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 Rule She Wrote Herself
    Circa: 1228 - Clare of Assisi
  • The Bald Fool Who Outlasted the Masters
    Circa: 1230 - Shinran
  • Mafalda of Portugal: The Crown She Never Needed
    Circa: 1230 - Mafalda of Portugal
  • The Weight of a Promise --- Edmund of Abingdon and the Magna Carta
    Circa: 1234 - Edmund of Abingdon
  • The Woman Who Lived in the World: Aisha al-Manoubiya
    Circa: 1240 - Aisha al-Manoubiya
  • The Soul Has No Tribe: Haji Bektash Veli and the Perfected Human
    Circa: 1243 - Haji Bektash Veli
  • Shams of Tabriz: The Stranger Who Changed a Poet
    Circa: 1244 - Shams of Tabriz
  • The Baker and the Sufi: Al-Shadhili and the Tower With No Walls
    Circa: 1244 - Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili
  • The Women of the Beguines
    Circa: 1250 - Beguines
  • The Chronicler and the Elephant
    Circa: 1250 - Matthew Paris
  • The Flowing Light of the Godhead
    Circa: 1260 - Mechthild of Magdeburg
  • The Letter That Crossed the Water: Nichiren and the Lost Art of Being Seen
    Circa: 1271 - Nichiren
  • Abutsu-bo: Loyalty on the Edge of Exile
    Circa: 1272 - Abutsu-bo
  • The Man Who Knocked on the Pope's Door: Abraham Abulafia and the Light Beyond the Mirror
    Circa: 1280 - Abraham Abulafia
  • The Seamless Life: Ibn Ata Allah and the Book of Wisdom
    Circa: 1290 - Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari
  • The Canal That Ran Again: Ghazan Khan and the Faith to Rebuild
    Circa: 1300 - Ghazan Khan
  • The Living Certificate: Sitt al-Wuzara' and the Question That Holds
    Circa: 1300 - Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyyah
  • The Ground of the Soul: Meister Eckhart's Call to Silence
    Circa: 1300 - Meister Eckhart
  • Marguerite Porete
    Circa: 1310 - Marguerite Porete
  • The Ghat That Remembers: Makhdum Shah and the Conscience of a King
    Circa: 1313 - Makhdum Shah Daulah
  • The Living Library
    Circa: 1321 - Theodore Metochites
  • The Woman on the Mule: Elizabeth of Portugal and the Architecture of Peace
    Circa: 1323 - Elizabeth of Portugal
  • The Calendar No One Wanted
    Circa: 1330 - Nicephorus Gregoras
  • The Thing That Cannot Be Taken: Rheno-Flemish Mysticism and the Interior Life
    Circa: 1340 - Rheno-Flemish Mysticism
  • The Light on the Mountain: Gregory Palamas and the Reality of the Inner Life
    Circa: 1341 - Gregory Palamas