Peter Mark Adams

Peter Mark Adams is an author, poet, esotericist and professional energy worker specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing. 

Peter’s esoteric non-fiction is published by Scarlet Imprint; non-fiction concerning energy healing and consciousness by Inner Traditions. Peter’s literary prose and poetry has appeared in Corbel Stone Press’ literary journal Reliquiae: Journal of  Nature, Landscape & Mythology and the Bosphorus Review of Books. Reviews of esoterically related works have appeared on the dedicated esoteric book review site, Paralibrum.

A range of essays examining other than human encounters have appeared in the peer reviewed journals Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal and The Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology and are available on Peter’s academia.edu page. With a background in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool, Peter pursues advanced studies on iconology and iconographic; Renaissance art and material culture with the Warburg Institute’s School of Advanced Studies in London.

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Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos
Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos
Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, Hagia Sophia

Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny is a study of the esoteric doctrines and spiritual traditions encoded within the Hagia Sophia, as manifested in its structural and decorative design.

Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, Hagia Sophia
Mystai
Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, Mystai
Mystai
Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, Mystai

The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition. No other practitioner account of the ritual process for conducting a mystery rite has survived down to today.

Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, Mystai
The Game of Saturn
Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, The Game of Saturn, Tarot
The Game of Saturn
Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, The Game of Saturn, Tarot

The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck.

Peter Mark Adams, Scarlet Imprint, The Game of Saturn, Tarot
Two Esoteric Tarot
Scarlet Imprint, Peter Mark Adams, Christophe Poncet, Two Esoteric Tarot, Tarot, Cartomancy
Two Esoteric Tarot
Scarlet Imprint, Peter Mark Adams, Christophe Poncet, Two Esoteric Tarot, Tarot, Cartomancy

Two Esoteric Tarots is the record of a fascinating conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet, convened and with a foreword by César Pedreros. They compare their journeys of discovery into two wildly contrasting tarot decks, the dark ritual landscape of the elite Sola-Busca tarocchi, as revealed in The Game of Saturn, and the luminous and popular Tarot de Marseille, the subject of the forthcoming Tarot of Marsilio.

Scarlet Imprint, Peter Mark Adams, Christophe Poncet, Two Esoteric Tarot, Tarot, Cartomancy

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