Scott Maybell
Grad student in Oxford, researching the political demonology of octopuses and other cephalopods.
Formerly: Salt Lake City Public Service, Arizona Court Mediator, University of Utah, University of Edinburgh
- Jc Beall's book arguing that Christians should accept paraconsistent logics because the nature of their/his god is inherently contradictory was really interesting. I was DYING for him to posit that this is what make god omnipotent: he's logical explosion, given form, ex deus quodlibet.
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- I'm sorry, we don't have any milk, but I can get you authoritarianism without cream instead! haliphron.ink/2026/01/19/a...
- A year ago I wrote a personal essay about the failures that informed my acceptance into grad school and my anxieties of being someone into "esoteric" and "occult" topics while working alongside generally kind and magnanimous Christian theologians. Didn't post until now: haliphron.ink/2026/01/19/t...
- Back during my master's program, I did a bit of genealogical work on William James's "will to believe." It was fun and humanizing to learn that in his initial formulation, he got shot down by a senior scholar and had to change the name multiple times. haliphron.ink/2026/01/17/h...
- I highly recommend reading this short history of James's personal experience while giving the Gifford Lectures. The feelings of up and down when one gives a good/bad presentation are charmingly relatable. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
- Caananites still catching strays... From the Wikipedia page: "The notion that Moloch is the name of a deity has been challenged for several reasons. Moloch is rarely mentioned in the Bible, is not mentioned at all outside of it, and connections to other deities with similar names are uncertain."
- From the wonderful Esoterica: youtu.be/HjuWuNKBkRc?...
- I reckon we can mourn Good's death and express our rage about Trump's responsibility for her killing without insulting ancient peoples and modern Neopagans. In fact, solidarity building with Neopagans should be a political goal on the left.
- The work by Helen De Cruz which impacted me the most was Friendship with the Ancients, which explains a philosophical method and imaginative exercise which involves engaging with deceased authors as companions and friends. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- One of the ways I have been trying to practice this is with ancient women Platonists, with help from Crystal Addey's new Element on the topic. A big part of this is just coming to know the communities they were embedded in and the tradition which informed them. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- We only get glimpses of most of these philosophers. Sosipatra, mythologized into a psychic saint by later Neoplatonists. Axiothea, the political philosopher who wore men's clothes. Clea, Eurydice, and Timoxena, the women philosophers we learn about through Plutarch.
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View full threadFor now, here's a link to a blog post I wrote which includes a downloadable file of an Anki deck I made to memorize details about the lives of the philosophers and priestesses Addey's book discusses. The deck's been quite helpful in getting the details down! haliphron.ink/2025/12/16/p...
- Reposted by Scott MaybellI am a simple person who thinks that telling the truth about things is important. I watched the video footage of this shooting, and the killing is casual and unhurried. DHS and aligned political actors are very ready to present a story of rushed, panicked violence, and it just is not true.
- I've been having so much fun watching streams of Blood on the Clocktower. It really shows how demonic imagery and concepts can be utilized for play and bonding, and IMO that's as much of a political demonology as the scarier forms that involve dehumanization.
- Reposted by Scott MaybellWatching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
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- This is what academic New Testament studies is like.
- Coming soon! (I just wrote a chapter, but very excited about this project) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/esoteric-...
- PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
- A couple of months ago, Media Club Plus / Friends at the Table published a great episode recapping + critiquing M. Night Shymalan's Signs (2002). I try to explicate their critique of the movie's take on theism/atheism, pulling a little from Brook Ziporyn's recent book: haliphron.ink/2025/11/24/s...
- We have been reading Swamp Thing to facilitate discussion about green religions, ecospirituality, pantheism, & similar topics on campus. I argue the comic presents an alternative to Science & Religion research on the imago dei: give it up, and find the sacred there. haliphron.ink/2025/11/22/s...
