Browse Sasha’s published work below
Forthcoming book! Unlocking the Secrets of Horapollon’s Hieroglyphica
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 next...
Magic in Modern Greek Culture
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...
New Book! Son of Prometheus
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...
New Book! Chaitow’s Muscle Energy Techniques 5e
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 how I would find myself...
Working with autistic patients in the bodywork clinic
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,...
4 books on Péladan lined up
After a long, long gestation, I'm delighted to announce that my research study of Péladan, drawn from my PhD thesis, will be published in July 2022 by Theion Publishing! This is the first of four books I will be publishing with Theion. Entitled Son of...
What exactly is evidence… and what do we do with it?
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...
How do you feel inside? Why Narrative medicine is critical to ethical practice
The last three articles in this series explored what I have called a "holistic revolution in biomedicine" in the form of narrative medicine - an approach to the clinical encounter designed to address ethical and practical shortcomings of the biopsychosocial approach....
Solving the Biopsychosocial Problem
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, May/June 2021 As efforts to embed evidence-based practice across manual therapy professions continue to grow, the biopsychosocial (BPS) healthcare model has not seen the success some may have hoped for.
Listen, My Body Electric
Published in Massage & Bodywork Magazine, March/April 2020 Part 1: Narrative Medicine and the Holistic Revolution in Biomedicine
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 book: Atalanta Unveiled
New bookAtalanta Unveiled by Sasha ChaitowAtalanta 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...
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...
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 around.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Article: Hidden in Plain Sight: Josephin Peladan’s Religion of Art
Published in Abraxas International Art Journal for Esoteric Studies #5 (London: Fulgur, 2014)Article written for Abraxas #5, with an overview of Péladan's life and work, focusing particularly on the element of secrecy - and lack thereof - in his approach to esoteric...
Research article: Mages and Fairies: J. Péladan’s Initiation for the Masses
Published in Pomegranate International Journal of Pagan Studies 2012: 14(2)
Research article: Renaissance Hieroglyphs of Nature (2011)
Using Maier’s work as a case study, this paper outlines the significance that the understanding of Nature held for Renaissance humanists in their search for a philosophia perennis, tracing the elaborate interconnections between this ’emblematic worldview,’ and Renaissance art, philosophical, and religious thought.
Article: Symbolist Art and the French Occult Revival (2011)
Usually consigned to a footnote or a few lines in scholarly overviews of Rosicrucianism or the French occult revival, as a historical figure Péladan’s defining characteristic is that of contradiction and paradox.
Research article: Corfu, Crucible of Change and Masonic Secrets (2009)
Following a sketch of some of Corfu’s earlier background, this paper focuses on the period between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, outlining the main events and figures in the build-up to the Greek War of Independence (1821-1828) and the Corfiot and Masonic role in its inception.