In this episode, Daniel navigates the "thin places" of the North Atlantic to uncover the gritty reality of Celtic Christianity. We move past the romantic myths to explore a radical world of monastic cities, oar-less voyages, and a philosophy that saw the entire natural world as a visible manifestation of the divine.

From the high-level metaphysics of John Scotus Eriugena to the psychological depth of the Anmchara (Soul Friend), we examine how the "interlace" of the Celtic mind connected the human, the animal, and the sacred. Discover why this ancient, nature-centric expression of faith still haunts our modern imagination.

In this episode:

• Fact vs. Myth: Debunking the Victorian invention of the "Celtic Church."

• Metaphysics: Eriugena’s fourfold division of Nature.

• The Three Martyrdoms: Radical trust in the "Desert of the Sea."

• The Interlace: Visualising the interconnectedness of all things through the Book of Kells.

In this episode of Cogito Ergo Pod, your host Daniel explores the shadows of the early Christian and Jewish imagination. While the canonical Bible provides the foundation for Western views on morality, many of our most vivid images of the Devil, the architecture of Hell, and the nature of betrayal actually stem from the "Expanded Universe"—texts written between the 1st and 4th centuries CE that didn't make the final cut of the New Testament.

We often think of the Bible as a complete manual, but for early believers, there were massive narrative gaps. How did Satan fall? What exactly happens to sinners in the afterlife? What was Jesus like as a child? In this deep dive, we dissect the non-canonical answers to these questions.

In this episode of Cogito Ergo Pod, Daniel dives into the most complex and controversial text in the Western canon: The Book of Revelation.

Far more than a roadmap for the end of the world, Revelation serves as a profound "unveiling" of the systemic and cosmic forces that govern our reality. As the penultimate chapter in our series on Evil in the Bible, we move beyond simple archetypes to dissect the "Unholy Trinity"—the Dragon, the Beasts, and the False Prophet—and explore how this ancient text creates a scathing critique of political tyranny, economic coercion, and the deification of the state.

In this episode, we explore:

• The Symptoms: Why the Four Horsemen are the harvest of human ambition rather than just divine punishment.

• The Source: The cosmic "Accuser" and the "wounded animal" theory of the Great Red Dragon.

• The Power & The Propaganda: Dissecting the Beast from the Sea (Tyranny) and the Beast from the Earth (Ideology).

• The Riddle of 666: Moving past modern myths to uncover the 1st-century reality of the Mark of the Beast and the Imperial Cult.

• The Fall of Babylon: How Revelation defines evil as the commodification of "human lives and souls."

• The Endgame: The trajectory of the Dragon and the philosophical implications of the "Second Death" in the Lake of Fire.

Whether you approach this text through the lens of theology, history, or philosophy, join us as we do justice to John of Patmos’s visionary masterpiece. It is a story of resistance, a theatre of the mind, and ultimately, a defiant message of hope that evil—no matter how systemic—has an expiration date.

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