Podcast appearances and mentions of Isaac Bonewits

Happy 1 year anniversary to the start of the Science Witch Podcast! For our 14th episode, Anjel interviews pagan elder in the witchcraft and neopagan community, Phaedra Bonewits. In our conversation we discuss the women's spirituality movement and its influence on witchcraft and what important lessons Phaedra would like younger witches to know about this important time in our collective her-story. We also talk a bit about modern expression of witchcraft and how the neopagan community needs to evolve to encompass all gender diversity, as well as share some interesting anecdotes about her late husband, Isaac Bonewits. Our Pateron Our Episode Sponsors: As Above Wild Witches of the Willamette Wild Witches Year and a Day class Mastering Witchcraft by Paul Huson A discussion on Baby Witches on The Seeking Witchcraft Podcast Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman Missing Witches Episode on Zea Budapest Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic

No episódio de hoje vim falar um pouco sobre Morning Glory Zell e sobre a ligação entre os Movimentos pagãos e poliamorosos! •Quatro Razões Pelas Quais Poliamor e Paganismo estão ligados: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201706/four-reasons-why-paganism-and-polyamory-are-linked?amp • Site do Isaac Bonewits: https://www.neopagan.net/PaganPolyamory.html •Artigo sobre a história da palavra poliamor: http://interact.com.pt/17/poliamor/ •"A Bouquet Of Lóvers" de Morning Zell: https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2010/04/bouquet-of-lovers •Poliamor e Paganismo: https://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/986 •Textos antigos do meu blog: https://leaodasestrelas.wordpress.com/tag/poliamor-relacoes-livres/ •Texto onde S.J.Tucker fala de To My Valentine: https://s00j.livejournal.com/216409.html •To My Valentine - S. J. Tucker: https://open.spotify.com/track/02baCZYVFyCFXYqv6Qqmdd?si=irz9b_ODQHO0Q5miX7Bmhg •Gaia Consort: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1AJXK4InICD9BG5gM3mMcS?si=7-kjCp4GQp6uxMOf8yrPZg

Praise 'Bob', We return in a week shaped week (for a change), and who better to fill your sound cavity for this weeks show than this weeks guest?BEHOLD! High Weirdness by email, in which we, together with the most holy Rev. Ivan Stang, discuss cults, pagans and other weirdness.BE TURNED ON! by possibly the first ever mating call of the Subgenius captured on a earthly recording device.PRAISE 'BOB'! as we discuss, X-Day, The Starwood Festival,  no-good-no-Bob-niks, 9/11 truthers, Isaac Bonewits, SATAN, and of course J.R. Bob Dobbs.The right honourable Daddytank returns from the soundmines, tools in hand, to deliver another astounding MySpace Heroes. This weeks solid-gold prospects:Zano Bathroom - Live and DirectCubist Upshot - Resonants III Curios - The Tiling Song See you 'next week'...and don't forget to enjoy!PRABOBIvan Stang Bio:Rev. Ivan Stang, born  August 21, 1953 in Washington, D.C., raised in Fort Worth,Texas, and attended the St. Mark's School of Texas. He is best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church along with his pal Philo Drummond in 1979, though Stang himself denies this and claims the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. Since the publication of the first SubGenius pamphlet in 1980, Stang has embarked on a worldwide crusade (spanning at least three continents) to promote the Church. In May 2006 he finished writing, editing and designing a new SubGenius book for Thunder's Mouth Press, 'The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon'. He has appeared on several national radio and television shows, including the The Jon Stewart Show on MTV. Stang is an instructor on the faculty of the Maybe Logic Academy. Both he and J.R. "Bob" Dobbs appear as characters in John Shirley's science fiction novel Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa.

