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22
Green Egg,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 20, 1968). Zell also described himself as a Pagan in the
Atlan Logbook,
saying, “I am a pagan, considering Atl to be in the vanguard of the new pagan resurgence” (individual statements section).
23
Young Omar, “Kerista's Erotic Ethic and Etcs.” (September 4, 1966), reprinted in
Atlan Logbook,
pp. 40–42. Originally published by Kerista Press, Box 34708, Los Angeles, CA 90034. Actually, Young Omar paraphrases Goldberg. Goldberg's quote goes as follows: “What was forbidden in ordinary life was allowed in the life of religion. Bonds were broken and taboos raised, once people entered into the temple of the gods.” B. Z. Goldberg,
The Sacred Fire
(New York: Horace Liveright, 1930), pp. 36–37.
24
Young Omar, “Kerista's Erotic Ethic.”
25
See address by Doreen Valiente,
Pentagram,
No. 2 (November 1964), 5.
26
Green Egg,
Vol. III, No. 20 (December 29, 1969), 1.
27
Green Egg,
Vol. III, No. 23 (March 18, 1970), 1. The phrase “the Green Hills of Earth” comes from a story by C. L. Moore (Mrs. Henry Kuttner), and Heinlein used it with her permission in
The Green Hills of Earth
(Chicago: Shasta, 1951).
28
Tim Zell, “Theagenesis: The Birth of the Goddess,”
Green Egg,
Vol. IV, No. 40 (July 1, 1971), 7–10. Also published in
The Witch's Broomstick,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Candlemas 1972), 19–25. Excerpts appeared in Leo Martello,
Witchcraft: The Old Religion
(Secaucus, NJ: University Books, 1973), pp. 102–7. Martello also refers to it in
Black Magic, Satanism and Voodoo
(New York: HC Publishers, 1973), pp. 135.
29
Tim Zell, “The Gods of Nature, the Nature of Gods (Part I),”
Green Egg,
Vol. VII, No. 66 (November 1, 1974), 12.
30
Zell, “Theagenesis,” p. 10.
31
Zell, “The Gods of Nature,” p. 14.
32
Tim Zell, “Biotheology: The Neo-Pagan Mission,”
Green Egg,
Vol. IV, No. 41 (August 4, 1971), pp. 7–8.
33
Lance Christie,
Green Egg,
Vol. IV, No. 42 (September 27, 1971), Forum section, 9.
34
Newsweek,
March 10, 1975, p. 49.
35
From a CAW tract, “Neo-Paganism and the Church of All Worlds,” undated.
36
From a CAW tract, “An Old Religion for a New Age, Neo-Paganism,” undated.
37
Lewis Shieber, “The CAW and Tribalism,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 75 (December 21, 1975), 5–6.
38
Council of Themis statement on the “Common Themes of Neo-Pagan Religious Orientation,”
Green Egg,
Vol. IV, No. 43 (December 3, 1971), 11.
39
Tom Williams, “Science: A Mutable Metaphor,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 73 (September 21, 1975), 9.
40
Lance Christie,
Green Egg,
Vol. VI, No. 58 (November 1, 1973), 50.
41
Ellwood,
Religious Groups in Modern America,
p. 203.
42
Tim Zell, “Neo-Paganism and the Church of All Worlds: Some Questions and Answers,” a CAW tract, undated.
43
Springfield
(Oregon)
News
(October 27, 1976), p. 3A. See also
Eugene Register-Guard
(October 30, 1976), p. 3B.
Chapter 11: RELIGIONS OF PARADOX AND PLAY
1
“Trapped!” (a tract from the First Arachnid Church),
Green Egg,
Vol. VII, No. 66 (November 1, 1974), 21–22.
2
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson,
Illuminatus:
Part I
(The Eye in the Pyramid);
Part II
(The Golden Apple);
Part III
(Leviathan)
(New York: Dell, 1975).
3
Harvey Cox,
The Feast of Fools
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969); “Religion in the Age of Aquarius: A Conversation with Harvey Cox and T. George Harris,”
Psychology Today,
Vol. 3, No. 11 (April 1970), 63.
4
Johan Huizinga,
Homo Ludens
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), 12. Other quotations on pp. 1, 3, 4, and 5.
5
The Druid Chronicles (evolved),
ed. Isaac Bonewits (Berkeley: Berkeley Drunemeton Press, 1976), Introduction, p. 1.
