Course Trailer—The Basics of Esoteric Symbolism

(four video lectures; weekly supplemental materials and online discussion)

About the course:

The surreal stories, diagrams, and images of the world’s various belief systems can often seem too wacky and intimidating to ever try to approach. Yet, they are incredibly easy to unpack once you know the basic language they all generally speak.

The Bible, Kabbalah, Tarot, Alchemy, Buddhism, Hinduism, and countless esoteric mystery schools (to name a few) all tell the same story with, phenomenally, the same symbols. What are they saying? What’s the deal with snakes, lions, and triangles being used the same way by dramatically different people separated by continents and millennia?

To find out, join us for this course exploring their simple narratives and symbols so you can become forever literate in this timeless language. The goal of this class is to give you the basic tools of symbolic interpretation so you can immerse yourself in esoteric art, movies, myths, and seemingly complex philosophical systems with ease and confidence.

About the instructor:

Stephen Reedy is a multifaceted multitasker. As a filmmaker, he learned the transformative value of verbal and nonverbal communication. As a fancy-pants marketing guy, he learned the ways of emotional manipulation on a global scale. As a comparative philosophy dork, he learned that, miraculously, people from all cultures through all time keep saying the same mysterious thing with the same surreal imagery. What are they trying to say? And how? Exploring this with energy, excitement and rational functionality is what he’s all about.

[gregb]

This is good news I'm looking forward to it, thank you.

[arkhtek]

Symbols: conduits of the essence of our reality.

[jamesmac]

If we were all classically trained all of this would be easier.

[LisaSargese]

This is a fantastic teaching tool that I want to use in my virtual classroom. But I need you to turn the auto-generated Close Captions on. I hope you can do that for us. Thanks.

[johnwesley]

I liked the video in terms of content. The sonograph, however, was distracting and prevented me getting a good look at the images.

[ascension]

Its interesting how the question of the absolute is unsolvable without inner experience, what do you guys think?

[atomic]

I have done this path, complete. Its not enlightening by itself as it does not include understanding. ( it does not teach how to live) Understanding is the path to completion, The esoteric if you can grasp it is just another tool at one disposal but most who can grasp it will get lost in it.

[cindy]

I am a Tarot reader and this is so awesome for my practice

[Sycova]

Look listen and learn so by all the secrets of the Esoteric we the few that transcend realize that the snake devouring his own tail by the eternal loop of life end up back at the beginning, no smarter no dumber nowhere, this is the Esoteric for it is the Esoteric man that is the last to know this.

[TheBlairFox]

Im amused greatly by your aproach to this Broadview definition I wish to be objective and say very job well done sir

I am A Scholarling Mystic and by what I've watched I do have to say as an overview you are 100% on point kid this seriously made my day but I wish to ad that you are mission 1 core concept here

And thats all that was ever true remains in its neutrality consistently immutable

And also that all truth can be found by seeking the properties of a nature of a system

[AlxRo]

Hey, is this course available? I’d love to study this.

[curtiseagleeyemullin]

Hey good job on keeping the white line out of the ying yan symbol

[theodoremcintosh]

The pelican with the pierced breast feeding its young, what imagery to challenge the intellect. I cant wait to see this series in long form!

[rianczer]

does anyone have recordings of the video lectures I can see? the class is sold out.

[meloncali]

Well placed dialog in over statured topics... Eye Approve 🍉🍉🍉

[FTTLOMS]

Where’s the actual course? I go to the PRS channel and see videos on many topics but don’t see where to begin.

[royel]

i was brought to this channel by none other then helena .p blavatsky

[theonesidedone]

i just wanted to learn how to say “esoteric” why am i here

[saintjellypie]

You speak really good English ( as ought to be expected from an American philosopher)

[ElTanques]

I feel like religion was knocked out by superstition.