About Doktor Snake
About Doktor Snake
I'm Jimmy Lee Shreeve, better known as Doktor Snake.
Author.
Former national newspaper journalist.
Investigator.
Experimenter.
And, for more years than I care to count, someone who's been testing what happens when you treat reality as something you can experiment with.
My byline has appeared in The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express, Financial Times, and other international publications.
My books include:
- Doktor Snake's Voodoo Spellbook — St. Martin's Press
- Blood Rites — Random House
- Cannibals — John Blake
- Mary Jane's Hash Brownies — Cico Books, writing as Dr Hash
- How To Be Famous — Orion Books
But the Doktor Snake story really begins somewhere between journalism, magick and an unreasonable curiosity about how the world works.
REALITY IS THE LABORATORY
I've spent much of my life investigating crime, cults, folklore, unusual beliefs, human behaviour and anomalous experience.
Along the way I became interested in a different question.
What can you actually do with this stuff?
Not what are you supposed to believe.
Not what does some medieval grimoire say.
Not what does the latest guru insist is true.
What happens when you run the experiment?
That's where chaos magick came in.
Sigils. Divination. Synchronicity. Probability. Altered states. Influence. Psychogeography. Dreams. Meditation. Consciousness.
Today I'd add AI, neuroscience and emerging technology to the laboratory.
Some experiments produce nothing.
Some produce interesting psychological effects.
Occasionally something happens that leaves you scratching your head.
Good.
Write it down.
Try again.
Results you can use, but not prove.
STORY FIRST. METHOD AFTER.
This was the approach behind Doktor Snake's Voodoo Spellbook.
Tell the story.
Describe what happened.
Then give people the method so they can try it themselves.
I'm increasingly returning to that approach today.
Through my writing and field reports I explore magick, consciousness, AI, folklore, dreams, synchronicity, anomalous phenomena, psychogeography and the strange edges of ordinary life.
Some of it is serious.
Some of it is outrageous.
Usually it's both.
The important thing is that you don't have to believe me.
Try it.
Observe what happens.
Keep what works.
Discard what doesn't.
Change the experiment and run it again.
THE FIELD
A lot of my work happens away from a desk.
Old churches.
Ancient earthworks.
Forests.
Forgotten tracks.
Stone circles.
Military landscapes.
Cities.
Roads that don't seem particularly important until you walk them.
I'll take an idea into the landscape, record what happens and see where it leads.
The resulting stories, experiments, practical methods and field reports are published through my Substack at DoktorSnake.io.
Free readers get the stories, ideas and field reports.
Paid subscribers go deeper into the experiments — practical methods involving chaos magick, sigils, probability, divination, synchronicity, dream work, attention, consciousness and whatever else we decide is worth testing.
It's gradually becoming a working manual for experimenting with reality.
DOKOLOGY
Some people want to go further.
Dokology is where I work directly with individuals.
It's not a fixed system and I'm not interested in creating disciples.
We look at the situation in front of us.
Strategy.
Decision-making.
Consciousness.
Attention.
Probability.
Magick when useful.
Ordinary common sense when that's more useful.
Then we devise experiments, observe the results and adapt.
The Retainer offers the same direct relationship for people who primarily want ongoing access, problem-solving and individual guidance.
INFLUENCE & READINGS
I also undertake selected Influence Workings and private Readings.
My approach remains the same.
Patterns rather than promises.
Experiments rather than certainty.
The strange stuff is allowed into the room.
So is scepticism.
Those two things get along considerably better than people imagine.
ONE FINAL RULE
After decades around magick, psychics, mediums, occultists, mystics, entrepreneurs, journalists, eccentrics and assorted professional maniacs, I've acquired one overriding principle:
DON'T BECOME AN IDIOT.
Experiment boldly.
Interpret cautiously.
Don't surrender your judgement to a spirit, guru, ideology, AI, divination system — or Doktor Snake.
Think.
Observe.
Test.
Then make up your own mind.
There are thousands of people selling secrets.
I prefer experiments.
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