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OVERVIEW
Author, lecturer, researcher, broadcaster, photographer, artist.
Devereux is an experienced author and researcher dealing mainly with consciousness studies, ancient sacred sites and lifeways (i.e. cognitive archaeology and transpersonal anthropology), and unusual geophysical phenomena. His presentation of work spans the range from academic to popular. While making his subject matter attractive and accessible to a general audience, his material always remains factual. He has written or co-written 26 books since 1979. He has also written or co-written a range of peer-reviewed academic papers, and many articles for both specialist and popular publications. He has conceived, co-written, or appeared in numerous television documentaries in the UK and the USA. His website received well over a quarter of a million “hits” in 2004.
WRITINGS
Recent Books
FAIRY PATHS & SPIRIT ROADS – Folk Geography in the Old and New Worlds, 2003, Vega/Chrysalis Books UK/ Sterling-Barnes & Noble, USA.
MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT AMERICA, 2002, Vega/Chrysalis Books, UK/Sterling, U.S. (The genetics, ethnology, archaeology of the pre-Columbian Americas.) [To be re-issued in USA]
STONE-AGE SOUNDTRACKS, 2001, (TV tie-in title), Vega/Chrysalis Books, London. (Archaeoacoustics)
HAUNTED LAND; 2001, Piatkus (2003 US edition).
ARCHAEOLOGY- THE STUDY OF OUR PAST, 2001, Ticktock Publishing. [For children 11-14 years]
THE SACRED PLACE, 2000, Cassell, London; Sterling, New York. German edition pending (2005). (Development of prehistoric monuments from natural venerated places)
Selected Earlier Book Titles
THE LONG TRIP, August, 1997, Penguin Arkana Original, New York; UK 1998. (Prehistoric usage of hallucinogens.)
RE-VISIONING THE EARTH; Simon & Schuster/ Fireside Original, New York, 1996. (Ecopsychology.)
THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF THE STARS AND PLANETS [with Geoffrey Cornelius]; Pavilion UK, Chronicle USA, 1996. (From astrology to archaeoastronomy.)
EARTHMIND [with John Steele, David Kubrin; foreword by Lyall Watson]; Harper & Row (USA), 1989; Kyoikusha (Japan), 1991; Inner Traditions (USA), 1992.
SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPES; Gothic Image, 1992.
SECRETS OF ANCIENT AND SACRED PLACES; 1992, 1993, 1995 Blandford Press, UK; Sterling, USA, 1992. 1998 special edition.
Selected Academic Papers
'Three-dimensional aspects of apparent relationships between selected natural and artificial features within the topography of the Avebury complex', Antiquity, vol.65, no.249 (1991).
'Acculturated Topographical Effects of Shamanic Trance Consciousness in Archaic and Medieval Sacred Landscapes', Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 7, no.1 (1993).
'Acoustical resonances of assorted ancient structures' (with R.G. Jahn and M. Ibison), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 99, no.2 (1996).
'Preliminary investigations and cognitive considerations of the acoustical resonances of selected archaeological sites', (with R.G. Jahn), Antiquity, vol.70, no.269 (1996).
'The Archaeology of Consciousness', invited essay, Journal of Scientific Exploration, (1998).
'Did ancient shamanism leave a monumental record on the land as well as in rock art?" British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series S936, Oxford (2001).
‘The Use of the Strauch Scale to Study Dream Reports from Sacred Sites in England and Wales’ (with Stanley Krippner and Adam Fish), Dreaming (June, 2003).
‘Ears and Years: Acoustics and Intentionality in Antiquity’, in Archaeoacoustics, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph, Cambridge University, forthcoming (2005).
Magazine Articles
Has had many dozens of articles published over the years in magazines, part-works, and journals – both specialist and mass-circulation publications. Recent articles have appeared in Focus, Fortean Times, Fate, Freemasonry Today, Kindred Spirit, Pentacle, Hagia Chora (Germany), among numerous others.
Contributory Chapters
MYSTIC PLACES; Time Life.
WHO OWNS STONEHENGE?; Batsford.
LEGENDARY LONDON; Aquarian Press.
GAIA - Das Erwachen de Gottin; Aurum Verlag.
ORTE DER KRAFT; Fischer-Verlag,.
YEARBOOK FOR ETHNOMEDICINE AND THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, VWB.
