We have published a new blog article titled “The Abramelin Ritual as Daimonic Practice”. The article was written by Terje Sparby, a professor of philosophy and research director at Steiner University College in Oslo. You can read the full article 👉 here

If you wish to submit a blog article as well, please do not hesitate to contact our Managing Editor Aaron French ( @afrench ) at aaron.french@rensep.org.

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Nuria

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The Abramelin Ritual as Daimonic Practice - Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices

By Terje Sparby According to Antoine Faivre, one of the founders of the academic study of esotericism, Western esotericism (Faivre 2010) can be classified as a system of thought…

Please find below the Zoom link for today’s Ask a Scholar event with Dr. Per Faxneld:

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About Per: “Per Faxneld is a Full Professor of the History of Religions at Södertörn University. He has published three monographs on esotericism, including the award-winning ‘Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture’ (Oxford University Press, 2017). His research has focused on the cultural reception of esotericism around 1900, and he has written articles on that subject for art catalogues produced by galleries and museums including Liljevalchs, the Edvard Munch Museum and the Akseli Gallen-Kallela Museum. He has also worked with museums such as Millesgården, the Nobel Museum and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, and has lectured at the Strindberg Museum, Thielska Gallery and elsewhere. His other research interests include secularisation, history of film, rural folk religion and spiritual aspects of Japanese martial arts.”

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We are delighted to launch the series with a dossier dedicated to the RENSEP Artist’s Award 2024, organised in partnership with Arts University Plymouth. Focusing on Natasha Viosna Moody’s project Becoming Ghostwood, the volume explores the intersections of art, ecology, and esotericism through contributions by Judith Noble, Michelle Foot, Natasha Viosna Moody, and Stephen Felmingham.

We invite you to explore the inaugural Research Dossier and this exciting new publications series! Click 👉here to find out more.

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Welcome to RENSEP Research Dossiers, a publication series of the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices. RENSEP Research Dossiers are commissioned collections of…

We have published a new blog article titled “Could Decolonisation Efforts Support a Sustainable Future for the Study of Esotericism in the Academy?”. The article was written by Kiki Adamoli, a practitioner-scholar and musician. You can read the full article 👉 here

If you wish to submit a blog article as well, please do not hesitate to contact our Managing Editor Aaron French ( @afrench ) at aaron.french@rensep.org.

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Nuria

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Could Decolonisation Efforts Support a Sustainable Future for the Study of Esotericism in the Academy? - Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices

By Kiki Adamoli Before I answer my own question in the affirmative and wax poetic on decolonisation praxis, I will point out my position. I…

We have published a new blog article titled “Lemurian Time Sorcery: Fictioned Origins of a Real Practice”. The article was written by Gregg Harmston, an independent researcher, writer and music producer from the UK who focuses on esotericism and occultism alongside media and literature theory, cyberculture and non-standard philosophy. You can read the full article 👉 here

If you wish to submit a blog article as well, please do not hesitate to contact our Managing Editor Aaron French ( @afrench ) at aaron.french@rensep.org.

Best,

Nuria

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Lemurian Time Sorcery: Fictioned Origins of a Real Practice - Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices

By Gregg Harmston The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an academic and para-academic research group operative in the UK between 1995 and 2003. It…

We are thrilled to promote the conference “Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible”, which is organised by The Department of Art + Art History, The Center for the Study of Ideas and Practices at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as well as RENSEP and our partners The Center for Advanced Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (CAS-E), The University of Exeter’s Centre for Magic and Esotericism, and Societas Magica.

“Belief is inclusive: magic, spirituality, esotericism, and religion, and all potential remixings of beliefs and ideas related to these spheres.

Creative practice is likewise inclusive: visual arts, design, digital technologies, crafts, music, dance, performance, poetry, architecture, and more.

This conference will follow the exhibition Holding a Bright, Untroubled Sky: Visioning a Better World through Magic held in the Rowe Galleries in August, 2026 at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, curated by Dr. Amy Hale. Bridging the Invisible also precedes RENSEP’s conference Magic and Consciousness, which will also be online from November 25 – 27th, 2026.

The conference organizers encourage humanities and social science scholars, artists, designers, craftspersons, practitioners, and community members to attend this free conference and learn more about these rich and important intersections.”

For more details, please click 👉 here.

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Nuria

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Bridging the Invisible

Heather D. Freeman, Consecration of the Slide, December 26th, 2024, mixed media on watercolor paper, 12" x 9".