Lecture for ETH Zurich: Art and literature as vehicles for change
Esoteric art and literature as vehicles for change: Joséphin Péladan’s vision for a spiritual revolution, by Sasha Chaitow for ETH Zurich, 10th November 2020
Intelligent Fascia?
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, November/December 2020 Once we are aware that we are in fact only one link in a long debate that has been repeated many times before, we can compare contexts and see where we may do things more constructively. We need to...
New alchemical art collection: The Seals of the Philosophers
New art collection The Seals of the Philosophers Opus Medico-Chymicum: tertius Basilica Philosophica The seals of the philosophers... is a set of emblems designed by Johannes Mylius in 1618 named for historical and mythical adepts and legends of alchemical lore......
New book: Atalanta Unveiled
New book Atalanta Unveiled by Sasha Chaitow Atalanta Unveiled: Alchemical Initiation in the Emblems of the Atalanta FugiensDubbed ‘the most prominent alchemical physician in Germany since Paracelsus,’ Michael Maier was Royal Physician and Count Palatine to Holy Roman...
My father and I
In the small hours of September 20th, 2018, I posted the announcement that my father, Leon Chaitow, had passed away. I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of sympathy, condolences, and intense grief from literally every corner of the globe, as my father had been a...
Participation in “New Symbols” exhibition, Athens
I was also deeply honoured to see Hineni highlighted and discussed by art critic Stella Sevastopoulos in the only English-language review of the Athens art scene, in an overall deeply insightful and observant review of the exhibition. The New Symbols project is one...
Science, Pseudoscience, and the Communication Battle
Published in Massage & Bodywork magazine, July/August 2020 As efforts to bring clarity to the “infodemic” surrounding COVID-19 continue, the scientific community is realizing two key things: they stand on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity to educate the...
Art in dark places
want of trying. Yet I saw things in that abyss that should never be spoken of except in warning. So those paintings will never be created. Late in 2019 I finally found time to sit down at the easel, following a monumental blow that added insult to injury following my...
The Truth about COVID-19 *(written March 2020)
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Special Issue March 2020 As epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists, and all manner of experts take to the airwaves to advise, admonish, and inform us, a lot of contradictory information is flying...
A Cautionary Tale
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, March/April 2020 This does not invalidate the RCT as an important tool in research, but it does mean we need to proceed with caution, as it has been noted repeatedly that its purpose is to assist and support clinical...
2020 Péladan research update
Friends who follow me on other media will be aware that this page has been quiet for a while, following a couple of years of extreme life turbulence. In early 2018 I was making good headway with the manuscript for my (horrendously overdue) book on Péladan, when family...
From Socrates to Bodywork
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020 I have a confession to make. I firmly believe that there is poetry in scientific research. Let me explain.New book: Atalanta Unveiled
