• Hermetic America - Our Critical Heritage

  • By: Roger Weir
  • Podcast

Hermetic America - Our Critical Heritage

By: Roger Weir
  • Summary

  • The Shared Presence Foundation is pleased to present a series of lectures delivered by Roger Weir in 1985 about 4 important figures in American history. This series focuses on James Fenimore Cooper, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, and Mark Twain in a total of 13 lectures.

    More about this series: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-our-critical-heritage

    More presentations by Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/

    More about Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/resonance/person-roger-weir

    More about the Shared Presence Foundation: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/

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    Image credit: detail from The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole.
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Episodes
  • Mark Twain - Part 4
    Jan 19 2023
    In this lecture about Mark Twain, the fourth of four, Roger Weir discusses the life and legacy of Twain. The original presentation was titled: World Travels and Fables of Man; The Author Transcends.

    Episode transcript – https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/415

    More about this series: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-our-critical-heritage

    More presentations by Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/

    More about Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/resonance/person-roger-weir

    More about the Shared Presence Foundation: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/

    Check out our YouTube channel

    Image credit: detail from The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Mark Twain - Part 3
    Jan 12 2023
    In this lecture about Mark Twain, the third of four, Roger Weir discusses the life and legacy of Twain. The original presentation was titled: Western Travels and the Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The American Hero Transcends.

    Episode transcript – https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/411

    More about this series: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-our-critical-heritage

    More presentations by Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/

    More about Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/resonance/person-roger-weir

    More about the Shared Presence Foundation: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/

    Check out our YouTube channel

    Image credit: detail from The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Mark Twain - Part 2
    Jan 5 2023
    In this lecture about Mark Twain, the second of four, Roger Weir discusses the life and legacy of Twain. The original presentation was titled: The Gilded Age and Tom Sawyer, Hermetic Innocence, and the World of the Split Psyche.

    Episode transcript – https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/transcripts/409

    More about this series: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-our-critical-heritage

    More presentations by Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/

    More about Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/resonance/person-roger-weir

    More about the Shared Presence Foundation: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/

    Check out our YouTube channel

    Image credit: detail from The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole.
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    1 hr and 18 mins

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