Biography

Duncan Barford has an academic background in literature and psychoanalysis, but more recently has focused his attention on magick and spiritual development, having found himself unable to accept consensus definitions of reality due to various paranormal experiences that he describes in his forthcoming book, Occult Experiments in the Home (Aeon Books, 2010).

With his friend and colleague, the writer and spiritual teacher Alan Chapman, Duncan co-founded The Baptist’s Head, a revolutionary occult website that revived the Western magical tradition through an innovative blend of contemporary magick and hardcore spiritual practice. A record of the early part of this work is contained in the co-authored book The Blood of the Saints (Heptarchia, 2009). Two further volumes are currently in preparation.

Since their successful completion of The Great Work in 2009, Duncan and Alan have founded Open Enlightenment, a new Western spiritual movement with the aim of teaching and promoting the understanding and attainment of enlightenment in the 21st Century.

Occult Experiments in the Home is a personal project and reflects Duncan’s continuing interest in unusual experiences, states of consciousness, and their significance to our understanding of everyday reality.