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Heraclitus of Ephesus was one of the great pre-Socratic thinkers. Called the Obscure and the Weeping Philosopher, he left behind a collection of fragments so mysterious and pregnant with meaning that they continue to puzzle scholars to this day. In this episode, Phil and JF use a random number generator to select a number of fragments and speculate about their content. By the end, they will also have disclosed the bizarre contents of JF\'s tenth-grade "hippie bag," outed Oscar Wilde as a Zen Buddhist, and taken a walking tour of a city that exists only in Phil\'s dreams.

REFERENCES

Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?
\\nNorthrop Frye, The Great Code
\\nNorthrop Frye, Words with Power
\\nI Ching: The Book of Changes
\\nOxford World Classics, The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
\\nWikisource page for Heraclitus
\\nJames Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
\\nDogen Zenji, Genjokoan
\\nMark Johnson, The Meaning of the Body
\\nGilles Deleuze on Spinoza
\\nBenedict de Spinoza, Ethics
\\nOscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
\\nFriedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
\\nNeil Gaiman, Seasons of Mist (the fourth arc of the Sandman series)
\\nDeleuze on Dreams