Occult Traditions
Damon Zacharias Lycourinos has an academic background in the fields of anthropology and religious studies from the University of Wales, Lampeter, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge. He is currently engaged in a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh exploring the meanings and weavings of ritual and magic in the West, both from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Other current academic areas of research include paradigms of sex, gnosis, and liberation, the embodiment of states of consciousness, the notion of ritual body and performance, and the history, philosophy, and practice of magic in Western contexts and beyond. When not engaged within the arena of academia, he can be found embodying theGreek Magical Papyrithrough intense study and performance, wandering the wilderness, fighting, and indulging in rural wine. He currently resides in Britain, but when not he can be found in Athens or on the volcanic island of Thira overlooking the Aegean.