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

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Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism artwork

Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism

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

50:15Nov 12, 2025
Daniel Harms on the People and Books Behind Early-Modern Fairy-Magic artwork

Daniel Harms on the People and Books Behind Early-Modern Fairy-Magic

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

1:01:28Oct 8, 2025
Samuel Gillis Hogan on Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700 artwork

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

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

52:49Jul 30, 2025
Alan Moore on Magic artwork

Alan Moore on Magic

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

49:40Jun 20, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part XI: Håkon Fiane Teigen on Manichæan Reincarnation artwork

Coming Back for More, Part XI: Håkon Fiane Teigen on Manichæan Reincarnation

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

58:24Jun 14, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part X: Joel Kalvesmaki on Origenism, Evagrios, and the Spectre of Christian Transmigrationism artwork

Coming Back for More, Part X: Joel Kalvesmaki on Origenism, Evagrios, and the Spectre of Christian Transmigrationism

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

32:03Jun 12, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part IX: Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrios of Pontos and the Transfer of Bodies artwork

Coming Back for More, Part IX: Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrios of Pontos and the Transfer of Bodies

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

31:11Jun 12, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part VIII: Jonathan Young on Origen of Alexandria artwork

Coming Back for More, Part VIII: Jonathan Young on Origen of Alexandria

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

1:14:24Jun 11, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part VII: Reincarnation in Early Christianity artwork

Coming Back for More, Part VII: Reincarnation in Early Christianity

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

48:08Jun 10, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part VI: The Roots of Christian Reincarnationism artwork

Coming Back for More, Part VI: The Roots of Christian Reincarnationism

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

38:19Jun 9, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part V: Sami Yli-Karjanmaa on Reincarnation in Philo and Josephus artwork

Coming Back for More, Part V: Sami Yli-Karjanmaa on Reincarnation in Philo and Josephus

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

49:59Jun 8, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part IV: Reincarnation in Antique Judaism artwork

Coming Back for More, Part IV: Reincarnation in Antique Judaism

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

39:53Jun 7, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part III: Platonism and Reincarnation artwork

Coming Back for More, Part III: Platonism and Reincarnation

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

50:02Jun 6, 2025
Coming Back for More, Part II: Platonic Reincarnation artwork

Coming Back for More, Part II: Platonic Reincarnation

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

1:01:14Jun 5, 2025
Coming Back for More: The Secret History of Reincarnation in the West, Part I: Pythagoras and the Orphics artwork

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

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

57:16Jun 4, 2025
James Russell on the Hypnerotomachia in Esoteric Tradition artwork

James Russell on the Hypnerotomachia in Esoteric Tradition

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

40:31May 7, 2025
The Strife of Love in a Dream: James O’Neill Introduces the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili artwork

The Strife of Love in a Dream: James O’Neill Introduces the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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

43:17Apr 23, 2025
Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on Theosophy and the Study of Religions artwork

Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on Theosophy and the Study of Religions

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

1:05:22Jan 8, 2025
Sebastián Moro Tornese on Anagogic Music in Ancient Platonism artwork

Sebastián Moro Tornese on Anagogic Music in Ancient Platonism

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

1:19:53Nov 27, 2024
Michæl Griffin on the Virtues in Ancient Platonism: Painters, Dancers, and Godlike Sages artwork

Michæl Griffin on the Virtues in Ancient Platonism: Painters, Dancers, and Godlike Sages

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

56:36Nov 6, 2024
Judith Noble on Magic and Artistic Practice artwork

Judith Noble on Magic and Artistic Practice

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

59:09Oct 30, 2024
Levan Gigineishvili on Ioane Petritsi and the Mediæval Georgian Proclus-Reception artwork

Levan Gigineishvili on Ioane Petritsi and the Mediæval Georgian Proclus-Reception

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

1:05:01Jul 10, 2024
Jonathan Greig on the East Roman Proclus Reception, Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries artwork

Jonathan Greig on the East Roman Proclus Reception, Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries

