Robert Podgurski

Robert Podgurski has been studying as well as practicing magick, qui gong, and yoga for over 30 years. During this period he has engaged in a syncretic lifelong pursuit examining the history, practice, and genesis of hermeticism, magick, alchemy, the Cabala, Tantra, and western esoteric studies. These occult investigations have formed the foundation for the revised current edition of his book: The Sacred Alignments and Sigils soon to be released on October 29, 2019. The first edition of The Sacred Alignments and Dark Side of Sigils was originally published in 2012 by Mandrake Ltd. Volume 2, The Aetheric Alignments, is currently in progress. For more details and additional information on The Sacred Alignments and Sigils visit sacredalignmentsandsigils.com.

Bob regularly lectures and conducts workshops on sigils, occult theory and methods as well as poetry and the esoteric influence in literature. In May of 2014 he was the writer in residence at the Gloucester Writer's Center in Gloucester, MA. Along with a reading of his work during his tenure at the center Bob facilitated a workshop and talk “Wandering on Course to a Gestalt Poetics.”

Bob holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and a MA in English Literature from the University of Colorado.

He has been interviewed on Occult of Personality as well as on The Q P.Sience Project: KGRA Radio where he has discussed his work and research conducted for The Sacred Alignments. His essays have appeared in various journals such as The Fenris Wolf, Starfire, The Qliphothic Opus III,, Abraxas, and Cauda Pavonis, and The Italian Quarterly to name a few.

Along with his esoteric pursuits Bob is a poet writing in the modernist magical tradition. His verse has appeared in numerous publications including Sulfur, Notus New Writing, Compound Eye, Open Space Magazine, and Poetry Dispatches. His first major collection of poems Wandering On Course was published by Spuytin Duyvil Press in 2013. And his long poem in progress Intersecting Visions Vision Intersects was recently published by Bullhead Books early in 2019.

For Bob poetry, magick, meditation, and exploring the outdoors are all part and parcel of one another forming and informing his spiritual and literary path.