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Peter Mark Adams

is an author and poet.

Peter Mark Adams is an author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing. Peter has over twenty years experience with energy based healing modalities including rebirthing breathwork, meridian therapies and Reiki. As a professional author, Peter’s non-fiction is published by Scarlet Imprint and Inner Traditions; literary prose and poetry largely in Corbel Stone Press’ literary journal ‘Reliquiae: Journal of  Nature, Landscape & Mythology’ and a range of essays examining other than human encounters in the peer reviewed journals  ‘Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal’ and ‘The Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology’. With a background in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool; Peter pursues advanced studies with the Warburg Institute’s School of Advanced Studies in London covering iconology and iconographic theory; Renaissance art and material culture. 

Bibliography 

Nonfiction

Two Esoteric Tarots (with Christophe Poncet), London: Scarlet Imprint, 2023

Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos, London: Scarlet Imprint, 2023.

The Power of the Healing Field: Energy Medicine, Psi Abilities and Ancestral Healing, 2022, Vermont: Inner Traditions, January 2022. 

Mystai: Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysus, London: Scarlet Imprint, 2019.

The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola-Busca Tarocchi, London: Scarlet Imprint, 2017.

A Brief Guide to the Trumps and Court Cards of the Sola-Busca Tarocchi, London: Scarlet Imprint, 2017.

 

Articles

The ‘Knowing-Field: Morphic Resonance and Egregores. Watkins Mind Body & Spirit Online Magazine. October 2019.

Elite Illuminism & Saturnian Ritual in Renaissance Italy: Decoding a Late-Byzantine Hellenistic Theurgical System, In:Dew of Heaven: Ritual Magic Conference Papers, (forthcoming). 

Ritual as Therapy: Steps towards an Ethnography of the Invisible. Paranthropology: The Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal, Volume 5, No 3 (2014). 

Healing Interventions Involving Deceased Persons. The Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology, Volume 1, No 2 (2013). 

Lord of the Flies: The Phenomenology of a Possession. Paranthropology: The Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal, Volume 4, No 3 (2013). 

 

Literary Prose & Poetry

The Troad, a literary reverie, Reliquiae: Journal of Landscape & Nature, Vol.8 No.2, 2020.

On the Fourth Kind of Madness: A Palimpsest of Plato’s Phaedrus 249c-250c. A Beautiful Resistance Journal, August 2020.

Star Axis, New Mexico / Reflections, Reliquiae: Journal of Landscape & Nature, Vol.8 No.1, 2020.

Gobekli Tepe, 10,000 BCE / A Reading, Reliquiae: Journal of Landscape & Nature, Vol.7 No.2, 2019.

The Mistress of the Labyrinth, Reliquiae: Journal of Landscape & Nature, Vol.7 No.1, 2019.

The Crane Dance, Reliquiae: Journal of Landscape & Nature, Vol.6 2018.

 

Reviews of Poetry Collections

‘Stranger in the Mask of a Deer’ by Richard Skelton. Review: ‘Paralibrum’ June, 2021.

‘Ajar To The Night’ by Autumn Richardson. Review: ‘Paralibrum’ June, 2020.

‘An Almost-Gone Radiance’ by Autumn Richardson. Review: ‘The Poetry Shed’ April, 2019.

 

Conference / Book Launch Presentations

Mystai: Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos’ Treadwell’s Bookshop, London, October 2019

‘Elite Illuminism & Saturnian Ritual in Renaissance Italy’, Ritual Magic Conference, Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, May 2018

‘The Game of Saturn: the Sola-Busca Tarocchi’, Treadwell’s Bookshop, London, April 2017

‘Ritual as Therapy: Steps Towards an Ethnography of the Invisible’, International Ritual Studies Symposium, Sah University, Istanbul, May 2014

‘Altered States / Parallel Worlds’, Brain to Consciousness Conference, Istanbul, May 2011

 

Podcasts

Coffee & Divination, April 2021

Magical Egypt, October 2020

The Glitch Bottle, June 2020

Occult of Personality, March 2020

Thelema Now!, January 2020

Rune Soup, October 2019

The Higher Side Chats October, 2017

Thelema Now!, September 2017

Occult of Personality, August 2017

Rune Soup, April 2017

 

Contact

Web: www.petermarkadams.com

Gmail: petermarkadams@gmail.com

Twitter: @petermarkadams