Saturday Jun 21, 2025

AGF Episode 154 - Interview with Jason Davis

Jason is a Greek polytheist, an initiate of the Toys of Dionysos, and our very own producer.

He has helped support the show the last two years through producing, sound engineering, and when Sarenth moves his mic around, he has taken time out of his life to come over, adjust that mic, and yell at Sarenth to stop moving the damn thing. We love, appreciate, and welcome you to Around Grandfather Fire on this side of things!

“[F]or classical mystics, knowing how reality truly is and living accordingly is what is important, not the experiences that induce the knowledge. Mystics do not claim to discover new truths but only to find the knowledge already expressed in the sacred texts of their traditions. Nor did classical mystics take their experiences as empirical verification or proof of their tradition’s doctrines or as authority for those doctrines; for them, those doctrines do not need any experiential verification. Such concerns about verification arise from modern empirical science. In fact, for classical mystics, the reverse is true: scriptures are taken as validating their mystical experiences. The writings of mystics only help to recover knowledge that already exists in foundational scriptures.” - A History of Mysticism by Richard H. Jones

A History of Mysticism

https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-History-of-Mysticism2