Speakers and Talks
Duncan Barford
Duncan Barford came to magic from a lifelong interest in the paranormal and forteana, and an academic background in literature and psychoanalysis. His main areas of interest are the integration of magical and spiritual practice, the nature of psychical experience, vipassana meditation, and the writings of Rudolf Steiner. He is co-host of the world's foremost magical website, www.thebaptistshead.co.uk, and is completing a book about magic and the paranormal: Occult Experiments in the Home.
White Hair and Brown Pants: When Magic Turns Paranormal
If we gain a result from magic, is it helpful to describe this as a 'paranormal' event? This talk will investigate the meaning of 'the paranormal' in relation to magic, and suggest that it casts interesting light on our understanding of both, leading in some very unexpected directions...
Alan Chapman
Alan Chapman is a magician and writer. He has appeared in the Fortean Times and Chaos International, and regularly contributes to the award-winning website www.thebaptistshead.co.uk. Alan is the author of The Camel Rides Again! A Primer in Magick, and co-author of The Blood of the Saints: The Best of the Baptist’s Head Vol. 1 (with Duncan Barford), both available from the website. Alan’s third book, Advanced Magick for Beginners, will be published by Aeon Books this autumn.
Magic with a K: How to Spell Correctly
At the turn of the 21st Century, there are more magical traditions and approaches available to the Western magician than ever before in history; yet why is it so difficult to answer the most basic questions about magick, such as what is magick? And why would someone want to practice it?
Magic with a K: How to spell correctly will explore the greatest danger facing the tradition of magick at this time: the rot of extreme postmodernism, and how we might rehabilitate magick without regressing to the transcendental dogma of the last century. The talk comes complete with a free practical instruction in a new 21st Century approach to the core practice of magick!
Mary Hoptroff
Mary Hoptroff passionately weaves magic and medicine into a new synthesis of co-creation for our times.
Codes to the Power of Heart: a Shamanic Perspective
Heart and Power are crucial when it comes to working magic.
In this session we shall explore what these words really mean in the context of a practical working: both inwardly and outwardly; the shamanic traditions are practical par excellence and in this session we shall share and work with some ancient techniques or codes to enhance the efficacy of our magic, releasing the power of heart and the heart of power for the purposes of our will.
The Kite
Join the Kite, author of the Kite's Cradle website (www.geocities.com/kaitwm625/), for the Colours of
Wealth Magic workshop and let's move on from money spells and prosperity consciousness.
The Colours of Wealth Magic
In this seminar we’re going to explore aspects of Wealth Magic often forgotten in favour of quick money fixes and ‘prosperity consciousness’. We’re going to upgrade our approach to wealth and do a powerful magical exercise that will help us integrate the lessons of the seminar.
Dave Lee
Dave Lee is a chaos magician with a fund of bizarre experiences, a lecturer at Arcanorium online magical college (http://www.arcanoriumcollege.com/) and a leading light in the Illuminates of Thanateros.
Dave’s published work includes Chaotopia!, Magical Incenses, The Wealth Magick Workbook, and a book/CD set on breathwork, Connect Your Breath!. He has created audio CDs The Galafron Rite and Time Dragons, reissued by New Falcon as a double CD set, and some magical fiction. He has appeared in more occult and underground magazines than he cares to remember and was one of the early editors of Chaos International magazine. His new book on the Northern tradition, Bright From the Well, is coming out this year, and he is working on a novel. For samples of his writing and to buy his books, visit his website at www.chaotopia.co.uk
YourSelves: The Grimoire of Selfhood, part 2
This seminar continues the story of the magician’s exploration of the spirits he is made up from, into the realm of Selves. From the living experience of magical Selfhood, the magician can rebuild his self-complex.
Dave relates personal experiences of magical selfhood and magical identity in these interesting times.
Susan Leybourne
Sex, Magick, and Getting What You Want
Susan Leybourne is the Pagan Chaplain of the University of Leeds, a renowned Clairvoyant, Medium,
healer and Exorcist. She has spent a lifetime studying the Worlds Magical traditions and has a
background in European Witchcraft, and African American Hoodoo, she has studied first hand many of
the Shamanic practices of Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Brazil and Mexico. She has lectured at conferences in
the UK, USA, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Netherlands and has been featured many times on international TV, Radio and in the press.
Peter Mastin
Life Sculpting
Peter Mastin is the IOT British Isles Section Head. He has undergone Metamorphosis frequently throughout his life, variously manifesting as Engineer, Political Activist, Cartoonist, Actor, & Clown, which nicely
illustrates his definition of The Great Work of Magick which is the act of Self Transformation according to
Will.
Soror Res
Soror Res, long-standing, highly respected adept of the IOT, and contributor to Chaos International, Res
has recently reached a wider public audience as student and now teacher at Arcanorium College, Pete
Carroll's latest venture. With interests spanning a wide subject area, she utilises magickal technologies
ranging from future engineering to shamanism both to divine and enchant on matters of daily life.
The Noosphere, the Biosphere and the Chaosphere: When Worlds Collide
In this talk I examine the way that subjective cultures and objective facts interact to create each other. Further, I describe how a magickal perspective on the temporary and arbitrary nature of both these limited viewpoints can allow a pragmatic yet inspiring re-visioning of the world we perceive around us. Mixing philosophy with practical instructions, I hope to provide both entertainment and a few take-home skills for my audience.
Julian Vayne
Julian Vayne is the author of numerous articles and books, both popular and academic. This year sees the
publication of his sixth volume 'Magick Works'. His current reseach is focused on psychoactive ritual,
aeonics and organic gardening.
Two Worlds and In-Between: the Changing Concepts & Use of Space in Modern Magick
Tracing the evolution of the laboratory of sorcery. From the demonic balcony of the Abra Melin, through to the witches cone of power, in this talk Julian will explore the changing conceptions of magickal space.
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