All Episodes

Krista Muratore on the Countercultural Antichrist

Crossing Over to the Unseen: Yousef Casewit on Ibn Barrajān

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

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

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

Alan Moore on Magic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coming Back for More, Part III: Platonism and Reincarnation

Coming Back for More, Part II: Platonic Reincarnation

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

James Russell on the Hypnerotomachia in Esoteric Tradition

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

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

Sebastián Moro Tornese on Anagogic Music in Ancient Platonism

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

Judith Noble on Magic and Artistic Practice

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

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

Peter Adamson on the Arabic Proclus

Sørina Higgins on Modernist Drama and Ceremonial Magic

Alireza Doostdar on ‘Metaphysical Religion’ in Contemporary Iran

Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence

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

Noah Gardiner on Aḥmad al-Būnī and Islamicate Lettrism

Morwenna Ludlow on Universal Salvation in Christianity

Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment

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

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

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

Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils

Juan Acevedo on Alphanumeric Cosmology

Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity

Dylan Burns on Providence, Fate, and Dualism in Antiquity

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

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

John Dillon on Stephen MacKenna and Plotinus

Peter Grey on the Babalon and Antichrist Workings

Bink Hallum on ‘Magic Squares’

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

Tatiana Bur on Living Statues, Then and Now

Sasha Chaitow on Joséphin Péladan

Marina Alexandrova Introduces Madame Blavatsky

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

Allegra Baggio-Corradi on Niccolò Leonico Tomeo

Emily Selove on the Magical Book of al-Sakkākī

Amy Hale on the Magical Life and Art of Ithell Colquhoun