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Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex tapestry of myth, ritual, and belief in the afterlife that shaped one of the world's most enduring civilizations. From the Old Kingdom pyramid builders of the 4th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic temples of Dendera and Philae, Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the pantheon of gods like Ra, Osiris, Isis, and Horus, the intricate Book of the Dead, and the mummification practices that sought to preserve the body for eternity. Explore the mortuary complexes at Giza and Saqqara, the theological shifts under Akhenaten's Amarna revolution, and the role of magic, ...

Reveals the powerful influence of near-death experiences (NDEs) on the formation of religious beliefs, mystical literature, and ritual practices Focuses on the afterlife beliefs of five ancient world regions: Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumer and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India...

The women that history tried to erase are coming through from the other side, and they have a request: that we share their stories and wisdom, and what they wish they'd known when they were alive. Tune in to hear from women who were important, powerful, inspired, and... largely erased from most of our history books! Whether they were left out of our history books, or had their stories edited and changed to leave out important pieces, they're here to spill the tea and help those of us who are still living! All afterlife interviews and messages are spirit-led, meaning they tapped me on the ...

Selected by Feedspot as one of the "Top 25 Afterlife Podcasts” in 2021-2023Selected by Feedspot as one of the "Top 40 Afterlife Podcasts" in 2025Selected by Feedspot as one of the top 80 one-hour podcasts in 2024 Cultures from all over the world express belief in life after death. In fact, the afterlife is one concept that unifies people from all walks of life. Human connection is fostered through universal experiences with the afterlife and beyond. Through ongoing study and extraordinary experiences, we are seeing evidence that the human soul survives and evolves after physical death. ...

History isn’t repeating itself; history is now ancientnow.substack.com

The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies.

Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending, but an occurrence that changes those it happens to? In Kurt Vonnegut: Reporter on the Afterlife, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In light hearted interviews with Sir Issac Newton, Adolf Hitler, Isaac Asimov, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, and Kilgore Trout, among others - Vonnegut trips down “the blue tunnel to the pearly gates” in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, all the while dodging the crotchety bureaucrat, ...

Selected by Feedspot as one of the "Top 25 Afterlife Podcasts” in 2021-2023Selected by Feedspot as one of the "Top 40 Afterlife Podcasts" in 2025Selected by Feedspot as one of the top 80 one-hour podcasts in 2024 Cultures from all over the world express belief in life after death. In fact, the afterlife is one concept that unifies people from all walks of life. Human connection is fostered through universal experiences with the afterlife and beyond. Through ongoing study and extraordinary experiences, we are seeing evidence that the human soul survives and evolves after physical death. ...

A podcast of imagined conversations between history’s most remarkable — and unlikely — figures.Where legacies clash, ideas collide, and the past is given a voice.New episodes weekly.👇 Listen now: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why do people want to become very rich? In this series, Eric Schoenberg, a psychologist who studies the behavior of the very wealthy, offers an answer by looking at the stories of nine Americans who became among the richest people of their time, with a particular focus on what happened to their great wealth after they died.