21 - The Haunted Mirror (Part 1)

Hermetic mysteries, Egyptian shadows, and the underground tunnels of the mind.  In the first part of our series on strange doubles, Kris and I discuss the mythological, folkloric, and religious origins of the doppelgänger.

The Vardøger
Janus
The Case of Emily Sagée
The Uncanny
Syzygy
Castor and Pollux
Tonopah
The Field of Flowers
Simonides of Ceos
As Above, So Below
Anima vs. Animus
Manichaeism
Enantiodromia
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Ka
Khaibit
Harry Houdini
The Greek Magical Papyri
Anthroposophy
"The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad
Taschen's The Book of Symbols
Winnie the Pooh and the Woozle
Jordan Peele’s Us
Tulpa
The Pleroma
"The Bacchae" by Euripides
The Yoruba people
Ibeji

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