NATURVEREHRUNG UND HEILKUNST, Verlag Bruno Martin.
POLITIK DES HERZENS, Arun-Verlag
Major Introduction to TEMPEL DER AHNEN, AT Verlag (forthcoming, Germany)
Chaper in THE PRIMACY OF CONSCIOUSNESS (forthcoming, USA)
RESEARCH
Devereux's research work covers a wide range of topics involving archaeological sites and landscapes, non-western cultural traditions, and consciousness studies.
Has been awarded a UK goverment British Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB) grant (2004-5) for continuation of his study of rock art and ground markings in pre-Columbian ritual landscapes in the Americas, for which he received earlier support (2001-2003) from the Lifebridge Foundation (USA). Results of his work on acoustics (with Professor Robert Jahn, Princeton University and ICRL) at prehistoric sacred sites are currently leading to unexpected discoveries at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute regarding effects on brain functioning.
BROADCASTING
TV:- Conceived and featured in a documentary, "Sound from the Stone Age", for UK Channel 4's "Secrets of the Dead" series, shown in November 2001 (now being sold internationally). Was a major contributor to the "Sacred Weeds" series, Channel 4, August, 1998. The "Identified Flying Objects"/"Earth Lights" documentary on geophysically-produced light phenomena based on Devereux's work and he was associate producer of, and featured in it – Equinox, Channel 4, 1996. Numerous other appearances, including: Discovery Channel, 1997, 1998; National Geographic Channel, 1998; research for and appearance in the final programme in the "In Your Dreams" series, Channel 4, 1998; a major contribution to a documentary on the psychological aspects of the so-called "alien abduction" phenomenon and its relationship to shamanic states of consciousness in traditional societies on A&E, April, 1998, and on same subject on a Discovery Channel special, November, 1997; featured on Fox TV's "Sightings" network programmes, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2000; on The Learning Channel, 1995; and BBC 1's Everyman (1992), among others.
RADIO:- Frequent interviews in USA, Canada, and in the UK on national and local radio. Recent interviews include: BBC World Service in March, 2004; Coast-to-Coast AM radio (North America) in October, 2004, and the BBC Radio 4 “PM” programme, also in October, 2004.
LECTURING
Has addressed many audiences of all kinds, ranging from academic to popular, and across disciplines. Selected examples include:
UK venues -- Emmanuel College, Cambridge; The National Trust; the Physical Society of Sussex University; many UK colleges and universities; the Festival of Mind, Body and Spirit, London and Bristol; the Astrological Association, London; the World Archaeological Congress, Southampton; The Findhorn Foundation, Scotland; the Archaeological Society, Cambridge; Society for Psychical Research, London; Society for Scientific Exploration, Glasgow; Research into Lost Knowledge Organisation (RILKO), London; the Scientific and Medical Network's "Mystics and Scientists" conference, Winchester; 7th Brain/Mind Symposium at the Institute of Psychiatry, London; “A Permeability of Boundaries?” conference, Southampton University; invited speaker on archaeoacoustics at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge University; Dana Centre, Science Museum, London; the Royal Institution, London; British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA), etc. Is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire.
Continental European venues -- Le Beffroi, Tours, France; Gaia Conference, Todtmoos, Germany; Basler Psi-tage, Switzerland; VIBA, Den Bosch, Holland; Schweisfurth-Stiftung symposium, Munich; the International Transpersonal Psychology Conference, Killarney, Ireland; Scientific & Medical Network conference, Norkoping, Sweden; Flux conference on Consciousness and the Body, Gran, Norway; etc.
North American venues -- The National Audubon Society symposium, University of Massachussetts, Amherst; The New York Open Center (on several occasions); the Oasis Center, Chicago; Lawrence Institute of Technology, Detroit; University of Indiana at South Bend; Auburn University, Alabama; "Spirit of Place" symposium, Davis, California; The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; Society for Scientific Exploration conference, Princeton University, New Jersey; Wainwright House, New York; Interface, Boston; 'Return to the Source' conference at the University of Delaware; Banff Television conference, Canada, etc.
Pending (2005) lecture venues include -- Sufi Order International, New York in September; “Sacred Elixirs” conference, San Jose, California, in October; Trinity College, Dublin, in October; an all-departments presentation at The Royal College of Art, London, in winter 2005/6; the British Museum, London, in spring 2006.
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