Topic: Plato

Greg Carlwood reads a disturbing ritual from the *Liber Vaccae* (The Book of the Cow), a 9th-century Arabic grimoire falsely attributed to Plato. The ritual describes the creation of a skinless, human-faced creature through the insemination of a cow with human semen and "sunstone." Metzger reacts to the biological impossibility of the ritual, suggesting it may have been a "con man" test or a psychological operation to see what depravities people would commit.

Jason Quitt discusses the origins of the Atlantis narrative, tracing it from Plato to Solon and Egyptian priests. While modern popular culture often depicts Atlantis as a high-tech civilization with flying saucers, Quitt emphasizes the discrepancy between these interpretations and the original source texts. Despite Plato providing specific geographic coordinates in the Atlantic Ocean, researchers continue to speculate on locations ranging from the Azores to the Sahara Desert.

Jason Quitt analyzes the structure of Plato's dialogues, noting that the story of Atlantis is primarily found in the Timaeus and the unfinished Critias. He points out the literary irony where Plato cuts the story off just as Zeus convenes the gods to judge humanity, mirroring Solon's own failure to finish the tale. The discussion emphasizes that the Timaeus contains the foundational philosophical and astronomical context necessary to understand the Atlantis allegory.

Ancient alchemical traditions emphasize the "Rebis" or the divine androgyne as a union of opposites. This concept, found in Plato’s Symposium and the iconography of Baphomet, suggests that primordial humanity was hermaphroditic. The segment posits that modern transgenderism and surgical transitions may be the literal instantiation of these ancient alchemical symbols through pharmaceutical and medical technology.