Revealing the Hermetic secret of Mary Anne South (aka Mrs Atwood): nonduality, embodiment, rebirth & bodily fluids. academia.edu/123113562/A_Su…

Listening to the Sources! Hermes, Hermeneutics & the Humanities (not to mention the incredible coolness of Hans-Georg Gadamer) wouterjhanegraaff.blogspot.com/2024/08/hermes…

Exactly 25 years ago today, 1 September 1999, the new chair for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents was launched at the University of Amsterdam. And what a ride it has been!

This is how chair was announced in the UvA journal Folia.

Check me out on Bluesky. Certainly better than a black sky without any stars or even a moon, just an ugly letter X that looks like a “do not enter” sign.

Here’s the cover of my new book. It will come out this spring.

My article “Esotericism and Democracy” (already translated into German last year) just appeared in Portuguese translation as well, in a Brazilian journal of sociology of religion, with an excellent introduction by the translator. revistas.usp.br/plural/article…

Very happy with this long interview with Faridul Islam, about Hermetic spirituality in Roman Egypt and in the Italian Renaissance. youtu.be/1tENiH8iFHI

Another interview about Hermetic spirituality in Roman Egypt, esotericism, and those times when the Netherlands were known for their tolerance youtu.be/jzJWxggsyAw?si…

I feel deeply honored to be the 2025 recipient of the KHMW Van der Aa oeuvre prize. Most of all, I feel this is a serious mark of academic recognition for the study of esotericism as a new field of research. uva.nl/shared-content…

Well, a friend of mine managed to buy a copy in a bookshop, so apparently it’s already available somehow, even though officially it gets published end of May. bloomsbury.com/us/esotericism…

It’s there!

Is esotericism dangerous? Happy with the opportunity to bring some nuance to this question in the German context, at the German TV channel Arte. arte.tv/de/videos/1188…

Here, There & Everywhere: theoretical and methodological reflections on esotericism research, the “global agenda,” and contemporary esoteric practices. brill.com/downloadpdf/vi…

Netanyahu’s crimes against humanity are crimes again Judaism. wouterjhanegraaff.blogspot.com/2025/07/netany…

Politics and [Western] Esotericism. Some updates to an old debate. wouterjhanegraaff.blogspot.com/2025/07/politi…

I very much enjoyed doing this interview with Jason Anderson at his channel We Are Being Transformed. Rejected Knowledge, Internal Eurocentrism, Counter-Normativity, Counter-Normality, and of course a lot of Hermetica. youtu.be/UQqgJbdhr-w?si…

On the 9th of July I had the great honor of being awarded the 2025 Van der Aa oeuvre prize in the humanities, this year for the category “philosophy and study of religion (incl. theology).” You can find my speech after 1:14:50 here. youtu.be/wyPSJAtzewg

Splendid new book by Urs App, about the true sources of H.P. Blavatsky’s Theosophical system. wouterjhanegraaff.blogspot.com/2025/09/blavat…

Hanegraaff & Hanegraaff (Wouter and my cousin Marco): about Hermetic Spirituality, hermeneutics and other mysteries. Now with carefully edited subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese. youtu.be/l1AcIYwRxYI?si…