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

Earl Fontainelle

Exploring the forgotten and rejected story of Western thought

  1. 12 NOV

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

    Jason Josephson-Storm returns to the SHWEP to discuss one of the most influential thinkers on modern western esoteric movements – Sir James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough – and where, precisely, J.G.F. might fit within western esotericism itself.

    50 min

  2. 8 OCT

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

    Having laid out fairy-magic as a genre, and discussing some of its characteristics, we are delighted to speak with Daniel Harms about the people and social circumstances behind the texts and practices of fairy-magic.

    1h 1m

  3. 30 JULY

    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.

    53 min

  4. 20 JUNE

    Alan Moore on Magic

    Say no more.

    50 min

  5. 9 JUNE

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

    We set the stage for a detailed consideration of the evidence for early Christian reincarnationism. Featuring the Bible.

    38 min

  6. 8 JUNE

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

    We dive deeper into the evidence for Jewish reincarnation around the time of the Temple's destruction with Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, who has done the work. Philo of Alexandria and Josephus come under the metempsychotoscope.

    50 min

  7. 7 JUNE

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

    Moving on from the theories of the Pythagoreans, Platonists, and related folks, we turn ion this episode to the question of Jewish reincarnation in antiquity. There doesn't seem to be any. And yet ....

    40 min

  8. 6 JUNE

    Coming Back for More, Part III: Platonism and Reincarnation

    Having reviewed the roots of reincarnationism in the west, we move forward in time, looking at the Hellenistic and especially the imperial man eras. We then focus in on the inheritors of the Pythagorean/Platonic legacy, the Platonists.

    50 min
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