SHWEP Recommended Readings (34 books)

Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast

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1	Western Esotericism: A Concise History by Antoine Faivre 3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 3.90 avg rating — 188 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Wouter J. Hanegraaff 4.14 avg rating — 361 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture by Wouter J. Hanegraaff 4.36 avg rating — 64 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism by Glenn Magee (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge by Kocku von Stuckrad 3.75 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus by Antoine Faivre (2003-09-01) by Antoine Faivre 3.97 avg rating — 72 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought by Wouter J. Hanegraaff 4.25 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447 1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (Volume 281) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) by Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven by Wouter J. Hanegraaff 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (Aries Book Series, 7) by Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Early Greek Concept of the Soul by Jan N. Bremmer 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Toward the soul: An inquiry into the meaning of [psychē] before Plato (Yale classical monographs) by David B. Claus 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Plato's psychology by T.M. Robinson 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill by Richard Seaford (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought by Richard Seaford (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India by Richard Seaford 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Defining Magic: A Reader by Bernd-Christian Otto 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Religio-Magical Phenomena and Power, Prediction, and Control by David F. Aberle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	MALINOWSKI'S MAGIC: THE RIDDLE OF THE EMPTY CELL by Karl Erik Rosengren 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series) by Randall Styers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition by Peter Kingsley (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 145 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism by Zeke Mazur 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	When The Bough Breaks by Mrs Jean Barbara Smith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism by Walter Burkert 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Greeks and the Irrational by E.R. Dodds 4.21 avg rating — 1,057 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook by Daniel Ogden (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 221 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies by Emma J. Edelstein 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Artemidorus' Oneirocritica: Text, Translation, and Commentary by Daniel E. Harris-McCoy 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought: Presocratic and Hippocratic Approaches by Stephanie Holton 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Studies on the Dream in Greek Literature by A.H.M. Kessels 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions by Lynn R. Lidonnici 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Where Dreams May Come (2 vol. set): Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 184) by Gil Renberg really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination by Elliot R. Wolfson 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars