The Revolutionary Break in Philosophy, Astrology, Medicine & Magic

The Revolutionary Break in Philosophy, Astrology, Medicine & Magic | Introduction to Paracelsus pt I

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10 ай бұрын

Paracelsus was a true visionary, single-handedly leading a revolution in medicine, alchemy, philosophy and magical practice. Yet, despite his decisive importance and celebrated status in Scientific and Occult history his mountain of literary works go virtually unread outside a small cadre of specialists. In the first of a multi-part series we are going to dive into the authentic works of Paracelsus to uncover what led to his break with past theory and practice, his theoretical and practical philosophy of alchemy, medicine and magic and the power of his influence through the centuries. In this first episode we provide some important background and explore his decisive early text the Paragranum. In that text Paracelsus will reject previous theory and practice to re-establish medicine on four new pillars: Philosophy as Nature, Astronomy as Arcane Power, Alchemy as Perfecting Reality and Virtue as Christ-like Redemption of the human being.
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#alchemy #magic #paracelsus #occultism #medicine
Recommended Readings:
Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi ... Opera Bücher vnd Schrifften - archive.org/details/aureoliph...
Weeks (trans) - Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541): Essential Theoretical Writings - 978-9004157569
Anything by Andrew Weeks
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke - Paracelsus: Essential Readings - 978-1556433160
Moran - Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life - 978-1789141443
Pagel - Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance - 978-3805535182

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@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

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@Supernimo735 10 ай бұрын

Theological anarchism? Oh man!

@johnherouvis7676 10 ай бұрын

I have been watching your pod cast since the beginning its interesting watch the evolution your thoughts of the esoteric and exoteric in the beginning you didn't seem to believe now i can see it in your eyes that you are sifting trough the bull shit and seeing the truth . Bravo !

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

I remain just as much a materialistic as ever. This stuff is interesting but not in any way veridical.

@jmp01a24 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the education. I had only heard fragments of this person, but your extended video really put things together. 💖

@starofsiam1 10 ай бұрын

“I like big books and I cannot lie” my intellectual mind in a millisecond flipped to utter hilarity mode and I almost choked on my drink🤣🤣🤣 Your channel is amazing. I’ll be rendering a monetary token of appreciation very soon…It won’t be big bucks because I’m old, ill, and poor but it’ll buy you a coffee or a beer and will be proffered to you with love and respect. Sledgemeister Magnificento🙏❤️‍🔥🙏

@starofsiam1 10 ай бұрын

I can’t imagine Justin dropping the f bomb properly can you? If I saw it I’d have to suspect it was an A👁 simulation 😉😆 Gawd bless him 🥰@@sandygrungerson1177

@ashleydewing1420 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely wild that such a prolific man is hardly remembered, let alone accurately. Really looking forward to this series!

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

It really is a pity - he's pretty amazing

@ashleydewing1420 10 ай бұрын

@rhodamarie Despite the centuries that separate us from him, we can always connect on the eternal humor of poo.

@TheXrythmicXtongue 10 ай бұрын

More like purposely buried in history. Smh

@1ntrcnnctr608 10 ай бұрын

Mr. Bombastic, tell me fantastic! Maybe check out Einsiedeln n its abbey w „Black Madonna“ n also go for a hike there if u ever go to Switzerland.

@erick_lascovik2677 10 ай бұрын

I guess that's why toilet humor is still so popular in Germany 😅

@katsmith3369 10 ай бұрын

As someone who spent a lot of time studying Thomas Müntzer and the peasant revolt 'When your strategy is "God will save us" stay home' made me laugh way harder than is appropriate.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

I'm team Muntzer as the day is long, but....yeah

@SMMBHQ-cg2zy 8 ай бұрын

me too

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

The apparent star of this episode isn't Paracelsus...it's the poop jokes.

@BlissfulBombshells 8 ай бұрын

Well, where's the fun in these topics were they NOT speckled such creative potty~mouthed name calling!?!🤔 😅🤙💜🖤💫

@MouseoutoftheHouse 8 ай бұрын

I just find it funny that saying someone is full of it goes so far back. 😂

@joejohnson6327 8 ай бұрын

"I am like a ripe sh*t, and the world is a gigantic assh**e. We will both probably let go of each other soon." -- Martin Luther

@Pallasathena-hv4kp 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your time, effort, and dry enthusiasm! I honestly can’t believe this content is available freely to us mortals. I’m looking forward to what is coming next!

