Episode 240: Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Acts 1 and 2. Prelude to Murder: the Dagger Soliloquy. The Murder Itself.

Episode 239: Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act 1. The Witches and the Prophecy. Duncan Declares His Son Heir Apparent and Macbeth Plans Murder.

Episode 238: Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The Scottish Play, in Honor of King James of Scotland and England. Background about the Historical Macbeth. The Opening Scenes.

Episode 237: William Blake, Jerusalem, Chapters 2-4. Albion Redeemed by the Imagination. Apocalypse as Awakening into Vision

Episode 236: William Blake’s Jerusalem, Definitive Epic of the Work of the Imagination. The Great Debate of Los and the Spectre of Urthona.

Episode 235: William Blake’s Milton, Book the Second. Inspired by Milton’s Spirit, a Vision of Nature Redeemed by the Imagination. Milton Renounces His Selfhood and Reunites with His Emanation.

Episode 234: William Blake’s Milton, Book 1. Milton Returns to the Fallen World to Achieve a Definitive Vision. He Enters Blake Himself through his Left Foot.

Episode 233: Blake’s Four Zoas. Nights 7-9. The Final Demonic Images, But Also the Reversal Due to Los United with the Spectre of Urthona and Enitharmon. The Final Apocalypse.

Episode 232: William Blake’s The Four Zoas, Nights 6 and 7. Urizen Explores His Dens. His Confrontation with Orc, Who Becomes a Serpent. Los Unites with the Spectre of Urthona and Enitharmon.

Episode 231: Blake’s The Four Zoas. Los Dances Mad After the Effort to Stop the Fall Has Affected Him. The Birth and Chaining of Orc. Urizen Explores His Dens, the Fallen World.

Episode 230: William Blake’s The Four Zoas. Blake’s Mythology Is Psychological, Not Supernatural. The Zoas as Functions of Albion’s Mind. The Rest of the Cast of Characters: Emanations and Spectres.

Episode 229: William Blake’s The Four Zoas. A Brief Plot Synopsis as Scaffolding for a Poem That Does Not Have a Sequential Plot. Why the Poem Can’t Be Read as a Linear, Causal Sequence.

Episode 228: Blake’s Psychological and Epistemological Interpretation of the Fall. The Cosmic Man Albion Falls into the Illusion of the Subject/Object Split, the “Cloven Fiction.” Why Did Albion Fall?

Episode 227: William Blake’s The Four Zoas. The Fall of Albion as a Fall into Unreality, a Delusional State—the State We Are Living In. A Quick Sketch of the “Plot.”

Episode 226: The Developing Mythology of William Blake in The Four Zoas: the Fall of the Cosmic Man Albion into Four Disunited Figures: Orc/Luvah, Urizen, Los, and Tharmas.

Episode 225: William Blake’s First Attempt at an Definitive Epic of Total Vision, The Four Zoas. Why It Remained Unfinished, and Yet Indispensable.

Episode 224: Blake’s Poem of Women’s Liberation and the Liberation of Desire, The Visions of the Daughters of Albion

Episode 223: The Mythology of William Blake. Orc Becomes a “Dying God” Figure. Urizen Fights and Kills His Own Son, Fuzon, Nails Him to the Tree of Mystery.

Episode 222: William Blake’s Mythology: The Fall of the False God Urizen, Given Form by Los. The Splitting of Male and Female in the Fall, and the Birth of Orc.

Episode 221: William Blake, The Book of Urizen. Urizen, the Aspect of the Divine That Falls Out of the Larger Cosmic Identity. His Fall Is Identical to the Creation of the Fallen World.