We finally did it, we reached episode 30! To celebrate the 'big 3 0' we decided to invite back co-hosts Raymond Wiley and Austin Gandy to get the proceedings in full swing, and booked a guest that we've been hankering after for a while now. To top this off, we also recorded the show live (something we plan to do from now on), and our audience gave us some great questions!The guest in question, Isaac Bonewits, has had a fantastically rich career in occultism. From becoming the ArchDruid of  the RDNA, to helping reconstruct the 'Caliphate' branch of the OTO, Isaac gives us a fantastically engaging, frank and often funny, interview.Discussed this week: Why Neo-paganism appears to be changing, How to get thrown out of the Church of Satan by Aton Lavay, being awarded the only recognised academic degree in 'Magic', the effect of 'crud' on estoterism, and uncle Aleister.Of course, no show would be complete without a musical interlude from the amazing Daddytank and his chorus of noise! This weeks entertainers:Each Paw Gremlin Small - IIIseye.r.o.d.e - R03Early Paintings - FundamentalistWe'll keep you posted on the site for when we're doing the next live show. You can also follow site developments on Twitter, just follow @sittingnowenjoy!Isaac Bonewits Bio:Bonewits, P. E. I. (Isaac) (1949–?) One of the brightest and most colorful figures of the Neopagan movement, Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits is best known for his leadership in modern Druidism. He is a priest, magician, scholar, author, bard and activist, and has dedicated himself to reviving Druidism as a “Third Wave” religion aimed at protecting “Mother Nature and all Her children.“Bonewits was born on October 1, 1949, in Royal Oak, Michigan — the perfect place, he likes to joke, for a future Archdruid. The fourth of five children (three girls, two boys), he spent most of his childhood in Ferndale, a suburb of Detroit. When he was nearly 12, the family moved to [Southern California, first on the actual beach of Capistrano Beach, later to] San Clemente, California.From his mother, a devout Roman Catholic, Bonewits developed an appreciation for the importance of religion; from his father, a convert to Catholicism from Presbyterianism, he acquired skepticism. He bounced back and forth between parochial and public schools, largely due to the lack of programs for very bright students — his I.Q. was tested at 200.His first exposure to magic came at age 13, when he met a young Creole woman from New Orleans who practiced Voodoo. She showed him some of her magic and so accurately divined the future [and so successfully performed spells] that he was greatly impressed. During his teen years, he read extensively about magic and parapsychology. He also read science fiction, which often has strong magical and psychic themes.In ninth grade, Bonewits entered a Catholic high-school seminary. He soon realized, however, that he did not want to be a priest in the Catholic faith. He returned to public school and graduated a year early. After spending a year in junior college to get foreign language credits, he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. At about the same time, he began practicing magic, devising his own rituals by studying the structure of rituals in books, and by observing them in various churches.His roommate at Berkeley, Robert Larson, was a Druid, an alumnus of Carleton College, where the Reformed Druids of North America (RDNA) had been founded in 1963. Larson interested Bonewits in Druidism and initiated him into the RDNA. The two established a grove in Berkeley. Bonewits was ordained as a Druid priest in October 1969. The Berkeley grove was shaped as a Neopagan religion, unlike other RDNA groves, which considered the order a philosophy. The Neopagan groves became part of a branch called the New Reformed Druids of North America (NRDNA).During college, Bonewits spent about eight months as a member of the Church of Satan, an adventure that began as a lark. The college campus featured a Spot where evangelists of various persuasions would lecture to anyone who would listen. As a joke, Bonewits showed up one day to perform a satirical lecture as a Devil’s evangelist. He was so successful that he was approached by a woman who said she represented Anton Szandor LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. Bonewits attended the church’s meetings and improved upon some of their rituals but dropped out after personality conflicts with LaVey. The membership, he found, consisted largely of middleclass conservatives who were more “rightwing and racist” than Satanist.Bonewits had intended to major in psychology but through Berkeley’s individual group-study program fashioned his own course of study. In 1970 he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in magic [and thaumaturgy], the first person ever to do so at a Westem educational institution. He also was the last to do so in the United States[?]. College administrators were so embarrassed over the publicity about the degree that magic, witchcraft and sorcery were banned from the individual group-study program.The fame of his degree led to a book contract. In 1971 Real Magic was published, offering Bonewits’ views on magic, ritual and psychic abilities. A revised and updated edition was published in 1979 and reissued in 1989.In 1973 Bonewits met a woman named Rusty [Elliot], a folksinger in the Berkeley cafes. They moved to Minneapolis, where they were married, and where Bonewits took over the editorship of Gnostica, a Neopagan journal published by Carl Weschcke of Llewellyn Publications. He gaveGnostica a scholarly touch and turned it into the leading journal in the field. But the job lasted only 1 1/2 years, for the editorial changes resulted in the loss of many non-Pagan readers, who found the magazine too high brow.Bonewits remained in Minneapolis for about another year. While there he established a Druid grove called the Schismatic Druids of North America, a splinter group of the RDNA. He also joined with several Jewish pagan friends and created the Hasidic Druids of North America, the only grove of which existed briefly in St. Louis, where its membership overlapped with that of the Church of All Worlds. In 1974–75, Bonewits [partially] wrote, edited and self-published The Druid Chronicles (Evolved), a compendium of the history, theology, rituals and customs of all the Reformed Druid movements, including the ones he invented himself.[During this same time] he also founded the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League (AADL), a civil liberties and public relations organization for members of minority belief systems, such as the Rosicrucians, Theosophists, Neopagans, Witches, occultists, astrologers and others. [See The Aquarian Manifesto.] Bonewits sought to convince such persons that they had more in common with each other than they realized. By banding together, they could effectively fight, through the press and the courts, the discrimination and harassment of the Judeo-Christian conservatives.Bonewits served as president of the AADL and devoted most of his income — from unemployment insurance — to running it. The organization scored several small victories in court, such as restoring an astrologer to her apartment, after she had been evicted because a neighbor told her landlord that her astrology classes were “black magic seances.” In 1976 Bonewits and Rusty divorced, and he decided to return to Berkeley. The AADL disintegrated shortly after his departure.In Berkeley, Bonewits rejoined the NRDNA grove and was elected Archdruid. He established The Druid Chronicler (which later became Pentalpha Journal) as a national Druid publication in 1978. He attempted to make the Berkeley grove as Neopagan as the groves in Minneapolis and St. Louis, which caused a great deal of friction among the longtime members. After a few clashes, Bonewits left the organization. Pentalpha Journal folded.