@Supernimo735 10 ай бұрын

Alchemy is fun

@peterkarargiris4110 10 ай бұрын

Way back in the late 1970s, here in Australia, we had a very tough tv quiz show called 'Mastermind'. The presenter would first ask each contestant (very difficult) general knowledge questions then they went through a 'special subject' round. I remember one contestant's special subject was the life and work of Paracelsus. After watching this, as a rebellious 14 year old, I was hooked. Paracelsus became a personal hero of mine. I spent years hunting down books about him or even articles, all of which in the pre-internet era, were well nigh impossible to find. In English class in 1975 I wrote a creative writing story about homunculi and even named my cat Azoth... btw '' Kakophrastus' in Greek, (scatological allusion aside) literally means 'bad language' or 'bad speech'. Great video Dr Sledge.

@ggEmolicious 9 ай бұрын

I was in tears as I read Parapvnk scrolling up the screen when it finally hit me what it said.

@darkartsbyadrienne 10 ай бұрын

Holy book-moly! 😱😱😱😱 That Vol. 1 1616 edition is AWESOME! Absolutely fantastic! And no! I cannot believe you were able to acquire such a gorgeous tome for less than the Brill edition! That is absolutely crazy! Oof...

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes you get lucky at auctions

@allyrichards9207 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe the way he is handling it like some common cookbook found at a yard sale 😳

@J_Z913 10 ай бұрын

I am so excited for the rest of this series. Paracelcus is one of those esotericists that I feel like I should know more about, but couldn't tell you a whole lot about (other than his awesome name). The other thing I know about our friend is that his name makes an appearance in the first Harry Potter book. He has his very own chocolate frog card, for those who are interested in that. Thank you as always, Justin. I hope you enjoyed Wolves in the Throne Room and Blackbraid when they were in your neck of the woods. 🤟

@elizabethmansfield3609 10 ай бұрын

The Buddhists say consciousness is a sense organ for thoughts, which is consistent with my experience. Here we have imagination as a sense organ for so-called arcane forces, also consistent with my experience with my understanding of arcane. Next, here we have self-recognition as the restorative power of the divine.. well I don’t do any “divine” but I do think self-recognition is restorative because my life experience led to loss of self… and regaining that sense was restorative. It is just wonderful to have articulated what I might have managed to,articulate in about ten years or so. What a brilliant set of remarks that dr sledge pulls from the muddy paracelsian exposition. Really impressive. Thank you!!!

@jhall1980 10 ай бұрын

The comparison to Punk... just one more reason I love this channel!

@Cybervue 10 ай бұрын

How ironic. I just got back from Basel and visited the Pharmacy Museum, which is in the home Paracelsus shared with Erasmus. There is a nice bust of him there too. It is interesting he was at the pinnacle of his power when Pluto entered Aquarius; which is where we are about to do again.

@nevisysbryd7450 10 ай бұрын

Well, it actually already did (by the tropical zodiac, anyways). Due to it moving so slowly, it will enter and retrograde back into Capricorn several times before it stays in fixed air.

@Cybervue 10 ай бұрын

@@nevisysbryd7450 Yes, we are witnessing just the appetizer.

@caseycrowe3805 10 ай бұрын

After watching this video, I went back to reading Moby Dick, and Ishmael starting talking about Paracelsus. Weird coincidence? Thanks, as always, for the informative and amazing videos, Justin!

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

What if I told you I'm actually reading Moby Dick for the first time myself?!

@shawntickle 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for what you do and for your honesty.

@MichaelYoder1961 10 ай бұрын

So glad you're covering Paracelsus. He was a strange narcissist but he was pretty brilliant. Some of his work seemed to include holistic medicine (understanding the whole person, what they ate, where they lived, etc.). And I think an episode on Mummy-mia would give you a quick cannibalistic ABBA vibe (All Hallow's Eve is coming_.

@howardhavardramberg7160 10 ай бұрын

You know shit about to be real when yah boy uploads a part 1 😆

@crabofchaos7881 10 ай бұрын

Damn, I love the "I love big books and I cannot lie", this goes straight into my mixtape

@SobekLOTFC 10 ай бұрын

Wake up bro, new Esoterica dropped 😊

@Riddlemewalker 10 ай бұрын

I first heard of Paracelsus in Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul. Looking forward to learning more about this fascinating figure.Thanks Dr J!

@alreadyghosts7727 10 ай бұрын

I am absolutely thrilled he is covering Paracelsus!!

@star-bit 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the lectures your making a 18 year old nerd 🤓 happy

@Fr.O.G. 10 ай бұрын

I could see Paracelsus on an informercial at 3 am hocking books about WHAT THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT WON'T TELL YOU

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

But wait, there's more !

