Oddcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Samuel Gillis Hogan on Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700

Did you know that there is a whole practical and occult-philosophic corpus dealing with the summoning and controlling of faeries? Samuel Gillis Hogan tells us about his research in the archives of early-modern British faerie-magic.

Alan Moore on Magic

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Coming Back for More, Part II: Platonic Reincarnation

In Part II we discuss the reincarnational mythoi and logoi found in Plato's dialogues. These are, in many important ways, the foundational documents of western reincarnationism.

Coming Back for More: The Secret History of Reincarnation in the West, Part I: Pythagoras and the Orphics

In Part I of a thematic series, we begin to explore the long secret history of reincarnation in the west. in this episode we consider our earliest evidence, which clusters around two resonant names: Pythagoras and Orpheus.

James Russell on the Hypnerotomachia in Esoteric Tradition

We penetrate further into the dream-labyrinth of the Hypnerotomachia with James Russell, exploring the book's many early readers. These include a pope, a playwright, and an alchemist. Codes, rebuses, polyvalent images, esoteric architecture, and more meet in the melting-pot of Humanism.