Sophia Wellbeloved was born in Dublin and when her father went to join the navy at the start of WW2 she and her mother moved to Innis Mor, the largest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. They lived in the cottage used in filming Robert J. Flaherty’s 1934 film Man of Aran.

Wellbeloved was a member of the Gurdjieff Society in London for about fourteen years, and her academic interest in western esotericism led her to explore Gurdjieff’s writing at King’s College, London. She has published 48 Trojan Herrings & Tripidium (Waterloo Press, 2009) and Tripidium now takes its rightful place in the complete tetralogy Praying for Flow. Her scholarly books include Gurdjieff, Astrology & Beelzebub’s Tales, (Solar Bound, 2002) and Gurdjieff: the Key Concepts (Routledge, 2003).

She is director of Lighthouse Editions, a small independent publishing company, and of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Western Esotericism and lives in Cambridge, England.