Brainiac


On Psychedelics


‘Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of Psychedelic Consciousness.’
Anthropology of Consciousness, forthcoming.

Academic writing on Paganism

“There’s Bulldozers in the Fairy Garden”: Re-Enchantment Narratives in British Eco-Paganism. In Hume, L. and K. Phillips eds.
Popular Spiritualities: The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment. London: Ashgate, forthcoming.

Letcher, A, Blain, J, and Wallis, R. ‘Re-viewing the Past: Discourse and Power in Images of Prehistory.’ In Robinson, M. and Picard, D.
Tourism and Photography. London; Channel View Publications, forthcoming.

‘Bardism and the Performance of Paganism. Implications for the Performance of Research.’ In Blain, J., Ezzy, D., and Harvey, G. eds.
Researching Religious Experience: Academic Methodologies and Paganism. Walnut Creek: Altamira, 2004.

‘Raising the Dragon: Folklore and the Development of Contemporary British Eco-Paganism.’
The Pomegranate 6(2): 175-198, 2004.

'Eco-Paganism.' In Kaplan, J. and Taylor, B. eds.
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Nature. London, Continuum, 2004.

'Eco-Paganism.' In Partridge, Christopher. ed.
Guide to New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. London: Lion publishing, 2004.

“Gaia told me to do it”: Resistance and the Idea of Nature within Contemporary British Eco-Paganism.
EcoTheology 8: 61-84, 2003.

“If You go Down to the Woods Today…”: Spirituality and the Eco-Protest Lifestyle.
EcoTheology 7.1: 81-87, 2002.

The Role of the Bard in Contemporary Pagan Movements. PhD thesis, King Alfred’s College, Winchester. (2001).

‘The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture.’
Folklore 112: 147-161 (2001).


Academic writing on Ecology

Letcher, A.J. and Harvey, P.H. ‘Variation in geographical range size among mammals of the Palearctic.’
American Naturalist, 30-42, 1994.

Letcher, et al. ‘Patterns of overlap in the geographic ranges of Palearctic and British mammals.’
Journal of Animal Ecology, 63, 871-879, 1994.


Insider stuff on Paganism

‘Virtual Paganism or direct action? The implications of road-protesting for modern Paganism.’
Diskus internet journal (2001).

'So you wanna be a Bard?'
The Druid's Voice 6: 4-5.

'Wyrd Druids, Chaos Magicians and isn't it about time we all ran naked in the woods?'
The Druid's Voice 7: 16.

'The Druid's Prayer.'
The Druid's Voice 8: 21.

Andy also writes for Chanter, the in-house magazine of The Bagpipe Society