Episodes by Circa

Conrad Grebel drew the line between state and conscience in 1525. Harmonia asks whether we still know where it is.

This episode explores how Bhai Mardana’s music and companionship helped shape a spiritual movement, revealing how friendship, humility, and shared purpose can still carry transformative truth into the modern worl

Girolamo Savonarola rose as a fierce moral voice in an anxious city.

Harmonia takes us to the bustling lanes of Benares, where Kabir, a humble weaver, spoke verses that challenged priests and mullahs alike.

Nicholas of Cusa discovered that recognizing the boundary of human understanding freed him to live faithfully, bridging the divine mystery with purposeful action.

How a grief-broken warrior and a visionary peacemaker planted an idea that grew into the foundation of modern shared sovereignty.

In this episode, Harmonia remembers Guru Ravidas, a 15th-century poet-saint of the Bhakti movement whose hymns defied caste, and revealed the sacred in work itself.

Harmonia explores Moray, the Inca agricultural laboratory near Cusco, where science, spirit, and reciprocity were never three things but one.

This episode explores how Chökyi Drönma claimed spiritual authority despite royal expectations and patriarchal limits, showing how authenticity, courage, and inner calling can reshape both personal destiny and religious history.

Christine de Pizan built a library of words defending women's dignity when every authority said she was wrong.

Lal Ded, 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poet, whose vakhs on the sacred dignity of every soul shaped a valley and seeded a revolution.

Harmonia steps into the quiet cell of Julian of Norwich-a medieval anchoress who lived through plague, famine, war and more

A reflection on the Yarsan tradition, its origins around Sultan Sahak, and the quiet strength of faith that survives without institutions or power.

John Wycliffe asked who gets to stand between a soul and what it reaches for. Mother Teresa lived the answer.

Ibn Khaldun's revolutionary theory of social cohesion (asabiyyah) explains civilizational cycles and offers tools for understanding how today's crises are calling forth unprecedented human unity.

An exploration of how medieval devotion to the Fourteen Holy Saints preserved humanity and hope amid relentless suffering.

A reflection on Marguerite Porete and the courage to remain truthful when safety requires denial.

Harmonia remembers Meister Eckhart, the 13th-14th century Dominican friar whose sermons invited ordinary people to discover God in the stillness of their own souls.

Abraham Abulafia believed every soul could touch the divine directly --- and paid dearly for saying so in 13th-century Spain.

This episode explores how Bhai Mardana’s music and companionship helped shape a spiritual movement, revealing how friendship, humility, and shared purpose can still carry transformative truth into the modern world.

Mechthild of Magdeburg saw divine love as an endless stream flowing to every soul---a vision that helped shape our modern understanding of inherent human dignity.

An exploration of the Beguines, medieval women who lived faith through work, service, and community—without separating devotion from everyday life.

Shams of Tabriz-the wandering dervish whose fierce honesty transformed Rumi

Haji Bektash Veli taught that the perfected human soul has no gender or tribe --- a radical claim lived quietly in 13th-century Anatolia.

Shinran's radical insight that self-powered striving blocks the grace already in motion toward every human soul.