About the author…

When there is no place you’ve decided to call your own, no matter where you go, you are always heading home.
~ Muso Soseki

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
~ Rumi

Blessed Be

Logospilgrim is a small renegade monastic and peacemaker who likes to write about Professor Severus Snape, spiritual transformation and mysticism; she is the author of several books, all of which are available on her website, logospilgrim.com (certain titles can also be purchased on amazon.com). She has spoken at a number of Harry Potter conventions, including Witching Hour, Lumos, Prophecy, Convention Alley, Infinitus and Aeternitas. She has a degree in Religious Studies and enjoys collecting curiosities. She may be somewhat of a curiosity herself. When she is not writing,  she gazing at trees and the sky, and pondering life, the universe, and everything… She is also known as the quiet professor.

Her eclectic -yet harmonious- spiritual outlook has been influenced by people such as Meister Eckhart, Lytta Basset, Wayne Teasdale, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, Marcus J. Borg, Richard Rohr, C.G. Jung, Elaine Pagels, the Dalai Lama and Rachel Pollack, to name but a few. She is a religious pluralist (she views all the great and lesser known spiritual traditions as independently valid agents of human transformation), an interspiritual mystic, a Universalist (in the sense that she believes all human beings are positively nurtured by the Ultimate, however the Transcendent is perceived and understood, whether in personal or transpersonal terms), an ardent ecumenist. Her strongest spiritual influences are Buddhism, Taoism, Neo-Paganism, and certain forms of Gnostic Christianity. She attends quiet services at a small Anglican church.

She is returning to Orlando in 2012 for yet another Harry Potter convention, Ascendio, during which she will be releasing her latest book of Snape essays, The Severus Snape Paradigm: Outcast, Rebel, Hero and giving a lecture entitled “Chariot, Hanged Man, World: The Cosmic Ascent of Severus Snape” (on saturday, July 14th at noon, in the Tuscan I room).

She loves to express her ideas and convictions through symbolic apparel.

The photographs on this website were taken by Logospilgrim’s talented friend, Diane. Her robes, as pictured above, were crafted by her talented friend Belluthien.

She will always stand by those whom the world would reject. Eternal devotion to outcasts and the marginalized is her vocation; her calling card is Love, Hope and Freedom. The costume she is wearing in the photograph above was made by her talented friend Nezumi.

You are the lilies I hold against my heart.
~Logospilgrim

Our own life has to be our message.
~Thich Nhat Hahn

The ultimate referent of religious mythology is the Transcendent, the eternally Real, experienced in different ways within the different religious traditions. And in so far as these different perceptions, formed by different sets of human concepts, are valid they are in soteriological alignment with the transcendent Reality, so that in living in right relationship to any one of these manifestations of the Real we are rightly related to the Real itself. For on a religious understanding of them the great world faiths are genuine (though not therefore perfect) human responses to the Transcendent, constituting contexts within which men and women are transformed from self-centredness to Reality-centredness.

~ John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate: Christology in a Pluralistic Age

Some of Logospilgrim’s cassocks of many buttons and flowing cloaks were designed by Kambriel.