• Hermetic American Spiritual Classics

  • By: Roger Weir
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Hermetic American Spiritual Classics

By: Roger Weir
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  • This series explores the cultural history of America through a person by person examination spanning from the pre-colonial era, to colonial times, into the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The series is fittingly bookended by presentations about indigenous American cultures.

    This person-by-person historical exploration winds its way through the lives of ancient Amerindian cultures, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, James McNeill Whistler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Greene and Greene (Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene), William James, Henry Adams, Winslow Homer, William Faulkner, Andrew Wyeth, Alan Hovhaness, Morris Graves, and Black Elk.

    This series of lectures was originally delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Inside Jefferson's Mind: A Founding Father's Hidden World

    Inside Jefferson's Mind: A Founding Father's Hidden World
    Mar 1 2025
    What was Thomas Jefferson's role as a carrier of the hermetic tradition and hermetic wisdom in early America? The transmission of hermetic wisdom from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Jefferson is an often overlooked aspect of American history – here it is illuminated. Through an exploration of Jefferson's life, influence, wisdom, and philosophical mind, Roger Weir seeks to provide insights that are commonly unknown or overlooked.

    This is the third in a series of 13 presentations that explores Hermetic American history by focusing on a diverse group of hermetic figures spanning architecture, poetry, drama, religion, esoteric philosophy, and occultism. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/116

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    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Feb 21 2025
    This presentation discusses, sayings, endeavors, philosophy, metaphysical backgrounds of Benjamin Franklin and his autobiography. This is the second in a series of 13 presentations that explores American history by focusing on a diverse group of figures spanning architecture, poetry, drama, religion, esoteric philosophy, and speculative fiction. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/115

    Discover more content related to this series
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-1982

    Discover more presentations by Roger Weir
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations

    Learn more about the Shared Presence Foundation
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    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • American Indian Traditions

    American Indian Traditions
    Feb 14 2025
    This presentation discusses the original, indigenous American wisdom in mythology: The Wyoming Sun Wheel, the Anasazi, and mounds. This is the first presentation in this series which explores the cultural history of America through a person by person examination spanning from the pre-colonial era and on into the twentieth century. These presentations were delivered by Roger Weir in the spring of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.

    Episode transcript - https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/114

    Discover more content related to this series
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-1982

    Discover more presentations by Roger Weir
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations

    Learn more about the Shared Presence Foundation
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org​

    Check out our YouTube channel

    Image credit: Detail from “Scene from James Fenimore Cooper’s ’The Last of the Mohicans’” by Thomas Cole (1827).
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    1 hr and 33 mins
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