The Call of the Old Gods – My Occult Journey on the Pagan Path

This fascinating spiritual autobiography endorsed by both Joscelyn Godwin and Gary Lachman is, as Gary notes ‘a personal odyssey through decades of spiritual exploration en route to the author finding his home in Norse paganism.’ Along the way, we are treated to lively encounters with leading esoteric scholars including our late mutual friends Colin Wilson, Keith Critchlow and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. He follows a five-fold path involving soul, mind, heart, belly and land. This last element importantly includes seasonal rites and rituals and the significance of sacred places. Christopher characterises his own journey as a spiral in rediscovering some of our lost shamanic cultural roots both as a practitioner and an academic. This enables him to connect with the larger context of life and yearly cycles, which he brings alive in the text with many illustrations. His is a full life fully lived, recording many significant esoteric cultural encounters over the last 60 years.