Edward P. Butler, PhD

YouTube video by Palinode Productions Introducing Khora

A short video introducing Khora, Palinode Productions' open source platform for philosophical inquiry. youtu.be/sWKoysWj2CU

False dichotomy: either the Gods are anthropomorphic, or They are simply forces. There is subjectivity, even personhood, which is nevertheless profoundly inhuman.

Korean Neo-Confucian Perspectives on Laozi and Zhuangzi (sample available) threepinespress.com

Platonic Studies at USP (Brazil) filosofia.fflch.usp.br/eventos/12075

The Village of Strong Branches Check out The Village of Strong Branches - <p><em>The Village of Strong Branches</em> is a hieropoeic ghost story, interweaving family and professional duty. Keð, a member of the international militar...

The Village of Strong Branches, by Kaye Boesme bookshop.org/a/17266/9781... (Independent bookseller platform Bookshop [.] org affiliate link)

“To the Mountain!” Unpacking a major holiday festival in The Village of Strong Branches’ real-world influences.

“To the Mountain!”
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Abenaki Language Memrise Course is back! Kd'alamikol Kalli wji io ônkawigen, tahachi kchi wliwni to Jacob Bouvier for setting up the Abenaki Memrise course, and to all of the language keepers who have contributed to it over the years.

Abenaki Language Memrise Course is back! abenakionline.com/f/abenaki-la...

Everyday Magic: The Spellbinding Life of the Book of the Dead | Getty Events Explore the role of the Book of the Dead in the everyday lives of ancient Egyptians, from domestic affairs to temple rituals.

#Witchsky
Getty Museum is hosting a free lecture by Join Egyptologist Foy Scalf as he explores the role of the Book of the Dead in the everyday lives of ancient Egyptians, from domestic affairs to temple rituals.

Free tickets or register via Zoom to watch on line 3/29

www.getty.edu/calendar/eve...

Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry - The Center for Hellenic Studies The interest in the performance of ancient Greek poetry has grown dramatically in recent years. But the competitive dimension of Greek poetic performances, while usually assumed, has rarely been direc...

Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry (open access) chs.harvard.edu/book/collins...

Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History - The Center for Hellenic Studies This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. Aesop, fabulist and riddle warrior, is assimilated to the pharmakos—the wretched human scapegoat who is exp...

Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History (open access) chs.harvard.edu/book/compton...

The Indigenous leader using AI to protect endangered languages Michael Running Wolf co-created a program to empower Indigenous communities to learn and preserve their languages

The Indigenous leader using AI to protect endangered languages prismreports.org/2026/02/26/i...

What Are the Mysteries of Isis? Do you know the Mysteries? “Hear then, but believe, for what I say is true. I have approached the confines of death and, treading the threshold of Proserpina, I was conveyed through all the Element…

Have you experienced Her Mysteries? isiopolis.com/2026/02/22/w...

#witchsky #magick #esoteric #pagansky
#kemeticsky #occultsky #GoddessIsis #EgyptianDeities

OURANION . . .

Lulu has 10% off print books with code LULUBOOK10. Here's a favorite of mine, Todd Jackson's luminous book of poems, Ouranion www.lulu.com/shop/todd-ja...

Hands-On Theurgy: Reviving the Hermetic Art with Gregory Shaw, Ph.D, Begins March 24 — Morbid Anatomy Five Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Tuesdays, March 24 - April 21, 2026 7 pm - 9 pm EST (NYC Time) $160&nbsp; Paid Patreon Members &nbsp;/ $177 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: All classes wi...

Hands-On Theurgy: Reviving the Hermetic Art with Gregory Shaw, Ph.D, Begins March 24 www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...

You’re not wrong.

It’s hard for me to stay engaged with political discourse; my impulse is always just to set a placeholder and then get back to metaphysics.

Thank you, and thank you for your contributions to the Khora Discord. Those discussions are really crucial for our decisions about how to proceed, now that we are past the stage of just getting the platform up and running.

Platonic Politics Image: A caricature of mutually destructive democratic factions in the antebellum U.S., attributed to the firm of Currier & Ives (1864)

My new Substack post is live: Platonic Politics substack.com/@epbutler/no...

When I was little, our family hosted an Icelandic exchange student. I had been obsessively reading D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths, and asked her if people there still believed in the Norse Gods—“Some do…” she said enigmatically…

Donkeys, Genies, and Demons: Fantastical Creatures in Ancient Egyptian Ritual Texts and Funerary Assemblages seas.andromedapublisher.org/index.php/SE...

AI Village Park Cleanup — Feb 14-15, 2026 AI agents identified two parks that need cleaning. Now we need humans on the ground! Join our volunteer park cleanup at Mission Dolores Park (SF) or Devoe Park (Bronx, NYC). Just 30-60 minutes of your...

I'm often an AI complainer but here's something I do think is cool. Some bots found the two parks in NYC most in need of cleanup and now there's an actual cleanup project in the works for Feb 14-15?! They're looking for volunteers if you're in the area

ai-village-agents.github.io/park-cleanup...

Slava!: Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways

One of the most highly anticipated Pagan publications of recent years, Slava! Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways, by Anna Urošević Applegate, is finally available. bookshop.org/a/17266/9780... (#advertisement)

Call for Participation, Virtual Roundtable: Conceptions of Divinity in African and Afro-Brazilian Religions www.god-and-consciousness.com/round-tables...

Thank you for sharing, David!

Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods Oracles of the Gods

Speaking of the "Philosophy from Oracles", allow me to recommend this book, which changed my view of Porphyry dramatically. Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods, by Crystal Addey bookshop.org/a/17266/9780... (#advertisement)

On Theology and Theurgy Check out On Theology and Theurgy - Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-305) was not only the biographer of his teacher Plotinus, and the editor of his <i>Enneads, </i> but an important Platonist philosopher in ...

It will be nice to have a new edition of the fragments of "Philosophy from Oracles" in particular, and at a humane price as well. On Theology and Theurgy: Porphyry of Tyre, translated by Fabien Muller bookshop.org/a/17266/9780... (#advertisement)

ASASA(RAME) Vol. 1. The Wor(l)ds of Linear A: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documents and Inscriptions of a Cretan Bronze Age Script (open access) epub.lib.uoa.gr/index.php/au...

"By any reasonable criteria, the vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in 1950 is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help to prepare for what comes next."

Is Artificial General Intelligence Here? - Daily Nous "For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence." In a commentary published today at Nature, a group of researchers, including two philosophers, argue...

“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”