In 2018, I founded RAIN, an organisation supporting Indigenous tribes, formerly enslaved populations and other marginalised communities in Brazil to regenerate their traditional lands and work towards food security and community autonomy.

My colleagues at RAIN and I take nature’s networks as our inspiration and model for doing this work. They include ant colonies, mycelia and my favourite - the humble slime mould.

The Rider Waite Smith deck is the most iconic of tarot decks, and something of a gateway into the world of magic and the Devil's Uno. The artist Pamela Colman Smith was living in the small town of Winchelsea in East Sussex while painting the images, and much of the iconography was drawn from the world around her. Tower Cottage where she lived, for example, and the tower next door both feature on the 10 of Pentacles - a correspondence that is entirely appropriate for the card which alludes to the most concretised aspect of the suit of earth, the bricks of your house. The wall of the garden features in the Sun card, and the placement of the sun in the card is right where it would have risen as seen from over the road.

A pathworking to visit the enduring goddess Hecate, guardian of he portal and of liminal spaces.

Frankincense and Myrrh do all kinds of interesting things to your head, the anointing oil and temple incense are full of psychoactive compounds, and showbread is potent in doses the size of a bean. How did the High Priest get high, and what can we tell from pharmacology and archaeology about drugs in the Bible?

And what did they think about all this at the Lewes Arms?

The diagnosis of ADHD is certainly good for business, with the global medication market projected to hit nearly £25 billion by 2025. But it is good for us to agree to be called “deficient”, “hyperactive” and “disorderly” when it is not only insulting but inaccurate?

In honour of Chinese New Year in the Year of the Dragon, I’m sharing the story of Merlin as a boy.

This version was told to me by the great storyteller Eric Maddern. It is about finding our voice and expressing ourselves, and the powers that are released when we do.

Spoiler: It has dragons in it.

The therapist who introduced me to the art of hypnosis had a keen interest in magic and the occult sciences. When he hypnotised me and employed some of the tools of ceremonial magic, he not only cleared up a problem with anger that was troubling me, but also opened my eyes to an elegant way of engaging with the powerhouse of the deep mind.

It was my great pleasure to share some of this work in this talk, given at Occulture 2023.

Two summers ago, I led a series of collective rituals inviting people to bring slime moulds into their magic to feed a new type of spirit for a new world - something in the shape of a branching network. As with all great works, I learned a little something on the way - in this case about how to nurture a regenerative network.

Networks in nature made up of single-celled creatures without brains or nervous systems can solve mazes, predict rhythms in time, efficiently distribute resources and share information for mutual aid and collective resilience.

What might we humans be capable of if we work together and connect with something that goes beyond us?

The circles and incantations of ceremonial magic are a great way to approach some of the more powerful and unruly parts of the psyche, and trance makes it easy.

If you’re in Berlin, come along along to one of the following dates…

Neil and Francis from Storm Radio thought it would be a good idea to get me on the Short n Curlz show, talking about trance and the apocalypses in between Saturday morning tunes and puerile jokes.

Networks in nature made up of single-celled creatures without brains or nervous systems can solve mazes, predict rhythms in time, efficiently distribute resources and share information for mutual aid and collective resilience. What might we humans be capable of if we work together and connect with something that goes beyond us?

Most people today in the industrialised world think that medicine was a barbaric hit-and-miss affair until the advent of science, and that the medicines that were known to the ancients were discovered by trial and error.

Are there aliens in the Bible? Or is it something even more curious?