6
Ibid., “The Book of the Law,” p. 4.
7
Ibid., “Later Chronicles—Chapter the Tenth,” p. 12.
8
“Part V: The Great Druish Books,
Druid Chronicles.

9
“The First Epistle of Isaac,” 2:12,
Druid Chronicles (evolved).
10
Isaac Bonewits, “What & Why Is Reformed Druidism in the 1970's,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VII, No. 75 (December 21, 1975), 15–17.
11
The Druids' Progress,
No. 1, p. 10.
12
These two quotations come from the inside cover of the third and fourth editions of
Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her,
privately published.
13
Robert Anton Wilson, “All Hail the Goddess Eris,”
Gnostica,
Vol. 3, No. 12 (July 21, 1974), 19.
14
Principia Discordia,
4th ed., pp. 7–10.
15
“An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson,” by Neal Wilgus,
Science Fiction Review,
Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 1976), 32.
16
Thomas J. Walsh,
Beyond the Barrier,
Issue 1, p. 1. Published irregularly out of Irvington, New Jersey. A previous publication was
Patterns of Form,
published by the Morgan Delt cabal.
17
“Erisianism: A Neo-Pagan Path,”
Green Egg,
Vol. IX, No. 78 (May 1, 1976), 10.
18
Principia Discordia,
4th ed., pp. 42, 63.
19
Robert Anton Wilson, “All Hail the Goddess Eris!”
Gnostica,
Vol. 4, No. 9 (July 1975), 27.
Chapter 12: RADICAL FAERIES AND THE GROWTH OF MEN'S SPIRITUALITY
1
“A Light in the Darkness,”
Brothers of the Earth Newsletter,
No. 3 (Yule 1983), 7–9.
2
See “What Men Really Want,” an interview with Robert Bly by Keith Thompson,
New Age
(May 1982). See also
Brothers of the Earth Newsletter,
Cycle 2, Issue 5 (Summer Solstice 1984), 9–19.
3
Shepard Bliss, “Bound for Glory,”
UTNE Reader,
No. 15 (April–May 1986).
4
RFD,
No. 22 (Winter Solstice 1979), 59.
5
RFD,
No. 22, p. 61.
6
RFD,
No. 22, p. 50.
7
RFD,
No. 22, p. 29.
8
RFD,
No. 22, p. 38.
9
RFD,
No. 22, pp. 62–63.
10
Don Kilhefner, “A Sprinkling of Radical Faerie Dust,”
RFD,
No. 24 (Summer 1980), 25–27.
11
Stanley Johnson, “On the Banks of the River Time Looking Inland,”
RFD,
No. 43 (Summer 1985), 63.
12
J. Michael Clark, “The Native American Berdache,”
RFD,
No. 40 (Fall 1984), 22–30.
13
Mitch Walker and Friends,
Visionary Love: A Spirit Book of Gay Mythology and Trans-Mutational Faerie
(San Francisco: Treeroots Press, 1980).
14
Will Roscoe, “A Call for Dialogue,”
RFD,
No. 34 (Spring 1983), 14.
15
Pagan Spirit Journal,
No. 2 (1983), 41.
Chapter 13: LIVING ON THE EARTH
1
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 76 (February 2, 1976), 32–36.
2
Stanley Diamond,
In Search of the Primitive
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1974), pp. xv, 10, 122, 129.
3
E. R. Dodds,
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1970), p. 29.
4
Interview with Rarihokwats, conducted by Natasha A. Friar, July 30, 1975.
5
Ibid.
6
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. IX, No. 3 (Summer 1977), 3. (c/o Mohawk Nation, via Rooseveltown, NY 13683.)
7
Fiftieth Anniversary Editorial,
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Early Summer 1976), 4.
8
José Barreiro, “The Damage Close to Us,”
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. IX, No. 3 (Summer 1977), 8.
9
Jonny Lerner, “A Patch of Poison Cabbage,”
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. IX, No. 3 (Summer 1977), 11.
10
Interview with Rarihokwats conducted by Friar. In 1977, Rarihokwats left
Akwesasne Notes
after a complicated political dispute. He subsequently worked with Four Arrows: A Communications Group of Native People of the Americas, PO Box 496, Tesque, NM 87574.
11
Dr. Jack D. Forbes, “Americanism Is the Answer,”
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. VI, No. 1 (Early Spring 1974), 37.
