{"podcast":{"title":"The Gnostalgia Podcast","slug":"the-gnostalgia-podcast-7035882","podcast_index_feed_id":7035882,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fad818b4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gnostalgia","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41984661/41984661-1728070694349-d1a0f21946006.jpg","author":"Gnostalgia","episode_count":32,"summary":"Field-sporting philosopher and polemicist Sebastian Morello, along with wine-trader and esoteric weirdo Brian Scarffe, discuss the anti-rationalist, enchanted, theurgical, sophiological, Hermetic, liturgical, and alchemical means of recovering Platonic England, centred on sacred ecology and cosmic Christianity.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T12:17:32.495194+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gnostalgia-podcast-7035882"},"episode":{"title":"On Sacred Healing","slug":"on-sacred-healing","published_at":"2025-06-02T12:30:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gnostalgia-podcast-7035882/on-sacred-healing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gnostalgia-podcast-7035882","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gnostalgia/episodes/On-Sacred-Healing-e33mddg","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fad818b4/podcast/play/103543664/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-2%2F677a3136-f049-c10f-d71b-bfa62f14cbdf.mp3","summary":"Sebastian and Brian discuss the sacred history of healing, from its roots in pre-Christian rites of anointing and balance to its transfiguration in the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church. Moving between early Christian miracle accounts, medieval herbals, Byzantine hospitals, and the writings of Hildegard of Bingen and St Basil the Great, they considers how health was once conceived not as the absence of illness, but as a harmony between body, soul, and the divine order. Along the way, the conversation draws contrasts with modern biomedicine, recovering an older, metaphysically rich vision in which suffering is not meaningless.","meta_description":"Sebastian and Brian discuss the sacred history of healing, from its roots in pre-Christian rites of anointing and balance to its transfiguration in the li…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4884,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-gnostalgia-podcast-7035882/episodes/on-sacred-healing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gnostalgia-podcast-7035882/on-sacred-healing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}