LAURA TEMPEST ZAKROFF

We are incredibly happy to welcome the incredible  Laura Tempest Zakroff to this year's conference!

Laura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs. Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch's Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press. Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.

DAVID RANKINE

We are most delighted to have David Rankine as one of our Keynote Speakers this year.

David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and sorceror who has been practising magic and grimoires for over 45 years. He works as the editor-in-chief for Hadean Press and lives in Spain with his family. In recent decades he is best known for his work on titles like The Grimoire Encyclopaedia, Claves Intelligentarium, The Goetia of Dr Rudd, The Veritable Key of Solomon and Clavis Inferni.

DR. GEORGI MISHEV

We would like to give a warm welcome to our conference to Dr. Georgi Mishev: 

Georgi Mishev, PhD, born 1982, is a Bulgarian author and researcher in ancient culture and religion of the Mediterranean world and especially in magic practices, rituals and ancient relics in the folklore of the Balkan people. He has a bachelor's degree in Russian and German language, a master's degree in Preservation of the cultural-historical heritage in the Republic of Bulgaria (master's thesis on the subject Thracian material and immaterial cultural-historical heritage in the region of Thracian cult center Starosel), and a doctoral degree in the field of cultural-historical heritage (PhD thesis on the subject Bulgarian traditional culture as an information resource about the magica in ancient Southeastern Europe).

WHY ANCESTRAL PATHWAYS CONFERENCE?

The Ancestral Pathways Conference is a meeting point for diversity, it is a crossroads, between worlds and times, between our ancestors and ourselves. What began with the idea of being a local conference has ended up opening up to the world in a global way, thanks, among other things, to the incredible speakers we have from various corners of the planet.

Following the Pathways of our Ancestors, even those of us who are farthest away could find a commonplace, something to unites us across time and space, navigating between the different cultures and customs that have flourished throughout the history of the world and humanity.

We will explore the sacred, sometimes invisible and other times tangible, looking back to the past... We also look at our present and the future of the spirituality that unites us as a collective, even if it is under different beliefs, within a naturalistic and polytheistic framework, linked to the land and the ancestors.

Of course, we intend to serve the community through this event. Double reason to continue supporting us!

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