12
Gayle High Pine, “The Non-progressive Great Spirit,”
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. V, No. 6 (Early Winter 1973), 38.
13
See Sotsisowah, “The Sovereignty Which Is Sought Can be Real,”
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. VII, No. 4 (Early Autumn 1975), pp. 34–35.
14
Susan Roberts,
Witches, U.S.A.
(New York: Dell, 1971), pp. 5. 7, 17, 18.
15
See
The New York Times,
September 3, 1975, p. 1; September 11, 1975, p. 40; September 7, 1975, IV, p. 7.
16
In particular, Hans Holzer,
The Witchcraft Report
(New York: Ace Books, 1973), pp. 182–88.
17
Excerpts from these letters appeared in an open communiqué to all members of the Council of Themis from CAW, May 27, 1972.
18
Penny Novack, “Pagan Way—Where Now?”
Earth Religion News,
Vol. I, No. 4 (1974), 35–36.
19
“Why the Indians Weren't Ecologists,”
Akwesasne Notes,
Vol. III, No. 9 (December 1971); also reprinted in
Green Egg,
Vol. V, No. 49 (August 11, 1972), 19.
20
Carol Maddox, “The Neo-Pagan Alternative,”
Green Egg,
Vol. VIII, No. 70 (May 1, 1975), 17. Also in
Green Egg,
Vol. IV, No. 39.
21
Murray Bookchin,
Our Synthetic Environment
(rev. ed.) (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), pp. xv, lxxii, 242. Originally published in 1962.
22
Ernest Callenbach,
Ecotopia
(Berkeley: Banyan Tree Books, 1975).
23
Regina Smith Oboler, “Nature Religion as a Cultural System: Sources of Environmental Rhetoric in a contemporary Pagan Community,”
The Pomegranate
6:1 (May 2004), pp. 86–106.
24
Judy Harrow, “If You Love Her, Why Not Serve Her? Nature Spirituality, Environmental Service and Pagan Religion,” in
Paganism and Ecology
(Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007).
25
Red Garters,
April 1985, p. 4.
26
Congressional Record—Senate,
September 26, 1985, p. S12174.
27
Chas Clifton,
Witchcraft Today: Witchcraft and Shamanism
(St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1994).
28
Ibid., p. 3.
29
Circle Network News,
Winter 1984.
30
Georgian Newsletter,
August 1985, p. 28.
31
William F. Schultz, “What the Women and Religion Resolutions Mean to Me,” a paper issued February 1985.
32
Pagan Spirit Journal #1
(Madison, WI: Circle Publications, 1982).
33
Ibid., p. 8.
34
Ibid., p. 33.
35
Ibid., p. 32.
Circle Network News,
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter 1984).
36
Pagan Spirit Journal #2
(Madison, WI: Circle Publications, 1983), p. 54.
37
Ibid., p. 55.
Epilogue
1
Mircea Eliade, “The Occult and the Modern World,” in
Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), p. 64.
2
The Odes of Pindar,
trans. Sir John Sandys (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), Fragment 137, pp. 592–95.
3
George Mylonas,
Eleusis and the Elusinean Mysteries
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961), p. 281.
4
Karl Kerényi,
Eleusis,
trans. Ralph Manheim (New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1967), pp. 105–74.
5
Statement for beginning a coven by Lyr ab Govannon, spring 1976.
6
Aidan Kelly, “Palingenesia,”
Gnostica,
Vol. 4, No. 9 (July 1975), 40. In
Nemeton,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Samhain 1972), 19, Aidan wrote that one can define the “essence of the Craft as worship of the Goddess.”
7
Aidan Kelly, “Why a Craft Ritual Works,”
Gnostica,
Vol. 4, No. 7 (May 1975), 32. Aidan has said that he was really paraphrasing Kerényi,
Eleusis,
pp. 24–25.
8
Penny Novack and Michael Novack,
The New Broom,
Vol. 1, No. 4, 25.
Appendix I: SCHOLARS, WRITERS, JOURNALISTS, AND THE OCCULT
1
Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her,
4th ed., p. 40.
2
Marcello Truzzi, “Definition and Dimensions of the Occult: Toward a Sociological Perspective,” in
On The Margin of the Visible: Sociology, the Esoteric, and the Occult,
ed. Edward A. Tiryakian (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974), p. 252. Originally published in
Journal of Popular Culture,
Vol. V, No. 3 (Winter 1971), 63 5/7–646/18.

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