All Episodes
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Episode 1 The Discovery
Introduction. DI James LaGrange tells how he came upon this strange manuscript on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. The characters. The nature of explanations of how o...
Episode 2 A Question of Meaning
Questions of meaning. Criteria as the appeal to ordinary language. Contradictories that are part of human experience and the conditions of meaning. ...
Episode 3 Theological Explanation
James considers Theology as 'explanation'. The Characters' views about the nature of 'Worlds'. ...
Episode 4 Explanations and 'Definitions' of Religious Worlds
Further thoughts on theological explanations. Many definitions of 'religious' worlds. ...
Episode 5 Phenomena of Religious Institutions and Individuals: Institutions
James and Dr. VanNostrand go back and forth on the role of the ‘self’ in religion and the ontology of mind and body. An attempt to classify several levels and modes o...
Episode 6 Phenomena of Religious Institutions and Individuals: Individuals
James and his gang of ‘card trick watchers’ make a case for the importance of an individual’s life experience and reflection in uncovering the deepest layers of spirit...
Episode 7 Conceptual Models
James introduces the idea of ‘conceptual models’ as a way to make comparisons across cultures and traditions and their embedded structures of meaning. ...
Episode 8 Five Conceptual Models Part I
James expands on the ideas of Umwelt and ‘Possibilities of Phenomena’ in preparation for presentation of the five conceptual models of the manuscript. ...
Episode 9 Five Conceptual Models Part II
James briefly presents the five conceptual models: Singularity; Multiplicity; Locality; In/Conceivability; Universality and explains why he will investigate them in a ...
10. Multiplicity I
James proposes a proto-theory of the origins of human religiousness. A World of Multiplicity: Canaanite Religion. Alistair looks at underlying dimensions of human mo...
11. Multiplicity II
The Canaanite Baal cycle of a dying and rising god. Natural evil, distributed power in the pantheon, and seeing the world as a whole. A minimal dualist Multiplicity ...
12. Multiplicity III
James outlines the categories under which the characteristics of a perceived Umwelt of Multiplicity will be discussed. In addition to the premise of this model, it wi...
13. Multiplicity IV
James continues the discussion of Episode 12, focusing on the distribution of power within pantheons, ritual and sacrificial interactions between humans and gods, and ...
14. Multiplicity V
James and Penthe further explore the presence of deities and other trans-human beings drawn from the animal kingdom. James then goes on to give examples of how aspect...