Andy Letcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Letcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Letcher |
| SIGNATURE | LETCHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schumacher College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Graham St John, ‘Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenn’
Graham St John, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2025), 517 pp., $35 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-262-04957
We’ll All Dance each Springtime with Jack-in-the-Green’: The ‘Green Man Complex’ in Contemporary British Culture
The Green Man is a familiar image in British popular culture who is celebrated in a variety of ways, not least in an ever-growing number of festive processions in towns, villages, and cities, particularly around Beltane (May Day). Combining two scholarly voices, this article offers a survey of the Green Man image and related ritual phenomena in what we refer to as the ‘Green Man complex’. Here we address the Green Man’s role in what could be the …
Raising the Dragon: Folklore and the Development of Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
This article traces how a motif from folklore, that of the marauding dragon, became reinterpreted by UK Pagans and Earth Mystics-for whom it symbolised a mysterious 'dragon energy' circulating harmoniously through the landscape-and by a radically motivated branch of Paganism, namely Eco-Paganism. Eco-Paganism, which emerged during the environmental anti-road protests of the 1990s, advocated a blend of direct and magical action in the form of 'dra…
Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of Psychedelic Consciousness
This paper addresses the question of what happens to consciousness under the influence of psychedelic drugs-specifically of psilocybin, or "magic" mushrooms- and performs a Foucauldian discourse analysis upon the answers that have been variously proposed. Predominant societally legitimated answers (the pathological, psychological, and prohibition discourses) are those that, in Foucault's sense, are imposed from the outside as "scientific classifi…
Raising the Dragon: Folklore and the Development of Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
Gaia Told me to do it: Resistance and the Idea of Nature within Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
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If You Go Down to the Woods Today: Spirituality and the Eco-Protest Lifestyle
Emerging from the anti-road protests which marked the 1990s, Eco-Paganism is a collective term for the diverse set of de-traditionalised, but Pagan-like, spiritualities found within road-protest culture. Whilst the actions, and direct-action, of protesters may not always appear outwardly to be religious, many protesters are motivated by their religious convictions such as the paramount belief in the sanctity of nature. The protest lifestyle, invo…
The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture
Environmental protest in Britain in the 1990s flourished with the growth of the direct action movement. A distinctive culture of protest emerged, particularly in response to the construction of new roads, with its own radicalised spirituality known as ''eco-paganism.'' One feature of the movement was the adoption of a fairy mythology as a significant belief narrative. This article gives examples of this mythology, showing how it was expressed, an…
The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture
Environmental protest in Britain in the 1990s flourished with the growth of the direct action movement. A distinctive culture of protest emerged, particularly in response to the construction of new roads, with its own radicalised spirituality known as ''eco-paganism.'' One feature of the movement was the adoption of a fairy mythology as a significant belief narrative. This article gives examples of this mythology, showing how it was expressed, an…
Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of Psychedelic Consciousness
This paper addresses the question of what happens to consciousness under the influence of psychedelic drugs-specifically of psilocybin, or "magic" mushrooms- and performs a Foucauldian discourse analysis upon the answers that have been variously proposed. Predominant societally legitimated answers (the pathological, psychological, and prohibition discourses) are those that, in Foucault's sense, are imposed from the outside as "scientific classifi…
Raising the Dragon: Folklore and the Development of Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture
Environmental protest in Britain in the 1990s flourished with the growth of the direct action movement. A distinctive culture of protest emerged, particularly in response to the construction of new roads, with its own radicalised spirituality known as ''eco-paganism.'' One feature of the movement was the adoption of a fairy mythology as a significant belief narrative. This article gives examples of this mythology, showing how it was expressed, an…
If You Go Down to the Woods Today: Spirituality and the Eco-Protest Lifestyle
Emerging from the anti-road protests which marked the 1990s, Eco-Paganism is a collective term for the diverse set of de-traditionalised, but Pagan-like, spiritualities found within road-protest culture. Whilst the actions, and direct-action, of protesters may not always appear outwardly to be religious, many protesters are motivated by their religious convictions such as the paramount belief in the sanctity of nature. The protest lifestyle, invo…
Gaia Told me to do it: Resistance and the Idea of Nature within Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
.
Raising the Dragon: Folklore and the Development of Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
Raising the Dragon: Folklore and the Development of Contemporary British Eco-Paganism
This article traces how a motif from folklore, that of the marauding dragon, became reinterpreted by UK Pagans and Earth Mystics-for whom it symbolised a mysterious 'dragon energy' circulating harmoniously through the landscape-and by a radically motivated branch of Paganism, namely Eco-Paganism. Eco-Paganism, which emerged during the environmental anti-road protests of the 1990s, advocated a blend of direct and magical action in the form of 'dra…
Mad Thoughts on Mushrooms: Discourse and Power in the Study of Psychedelic Consciousness
This paper addresses the question of what happens to consciousness under the influence of psychedelic drugs-specifically of psilocybin, or "magic" mushrooms- and performs a Foucauldian discourse analysis upon the answers that have been variously proposed. Predominant societally legitimated answers (the pathological, psychological, and prohibition discourses) are those that, in Foucault's sense, are imposed from the outside as "scientific classifi…
We’ll All Dance each Springtime with Jack-in-the-Green’: The ‘Green Man Complex’ in Contemporary British Culture
The Green Man is a familiar image in British popular culture who is celebrated in a variety of ways, not least in an ever-growing number of festive processions in towns, villages, and cities, particularly around Beltane (May Day). Combining two scholarly voices, this article offers a survey of the Green Man image and related ritual phenomena in what we refer to as the ‘Green Man complex’. Here we address the Green Man’s role in what could be the …
Graham St John, ‘Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenn’
Graham St John, Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2025), 517 pp., $35 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-262-04957
Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Christianity (3 works)