Oh, hello and welcome to my Symposium. I’m Dr Angela Puca I hold a bachelor’s and a master’s in Philosophy including Eastern and Western Philosophies and a PhD in Religious Studies. As an academic in the field, I opened this YouTube channel to share academic knowledge and information on Witchcraft, Shamanism, Paganism, Esotericism and basically all religious traditions and religious practices that include some form of Magic.

Yes, indeed Magic is my research interest and the focus of this channel. Except on this channel, we focus on the academic study of Magic and by sharing such knowledge I hope to bridge the gap between Academia or the so-called Ivory Tower and how difficult it is for people, outside of the academic world, to access papers and research that is done within the field and the community of practitioners. As research itself shows that Magic practitioners are particularly interested in what academic scholarship has to say about their practices.

Now this project, which I really adore, doesn’t just exist because of my presence and my work on it. We are all in this together. Indeed, this project of delivering free academic scholarship on all topics within the realm of Esotericism, Witchcraft and Magic can only exist thanks to you guys, thanks to the Symposium. That’s why I called it that way, thanks to the community.

So if you have the means and want to allow this project to keep going and flourish, I would really appreciate it if you’d support my work with a one-off Papal donation, by joining Memberships or entering my fantastic Inner Symposium community over on Patreon. There are some brilliant minds there and academically inclined people and we have a Discord server, and monthly lectures there’s also the
possibility of having a one-to-one conversation with me every month, really, depending on your chosen tier you find the links to join in a pinned comment to each of my YouTube videos. And if you cannot support the project financially I would also really appreciate other kinds of support, such as liking and commenting on my videos and sharing them with people that might be interested in them.

And also don’t forget to subscribe to my channel. As I was mentioning earlier, I called it a symposium because I really believe that we are in this together. Knowledge is precious and academic knowledge is particularly good at capturing a perspective on things that no other form of knowledge can. That doesn’t mean that it is the most important or that it should be the primary focus of people but it is extremely valuable and I’m here in the hope and following the dream of offering that to you.

Thank you for being here and stay tuned for all the Academic Fun.

Bye for now.