The Gospel of Heretics (HSG 6)
The Hebrew prophets and Jesus are reframed not as institutional founders but as radical critics of empire. Prophecy is redefined as a diagnostic tool for social decay, and Jesus’s teachings are interpreted as a form of “ontological alchemy” — a sophisticated strategy of nonviolent resistance designed to transform consciousness and thereby dissolve imperial power from within.
Dionysius in the Agora (HSG 5)
Classical Athens created a cultural singularity by bringing the wild, participatory god Dionysus into the city’s heart through public theater. This ritual technology, it is argued, was the seedbed for both democracy and philosophy, creating the conditions for the Socratic lineage to turn the recursive power of consciousness into the foundation of the Western canon.
The Sage and the State (HSG 4)
In ancient China, Confucius and Laozi embodied two enduring poles of consciousness: the exoteric path of social order and the esoteric path of mystical insight, whose deep recursion is the true engine of paradigm shifts.
The Grain Cage (HSG 2)
The “Grain Cage” made possible taxation, standing armies, and patriarchal hierarchies.
The Web (HSG 1)
This episode reconstructs humanity’s original state of participatory consciousness.