User:David Devereux

Writer, broadcaster and consulting magician. I also served as senior field officer for Athanor Consulting, a paranormal protection agency based in Bristol, England from 2001-2008.

Biography
I was born in the South-West of England in November 1971. Having grown up in a small town on the north coast of Cornwall, I began studying the occult aged 13 and continue to this day. I presently live in London.

My more notable work includes scripts and performances for "The Gentlemen's Club" on Resonance FM in London, and my first book "Memoirs of an Exorcist" was published in May 2006 by Andre Deutsch. My first novel, "Hunter's Moon", will be published by Gollancz (an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group) in June 2007.

Magical Theories
Some people have suggested my studies lack direction, but I counter this with my belief that magic itself is far simpler than the rites of traditional occultists: to use a computing metaphor, if traditions are the user interfaces I'm more interested in the machine code. My study of a number of different styles has been focussed towards correlation and the means by which results can be obtained as simply and efficiently as possible. I am a great fan of the work of Phil Hine and consider Hine as a major influence on my own practice.

While I am generally described as a practitioner of chaos magic, I would rather simply refer to myself as "Someone that does magic." When I describe myself in grander terms, I like to think that it's always with a trace of (poker-faced) irony. More people noticing the irony would be good, though.