[Also in 1978 , he researched and wrote Authentic Thaumaturgy, essentially a rewrite of Real Magic for players of fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. It was published in booklet format, shown left, in 1978 and 1979 by The Chaosium, publishers of the Runequest and Call of Cthulu games. “A.T.” became highly influential in the RPG community, even though no more than 1,000 copies were ever printed. Many years later, in 1998, he published a dramatically expanded and updated edition, shown right, for Steve Jackson Games, which released it as a large trade paperback. Excerpts from this new edition can be foundhere.]In 1979 he married for a second time, to a woman named Selene [Kumin]. That relationship ended in 1982 [after a brief stay in Santa Cruz, California, where he worked as a typesetter]. In 1983 he was initiated into the New Reformed Order of the Golden Dawn [the San Francisco Bay Area’s best known, and stereotypically “eclectic,” Wiccan tradition]. The same year, he married again, to Sally Eaton, the actress who created the role of the hippie Witch in the Broadway musical, Hair. [During the early 1980s, Bonewits and Eaton were heavily involved in the California revival of the Ordo Templi Orientis, or “O.T.O.,” best known for its most important historical figure, Aliester Crowley.] They moved to New York City in 1983 where Bonewits met Shenain Bell, a fellow Neopagan, and discussed the idea of starting a Druidic organization.The fellowship, Ár nDraíocht Féin (“Our Own Druidism” in Irish Gaelic), was born as a fresh Neopagan religious organization with no ties to the ancient Druids or to the RDNA, which by this time was apparently [but not exactly] defunct. Bonewits became Archdruid, and Bell became ViceArchdruid.In 1986 Bonewits and Eaton separated, and he moved to Kansas City for several months, where he worked as a computer consultant. He then returned to Berkeley but could not find work in Silicon Valley, which was in a slump [they had a glut of unemployed technical writers at the time]. He moved back to the East Coast, to Nyack, New York, near Manhattan, in November 1987, with his intended fourth wife, Deborah Lipp, a Wiccan high priestess [and married her in 1988]. He continued work as a computer consultant and worked on the building of Ár nDraíocht Féin. He also began work on a book on the creation, preparation and performance of effective religious rituals [finally published as Rites of Worship: A Neopagan Approachin 2004 and as Neopagan Rites in 2007].[From 1988 through 1995, Bonewits and Lipp were partners (along with several others across the continent) in making ADF the largest and most successful Neopagan Druid organization in North America, with legal standing and tax exempt status in the USA. For most of this time, they were also partners in running a Gardnerian Wiccan “Pagan Way” group and then a coven in New York and New Jersey.][1990 saw the birth of Bonewits’ first known child, Arthur Lipp-Bonewits, at their home in Dumont, New Jersey. Arthur quickly became known among East Coast Neopagans as an intelligent, self-aware, and hyperactive child. 1990 also saw, however, a serious blow to Bonewits’ health, when he began showing symptoms of a newdisease called Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome, caused by chemically contaminated L-Tryptophan tablets manufactured in Japan and consumed by tens of thousands of Americans in 1989. This multisystemic disease caused Bonewits an increasing inability to perform his secular or Archdruidic duties, leading to his loss of employment in 1992 and his resignation as Archdruid of ADF, and assumption of the Archdruid Emeritus title, on January 1, 1996.  In 1997 and 1998, Bonewits began to show signs of recovering from the disease’s worst effects, except for relapses in the winter months, but by this time the disease had also caused severe damage to his marriage with Deborah, and in 1998 they separated.]The “10–year gap.” Bonewits has discovered, he says, a “10–year gap” between many of his views and their acceptance among Neopagans. In 1973 he was the first Neopagan to state publicly that the alleged antiquity of Neopagan Witchcraft (Wicca) was “hogwash.” The Craft, he said, did not go back beyond Gerald B. Gardner and Doreen Valiente [Now he is willing to push it all the back to the 1920’s. See Witchcraft: A Concise Guide]. Bonewits was held in contempt by many for that, yet by 1983, Neopagans generally acknowledged that Neopagan Witchcraft was a new religion, not the continuation of an old one. The Aquarian Anti-Defamation League was also ahead of its time. In 1974–75, Neopagans were not ready to admit that they needed public relations and legal help. By a decade later, a number of such organizations were in existence.Around 1985 Bonewits began regularly discussing the need to provide social services for domestic and personal problems and drug dependencies. Neopagans, he points out, represent a cross section of the population, and such problems cut across religious lines. Bonewits estimates that as many as 80 percent of Neopagans come from “non[‘dys-’]functional family” backgrounds. Neopagans, he observes, are brighter and more artistic than average, but also, therefore, “more neurotic.” [He now thinks much of it may be related to “Aspergers Syndrome”] The community has been quick to address these social issues with programs [such as various “Pagan 12-Step Programs”].Bonewits also began lobbying for financial support for full-time Neopagan clergy (the priesthood is essentially a volunteer job), but the idea fell on uninterested ears. In 1988 Bonewits was pursuing a goal of buying land and establishing an academically accredited Pagan seminary. [As of 2006, there are dozens of Pagan-owned land sanctuaries, and a few Pagan seminaries earning accreditation from the national accreditation agencies. Alas, ADF is not among them, though a couple of ADF groves own their own land. A few Neopagan clergy have managed to obtain employment via the Covenent of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) as UU ministers.][On July 23, 2004, Isaac was handfasted to ceremonial magician, Wiccan priestess, and early member of CUUPS, Ms. Phaedra Heyman. On December 7th of 2007, Isaac and Deborah were legally divorced and Isaac and Phaedra were wed on December 31, 2007. They now reside in Rockland County, New York, and have recently written a book together: Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, and Substances to Heal, Change, and Grow (New Page, March 2007).

