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

209 Episodes

1. Curses! Sarah Veale on Roman ‘Curse-Tablets’

   Published: 07/09/2022
2. Daniel James Waller on the Jewish Incantation-Bowls

   Published: 24/08/2022
3. Gideon Bohak on Late-Antique Jewish Magic

   Published: 17/08/2022
4. Thinking through Monotheism, Henotheism, Polytheism, and Dualism in Late Antiquity

   Published: 03/08/2022
5. Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part II: The Rise of Christianity and the Invention and Eclipse of ‘Paganism’

   Published: 29/06/2022
6. Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part I: Geopolitics, Empire, and Rabbinic Judaism

   Published: 22/06/2022
7. Run the Numbers: The Theology of Arithmetic

   Published: 15/06/2022
8. Brian Alt on Sacred Materials, Divine Names, and Subtle Physiology in Iamblichean Theurgy

   Published: 11/05/2022
9. Gregory Shaw on the Phenomenology of Iamblichean Theurgy

   Published: 20/04/2022
10. John Finamore on Iamblichean Theurgy in Theory and Practice

    Published: 13/04/2022
11. The Great Theurgy Debate: Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo, Iamblichus’ Response, and the Question(s) of Ritual

    Published: 07/04/2022
12. The Esoteric Iamblichus

    Published: 16/03/2022
13. The ‘Greater Kinds’, Souls, and Kosmos: Iamblichus’ Philosophy, Part II

    Published: 09/03/2022
14. Esoteric Hermeneutics, Divine Hierarchy, and the Ineffable: The Philosophy of Iamblichus, Part I

    Published: 16/02/2022
15. Introducing Iamblichus of Chalcis

    Published: 09/02/2022
16. A Word to Conjure With: On ‘Theurgy’ in Late Antiquity and Beyond

    Published: 26/01/2022
17. Astral Accretions, Fate, and the Resurrection-Body: Other Subtle Bodies of Antiquity

    Published: 20/01/2022
18. Soul-Flight, Noetic Bodies, and Pneumatic Vehicles: Toward a History of the Platonist Subtle Body

    Published: 12/01/2022
19. Methodologies for Studying the Subtle Body

    Published: 29/12/2021
20. Nilüfer Akçay on Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs

    Published: 08/12/2021