About the Author

Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan are award-winning Manchester-based visual artists and filmmakers whose collaborative work includes Between Two Rivers (film); The Audubon Trilogy (film and publication); and Alien Invaders (publication).

Philip Makatrewicz is an author and musician who has written for TLS and The Mechanics’ Institute Review. He is the singer-songwriter of four-piece folk band Vronsky, who released their debut album Vronsky’s Throat Specific Mixture in 2013.

Stephen McNeilly is the director and curator of the Swedenborg Society, for whom he has edited numerous successful and innovative volumes providing a context for the study of the work of Swedenborg and his influence upon subsequent writers, philosophers, and artists.

Gary Lachman is the former guitarist and founding member of the rock band Blondie and is also a renowned writer on the history of consciousness. Gary has written over a dozen books on mysticism and the esoteric and is a regular contributor to the Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, TLS, Mojo, and the Sunday Times.