Coming Back for More, Part VI: The Roots of Christian Reincarnationism
30/11/2025 | 38min
We set the stage for a detailed consideration of the evidence for early Christian reincarnationism. Featuring the Bible.
Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism
12/11/2025 | 50min
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.
Daniel Harms on the People and Books Behind Early-Modern Fairy-Magic
08/10/2025 | 1h 1min
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.
Samuel Gillis Hogan on Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700
30/7/2025 | 52min
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.
Alan Moore on Magic
20/6/2025 | 49min
Say no more.

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