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

57:34Jul 2, 2024
Peter Adamson on the Arabic Proclus artwork

Peter Adamson on the Arabic Proclus

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

58:11Jul 2, 2024
Sørina Higgins on Modernist Drama and Ceremonial Magic artwork

Sørina Higgins on Modernist Drama and Ceremonial Magic

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

1:03:53Apr 30, 2024
Alireza Doostdar on ‘Metaphysical Religion’ in Contemporary Iran artwork

Alireza Doostdar on ‘Metaphysical Religion’ in Contemporary Iran

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

58:41Feb 2, 2024
Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence artwork

Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence

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

1:04:27Nov 8, 2023
Noah Gardiner on the Pseudo-Bunian Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrā and the Corpus Bunianum artwork

Noah Gardiner on the Pseudo-Bunian Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrā and the Corpus Bunianum

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

31:02Sep 5, 2023
Noah Gardiner on Aḥmad al-Būnī and Islamicate Lettrism artwork

Noah Gardiner on Aḥmad al-Būnī and Islamicate Lettrism

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

57:56Aug 23, 2023
Morwenna Ludlow on Universal Salvation in Christianity artwork

Morwenna Ludlow on Universal Salvation in Christianity

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

50:54Jul 5, 2023
Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment artwork

Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment

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

43:22Feb 15, 2023
Magic, Technology, Art, and Enlightenment: Gillian McIver on Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourgh artwork

Magic, Technology, Art, and Enlightenment: Gillian McIver on Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourgh

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

36:35Feb 8, 2023
Ferdinando Buscema on Magic, Illusion, and the Question of a Reality artwork

Ferdinando Buscema on Magic, Illusion, and the Question of a Reality

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

56:55Jan 4, 2023
Tzvi Langermann on the Sefer Yetsira: Cosmology, Science, and Kabbala artwork

Tzvi Langermann on the Sefer Yetsira: Cosmology, Science, and Kabbala

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

42:53Nov 16, 2022
Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils artwork

Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils

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

45:05Jul 27, 2022
Juan Acevedo on Alphanumeric Cosmology artwork

Juan Acevedo on Alphanumeric Cosmology

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

1:03:33May 25, 2022
Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity artwork

Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity

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

1:06:34Nov 10, 2021
Dylan Burns on Providence, Fate, and Dualism in Antiquity artwork

Dylan Burns on Providence, Fate, and Dualism in Antiquity

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

52:27Nov 3, 2021
Gyrus on the Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, Part II artwork

Gyrus on the Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, Part II

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

53:05Aug 11, 2021
Gyrus on the Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, Part I artwork

Gyrus on the Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, Part I

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

53:17Jul 27, 2021
John Dillon on Stephen MacKenna and Plotinus artwork

John Dillon on Stephen MacKenna and Plotinus

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

39:35Jul 21, 2021
Peter Grey on the Babalon and Antichrist Workings artwork

Peter Grey on the Babalon and Antichrist Workings

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

45:03Jul 7, 2021
Bink Hallum on ‘Magic Squares’ artwork

Bink Hallum on ‘Magic Squares’

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

50:50Jun 16, 2021
Philosophising the Occult: Michael Noble on The Hidden Secret of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī artwork

Philosophising the Occult: Michael Noble on The Hidden Secret of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

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

1:06:55May 19, 2021
Tatiana Bur on Living Statues, Then and Now artwork

Tatiana Bur on Living Statues, Then and Now

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

55:33Mar 24, 2021
Sasha Chaitow on Joséphin Péladan artwork

Sasha Chaitow on Joséphin Péladan

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

1:03:02Feb 10, 2021
Marina Alexandrova Introduces Madame Blavatsky artwork

Marina Alexandrova Introduces Madame Blavatsky

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

1:08:27Jan 6, 2021
RAW! Erik Davis on Robert Anton Wilson (with Eddie Nix) artwork

RAW! Erik Davis on Robert Anton Wilson (with Eddie Nix)

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

50:53Dec 23, 2020
Allegra Baggio-Corradi on Niccolò Leonico Tomeo artwork

Allegra Baggio-Corradi on Niccolò Leonico Tomeo

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

51:32Dec 21, 2020
Emily Selove on the Magical Book of al-Sakkākī artwork

Emily Selove on the Magical Book of al-Sakkākī

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

35:08Dec 21, 2020