by Sasha Chaitow | Feb 28, 2025 | News, Writing
I’m delighted to announce that my brand new translation of the Hieroglyphica of Horapollon with scholarly commentary is now in preparation with Black Letter Press. Alice and Clavdio Rocchetti are working their magic, and the book should be going to print in the...
by Sasha Chaitow | Feb 12, 2025 | Events, News
I’m delighted to confirm my participation in a round table on Esotericism and Orthodoxy at the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism conference at Vilnius University, Lithuania. It’s a great honour to have...
by Sasha Chaitow | Jan 3, 2025 | Events, News
I’m delighted to confirm that my paper proposal has been accepted for participation in the XXIII International Association for the History of Religions World Congress 2025 at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Here is my paper abstract: Theosis, Theurgy,...
by Sasha Chaitow | Dec 15, 2024 | Events, News
I’m delighted to confirm that I will be speaking and vending at the Magickal Women Conference in Birmingham on 14th June! See the conference website for details and tickets. My lecture abstract: Chthonic brides and silken secrets Greek folk bridal embroidery and...
by Sasha Chaitow | Oct 10, 2024 | News, Writing
Magic in modern Greece was the PhD I didn’t get to do, because I was encouraged in a different direction and ended up specialising in the French Occult Revival.Nevertheless, it is a phenomenon and topic area interwoven throughout my culture, deeply influencing various...
by Sasha Chaitow | Feb 14, 2024 | in memoriam, News
It has been two years since this website was updated – two painful years in which I abandoned all my projects to walk alongside my mother down a slow, agonising path that ended in her passing on November 4th 2023. Why I went AWOL Since summer 2022 I have been...
by Sasha Chaitow | Nov 14, 2023 | News, Writing
Highly anticipated and certainly overdue, I am delighted to announce the publication of my book Son of Prometheus: The Life and Work of Joséphin Péladan by Theion Publishing. The Standard Edition The Auric Edition (sold out) Dedication page Unboxing! Unboxing 2 Based...
by Sasha Chaitow | Jul 14, 2023 | Conference paper, Events, News
“A Counterpoint to the Sum of Stupidity, or, How to become a Daimonic Genius. Joséphin Péladan’s curriculum for self-initiation as an Ariste Conference poster Behind the scenes, just before going live! Note: Due to personal circumstances I was not able to...
by Sasha Chaitow | Jun 14, 2023 | Books, Health Sciences, News, Writing
Over a decade ago, as he completed some of the earlier revisions to his manual therapy textbooks, my father Leon Chaitow said to me, laughingly, “When I’m dead this’ll be your problem.” Little did I know how quickly that time would come, and...
by Sasha Chaitow | Nov 14, 2022 | News, teaching
This highly popular, scholarly but accessible course is running for another year, hosted by Treadwell’s books. Extended and augmented, this twelve-month offering explores esoteric traditions to give a well-rounded sense of their content; it teaches their...
by Sasha Chaitow | May 20, 2022 | Health Sciences, News, Writing
When talking about autism in the healthcare context, it is often automatically perceived as a condition to be treated or cured. This is a prevalent attitude among the general public and healthcare professionals alike, yet, according to many in the autistic community,...
by Sasha Chaitow | Mar 1, 2022 | Health Sciences, News, Writing
A contentious issue in the manual therapy professions is the question of how far specific applications are or are not evidence-based, and the degree to which clinical experience should be part of the clinical reasoning process. Promoting evidence-informed medicine...