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I’m an author and researcher, exploring new paradigms for understanding, and coming into relation with, pre-modern landscapes and the ancestral minds who devised them. This is based on a belief that we can nourish our humanity by forming deeper bonds by doing so; by going beyond archaeology’s study of the tangible aspects of culture towards a method of learning from our ancestral legacies, rather than simply creating knowledge about them.

But to do so we must develop the tools to understand ourselves as porous, composite, ancestral beings, and to understand the land as possessed of personhood and agency. In other words, to develop an archaeology of the imaginal; an anthropology of consciousness; techniques for re-enchantment, interfusion, sacralisation.

These are articulated in my book Avalon Working, which invites readers to actively participate in the land’s unfolding destiny, to co-create its mythopoeia through experiential methods: pilgrimage, ceremony and ritual, poetic & creative expression, visionary practice, psychogeography, introspection, intuition and personal phenomenology.

Related areas also of interest include: geomythology, archaeoastronomy, sky lore, folklore, performance theory and symbology.

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