Georgios Gemistos Plethon – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

Westward Ho! with Matthew Melvin-Koushki

We let the tape run, discussing languages, and what ‘the classics’ is supposed to mean, the contrafactual proposition that the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire after the first world war was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, the question of the ‘wastebasket of history model’ of western esotericism and how relevant it is to the Greater West model, and the magical war being fought for the future, and the need for warriors to get the language right.

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Episode 196: One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

We are delighted to speak with Anthony Kaldellis about ‘Byzantium’, fabled empire full of Greek-speaking Romans which never fell until the fifteenth century, and which plays an outsize role in the history of western esotericism. Come for the historiographical debates about the term ‘Byzantine’, stay for the ‘Byzantine’ court astrology.

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Robbert van den Berg on Proclus’ Hymns

Porphyry wrote hymns, Julian wrote hymns, but Proclus' hymns are special in the canon of ancient Platonism. Robbert van den Berg is our guide in discussing Proclus' surviving texts in their general late-antique and specific theurgic contexts.

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Episode 3: Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism

Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff, head of the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, on researching western esotericism, the history of the field, and ‘rejecting the rejection of rejected knowledge’.

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Podcast Episodes Themed "Georgios Gemistos Plethon"

Westward Ho! with Matthew Melvin-Koushki

Episode 196: One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

Robbert van den Berg on Proclus’ Hymns

Episode 3: Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism