John C. Sulak - The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism

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Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (Cotati, California) is a co-founder of Church of All Worlds (1962), founded Green Egg magazine (1968), is the founder and headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry (2004), and has written or co-written six books on magickal subjects. Oberon is a regular presenter at Starwood, PantheaCon, and other Pagan festivals. He and his work have appeared in many magazines and books, and on many television and radio programs.

Oberon Zell

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (Cotati, California) is a Witch, Priestess, and Goddess historian. A published poet, songwriter, and author, she was an acknowledged consultant for Marion Zimmer Bradleys The Mists of Avalon .

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Contents

by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

by John C. Sulak

by Oberon

by Morning Glory

PART ONE: The Early Life of Tim Zell

: A Changeling Child (19421961)

: Sharing Water (19611965)

: The Church of All Worlds (19651969)

: TheaGenesis (19681970)

: Cross-Pollinating (19701971)

: West Coast Connections (19721973)

PART TWO: Enter Morning Glory

: Good Morning Glory (19481973)

: Cosmic Convergence (19731976)

: The Magick Land (19761979)

: The Return of the Unicorn (19751991)

: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (19771985)

: The Hunting of the Ri (19831985)

PART THREE: Back in the Real World

: The Old Same Place (19851986)

: Between the Worlds (19861987)

: Circles and Ceremonies (1986 and beyond)

: Green Egg: The Next Generation and Mythic Images (19881993)

: A Bouquet of Lovers (19911994)

: The Ravenhearts (the 1990s)

PART FOUR: The Demise of the CAW

: Tribulations and Transformations, Part 1The Shadow Side of a Sex-Positive Religion

: Tribulations and Transformations, Part 2The Night the Magick Died

: The Valentine Michael Ranch (19971999) and Shady Grove (19992005)

: The Phoenix Arises (20052009)

The Making of This Epic Story by Elysia Gallo

: Brief Timeline

: Cast of Characters

Foreword

by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

The sixties and seventies of the last century were very exciting times for Pagans and Occultists of all persuasions.

What had been repressed by Church and Society was suddenly being Born Again, and the mood was revolutionary. We were discovering and recovering the Old Ways of Ancient Wisdom, but we were also part of the New Wave of Science and Political Liberation. The Old Ways and the New Wave fed into each other and inspired what we can still, legitimately, call the New Age.

The New Age shook things up so much that it attracted as many crazy people as it did reformers and people wanting answers to old questions for which old answers were no long accepted. We invented new movements and new institutions, and found alternative ways to see the world. It was as if futuristic science fiction and medieval myths merged and came alive in our time.

Now, in 2013, I can look back over a half-century of publishing for the New Age with astonishment and enjoyment for all weve done and for all the people who played active roles in giving it birth. Today, so much of the New Age is part of the modern world that what was once strange and scary to mainstream America is now common culture in the newly forming global civilization.

Even the pioneers dont appreciate all that has happened. We planted the seeds that burst into New Life; we were the midwives to the birth of a New Earth; we nurtured a New Generation through childhood and adolescence; and now we watch as the Final Drama unfolds, the world-as-we-know-it ends, and a New World Order takes its place.

In the fall of 1973, Llewellyn sponsored an event called Gnosticon, standing for Gnosis, or Inner Knowledge, in the New Age. Many of these pioneers came together ostensibly to learn from each other but more importantly to rebirth one another. The energy of the moment was astonishing and still brings a song to my heart.

At the 1973 Gnosticon, I introduced Morning Glory to Oberon, and sparks flew. Suddenly, where there had been a crowd milling about near the hotel swimming pool, there were only two people. It was a timeless moment when two parts became a Whole Greater than the sum of the parts.

It is said that True Marriages are made in Heaven, but we believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is withinin the Heart of each of us. The Kingdom of Heaven is forever and we can all enter in. A True Marriage is a fertile union that enriches the world around and gives birth to new ideas, new understanding, and renewed devotion to shared ideals.