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Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils

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

07/27/22 • 45 min

We speak with Dr Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils, a widespread Christian ‘heresy’ – dualist, demiurgic, docetist, ascetic, and esoterically-structured – arising in the tenth-century Balkans and spreading into such unlikely places as Constantinople and even the monastery of Mt Athos. We discuss the who, what, and when of Bogomilism, animadvert as to the why, and even speculate intriguingly on the how.

Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity

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

11/10/21 • 66 min

Is ‘free will’ a given, a constant of the human condition? It might seem that way, but as Dylan Burns argues in this interview, the idea that humans possess a faculty of un-coerced decision-making actually arises at a specific time – late antiquity – and in a specific context – early Christian philosophy.

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

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11/16/22 • 42 min

We discuss the extraordinary reception-history of the extraordinary text known as Sefer Yetsirah, the ‘Book of Formation‘. The Sefer Yetsirah would eventually become a foundational text for the Kabbalist movements of the high middle ages, but it was (and is) much more than that. Professor Langermann lays out the evolutions in reading this text from Sa‘adia Gaon to Aryeh Kaplan.

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

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

01/04/23 • 56 min

We speak about illusion, magic, and reality with magical experience designer Ferdinando Buscema. He can make stuff disappear, find your card anywhere in the deck, and read your mind. He is, in short, a magician. But he is also, like Apuleius, Iamblichus, Ficino, and Crowley before him, a philosopher of magic.

Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment

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

02/15/23 • 43 min

We discuss the widespread idea of the ‘disenchantment’ of the modern world – the idea that ‘we don't believe in magic any more’ – with Jason Josephson-Storm. It turns out that the idea is a myth, that the myth is actually a number of complex, interacting myths, and that none of them is empirically-accurate.

Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project

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

12/14/22 • 34 min

Our discussion with Jeremy Swist on The Emperor turns metaphysical, theurgic, and religious, as we discuss Julian's incredible synthesis of Iamblichean theology and metaphysics, traditional religions, and politics. Come for the pagan counter-church, stay for the transcendent solar metaphysics.

Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor

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12/14/22 • 39 min

Jeremy Swist, specialist on Late Platonism, late antiquity, and the great Julian the Faithful, lays out the political background and political project of The Emperor. Part I of a two-part discussion of late antiquity's greatest statesman. No bias here.

Karin Valis on Magic and Artificial Intelligence

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11/08/23 • 64 min

In our second A House with Many Rooms interview, we discuss the intersections between AI and magic with machine learning engineer Karin Valis. Come for the divination, ensouled statues, golems, homonculi, and alphanumeric cosmology, stay for the techno-magical intervention at the end.

Noah Gardiner on Aḥmad al-Būnī and Islamicate Lettrism

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

08/23/23 • 57 min

We introduce Aḥmad al-Būnī, master sūfī and alphanumeric speculator, but most famous in the Islamicate world as an authority on magic. We sift the wheat from the chaff and get to the bottom of who al-Būnī was, what he really wrote, and what kind of reception he has had, both within and outside of Islam.

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

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09/05/23 • 31 min

We discuss arguably the greatest magical book of the Islamicate tradition, the Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrā or Great Sun of Knowledge. Turns out it isn't by al-Būnī as everyone thought, though there is some Būnī in there; but it has so much to tell us about Islamicate culture, Sufism, and the ‘project of forgetting’ of esoteric Islām among both Muslims and scholars.

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