A podcast for explorers · since 2024

exploring wisdom from unexpected sources

Long conversations with readers, healers, dreamers and the occasional heretic. Fiction and non-fiction, pain and pleasure, life and the beyond. Everything they say is kept in the Nectarium.

Enter the Nectarium

Latest episode

The archive

Every conversation, newest first

From the scrolls

The Nectarium

A library of Alexandria
for the nature of life

Every book, thinker, idea, story and practice that comes up on the show, catalogued and cross-linked. Nothing burns here. The library grows with each episode.

Each star is a theme. The dust around it is everything that orbits it. Hover to trace, click to open.

The catalogue

Search the stacks

Tamir Barzilai, host of Nectar of Time, outdoors on a sunlit hillside

Your host

Tamir Barzilai

I'm a tech enthusiast and a literature lover.

Is the future fixed, and the past up for interpretation? Or is the past fixed, and only the future up for interpretation? Perhaps both, perhaps neither, but I've set out on an expedition to explore, and to keep a record of what I find.

Nectar of Time collects wisdom from unexpected places: a barber who reads Kafka, a grief researcher, a dream coach, Osho's former secretary. Fiction and non-fiction both hold countless lessons. My goal is to gather as many of them as I can with my guests, and keep them in a museum called the Nectarium. Entry is free.