Our Speakers
SEF SALEM
Sef Salem is an occultist and sorcerer with over twenty years’ experience of personal and group magical practice.
Initially trained as a Gnostic Mystic, he joined Ordo Templi Orientis in 2010 and founded the international group Gentlemen 4 Jupiter shortly afterwards, before taking on and running the Occult Conference in Glastonbury between 2014 and 2018.
Since 2019 he has run Star Club, a modern magical order co-founded with Dr. Halo Quin, teaching a variety of esoteric practices within a Western Mystery Tradition framework.
Sef continues to work for the occult and esoteric community by running The Visible College (www.visible-college.org), a non-profit based in South Gloucestershire which hosts events at a beautiful rural location, and facilitates events across Britain such as the International Thelemic Symposium in Oxford.
He lives near Bristol with his fiancée and Priestess, and travels nationally to offer lectures and workshops to groups large and small.
SUSANNE WARNETT
Susanne Warnett is a professional tarot reader, author, and practising witch.
She has an office in King’s Lynn in one of the historic buildings in town, where she helps her clients to understand what’s going on and how to move forward to live their best life.
In addition, she has co-hosted a weekly radio show, “Tarot Insider”, that discussed all things tarot related, from techniques to interviews with deck creators and authors.
Her first book,Working With Tarot, was published in 2016; it takes you from choosing your first deck to reading professionally.
She is a Certified Tarot Master through the Tarot Guild and is a member of the Tarot Association of the British Isles (TABI) as well as a certified Law of Attraction practitioner.
Currently living in her very own witch's cottage in East Anglia with her husband and cat, when she’s not writing or reading the tarot you can find her indulging in big mugs of tea, blockbuster movies and the occasional homemade cake.
PHIL BAKER
Phil Baker is a London-based writer. His books include Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist (Strange Attractor, 2011; expanded third edition 2024), of which Alan Moore said “What Baker has accomplished here is little short of marvellous”.
He has also written an affectionate study of the popular Satanic thriller writer Dennis Wheatley, The Devil is a Gentleman (Dedalus, 2009), an academic book on Samuel Beckett, a cultural history of absinthe, and a short critical biography of William S Burroughs.
His most recent book is City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley (Strange Attractor, 2022).
