Pansophers Episode 3 – Travis Trinca-Stories of Initation

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Greetings and welcome to Episode 3 of Panosopher’s Podcast. In this conversation, Rudolf meets with Australian Freemason Travis Trinca. This autumn, Travis released “The Temple and the Vault” (Lewis Masonic Publishing); a dedicated cross-tradition study of landscape and ritual in the search for Truth. Gentle yet candid, our author shares his personal initiatory journey- starting out in an a-religious family home, an extended journey with Rosicrucianism, and then entering into Freemasonry after the birth of his son. In non-Temple life, Travis holds an MBA and the accomplishments of adulthood. Within the Temple, he celebrates an ever-unfolding journey to spiritual maturity. Travis and Rudolf explore the landscape of mythic truth, Romanticism, and the interface of historic legend in our current time. They look at the implications of 20th Century “research” focused regard of historical figures, versus a past tolerance for thematic embellishment. Do mythic landscapes and ritual translate effectively over centuries? To what extent is it the responsibility of an Order to adapt and re-present the themes of the original analogies? To what extend is this the responsibility of the individual truth-seeking Initiate? What are our capacities? In their collective cornucopia of knowledge, Travis and Rudolf enthusiastically speak not only about Freemasonry, but also the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC); The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA). Unity is found in diversity, and the interface between text, tradition, and Truth-seeking. May this conversation prompt Meaning in all listeners. Music played in this episode Ritualistic music exists in different forms and from all cultures of the world - initation and music have always been linked. In this episode, we play derivates of such music. 1) GAMELAN MUSIC FROM INDONESIA (Track starts at 4:38) 2) CLAUDE DEBUSSY - PAGODES from Estampesperformed by Claudio Arrau (Track starts at 51:28) 3) DAVID SKIDMORE - RITUAL MUSIC - for 4 percussionists (Track starts at 1:29:33) Intro and Outro Musicespecially written and recorded for the Pansophers Podcast by Chris Roberts