Aaron Cheak

Aaron Cheak, PhD, teaches the history of Eastern and Western alchemies at the University of Philosophical Research. He received his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of Queensland in 2011 for his thesis on René Schwaller de Lubicz. Dr Cheak has published and presented on topics ranging from the Greek Magical Papyri to the phenomenology of consciousness, and for the past seven years, his work has concentrated on the deep interstices between integral and hermetic philosophy. Outside the academy, Aaron has been trained in the preparation of spagyric elixirs at the Paracelsus College, and is a practitioner within the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Vajrayana Buddhism. He presently lives on the eastern coast of Australia, where he maintains an active interest in tea, wine, poetry, typography and alchemy.