Pat Zalewski was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1948 and has a Master of Philosophy in History from James Cook University in Cairns and is the author of 12 books on the Golden Dawn. After living in Rabaul, New Guinea, in the 1960's, Zalewski travelled throughout south-east Asia, studying tantric yoga in India and eventually settling in New Zealand in 1970.After reading and practicing the Golden Dawn for a number of years, he and Chris Zalewski went to Havelock North and met with members of the then recently closed Whare Ra temple in 1980. On a second trip he met artists Skip Dudchus and David Sledzinski and worked out the details of redrawing the Whare Ra deck for the Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn book. In 1999 Zalewski returned to Australia to live and settle in tropical Cairns.
