The Cosmic Codex
Welcome to The Cosmic Codex—a transmission from the edge of becoming.
Hosted by philosopher and Ph.D. candidate Arabella Thais, this podcast traces the golden threads that weave cosmos, mythos, and psyche into a unified vision of reality. Through visionary dialogues and solo scholarly riffs, Arabella excavates the deeper structures of existence—drawing from philosophy, cosmology, depth psychology, mathematics, poetics, and the occult.
This is a philosophy podcast for a new epoch, one that dares to ask how meaning, beauty, and consciousness are encoded into the fabric of the universe. Each episode contributes to a larger arc—unfolding themes such as retro-causality, anarchy, the Eternal Feminine, symbolic mathematics, and the aesthetics of time—as part of an urgent project: to reimagine the real and awaken a cosmology of wholeness.
The Cosmic Codex is not merely a podcast.
It is a living manuscript. A metaphysical map.
A call to remember what you came here to know.
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The Cosmic Codex
KAIROS | Is the Mind a Black Hole? | Tod Desmond on Psyche and Singularity
What if the deepest structures of mind and cosmos were one and the same? Could the mystery of consciousness be illuminated through the physics of black holes, the archetypes of Jung, or the eternal ideas of Plato?
This conversation with Dr. Todd Desmond, philosopher of mind and consciousness, ventures into that threshold. Dr. Desmond’s work investigates singularity as both a physical and psychological reality, drawing connections between philosophy, depth psychology, and cosmology. Together we follow the strange symmetry that links psyche and singularity — from Einstein’s equations to Jung’s archetypes, from Hegel’s Absolute Idea to the holographic principle.
Along the way, we consider whether the self itself might be understood as a singularity, what this implies for synchronicity and kairos, and how myth, art, and philosophy open new ways of conceiving the real.
At the centre of this dialogue lies a question that reverberates through both science and spirit: is the mind a black hole?
00:14 – What is a Singularity?
03:48 – Black Holes & Physics
07:21 – Jung, Pauli & Mirror Symmetry
13:29 – Mathematical Forms & Ideas
16:01 – Psyche = Singularity?
20:09 – Hegel’s Absolute Idea
24:45 – The Self as Singularity
28:20 – Science Fiction & Plexity
36:14 – Myth, Cosmology & Science
40:06 – Vedanta, Atman & Brahman
50:55 – Wheeler’s One Electron
1:01:04 – Hegel, Jung & Mandala
1:07:14 – Jung’s Near-Death Experience
1:13:42 – Holographic Principle
1:20:56 – Black Hole Wars
1:27:16 – Synchronicity & Kairos
1:34:42 – Art & Metamorphosis
1:40:06 – Heaven on Earth