I’m Annabel Du Boulay, Founder of The Avalon Rose Chapel®, a Spiritual Teacher, Author, Speaker, Transpersonal Therapist & Coach.

Whilst I was studying the Greek Myths and Medieval Women Mystics during my English degree in 1991, I asked the question “Why is God male?”.

I’ve since spent over 30 years on a quest exploring that question. It’s led me from the Isles of my Celtic, Scottish and Irish ancestors, to the Black Madonna tradition of Southern Italy, to the Andean Path of Pachamama in Peru, to the sacred Rose Lineage Mount of Sinai, to Glastonbury-Avalon and the Summerlands where I live in The Avalon Rose Chapel®.

On this quest, I’ve become an academic and experiential expert in the Avalon, Rose, Celtic & Gnostic lineages, specialising in peeling back the layers of patriarchal distortion to uncover the original pagan and Gnostic teachings of our ancestors, which have so much relevance today for those of us seeking a spiritual path outside the confines of patriarchal religion’s limitations.

I specialise in tracking these lineages from their origins in Africa and Neolithic Old Europe to Bronze Age Mesopotamia, the Levant and Egypt, to the Greco-Roman world and the early Christian Gnostics, who brought the Holy Grail to Glastonbury, where this lineage of the Rose unites with that of Celtic-Druidism on the ancient Isle of Avalon.

I’m author of The Serpent’s Tale, a witch-burnings novel set in Southern Italy, the land of the Black Madonna, which follows a rural village’s fight to save its wise-woman from the fires of the Inquisition. Inspired by my autobiographical experience of nursing my daughter Sophia, the novel allegorically explores the original Myth of the Descent and Ascent of the Soul, embodied in the later Greco-Roman Myth of Demeter and Persephone, and Gnostic Myth of Sophia.