Awakening to the Divine Double: An Introduction to Daimons in Greek Tradition

Could the "divine double" be a hidden guide within us, and what happens when we begin to recognize it?

Harvard Divinity School professor Charles Stang, author of Our Divine Double, joins Ethan to introduce his Lectern course Daemons in Divinity and the ancient Greek idea of the daimon. Stang traces Socrates' daimonion, the guiding sign that shaped his life, through Plato and later thinkers who saw daimons as intermediaries or as a person's highest faculty, which makes us "gods in waiting." He contrasts loose "higher self" talk with disciplined discernment, and shares uncanny reading experiences as encounters with a divine double.

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Together, they explore:

the daimon and Socrates' inner sign

the divine double as counterpart, alter ego or twin

discernment and the risk of self-deception

daimons as bodies of air

partnership, not possession

the modern loss of the daimonic

reading as a transformative encounter across time

from "Flatland" to a vertical, multidimensional reality