@genghisgalahad8465 10 ай бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel that might actually be: "But Waite, there's more ..." because as we all know by now, Waite wasn't keen on his name! If I'm hesitant on commenting on esoteric topics beyond my pay grade (opposite problem actually...), I just think of Waite going on ahead, that builds something that future generations can then improve on, even fix, and actually properly contextualize better!

@ArachneAnathema 10 ай бұрын

#1: THE most exciting episode to date, I am so looking forward to more! #2: In your bio you indicate you grew up in Mississippi, where I also spent the first part of my childhood, and yet this is the first time I have heard any trace of Southern accent in your speech. Just a bit, when you were talking about learned men describing the origins of the poop that they were. I am just a little bit delighted that your Southern shows up when you discuss philosophers throwing shade. #3 I am completely delighted that you describe Paracelsianism as ‘punk’. So looking forward to the continuation of this series!

@biff-6603 10 ай бұрын

Man standing in the middle between terrestrial and celestial spirits is a common model across native Siberian and South American traditions. I'm intrigued! Thank you for attempting to make Paracelsus accessible!

@tedhand6237 10 ай бұрын

Great timing again. I'm writing about Philip K Dick's idiosyncratic reading of Paracelsus this month.

@manuelaforster369 10 ай бұрын

I'm deeply grateful for your work and super happy that you will publish more about Paracelsus. I'm a truth seeker and support the approach of holistic healing as a shaman and cosmic healer. I actually live in Nuremberg and can tell you, that there is now a Paracelsus University existing, a private medical school 😊

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Welcome - now that he's safely dead we can all celebrate him! ;)

@SMMBHQ-cg2zy 8 ай бұрын

TY I found his expulsion from nuremburg quite distressing and it warms me to hear what you told us about his school of medicine nowadays.

@collinharman1839 10 ай бұрын

Just started my formal education back up and currently taking a class on the Philosophy of Science, been thinking about researching Alchemy as protoscience and thought about digging through your channel for inspo. Crazy timing!

@bogdanstoleru9119 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your work!

@jeremysmith4620 10 ай бұрын

After a long night of drinking I always need a couple Alka-celsus, which is certainly an alchemical miracle if you have a horrible headache.

@OldForestWitch 10 ай бұрын

This is nothing short of thrilling.

@Vinogavin0 10 ай бұрын

How did I find myself just learning about Paracelsus and also across your page as you begin a series about him… lots of things are falling in line

@cuervojones4889 10 ай бұрын

That book! OMG! It's beautiful! That first page! That illumination! That font! It is FANTASTIC! (I admit to collecting books on alchemy just for the awesome artwork. It's really fabulous. And weird - but that's what makes it fabulous!)

@suacosta1260 10 ай бұрын

Dr Sledge you read my mind ! Thank you thank you, this is exactly what I craved 💟💟💟 thank you for everything you do sweet Dr Sledge!!!

@theCommentDevil 10 ай бұрын

Paracelsus is the owner of the greatest full name of all time

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Verily

@vivienne9306 10 ай бұрын

Wow!! This information is so wild, yet resound with me. As within, so without... you are what you eat, etc. Looking forward to this series very much! 🎉

@MarinaB63 9 ай бұрын

The timing of this topic is fantastic! I'm actually giving a lecture next week at the Festival of Science in Genova on the topic of Paracelsus, his vitalistic alchemy, and his influence on the development of early modern chemistry, medicine, and farmacology. So imagine how delighted I was to see this video posted on your site and I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series devoted to Paracelsus. Thank you so much!! 🙂

@marcocampa94 10 ай бұрын

I think there is one series many could thank for let them know about Paracelsus: Full Metal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 鋼の錬金術師) by Hiromu Arakawa 荒川弘.

@PandamaticBreakcore 10 ай бұрын

We still talk about Paracelsus in toxicology, but really just for 'All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.' It's an important concept and pretty much holds up.

@chaplam-lee949 10 ай бұрын

I love how entertaining the good Dr. Makes history... specific history but still history

@ActiveH1N1 10 ай бұрын

“Thank Paracelsus” - Newt Scamander

@schrokittyschrokatzerl1050 10 ай бұрын

I have always loved paracelsus and am glad you chose to share your understanding of him on this platform. Not enough people know about this absolute titan and field polyfather.

@afull375 10 ай бұрын

Dr. Sledge making me rethink my major so I can do the research that will help him create accessible, scholarly content here on KZfaq…for free.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

You should pick your major with your future in mind otherwise you'll end up making weird videos for KZfaq ;)

@afull375 10 ай бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel On my way to bring you literature about the influence religious beliefs and esoteric knowledge has had on urban planning throughout history 🫡.

