Runes, Religion & the Search for the SacredWelcome back to Taste0ftruth Tuesdays! Today's episode is with Tina K from Rune Shack Radio, and we will be exploring her work with runes, esotericism, and Norse-Germanic spirituality alongside my own journey through New Age spirituality, Christianity, and deconstruction.We talk about our shared concerns around fake spirituality, spiritual escapism, authority without accountability, and the difficulty of distinguishing genuine mystery from manipulation.We also get into the modern recycling of Jesus through cosmic Christ, Christ consciousness, Theosophy, Steiner, New Thought, and other esoteric frameworks—and ask what a more rooted, honest spirituality might actually require.

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A conversation with Jay Feldman on bioenergetic health, stress physiology, and what mainstream fitness culture misses

Welcome back to Taste0fTruth Tuesdays.

This week I’m joined by Jay Feldman of Jay Feldman Wellness for a conversation on metabolism, bioenergetic health, stress physiology, and why so many people feel exhausted after years of doing everything “right.”

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In this episode, we discuss:

• Bioenergetic health and cellular energy

• Why mainstream fitness culture misses the bigger picture

• Chronic dieting and weight loss resistance

• The “I gain weight over 1,500 calories” problem

• Stress hormones vs. real energy

• Former athletes, veterans, and overworked bodies

• Reverse dieting and slowly increasing calories

• Why discipline is not the same thing as health

This is not a conversation about ignoring calories or abandoning responsibility. It is about restoring context.

Because sometimes the problem is not that you need more willpower.

Sometimes your body has just been running on fumes for far too long.

Educational conversation only. This is not medical advice.

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Jesus, Scripture, and the Mythmaking Machinery of the Abrahamic World

In this episode of Taste0fTruth Tuesdays, I examine the literary, theological, and historical scaffolding behind Christianity’s origins. We look at how the Gospels are built from earlier scripture, why some scholars argue the Hebrew Bible is younger and more politically constructed than tradition claims, why the “historical Jesus” question is far shakier than most people admit, and how these sacred narratives still shape modern identity, power, and geopolitics. If Christianity was not a liberation from the older Abrahamic framework but its Gentile-facing sequel, the implications are much bigger than religion alone.Episode Blog

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On metabolism, nourishment, food reverence, and the systems that shape what feeds us

Welcome Back! You’ve heard it a million times: calories in, calories out. But what happens when that tidy equation becomes a substitute for understanding the living body?

In this episode, I trace my own history with restriction, diet culture, and the false security of numbers before exploring a deeper view of metabolism—one that asks not merely how many calories we consume, but how the body produces, allocates, and uses energy.

We move from cellular energy and Martin Picard’s Energy Constraint framework into nutrient density, food as biological information, the morality of eating, veganism’s dependence on industrial food systems, and the spiritual meaning of nourishment. We also examine rising food costs, the collapse of local food systems, and the growing centralization of American agricultural data through the USDA’s “One Farmer, One File” initiative and its partnership with Palantir.

This episode lays the groundwork for my upcoming conversation with Jay Feldman of Jay Feldman Wellness and The Energy Balance Podcast.

Because weight loss is not proof of health. A body is not a furnace to be calculated. A farm is not a monocrop to be optimized or a data file to be controlled. And food is never just calories.

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When Plato Returned, Religious Authority, & the Birth of Freedom of Conscience

Welcome Back! In this episode of Taste of Truth Tuesdays, I'm joined by Collin Conkwright of American Esoteric for a fascinating exploration of the hidden philosophical and religious currents behind the Italian Renaissance.

Together we discuss Gemistos Plethon, Plato, Neoplatonism, pagan revival, Renaissance humanism, the difference between pagan daemons and Christian demons, the preservation and destruction of ancient texts, and the challenges of reconstructing pre-Christian religious traditions from sources often transmitted through Christian hands.

We also explore the question how did these intellectual currents influence later ideas about conscience, religious liberty, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Virginia's historic push for separation of church and state?

Around the 46-minute mark, the conversation takes an unexpected turn into a lively scholarly disagreement over Jesus, authority, Constantine, and whether imperial Christianity represented a corruption of the original movement or the continuation of ideas already present from the beginning. It's one of my favorite moments of the episode and raises questions that continue to shape debates about religion, philosophy, and freedom today.

Topics include:

• The hidden pagan influences of the Renaissance
• Gemistos Plethon and the revival of Plato
• Neoplatonism and esoteric traditions
• Pagan daemons vs Christian demons
• The preservation and destruction of ancient knowledge
• The Mosaic Distinction and religious exclusivity
• Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Virginia religious freedom
• Christianity, empire, and authority
• Philosophy vs dogma in Western civilization

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What Christianity Absorbed, Built, and Left BehindWelcome Back! This episode digs into a question that keeps coming up: what did Christianity actually give the West, and what did it reshape?

We look past the simple narratives. Not “it built everything” and not “it ruined everything.” The reality is more complicated.

Christianity didn’t start from scratch. It absorbed older traditions, reorganized them, and gave them a universal frame that could scale across people and place. That brought real goods. It also created tensions that never fully go away.

We get into:

• what existed before Christianity
• how it reshaped education, morality, and social order
• why the same tradition can produce reform in one moment and withdrawal in another
• and why those patterns didn’t disappear… they changed form

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What Liberty Actually Depends On

Welcome Back! This one’s been a long time coming.

We explore the fragility of freedom, the role of discipline and character, and what ancient thinkers like the Greeks and early political theorists understood about the rise and fall of societies.

This is one you’ll want to follow along with visually.
👉 MUST READ the full episode blog (includes graphics, charts & deeper breakdowns):
https://taste0ftruth.com/2026/04/07/the-fragility-of-freedom/

🎥📽️Video version coming later this month-Early May.

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What if the deepest debates about religion actually begin with questions about consciousness itself?

In this episode of Taste of Truth, Megan Leigh sits down with philosopher David Skrbina, author of Panpsychism in the West and The Jesus Hoax, to explore the emergence problem, the limits of materialism, and the philosophical idea of panpsychism.

The conversation then moves into the mythicist debate surrounding the origins of Christianity. Skrbina responds to criticism from David Fitzgerald and Richard Carrier, discusses the role of motive in historical analysis, and shares his thoughts on Adam Green’s book The Jesus Deception.

Topics discussed include:

• panpsychism and the nature of consciousness• the emergence problem in philosophy of mind• materialism and the limits of scientific explanation• the mythicist debate about the origins of Christianity• David Skrbina’s response to Fitzgerald and Carrier• Jesus as literary or theological construct

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https://taste0ftruth.com/2026/03/09/consciousness-myth-the-power-of-belief/

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