Episodes by Circa

Mani saw one light shining through every faith tradition --- and built a world religion on that conviction.

Harmonia remembers Perpetua and Felicity, two young women in 3rd-century Carthage who faced the Roman arena with unshakable faith and unbreakable companionship.

A reflection on Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and how law remains just when it is lived, argued, and carefully aligned with conscience across generations.

Nagarjuna's philosophy of emptiness revealed that human connection is not an achievement but the ground of reality itself.

Harmonia traces the survival of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and the living presence of Stoic philosophy from ancient Rome to your refrigerator door.

Marcion of Sinope compiled the first Christian canon, was excommunicated for it, and inadvertently forced the orthodox church to build the Bible we know today.

Zhang Daoling climbed a mountain in 142 CE and asked what a failing world actually required. Harmonia finds his answer startlingly current.

A freed Roman slave discovers the one freedom no master can touch --- and spends forty years giving it away.

Akiva ben Joseph and the enduring truth that law must serve justice, justice must serve love, and a civilization is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable.

The Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala held a living faith for two thousand years without empire, institution, or outside validation --- and their church still stands.

Hillel the Elder-a quiet scholar whose patience changed the future of Jewish life.

Harmonia explores the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Weighing of the Heart --- humanity's oldest written moral framework.

Epicurus built a radical community of friendship and simplicity --- and the world spent two millennia misreading his name.

Vellum the calfskin that carried philosophy, poetry, and prayers through the centuries.

Zhuang Zhou asked whether the self is fixed or fluid --- and his laughing answer has shaped spiritual thought across 2,400 years.

Socrates feared writing not because it preserved knowledge, but because it stripped meaning from relationship---and every communication advance since has carried the same moral cost.

Diotima of Mantinea taught Socrates that love is not an appetite but an ascent --- a ladder leading from one beautiful face to love of all humanity.

A reflection on Aṅgulimāla and the moment when recognition interrupts violence and opens the possibility of moral change.

Mahavira, the 24th Jain Tirthankara, offered the world Anekāntavāda --- the doctrine of many-sidedness --- a philosophy as urgent today as ever.

Harmonia tells the tale of the first mortal woman Pandora

Harmonia reflects on her uncle Aion and what eternal cycles reveal about the new age humanity is already living in.

In a dry field on the margins of ancient Bethlehem, a young Moabite widow bends to gather fallen grain.

In this episode, Harmonia introduces us to the world's first recorded author: a poet, a priestess, a daughter of empire.

Harmonia explores the Maxims of Ptahhotep, one of humanity's oldest ethical texts, and what a 4500-year-old vizier still teaches us about leadership and Maat.

Harmonia explores Shinto as humanity's oldest intact indigenous spirituality --- the root from which all sacred awareness grows.