Earlier this year, I presented this paper to the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, and I now have it published in the latest volume of Scriptorium. The paper examines the history of the experience of what has been termed cosmic consciousness, … Continue reading →
The magician and Occultist Aleister Crowley appears on the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 masterpiece Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, situated on the back row of a crowd of people that the band admired. Crowley famously put forward in … Continue reading →
I’ve been writing short stories since the early 1990s, and have amassed quite a collection over the years, so when I was asked by Surrealist artist Jens Rusch to donate a short story for his visual project The Magic Carpet … Continue reading →
A look inside the new edition of Richard Carlile’s Manual of Freemasonry, with foreword by Dr David Harrison, published by Masonica in 2021. The high degrees presented in The Manual of Freemasonry were discussed at length in my book Rediscovered … Continue reading →
In 2013, I was commissioned by publisher Lewis Masonic to put together a question and answer book especially for lodge mentors and new members, and this book became A Quick Guide to Freemasonry, and incidentally it became my first foreign … Continue reading →
The book A Journey through Freemasonry is my first collection of Masonic essays, papers and articles, published in December 2019. The book includes articles on Lord Byron and his involvement in the Carbonari, the Hell Fire Club, Liverpool’s Williamson Tunnels … Continue reading →
Between the years 2013 – 2018, I taught a local history group in Anfield, in Liverpool, named the Rawdon History Group, the group being named after local industrialist and philanthropist Christopher Rawdon. As part of a history project with the … Continue reading →
I recently had published my second collection of Masonic essays, entitled Masonic Mosaic, published by Spanish Masonic publisher Masonica. The book brings together a number of my previously published Masonic articles, which examine topics such as Masonic writers and novelists, … Continue reading →
The following video, which I have posted on my YouTube channel, reveals a brief look into my new book The Rite of Seven Degrees, available now through the Lewis Masonic website and in all the usual bookstores. It’s also available … Continue reading →
I’ve given a good few interviews over the years during the promotion of my books, mainly to Masonic magazines and platforms on social media by Masonic promoters. Occasionally however, there are opportunities for interviews in the local or national press, … Continue reading →
