Brandon Reece Taylorian, also widely known under the mononym Cometan, is an Associate Lecturer in the Lancaster University Law School and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) where Brandon teaches on the programme Religion, Culture and Society. Brandon previously taught in Lancaster University's Department of History on the module Inventing Human Rights and now teaches on the module Public Law in the Law School. Brandon's research interest focus on human rights (specialising in freedom of religion or belief), new religious movements, Traditionalist Catholicism (Brandon's grandparents Derrick and Irene Taylor were early Traditionalist Catholics in England) and the relationship between astronomy and religion (he advocates a theory of Astronicism, the existence of a separate global religious tradition based on astronomical religion). At the age of 15, Brandon founded his own religion called Astronism which he often produces books and research articles exploring various aspects of the Astronist philosophy and religion.