The Ars Amorata Podcast
Ars Amorata is a celebration of the art of seduction, the rebirth of romance, and a lifelong quest for beauty and adventure. Join Zan Perrion and Jordan Luke Collier and a growing number of men around the world who are binding themselves to the mast, raging against mediocrity in all its forms, and defining their lives, themselves, and most importantly their relationships, on their own terms. Subscribe and listen each week to hear: ~ inspiring tales of love, heartbreak, debauchery and seduction across the seven seas, ~ thoughts on the next phase of art and science, ~ intimate and daring interviews with men and women, things you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe now and be part of the Ars Amorata podcast and without doubt, you too, will be blessed with a heightened sense of ease, delight, and mischief in your life!
The Ars Amorata Podcast
The Zan and Jordan Show — Restoring Beauty — What Zan Would Tell a Room of Sixteen-Year-Olds — and Why the Lights Aren’t Permanently Out
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Most messages aimed at young men today split into two dead ends: become a sensitive, apologetic non-threat, or go to war and reclaim dominance. Zan thinks both camps hold a fragment of truth and neither offers a boy anything to actually hope for — which is why, more and more, he finds himself wanting to talk to thirteen-to-eighteen-year-olds instead of grown men.
In this episode, Jordan asks Zan directly: what’s the message? What do you actually say to a generation of boys who’ve been told their masculinity is the problem, who are retreating to their rooms, whose only two options seem to be surrender or rage?
Zan’s answer moves through some of the widest philosophical territory this podcast has covered — the concept of worship, stripped from religion and rebuilt around beauty itself. Petrarch and Dante, both of whom had their entire life’s work ignited by seeing a woman he barely knew. The 1,500-year-old volcanic winter that blacked out the sun across Europe, and how people found meaning through it anyway. The uniculture problem — why knowing about every disaster on Earth simultaneously might be worse for the human nervous system than knowing only what happened in your own village. And a genuinely moving true story: a twelve-year-old boy, a short walk to a candy store, and one sentence from Zan that a mother said changed her son for weeks afterward.
Watch until the end for what Zan calls the real message underneath everything — not optimism, not denial, but gratitude for what you have precisely because it won’t last.
🔗 A Full Year — Retreats, Community, Virtual Practice — to Forever Change your Interactions with Women: http://www.arsamorata.com/guild
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Ars Amorata, Summer ’26:
Text Her — Stan's course on apps and messaging: from swipe right to archetype.
https://amorati.me/courses/text-her/
Amorati Guild Summer Holiday — A beach weekend in Vama Veche with Zan. 21-23 August, Romania.
https://arsamorata.com/guild/
The Hidden Sides of Seduction — Jordan’s ‘Movie Masterclass’, diving into the psychology of attraction and sub-communication. On-demand.
https://arsamorata.com/movies-mastery-2024/
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ARS AMORATA is a celebration of the art of seduction, the rebirth of romance, and a lifelong quest for beauty and adventure.
Ars Amorata is a philosophy of beauty. It is a way of life. It is not a religion. It is a belief system, similar to the way one might call Stoicism a belief system or a way of life. It is a layer that exists (or not) below all religion and all social structures. And it belongs to all of you.
Philosophers throughout the ages have argued whether beauty is objective or subjective, but in my view, beauty is neither. It is neither inherent as a property of the object (the objective view) nor is it in the eye of the beholder (the subjective view). Beauty is a third thing altogether.
Beauty is prime. It stands alone. It is a thing apart, in Kant's words: a Thing-In-Itself (Ding an sich). Beauty emanates from what Aristotle called the Unmoved Mover, what Plotinus called The One, what scientists call the Big Bang, and what John in the New Testament called the Word or Logos.
Ars Amorata is an attempt to lift Beauty to its rightful place as the primary guiding principle in our hearts and in the world.
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