@firedonutzFTW 10 ай бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChanneldon’t threaten me with a good time, dear doctor

@jacobserna2992 10 ай бұрын

Let’s goooooo! This is going to be an amazing series

@phoenixpv 3 ай бұрын

Your humor was on point in this episode and you flipping through that compendium was probably the best sound ever!

@antareklause8779 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos, Justin! Thank you for making academic knowledge on this available for free.

@masterprophet8378 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for all you do with ESOTERICA! It's priceless!

@Alacrates 10 ай бұрын

Great video. That opening section about Thomas Muntzer was intruigung. I'm reading through the works of the English writer Thomas Nashe, and in his The Unfortunate Traveller, I think he depicts the quelling of that rebellion. Nashe also mentions Paracelsus in that novella (something about the hilt of Paracelsus's sword containing spirits) as well as mentioning Luther, Agrippa, Erasmus and other figure of the time. Nashe even makes Agrippa a character in the story, riding along with the protagonists and summoning images of people for them. Anyways thanks for your work on Paracelsus, it's helping with my understanding of Elizabethan literature. Nashe's relation to western esotericism is interesting to me: he's constantly quoting from Agrippa's De Incertitudine, and seems to make a defence of John Dee in the early 1590s.

@pinkcupcake4717 10 ай бұрын

Justin: There's a reliable English edition, good news and bad news. Me, instantly: It's published by Brill, isn't it? Yep... it was Brill.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Yes. That's basically always bad news.

@Bildgesmythe 10 ай бұрын

My first thought was it was going to be published by Brille

@OndrejSc 10 ай бұрын

Paracelsus aka Mr. Boombastic

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

💯

@whyamihere-be7hg 10 ай бұрын

Mr. Fantastic

@gianlucagarattoni6394 9 ай бұрын

What an amazing lecture! Thank you Dr.Sledge

@maciejwylegaa6804 7 ай бұрын

Hello, I love watching your channel! At least 4 parts of material about Paracelsus, great! This is a very interesting topic.

@leilafones12 10 ай бұрын

Always look forward to your videos ❤

@janellemccoy09 10 ай бұрын

Im so in love with this video 😍. Thank you!

@darkartsbyadrienne 10 ай бұрын

Omg! Just burst out laughing in the middle of my neighborhood listening to this. "Devil's poop" Some of us never grow up...

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

If I translated that stuff literally this video would get demonetized - silly paracelsus

@darkartsbyadrienne 10 ай бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel love it so much! Thanks for always making these guys human!

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Of course, otherwise it's just all so sanctimonious and boring

@darkartsbyadrienne 10 ай бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel exactly! That's a huge reason why I've learned so much from your channel. Thanks for keeping it real! 😄

@Mikkelltheimmortal 10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel. The amount of learning that I have enjoyed can not be put into words. Thank you for sharing this fantastic and fascinating information

@M0U53B41T 10 ай бұрын

\m/ Yeah! thanks so much for this one - very excited for more as well

@njbassboy 9 ай бұрын

Wow! Best video yet. Thank you 🤯🙏

@craigdelaney8737 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! And WOW..! Just Wow!!!😶🖖🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤗

@codex3048 10 ай бұрын

I knew Paracelsus's bibliography was large and sprawling, but didn't realize that it was second only to Luther for the 16th century. Crazy.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I don't know what this fact isn't more well known. It's absolutely bonkers.

@MysteriousSlip 10 ай бұрын

So glad you made this video! I have been wanting to learn more about Paracelsus but as a 9 to 5 sort I haven't had the opportunity to dig into the morass. EDIT: After the initial ecstatic comment...and having finished the video...this was super well done. I am going to have to watch this again to absorb everything. Fantastic once again Esoterica! Looking forward to the future vids!

@a.6900 10 ай бұрын

YAY! im so glad for this episode

@codex3048 10 ай бұрын

Your illustrations are superb, as always.

@riot.9 10 ай бұрын

l love your big book. You must be thrilled to have it.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

I can't deny

@finuvielforestel1297 7 ай бұрын

Just saw this ep! Can't wait for pr 2!

@TheStoryWhoNeverWas 10 ай бұрын

love this channel, really appreciate the deep dives with the research

@Benni777 10 ай бұрын

This first episode was super intriguing and I can’t wait for the rest of the series! I was surprised just how similar Paracelsus was to Aristotle (I mean it make sense, they were both mega fan-boys of Hippocrates and his Humor Theory🤷🏻‍♀️🤭) What I never knew from watching this video, was the relationship between the Arcana and Paracelsus. I actually didn’t even know the real meaning behind the word “Arcana;” the only thing that I thought that word came from was from Tarot; how there are 22 Major Arcana cards in the Tarot divination. Maybe you could do a video on the history of tarot, like near Halloween? I seriously cannot wait for your Halloween videos (I don’t really like Halloween, so I like to distract myself with vids like yours that go into the history, philosophy and sociology of Halloween and witchcraft) ☺️

@SebastianJArt 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Doctor

@d.asklepiades9640 10 ай бұрын

Super excited for this series!

