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.
Editorials: Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
In 2018, when her father Leon Chaitow became suddenly unwell, Sasha Chaitow was appointed Managing Editor of JBMT, the peer-reviewed, Medline indexed journal Leon had founded in 1996 as a multidisciplinary journal intended to build the evidence base for the...
Book Chapter: Saving the Lives of Angels: Redemption through the Arts
Saving the Lives of Angels: Redemption through the Arts in: Trans-States: The Art of Crossing Over (ed by Cavan McLaughlin, Fulgur, 2019). Link to book: https://fulgur.co.uk/books/edited-by-cavan-mclaughlin/trans-states-art-crossing/?v=f214a7d42e0d This...
Conference Paper: Image and Logos: Symbolic Vocabularies and Inspired Revelations | Trans-States 2, University of Northampton, September 2019
Sasha presenting on revelation through art in the Belle Epoque.
Portfolio: Salon de la Rose+Croix: the mystical artworks of Sasha Chaitow
A collection of fifteen art prints from the original coloured drawings and accompanying historical booklet, both by Sasha Chaitow PhD.
Les bijoux de la Rose +Croix
The 27th June 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Josephin Peladan, the mysterious French visionary author who dreamed of igniting a cultural renaissance through symbolic art containing esoteric messages and who masterminded the Salons de la Rose + Croix....
The Peladan Centenary Collection 1918-2018
27th June 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Josephin Peladan, the mysterious French visionary author who dreamed of igniting a cultural renaissance through symbolic art containing esoteric messages and who masterminded the Salons de la Rose + Croix. Regular...
Book chapter: Return from Oblivion: Josephin Peladan’s Literary Esotericism
Following a justification of the term “literary esotericism” in the context of Modernist literature, I propose both possible ways forward in terms of methodology, as well as specific examples of potential future research in relation to Péladan that may hold import for the wider field.
Book chapter: Re-enchanting the Fin-de-siècle in PARIS 1900 (MISTERICA)
This book is born from the first edition of the seminar series ”A look at the end of the century” organized by the Autonomous University of Madrid and Heresy and Beauty Culture.
Research article: The Theodicy of Art: Peladan’s Promethean Lucifer
The monstrous Satan languishing in Dante’s Ninth Circle of Hell and Milton’s disgraced rebel angel may be among the most familiar forms given to Lucifer in Western culture, but from the eighteenth century onwards, a more Promethean figure emerged, whom many Romantic poets, artists and authors sought to redeem.
Stained by the Light II & ART = PRAXIS Symposium | Glastonbury 2017
Stained by the Light II 2017 was Sasha Chaitow’s new solo exhibition of neosymbolist art, accompanied by music written for the paintings, and a one-day symposium of talks by scholars and artists “Art = Praxis”. The exhibition was hosted at Glastonbury Galleries...Peladan said what?
It is a common phenomenon to see political supporters of all stripes reaching to thinkers of the past to somehow strengthen their claim to “truth,” such as it may be. It is an often overlooked, though effective tactic that constitutes a double logical...Mass media vs. Symbolism 2-0
Yet another mainstream media article dedicated to the Guggenheim exhibition Mystical Symbolism is doing the rounds courtesy of the New York Times, and depending on who you ask, it is either a barbaric attack by an ignorant journalist on a deeply significant,...Symbolism at the Guggenheim
Since the upcoming exhibition “Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose Croix in Paris 1892-1897 (due to open next week at the Guggenheim in New York) was first announced, friends of esoteric thought, Symbolist art, and those fascinated by the intriguing...
Stained by the Light I | Sasha Chaitow’s 2017 art exhibition | A virtual visit to the Corfu show
Sasha Chaitow’s exhibition of melodized neosymbolist art “Stained by the Light I”, Corfu Reading Society, May 2017
Open letter to budding artists – Ανοιχτό γράμμα σε νέους καλλιτέχνες
[su_row] [su_column size=”1/2″] A concerned parent recently asked me for advice for their teenage child who wanted to become a professional artist. I thought that others might be helped by my answer. I don’t have all the answers, but I can speak both...New book: Atalanta Unveiled
