The Eighth Annual Report of the SHWEP
December 30, 2025
We reflect on a year spent in the seventh century and in 2025. Apocalyptic themes seem to have dominated both time-frames. Here's to a sublime and less exciting 2026!
The SHWEP Blog
The SHWEP blog is for all manner of things which crop up in the life of the scholar of western esotericism but don’t fit into our chronological framework: the Living Esoteric Cultures Series of interviews, reflections on the academic field of the study of western esotericism, accounts of past or upcoming events, other notifications, and perhaps even the odd blog post.
I spoke about psychedelic Platonism to a bunch of academics!
June 5, 2024
I was invited to speak to the Philosophy of Psychedelics Exeter Research Group on the subject of psychedelic research and ancient Platonism. I argue that Platonism is way more psychedelic than psychedelics.
I was Interviewed by Gnostics!
November 15, 2023
Like the title says: I was interviewed by Gnostics.
