Walk through time with Harmonia. Here the stories of History’s Arrow and The Golden Thread are woven together in the order they happened, so the seekers and the shapers of each age sit side by side. Choose an episode and let the centuries unfold, one after another.

Note to listenerthis sorting of our episodes is done by circa, but the original episodes were done in a random order - the intros and out roll comments will not agree with the presentation order here

  • The Flame and the Chain: Al-Qushayri and the Inner Life of Islam
    Circa: 1045 - Al-Qushayri
  • The Courage to Name What You See: Niketas Stethatos and the Age of Saints
    Circa: 1050 - Niketas Stethatos
  • The Sage Who Refused to Choose: Abdullah Ansari of Herat
    Circa: 1050 - Abdullah Ansari
  • Saint Bernard of the Pass
    Circa: 1050 - Bernard of Menthon
  • Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
    Circa: 1095 - Al-Ghazali
  • The Frog and the Bishop: Sacred Laughter and the Scrolls of Toba Sōjō
    Circa: 1100 - Toba Sōjō
  • The Rule and the Awakening: Changlu Zongze and the Sacred Ordinary
    Circa: 1103 - Changlu Zongze
  • The Wondrous Way: Miaodao, Abbess of Wudang Mountain
    Circa: 1134 - Miaodao
  • Hermann of Carinthia
    Circa: 1143 - Hermann of Carinthia
  • Robert of Ketton: Speaking Someone Else's Prayer
    Circa: 1143 - Robert of Ketton
  • Volmar of Disibodenberg: The Monk Who Steadied Hildegard's Light
    Circa: 1150 - Volmar of Disibodenberg
  • The Woman Who Belonged to No One
    Circa: 1150 - Akka Mahadevi
  • The Treasurer of Devotion
    Circa: 1160 - Basavanna
  • The Self-Taught Philosopher
    Circa: 1165 - Ibn Tufayl
  • Gerard of Cremona
    Circa: 1170 - Gerard of Cremona
  • The Commentator
    Circa: 1175 - Ibn Rushd
  • Zhu Xi - it's all connected
    Circa: 1175 - Zhu Xi
  • Maimonides and the Harmony of Faith and Reason
    Circa: 1180 - Maimonides
  • The Bitter Bowl: How One Monk's Two Voyages Shaped the Soul of Japan
    Circa: 1191 - Eisai
  • Ibn ʿArabī and the Widened Heart
    Circa: 1200 - Ibn Arabi
  • The Freedom of Francis
    Circa: 1209 - Francis of Assisi
  • The Map Is Not The Territory
    Circa: 1210 - The Amalricians
  • Michael Scot: The Wizard Who Carried Knowledge
    Circa: 1225 - Michael Scot
  • The Nothing He Brought Home
    Circa: 1227 - Dōgen
  • Michael Scot: The Translator Who Became a Legend
    Circa: 1227 - Michael Scot