Paul Devereux is an author, researcher, lecturer, broadcaster, artist and photographer based in the Cotswolds

Cotswolds

The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the Heart of England, an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. Devereux is a Research Fellow with the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

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His work primarily deals with archaeological themes and ancient lifeways, ecopsychology

Ecopsychology

Ecopsychology connects psychology and ecology. Its political and practical goals are to show humans ways of healing alienation and to build a "sane" society and a sustainable culture. Theodore Roszak is credited with coining the term in his 1992 book, The Voice of the Earth...

, ley lines, geomancy

Geomancy

Geomancy is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand...

, unusual geophysical phenomena, and consciousness studies, spanning the range from academic to popular.

He has written or co-written 25 books since 1979, and has also written a range of peer-reviewed academic papers.

UFOs

Devereaux claims that his decision to research paranormal phenomena was triggered by witnessing a UFO: "It bugged the hell out of me, almost gave me a mental breakdown. I couldn't make it fit into the everyday mundane world view."

Devereux draws on the work of controversial Canadian academic Michael Persinger

Michael Persinger

Michael A. Persinger is a cognitive neuroscience researcher and university professor with over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He has worked at Laurentian University, located in Sudbury, Ontario, since 1971.-Early life:...

 and believes many unresolved UFO sightings can be explained by "earthlights", clouds of plasma being charged by strong electromagnetic fields occurring in areas of seismic activity which he explores in his book, Haunted Land.

Dragon Trust

Besides research and writing, Devereux also directs the Dragon Project Trust, which in the past used pseudoscientific measuring instruments to "discover" whether sacred places are the sites of actual physical anomalies. The project also conducts research with the services of dowsers, diviners and mystics, to discover if a site has "unusual energies". It also runs an ancient sites dreamwork

Dreamwork

Dreamwork differs from classical dream interpretation in that the aim of dreamwork is to explore the various images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes, while not attempting to come up with a single, unique dream meaning. In this way the dream remains "alive" whereas if it has been...

 project.

Selected bibliography

• Sacred Geography: Deciphering Hidden Codes in the Landscape (Gaia 2010) ISBN 978-1856753227
• Fairy Paths & Spirit Roads: Exploring Otherworldly Routes in the Old and New Worlds (Vega & Sterling, 2003)
• Mysterious Ancient America: An Investigation into the Enigmas of America's Pre-History (Vega & Sterling, 2002)
• Haunted Land: Investigations into Ancient Mysteries and Modern Day Phenomena (Piatkus, 2001)
• The Long Trip: The Prehistory of Psychedelia (Penguin Arkana, 1997)
• Re-visioning the Earth: A Guide to Opening the Healing Channels Between Mind and Nature (Fireside, 1996)
• Earthmind: Communicating With the Living World of Gaia (Destiny, 1992) - with John Steele
  John Steele (aromatic consultant)
  John J. Steele is an aromatic consultant, archaeologist, author and thinker. His work, whether with aromas or philosophy, engages questions about the nature of memory, time, consciousness and being...
  
  and David Kubrin
• Earth Lights Revelation: UFOs and Mystery Lightform Phenomena: the Earth's Secret Energy Force (Blandford Press, 1989)
• The Ley Hunter's Companion: Aligned Ancient Sites : A new study with field guide and maps (Thames and Hudson, 1979) ISBN 0500012083

External links

• www.pauldevereux.co.uk Paul Devereux Website
• International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) - at Princeton University.
• Dragon Project Trust
• The Ley Hunter's Companion Google Earth placemark (KMZ) file based on the 1979 book (from the British Society of Dowsers).