Eranos Circle (1933– , Ascona)
institutionOccult & Esoteric
Supposedly rival schools of thought turn out to mingle happily once a year at the same Swiss lakeside gathering.
Who they are
The Eranos Circle, an annual conference held at Ascona, Switzerland since 1933.
What they do
The engine reads it as a documented meeting-ground where thinkers from rival traditions built a shared anti-mainstream intellectual project.
How it works
It brought together traditionalist, Hermetic, Jungian depth-psychology, and comparative-mythology scholars — figures like Jung, Eliade, Corbin, and Scholem — under one roof.
Why it matters
It shows that camps presented as opposites actually overlap and blur together once you look at the institutions where they meet.
The engine's record — word for word
Annual conferences at Ascona, Switzerland from 1933 — a documented institutional bridge where Traditionalist, Hermetic, Jungian/depth-psychology and comparative-mythology scholars (Jung, Eliade, Corbin, Scholem) built an anti-positivist ‘alternative Geistesgeschichte.’ Demonstrates the permeability of the supposedly-opposed Promethean/Hermetic and Traditionalist/academic currents — the polarity blurs at the institutional layer.
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