{"podcast":{"title":"InnerVerse","slug":"innerverse-1049321","podcast_index_feed_id":1049321,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5a7e6d34b56c94b1216394e3","website_url":"https://www.innerversepodcast.com","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5a7e6d34b56c94b1216394e3/1744752481407-d591fdba-0e89-4214-8e7b-d7a31a189a17.jpeg","author":"Chance Garton","episode_count":560,"summary":"InnerVerse is a podcast exploring consciousness, alternative health, sound healing, and the hidden patterns connecting language, myth, and human history. Host Chance Garton brings nearly a decade of deep research and conversation for independent thinkers who sense there's more to reality than they've been taught. New episodes weekly — 1,000+ conversations in the archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T10:17:21.304795+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innerverse-1049321"},"episode":{"title":"The Wheel, the Bull, and the Chariot That Doesn’t Move | Mario Garza (Symbolic Studies)","slug":"the-wheel-the-bull-and-the-chariot-that-doesn-t-move-mario-garza-symbolic-studies","published_at":"2026-05-13T15:17:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innerverse-1049321/the-wheel-the-bull-and-the-chariot-that-doesn-t-move-mario-garza-symbolic-studies","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innerverse-1049321","url":"https://www.innerversepodcast.com/episodes/symbolic-studies-wheel","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5a7e6d34b56c94b1216394e3/e/6a04960c8ef936897386ae7f/media.mp3","summary":"The Dharma wheel. The Christian cross. The Egyptian bull god. Symbolic researcher Mario Garza of  Symbolic Studies  returns to InnerVerse for a freeform exploration of a central metaphysical pattern, questioning if that pattern may be the architecture of reality itself. Watch the video episode Why does the Rider-Waite Chariot card show wheels pointed sideways and sphinxes that aren’t even harnessed? What does the bull have in common with the cross? Why did nearly every ancient culture place a bull, a tree, or a still point at the center of its cosmology? And what does any of this mean for the spiritual journey in an age of accelerating modernity? Topics traced: the unmoved mover, the still center versus the spinning circumference, bull symbolism across Vedic, Buddhist, Egyptian, Greek, and Phoenician traditions, the philological golden thread connecting wheels, bulls, bills, and lords, René Guénon’s reign of quantity, and why “going with the flow” is centripetal physics in metaphysical disguise. Get InnerVerse Plus+ for the Extended Episode - https://www.innerverseplus.com Patreon | Substack | Youtube The extended conversation follows the wheel and bull symbolism thread into the modern world, tracing the reign of quantity, the acceleration of time, and what ancient metaphysics has to say about the age of AI and digital consciousness. The philological golden thread continues throughout, drawing unexpected connections across language, religion, and the hidden architecture of power that runs from antiquity to the present day. LINKS https://www.symbolicstudies.com @symbolic.studies  on IG Mario & Chance on “The Reign of Quantity” Biofield Tuning with Chance Join InnerVerse Plus+ for extended episodes https://www.innerversepodcast.com/episodes/symbolic-st…","meta_description":"The Dharma wheel. The Christian cross. The Egyptian bull god. Symbolic researcher Mario Garza of Symbolic Studies returns to InnerVerse for a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3869,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/innerverse-1049321/episodes/the-wheel-the-bull-and-the-chariot-that-doesn-t-move-mario-garza-symbolic-studies/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/innerverse-1049321/the-wheel-the-bull-and-the-chariot-that-doesn-t-move-mario-garza-symbolic-studies.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}