Undead Sages Podcast

How can thoughtful people live rich and meaningful lives, in our uncertain times? Let's travel back in time to talk to long dead wise men and women, philosophers and sages, about living a good life. New episodes each Friday.

Undead Sages Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Merijn De Haen, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Merijn De Haen hosts Undead Sages Podcast, a health show with 47 episodes published.

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  Episode #43

  Resist 3/7:: Rosa Luxemburg: Revolution, Prison and Love

  Jun 20, 202518 minS1

  <p>we often take resistance as a right—even a duty. </p><p>And yet: the moment you claim that right, you awaken something unpredictable. Fighting injustice may restore dignity—but it can also unleash darkness:
terror, betrayal, even ecstasy.</p><p>In this series, we speak with those who resisted—and those the world tried to silence. Saints and revolutionaries, mystics and militants. Their words are sharp. Their choices: balanced on a knife’s edge.</p><p>You may not agree with them. But if you’ve ever clenched your fists in the face of injustice—then this is “your” conversati...

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  Episode #42

  Resist 2/7:: Robespierre: Terror, Violence & Virtue

  Jun 6, 202517 minS1

  <p>Maximilien Robespierre used violence as a tool to achieve dignity, to heal the body politic of corruptions. Without virtue, the French Revolution would be a failure, and would only produce new systems of oppression. </p><p><br /></p><p>To properly understand him, we’ll need some context.
</p><p>France, 1789. A kingdom on the brink. The people are starving—bread prices skyrocket after years of failed harvests. The monarchy is bankrupt. And across Europe, kings watch nervously as revolution stirs.</p><p>In Paris, the Bastille falls. The king is dethroned, then executed. War breaks out on all border...

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  Episode #41

  Resist 1/7:: Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance, Truth and The Soul

  May 30, 202520 minS1

  <p>In this series, we speak with those who resisted—and those the world tried to silence.
Saints and revolutionaries, mystics and militants.
 Their words are sharp. Their choices, costly.</p><p>You may not agree with them.
 But if you’ve ever clenched your fists in the face of injustice—
then this is your conversation, too.</p><p>This is “Resist”.
</p><p>For our first guest in this arc, we talk to Mahatma Gandhi, whose resistance changed an empire—not by the sword, but by the soul.</p><p>He is often remembered as a saint. But he was also a strategist...

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  Episode #40

  The Ruins of the Modern World: Julius Evola on Masculinity and Sovereignty

  May 23, 202521 minS1

  <p>Julius Evola was an Italian philosopher, esotericist, and critic of modernity known for his radical traditionalism and metaphysical worldview. Active in the 20th century, he drew from Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, rejecting liberalism, materialism, and egalitarianism in favor of inner discipline, hierarchy, and transcendent order. Controversial and often misunderstood, Evola called for a spiritual elite to rise above the ruins of the modern world.</p><p><br></p><p>Concept, editing and production by Merijn de Haen</p><p>@ 2025 Undead Sages Podcast</p>

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  Episode #39

  Georges Bataille on Masculinity, Transgression, and the Sacred

  May 16, 202515 minS1

  <p>Welcome to the Undead Sages Podcast, where we travel back in time to talk to long-dead wise men and women. Today is the second in a series of discussions about masculinity, in which we discuss what it means to be a man. In this interview, we’ll be talking to the provocative 20th-century French philosopher, Georges Bataille. His work explored transgression, eroticism, and the sacred, often blurring the line between mysticism and madness. He’s deeply relevant for his radical reimagining of male subjectivity—not as control or virtue, but as vulnerability, ecstasy, and inner rupture.</p><p><br></p><p>I...

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