Edward P. Butler, PhD
@epbutler.bsky.social
Polytheist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Justice to all beings, reverence to all Gods.
You’re not wrong.
February 12, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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.
February 12, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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.
February 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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.
My new Substack post is live: Platonic Politics substack.com/@epbutler/no...
Platonic Politics
Image: A caricature of mutually destructive democratic factions in the antebellum U.S., attributed to the firm of Currier & Ives (1864)
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February 12, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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…
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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...
Donkeys, Genies, and Demons: Fantastical Creatures in Ancient Egyptian Ritual Texts and Funerary Assemblages
| Studies in Egyptian Archaeology and Science
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February 11, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Donkeys, Genies, and Demons: Fantastical Creatures in Ancient Egyptian Ritual Texts and Funerary Assemblages seas.andromedapublisher.org/index.php/SE...
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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...
ai-village-agents.github.io/park-cleanup...
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...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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...
ai-village-agents.github.io/park-cleanup...
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)
Slava!: Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways
Slavic Paganism and Dual-Faith Folk Ways
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February 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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...
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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!
Today somewhere in the world it is still #Proclus' birthday.
To celebrate read @epbutler.bsky.social 'On the Occasion of the 1,600th Anniversary of the Birth of Proclus (2/08/12)' henadology.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
To celebrate read @epbutler.bsky.social 'On the Occasion of the 1,600th Anniversary of the Birth of Proclus (2/08/12)' henadology.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
February 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thank you for sharing, David!
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)
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods
Oracles of the Gods
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February 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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)
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)
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 ...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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...
ASASA(RAME) Vol. 1. The Wor(l)ds of Linear A: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documents and Inscriptions of a Cretan Bronze Age Script | Salgarella | Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA)
ASASA(RAME) Vol. 1. The Wor(l)ds of Linear A: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documents and Inscriptions of a Cretan Bronze Age Script
epub.lib.uoa.gr
February 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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."
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
"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."
Reposted by Edward P. Butler, PhD
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”
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...
dailynous.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
“For the first time in human history, we are no longer alone in the space of general intelligence.”
Ushering in the Spring - Li Chun Day 2026 javewutaoismplace.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...
《丙午始。立春日。2026》
《 丙午 始。立春日。 2026 》 丙午年。庚寅月。己酉日。丙寅時。 【立春聖日】一到，便是「真正」【新一年】的開始、【新元月】的起點，也正式踏入【 乙 巳蛇 年】，此日稱之為【開春】 ( 「農曆正月初一」為【開正】、「大年初二」係為【開年】，此係【新年...
javewutaoismplace.blogspot.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Ushering in the Spring - Li Chun Day 2026 javewutaoismplace.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026...
Indeed, I shall have exceptional latitude on this platform, so I am thinking carefully about what sort of course I might wish to teach.
January 29, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Indeed, I shall have exceptional latitude on this platform, so I am thinking carefully about what sort of course I might wish to teach.
Khora is live! henadology.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/k...
Khora is live!
Some of you may be aware that for the past year I have been working with Palinode Productions on Khora, their AI assistant for philosophical inquiry. I am a curator, selecting the most interesting …
henadology.wordpress.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Khora is live! henadology.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/k...
Reposted by Edward P. Butler, PhD
interessante como esse conceito de desbatismo tb aparece em outros contextos aí...
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 AM
interessante como esse conceito de desbatismo tb aparece em outros contextos aí...
Saraswati Stotram - In sanskrit with meaning greenmesg.org/stotras/sara...
Saraswati Stotram - In sanskrit with meaning
greenmesg.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Saraswati Stotram - In sanskrit with meaning greenmesg.org/stotras/sara...
Reposted by Edward P. Butler, PhD
In her own words, an Iranian Pagan recounts life, faith, and fear under Iran’s theocracy, explaining how ancient stories, seasonal rites, and spiritual identity have become tools of survival and resistance against the regime during the current protests.
wildhunt.org/2026/01/__tr...
#pagan #iran
wildhunt.org/2026/01/__tr...
#pagan #iran
Hope, Blood, and Heritage: The Iranian Revolt Through the Eyes of an Iranian Pagan - Interviews, Middle East, News, Pagan Voices
Witchcraft & Pagan News - In her own words, an Iranian Pagan recounts life, faith, and fear under Iran’s theocracy, explaining how ancient stories, seasonal rites, and spiritual identity have become t...
wildhunt.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:24 PM
In her own words, an Iranian Pagan recounts life, faith, and fear under Iran’s theocracy, explaining how ancient stories, seasonal rites, and spiritual identity have become tools of survival and resistance against the regime during the current protests.
wildhunt.org/2026/01/__tr...
#pagan #iran
wildhunt.org/2026/01/__tr...
#pagan #iran
In-Herself-Ness: Understanding and Appreciating the Virgin Goddesses with Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D. www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/in...
In-Herself-Ness: Understanding and Appreciating the Virgin Goddesses with Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D., Begins March 9 — Morbid Anatomy
Eight Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Mondays, March 9 - April 27, 2026 7:30 - 9:30pm ET (NYC Time) $125 Paid Patreon Members / $145 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: Classes will...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
In-Herself-Ness: Understanding and Appreciating the Virgin Goddesses with Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D. www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/in...
Reposted by Edward P. Butler, PhD
Inscrições abertas para o primeiro ciclo do Seminário Permanente de Teurgia deste ano
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teurgia.art.blog/2026/01/15/s...
SPT 2026 I – Inscrições Abertas
O Seminário Permanente de Teurgia (SPT) terá no dia 11 de fevereiro o início do seu primeiro ciclo de 2026. Iremos discutir a obra “Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism” de Crystal Ad…
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January 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Inscrições abertas para o primeiro ciclo do Seminário Permanente de Teurgia deste ano
teurgia.art.blog/2026/01/15/s...
teurgia.art.blog/2026/01/15/s...
New Substack note on the doctrine that "Each of the Gods is the universe, but after a different manner." substack.com/@epbutler/no...
January 15, 2026 at 12:59 PM
New Substack note on the doctrine that "Each of the Gods is the universe, but after a different manner." substack.com/@epbutler/no...
This long-awaited book by a close friend and colleague is a thorough and insightful treatment of an interesting and little-known American philosopher. The price is steep, but I would urge libraries to acquire it.
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This long-awaited book by a close friend and colleague is a thorough and insightful treatment of an interesting and little-known American philosopher. The price is steep, but I would urge libraries to acquire it.