Welcome to the threshold!

Greetings!

Welcome to you! This is a new incarnation of my website, where I share insights into my work as a researcher, teacher, and persistent trespasser in the shadowed territories between ancient religion, mythology, magic, and modern witchcraft. This is where my love of footnotes meets the wild crossroads, where my archives refuse to stay quiet, and the old gods encourage me to put fingers to keyboard.

Here you will find information on my books, articles, lectures, and perhaps occasional insights from my rituals, pilgrimages through sacred landscapes, and snippets of the unruly survival of ancient magic and devotion. I have never been one for sanitised spirituality or decorative mysticism, and though much of my work is rooted around history and tradition, it should not be mistaken for being stuck in the past. I believe that devotion and magic, as well as the Mysteries live on today, their roots in our past – but their branches and fruits flourishing in the 21st century.

In this blog section of my website, I will be sharing updated articles from my archives (going back to the late 1990’s), musings on magical goings-on, and encouraging readers to examine and question the traditions they encouter today critically, to read sources carefully (we all make mistakes, I did in my earlier work – and probably still do sometimes!) and to approach the Mysteries without surrendering either imagination or intellectual rigour.

Consider this website part study, part archive and part cabinet of curiosities – an open door into a lifetime spent writing, researching, travelling to sacred places and asking difficult questions of gods, magic, history and the scholars who attempt to explain them.