John Todd Pt. 2   This week we take up from where we left off by listening to the tapes of John Todd himself, as well as going into the history of the Collins/Todd families, and their importance throughout history. Their past does seem to corroborate John Todd's claims of their Illuminati/NWO ties. Could they be a part of the Black Nobility rumored to be even more powerful than those elite families we know of, or has their influence diminished over time? How much of what John Todd said, had merit? You be the judge. Thanks-Cheers, & Blessings    Show Notes, & Links   SILENCED PEOPLE, JOHN TODD (MURDERED), EXPLAINS THE ILLUMINATI   https://www.auricmedia.net/silenced-people-john-todd-murdered-explains-the-illuminati/   Fritz Springmeier-Hidden History of The Collins Family   https://impiousdigest.com/fritz-springmeier-bloodlines-illuminati/9/     The Collins Bloodline    https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/collins.htm   Audio of Article From Above The Collins Family    https://youtu.be/XV5PLayohGg   Fritz Springmeier Book, (PDF) Be Wise As Serpents, Innocent As Doves   https://archive.org/details/BeWiseAsSerpents_201709   The Bewitched TV Show Curse   https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Film%3a+The+Curse+of+Bewitched%3b+HOW+TRAGEDY+HIT+THE+CAST+OF+THE...-a0135263368   Raymond Buckland -Witchcraft Book   https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/religion.occult.new_age/Magick/Complete%20Book%20Of%20Witchcraft.pdf   Article Corroborates That Raymond Buckland, John Todd's Alleged Mentor, Was Leader of Grand Druid Council   https://www.witchcraftmag.us/illuminati/the-grand-druid-council-of.html    John Todd Letter From Prison MESSAGE FROM A HIERARCHY SURVIVOR Feb. 26, 1991   FRITZ SPRINGMEIER – BLOODLINES OF THE ILLUMINATI 1 | The Impious Digest - Part 10   The Ritual Similarities Between MODERN WICCA & FREEMASONRY   http://home.ptd.net/~magog/apopage2.htm     Raymond Buckland Bio   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Buckland   Collins Family Crest   https://www.houseofnames.com/Collins-family-crest   Collins Cover Salem, Massachusetts  Collins Cove (Collin's Cove) neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts    Read more: http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Collins-Cove-Salem-MA.html   “Somewhere between 1920 and 1925 in England some folklorists appear to have gotten together with some Golden Dawn Rosicrucians and a few supposed “Fam-Trads” to produce the first modern covens in England; grabbing eclectically from any source they could find in order to try and reconstruct the shards of their Pagan past." High Witch, & Writer, Isaac Bonewits   “Also, there are certainly hereditary traditions of witchcraft, but by "hereditary" we don't mean that the practices are biologically inherited. These are typically small, familial traditions (Fam Trads), in which beliefs and practices are handed down from one generation to the next, and outsiders are rarely included.” Via Learn Religions   ADF repudiates founder Isaac Bonewits for sexual assault. (Mentioned by Fritz Springmeier as coining the term “Fam-Triads” regarding the Occult Illuminati families.   In a statement posted to the ADF Facebook page, the organization's Mother Grove said the following: In 2018, the late founder of A Druid Fellowship Isaac Bonewits, was accused of sexually molesting a child. Just recently, allegations have been raised from among our membership that are similar in nature.   https://wildhunt.org/2019/11/adf-repudiates-founder-isaac-bonewits.html   Sinister Forces-A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft   https://issuu.com/guraja/docs/peter_levenda_dick_russell_sinister   Deeper Insights Into The Illuminati Formula By Fritz Springmeier, Cisco Wheeler   https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/mindcontrol2/secondpart.htm   Who Are The Collins Elite, & Are They Connected To The Collins Family?   https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/exo-vaticana/exo-vaticana10.htm   More Information On The Collins Elite   https://drmsh.com/review-of-nick-redferns-final-events/     More Info On The History of The Collins Family (Forward To 1:13)   https://youtu.be/R-dxc0YqPWA   Thomas Horn- Exo-Vaticana : Petrus Romanus, Project L.U.C.I.F.E.R. And the Vatican's Astonishing Plan for the Arrival of an Alien Savior https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984825630/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QB.xEb5PQSX4B   Nick Redfern FINAL EVENTS and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife https://www.amazon.com/dp/1933665483/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Iz.xEbCYT4XY1     Bloodlines Of The Illuminati By Fritz Springmeier   https://archive.org/details/BloodlinesOfTheIlluminatiByFritzSpringmeier/page/n1/mode/2up     The Council of British Druids http://www.cobdo.org.uk/html/the_council_of_british_druid_o.html   Songs In This Episode  Intro Tune: We Are The Conspiracy-Diabolitical Man. Download Free At-   https://www.reverbnation.com/wearetheconspiracy/songs   16 Horsepower-Clogger Megadeth-New World Order Road Kings-Casting My Spell  

