Shokti  [Founder & Core team]

Shokti is a spiritual activist, involved in Radical Faerie gatherings around the world since 2001, a founder of Folleterre Faerie Sanctuary in France, the Albion Faerie community in the UK, and of Queer Spirit Festival. A smalltown boy from Suffolk, Shokti came out in 1986, aged 21, during the last year of his history studies at Churchill College, Cambridge, and soon rushed to London looking for love. In 1990 he was diagnosed HIV+ and he then awoke to the spiritual dimensions of life while living with full blown AIDS in the 1990s.

AIDS became for Shokti an' Accelerated Individual Discovery of Spirit' and an awakening to the hidden/lost/forgotten/ spiritual-mystical powers of same sex oriented and gender non-conforming people, that was once respected in earth-honouring cultures around the world.  He writes about the spiritual inheritance of queer people and the importance of exploring and claiming our mystical power at rainbowmessenger.blog. and Shokti – Medium. Shokti facilitates on the Queer Spirit Warriors retreats and has been running the Queer Spirit Circle in London since 2005. The Circle meets at most full moons for an evening of ritual, drumming, dancing and social. Circles are announced on the Queer Spirit mailing list.