Episodes

  • Chapter 15: The Sum of All Assassinations
    Feb 9 2026

    This episode blends humorous and mystical reflections on "surviving apocalypse," offering improvised survival tips, warnings about enslavement to machines, and encounters with The League of Metaphysical Escape Artists.

    Interwoven are personal memories of a friend’s death and memorial, vivid dream-visions, and teachings about the mechanism of reunion and rebirth—the ambrosial assembly of souls and bodies—culminating in a call to assemble and return.

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    38 mins
  • Chapter 14: The Incredible Shrinking Emperor
    Feb 8 2026

    An irreverent, autobiographical address to the Academy of the Dream Society: the narrator recounts decades of spinal surgeries, chronic pain, and the surprising atrophy of his gluteus maximus, and explores attempts at recovery from TENS therapy to further repairs.

    Woven through the medical narrative are playful metaphysical digressions, vivid local scenes like Gracie's Harbor, and reflections on culture, healing, and the strange economy of bodily loss and restoration.

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    35 mins
  • Chapter 13: Morpheus Deferred
    Jan 29 2026

    Chapter 13, "Morpheus Deferred," follows Jacob's teenage journey from high-school wrestling and drug-fueled misadventures to uneasy commerce with the Dream Society. As he travels to Herefordshire College and confronts inner voices and a lingering sense of derealization, the narrative traces his loss of identity and the haunting pull of the Ghost Fortress. Interspersed is an interlude of the older Jake's most recent purgation.

    The episode blends memories of friendships, adolescent rites, and encounters with mentors, highlighting themes of choice, agency, and the maps — literal and figurative — that guide and unmoor him.

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    41 mins
  • Chapter 12: Dream Society Detours
    Jan 27 2026

    An off-kilter memoir episode about a summer in the ‘Ghost Palace’ where young Jake Isakson drifts into the Dream Society’s underworld—initiation rituals, petty crime, and the slow creep of possession reshape his life.

    Set against family fractures and reckless strategies, the chapter maps a purgatorial detour that reveals how choices, karma, and lost bearings steer a life away from the beaten path.

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    55 mins
  • Chapter 11: Nonsense and Insensibilia
    Jan 22 2026

    A surreal, darkly comic episode following a narrator through dreamlike assassinations, Dream Society rites, and strange encounters—blending ritual, humor, and haunting imagery as the Academy’s proceedings unfold.

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    45 mins
  • Chapter 10: Biking the Bardo
    Jan 19 2026

    In Chapter 10, the narrator pedals the strange, aromatic Broadwalk of the Bardo with a companion named Ken of the Travelers encountering third-eyed denizens, on his wobbly bardonic vehicle. Reflections on identity in a dreamlike waiting room.

    The episode wanders through digressions about shoes and shoe-throwing, failed teaching jobs and janitorial work, and the slow, ambiguous lessons, with a side-eye to legendary Chinese physician Sun Simiao's Ghost Map, of patience, power, and self-discovery while awaiting admission to the Academy of the Dream Society.

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    46 mins
  • Chapter 9: The Piyyut of the Djinn
    Jan 16 2026

    In Episode 9, “The Piyyut of the Djinn,” opening chapter of "The Proceedings of the Academy of the Dream Society," the narrator and his beloved arrive at the Academy of the Dream Society and encounter the mysterious Registrar who admits them only with a cryptic password, from a piyyut tied to a rain-making djinn, Af Bri. Surreal initiation rituals, probing examinations, and intimate encounters with the librarian explore memory, interpretation, and the strange bureaucracy that governs entry into the dream world.

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    45 mins
  • Season 2: The Proceedings of the Academy of the Dream Society
    Jan 15 2026

    Author and narrator Michael Diamond (as Boss Joey/Jakie) continues the Torah Obscura Radio Hour in Book 2, taking listeners into the Interworld — a surreal, dreamlike bardo where memoir, myth, and satire collide.

    Through encounters with the Dream Society and shifting memories, the episode blends autobiographical reflection, mystical lore, and dark humor while exploring initiation, suffering, and the search for spiritual sovereignty.

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    1 min