Peter
Dawkins, MA, Dip.Arch, Architect
Educated at King Edward's High School,
Birmingham, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge University, Peter is an
author, lecturer, visionary, geomancer, Zoence consultant and teacher, and
a Baconian and Shakespearean scholar. He is founder-director of both Zoence Academy and The Francis Bacon Research Trust. He is also one of the founders of Gatekeeper Trust, of which he is now an Elder.
Having practised as an architect for ten years in both England and Scotland,
since 1978 Peter has devoted himself full-time to research and educational
work in connection with the world’s wisdom traditions, mythology, sacred architecture
and landscape. He teaches mostly through seminars, workshops and
pilgrimages to sacred sites of the world.
Concerned especially with the harmonious relationship of humanity with both the spiritual and natural worlds, Peter’s pioneering researches have led directly to a developing art and science of ‘landscape temples’ and ‘geomantic pilgrimage’, and their association with the heavenly, angelic, spiritual or archetypal realms of existence. This, together with his knowledge and synthesis of the wisdom traditions, has been named ‘Zoence’.
Since the early 1970’s Peter has introduced many people of different nations to the concept and experience of both sacred landscape and townscape. His especial focus in this respect is on establishing and training groups to research and work with the landscape temples, as well as with themselves, in healing and life-enhancing ways. To help this, he has since the 1980’s been involved in the development and teaching of the Zoence Academy and Mystery School.
The Baconian work, which is likewise involved with knowledge of the landscape as well as history, philosophy, culture and consciousness, concerns one of the great doorways into the otherwise esoteric Western wisdom tradition. Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians are part of this story. Peter’s book, The Shakespeare Enigma, presents the extraordinary treasure trail that leads to (and is) this ‘doorway’, whilst its complementary book, Building Paradise, describes what the Baconian-Rosicrucian method and work actually is.
Besides seminars on Bacon, the Rosicrucians and the wisdom traditions, which he has been giving since 1979, Peter has given Wisdom of Shakespeare seminars and workshops for over twenty years, including at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre in London, and advises actors and directors. Complementing this is his on-going series of books on the Wisdom of Shakespeare in each Shakespeare play, in which five titles are so far published.
Contact Peter: peter@zoence.co.uk
Peter's web site: www.peterdawkins.com
FBRT web site: www.fbrt.org.uk
Gatekeeper Trust web site: www.gatekeeper.org.uk