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Dr. Nevill Drury is an independent researcher
and author whose specialist interests include
modern Western magic, shamanism and vi-
sionary art. For many years he worked in the
Australian book industry as an editor and art
book publisher and in 2008 he received his
PhD from the University of Newcastle for a
dissertation on the art and magic of Rosaleen
Norton. He now lives in Milton on the south
coast of NewSouth Wales and works as a full-
time writer and occasional university lectur-
er. Nevills books have been published in 25
countries. Recent publications include Sacred
Encounters: Shamanism and Magical Journeys of
the Spirit (2003), Te Dictionary of Magic (2005)
and Stealing Fire from Heaven: the Rise of Mod-
ern Western Magic (2011). He is also the edi-
tor of the multi-authored Pathways in Modern
Western Magic (2012).
Although they never met, the Australian
witch Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) and Brit-
ish visionary artist Austin Osman Spare
(1886-1956) shared many points in common.
As occult practitioners operating within the
Western esoteric tradition, both artists were
well versed in the literature of Western mag-
ic, Teosophy, kabbalah, Eastern mysticism,
and modern psychoanalysis. Fascinated by
medival magical grimoires, they also ex-
plored the seals associated with elemental
spirit-beings and developed unique forms of
sigil magic. Perhaps even more signicantly,
Norton and Spare utilised their own person-
al techniques of self-hypnosis and trance in
order to produce their distinctive visionary
artworks. As this book demonstrates, there
is a clear parallel between the trance states
associated with the Zos / Kia cosmology of
Spare and the trance magic of Norton. Prol-
ing both artists in detail, and with in excess of
120 colour and black and white images, Dark
Spirits explores the unique contributions of
both Spare and Norton as visionary outsiders
andis necessaryreading for anyone interested
in the nether regions of the magical psyche.
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www.salamanderandsons.com
DR. NLVILL DRURY
ISBN 978-0-9804099-8-7
Front Cover Image:
Te Spinner (year unknown) by Rosaleen Norton;
Self-portrait (1909) by Austin Osman Spare.
Rear Cover Image:
Te Vampires Are Coming by Austin Osman Spare.
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