Damon Zacharias Lycourinos

has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology from the University of Wales, Lampeter, an MSt in the Study of Religion from the University of Oxford, and a PGCE in Religious Education from the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD at the Divinity School of the University of Edinburgh with his thesis being a phenomenological and ethnographic study of ritual embodiment in modern Western magic. Damon is a Thelemite with an academic and personal interest in ceremonial magic and yoga, ancient mystery cults and the PGM, Enochiana and certain grimoires, and European witchcraft, and is currently working on a collection of small monographs under the overarching title On Thelemic Cult. He practices wing chun and hopefully soon Japanese jujutsu, rambles the British countryside, and drinks wine. He currently lives in North East England with his wife and feline familiar.

Relevant Publications

Monographs

Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic. London: Routledge 2018, ISBN: 978-1-138-57417-5

Papers in peer-reviewed journals

Sexuality and the Ritual Body: A Phenomenology of Embodiment and Participation in a Modern Magical Ritual, in: Journal of Ritual Studies 31 (1), 2017

Reflections on the Ethnographic Study of Western Esoteric Practices in Theory and Method, in: Correspondences Volume 5, 2018

‘Grimoires’; ‘Jake Stratton-Kent’; ‘Stephen Skinner’; ‘David Rankine’; ‘Sorita d’Este’, in: Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism, Egil Asprem (ed.), Leiden: Brill, forthcoming