
His earliest magickal influences came from the works of Scott Cunningham, Donald Tyson, and Konstantinos, but in later life, he was drawn more to the work of Crowley, Inominandum, John Michael Greer, and Nicholaj Frisvold. This wide variety of inspiration has led him to embrace a more direct method in his writing, preferring clear, concise instruction to fluff and filler. With a focus on left hand path workings and spirit-based magick, his work focuses on getting results in the most streamlined manner possible through whichever resource is most suited to the task.
Today, he uses his knowledge and experience to guide others in their mystical paths, and offer assistance when it is needed. In his free time, he is either in the company of other like-minded pagans, or wandering through a forest, by a river, or through the graveyard, learning what secrets can be taught from the Other World.
Naag's first title with Crossed Crow Books is A Spirit Work Primer. He has also independently released a book of baneful magic called Hellfire.
"This is the book I wish I had when I began learning spirit conjuration. Naag does a great job of taking the reader through various aspects of advanced spirit work in a way that is practical and easy to understand."
-Chris Allaun, Witch and author of A Guide of Spirits & Otherworld: Ecstatic Witchcraft and the Spirits of Place, Moon Books
"Naag Loki Shivanath has boiled down the formula of manifestation through working with spirits into a method that is both easily understood and immensely practical."
-Charles L McBride, author of Looking Within: A Guide of Meditation and Runic Magick
"Naag Loki Shivanath has produced a more than a thorough piece of work on spirit work that will aid any student/magical practitioner of the occult. I personally appreciated the comparisons Naag made regarding invocations and evocations. He has not just created signposts but also explained those very important danger warnings that quite a few authors miss out."
-Judith Path, author of Invoking the Egyptian Gods & Pathworking with the Egyptian Gods, Llewellyn Worldwide
"In A Spirit Work Primer, Shivanath takes a down-to-earth and practical approach with his writing, which I genuinely appreciate. This book is a working manual, procedural but not dogmatic, and does exactly what the author intended it to do: serve as a systematic and thorough guide, a workbook of spirit conjuration, valuable for all experience levels."
-Bill Duvendack, author of Astrology In Theory & Practice and Spirit Relations