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  • Inside Jefferson's Mind: A Founding Father's Hidden World

    Inside Jefferson's Mind: A Founding Father's Hidden World
    2025/03/01
    What was Thomas Jefferson's role as a carrier of the hermetic tradition and hermetic wisdom in early America? The transmission of hermetic wisdom from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Jefferson is an often overlooked aspect of American history – here it is illuminated. Through an exploration of Jefferson's life, influence, wisdom, and philosophical mind, Roger Weir seeks to provide insights that are commonly unknown or overlooked.

    This is the third in a series of 13 presentations that explores Hermetic American history by focusing on a diverse group of hermetic figures spanning architecture, poetry, drama, religion, esoteric philosophy, and occultism. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/116

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    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 時間 34 分
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    2025/02/21
    This presentation discusses, sayings, endeavors, philosophy, metaphysical backgrounds of Benjamin Franklin and his autobiography. This is the second in a series of 13 presentations that explores American history by focusing on a diverse group of figures spanning architecture, poetry, drama, religion, esoteric philosophy, and speculative fiction. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/115

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    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 時間 35 分
  • American Indian Traditions

    American Indian Traditions
    2025/02/14
    This presentation discusses the original, indigenous American wisdom in mythology: The Wyoming Sun Wheel, the Anasazi, and mounds. This is the first presentation in this series which explores the cultural history of America through a person by person examination spanning from the pre-colonial era and on into the twentieth century. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/114

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    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 時間 33 分
  • How Cooper and Whistler Shaped American Identity

    How Cooper and Whistler Shaped American Identity
    2025/04/19
    Have you read any works from James Fenimore Cooper? Or have you seen one of James McNeill Whistler's paintings? These two men, born in early America, captured the "Age of Revolution" spirit in their work and helped shape the landscape of literature and art in the 19th century.

    This is the fourth in a series of 13 presentations that explores Hermetic American history by focusing on a diverse group of hermetic figures spanning architecture, poetry, drama, religion, esoteric philosophy, and occultism. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/117

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    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 時間 35 分