You are now able to purchase my new book, Abramelin and Lockdown – a paper presented to the Welsh Occult Conference 2025 in both Paperback and Kindle ebook from Amazon. This is short precis of my experiences during 2020, which formed the basis of my longer work Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin memoir. I decided to publish this paper in response to people who expressed interest in my talk at the Welsh Occult Conference, but were not able to attend in person on the day.
From the back cover:
Novelist and writer on the occult ALEX SUMNER undertook the Abramelin Operation from April to October 2020, and subsequently wrote a book describing his experiences in detail: “Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin Memoir” (2022).
In this paper, which he presented to the Welsh Occult Conference at Gregynog Hall, 16th May 2025, he presents an overview of his experiences, including five years’ worth of insights, and a survey of popular misconceptions about Abramelin.
Because this is a short publication, it is not priced as highly as my other works. To purchase, please follow one of the following links:
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The Welsh Occult Conference 2025
Today and for the next few days I will be releasing a series of blog posts inspired by my adventures at the Welsh Occult Conference, held on Saturday 17th May 2025 at Gregynog Hall, in Powys, Wales – just over the border from Shropshire.
In brief: I enjoyed it immensely, so much so that I would want to return in future, even if I am not one of the speakers as I was this year.
All credit must go to the organisers, Gary St Michael Nottingham and Leslie Jackson, whom both my fiancée and I would like to thank not just for inviting me to take part, but for their generosity and hospitality generally.
There were over a hundred people there, some from as far away as Canada and Malta. One lady even came up to me and told me she had come to the conference purely to hear me speak!
Gary himself talked about Israel Regardie and Alchemy, illustrating the kind of thing up to which Regardie would have got with examples from his own Alchemical practice.
Meanwhile, I spoke about Abramelin: whilst after lunch, Carrie Kirkpatrick spoke about her forthcoming film “World War Witches”; Elaine Bailey talked about Anna Bonus Kingsford; Anne Turner talked about her parents Robert and Patricia Turner, leading members of the Order of the Cubic Stone; and Geraldine Beskin talked about Annie Horniman.
Stephen Skinner in the end did not attend in person, but recorded a talk which was played to the conference. This really annoyed me, as I had brought all my Stephen Skinner books with me in the hope he would autograph them – only to get the message that he had taken ill after we had set out for Wales!
As well as friends whom I already knew well, I was fortunate to meet a number of Facebook Friends for the first time! As well as many others whom I rarely get to see in the flesh.
Finally I would like to thank my fiancée as well – especially as she did all the driving this weekend. I did offer, but for some reason she thought it would be safer if she was behind the wheel instead of me.
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