Dr Andy Letcher is a writer, performer and scholar of religion who began life as an ecologist, completing his D.Phil in Ecology at Oxford University. After a spell as an environmental activist during the 90s, especially during the anti-roads protests, he moved across to the humanities, completing a PhD at King Alfred’s College Winchester. He is an expert on contemporary alternative spiritualities, especially modern Paganism, neo-shamanism and psychedelic spiritualities. A writer known for his critical approach, he is the author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and a range of academic papers on subjects as diverse as fairies, animism, folklore, bardism and Druidry. He wrote the companion volume to The English Magic Tarot. A folk musician, he plays English bagpipes and Dark Age lyre, and for ten years fronted psych-folk band, Telling the Bees.
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Schumacher College: https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk
Extinction Rebellion: http://rebellion.earth
Earth Wisdom Tenders: https://www.facebook.com/groups/725194284575006/
The Psychedelic Society: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk
Apocalyptic Witchcraft: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18680114-apocalyptic-witchcraft
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877432.Shroom
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