@kangev8662 10 ай бұрын

wonderful video! Thank you so much!!

@TayTayTheShapeless 6 ай бұрын

Dang dude, your content is phenomenal. You've definitely earned a subscriber from this girl. This is just the very first of your videos on the guy and I already feel like I have a much better grasp of just what his Brand of Alchemy was all about, and can see how modern scientific method and debate spawned out of his revolution. Thank you for this, its so much better than any other video Ive found about the guy. Im writing a high fantasy novel right, and wanted to get a better idea of alchemical philosophy and...yeah this has definitely given me some incredibly powerful inspiration for that story. Again, thank you! ~

@trinidaitobago2 10 ай бұрын

Medieval big Farma, that is new.

@ketsuakagi5646 10 ай бұрын

Thank god Paracelsus never had access to Twitter. Or maybe it’s tragic he couldn’t have Twitter. An ego mixed with intelligence could’ve seen insane meme potential lol

@genghisgalahad8465 10 ай бұрын

I think Paracelsus would have been amazing on Twitter as it was back then! Who would be troublesome and less informed but self-assured more than others would be protagonist Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye! Yep, Twitter would be his cake! 🍰

@breakingthewall2112 9 ай бұрын

Great episode and love the greater movement of reform during that period and his idea of looking at life as the macro to the micro. Had no idea Martin Luthor was such a prolific writer.

@dketsenburg7986 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for all you do!

@rachelb5594 10 ай бұрын

The historical use of mercury to treat syphilis suddenly makes a lot more sense...

@indominusbytecomputadoras2470 10 ай бұрын

Just such an extraordinary episode, i love it!. Can't wait for the next episodes. Also poop!

@roxeszxc 10 ай бұрын

this is my first comment in a while. Love you man, hope good things are coming your way. Excited for this series.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Thanks !

@Meta_God 10 ай бұрын

Great work. Your work is a blessing in my life. I like this Paracelsus guy. Following.

@jonathanhoush2384 10 ай бұрын

- Oh *yay*, the 16th century's answer to Claude Levi-Strauss. - Not the first time Waite's botched a translation, at least this time it doesn't sound like it was out of spite.

@genghisgalahad8465 10 ай бұрын

But Waite, there's more...

@Sirx-bw4iz 10 ай бұрын

Great content as always,

@jhall1980 10 ай бұрын

I would love to see more videos about Paracelsus. Learning more admit him as a man, who he was, how he got his start etc. would be interesting.

@CesarChin3 10 ай бұрын

“Devil’s Poop” 💩💩 had my rolling laughing doc 😂🤣😅😭 great video sir 🫡🫡

@nevisysbryd7450 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this! I am immensely looking forward to the subsequent works. I am getting into historical reenactment stuff with an aim of 1520-1540, and Paracelsus was great independent of that.

@Shtrepstra 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your amazing work!

@naadaguerra7932 7 ай бұрын

You are hilarious. I just laughed so hard I alchemizamed!!! I nominate my niece and nephew for the staring roles in your upcoming production!!!

@TheOvadex 10 ай бұрын

Can always count on you for a fascinating and funny video. :)

@ibodhidogma 9 ай бұрын

Facinating video. I asked Bard about Aureoli Philippi Paracelsi's influence on Theosophy and Madame Blavasky : "I'm not able to help with that, as I'm only a language model." So yes, lots of room for research, there.

@DavidJones-ey6ie 10 ай бұрын

Love that first print!

@joseluisalvarez3325 10 ай бұрын

Dosis sola facit venenum

@triple_gem_shining 8 ай бұрын

Just the video i was looking for

@MrDowntemp0 10 ай бұрын

I really hope Arun Shei Films is already storyboarding that film idea of yours.

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

;)

@jonesin202 10 ай бұрын

Good one! Can't wait to learn more. Hope you got some lunch. I think i heard your belly growling toward the end there.😋🤘

@TheEsotericaChannel 10 ай бұрын

Ha you totally did ! On a cut and hunger pains are a struggle!

@JeraldMYates 10 ай бұрын

Awesome, Dude !

@harryhoofcloppen 6 ай бұрын

@ 09:20, “one of the most comprehensive works […] is finally available… Good news and bad news there…“ oh man, I’ve watched this channel long enough to know exactly what’s coming in for a landing on Runway Brill. 😫