Julian Vayne

Julian Vayne is an occultist and the author of numerous books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. While his name is closely associated with chaos magic, Julian is also an initiated Wiccan, member of the Kaula Nath lineage and Master Mason. His work is informed by the post-modern style of chaos magic as well as lineages within Wicca and Uttarakaula Tantra. His interests include drugs and magick, permaculture and the politics of sustainability, teaching and graphic art.

Over the past 30 plus years, he has participated in a group ceremony with a variety of druids, shamans and others as well as sharing his own practise through public workshops, retreats and networks of practitioners including The Illuminates of Thanateros. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony.

Julian is a co-organizer of Breaking Convention, a leading contributor to theblogofbaphomet.com, a co-director of The Psychedelic Museum, a trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Project, and of The Friends of the Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft.