts obeying natural laws....

9 Des 20251h 41min