Car, Gwynn, and Ode discuss recent accusations of sexual abuse by ADF founder Isaac Bonewits, as well as dealing with sexual misconduct in the pagan community generally. This episode contains upsetting, potentially triggering content, and listener discretion is advised.

As is the tradition in the month of October, we honor ancestors.  Here on VSF I do just that with our series, Gone But Never Forgotten; Their Voices and Work Live on.  In this episode we hear elder and respected scholar, Isaac Bonewits.

In 1979, Isaac Bonewits established the "Advanced Bonewits Cult Danger Evaluation Framework" in order to help professionals and amateurs alike in separating the dangerous harmless groups for those who may be potentially dangerous, and to help identify those who may simply appear unusual to the outside observer.   The ABCDEF is founded on modern psychological principle of mental health and personal growth along with the many years of experience by Isaac Bonewits.   Join me in this episode as we discuss this tool in depth.

Stones in Ireland align to the Spring Equinox This is the first half of our MONSTER show celebrating the Spring Equinox and Ostara! Be prepared for 4 super pieces of music, a fascinating piece about the Loughcrew Passage Tomb that shows that the Iron Age Celts regarded the Spring Equinox as significant, a wonderful Ostara piece by our resident bard, Chris Joliffe and as a super, special surprise - a listener submitted story! And this is only the first part! The next part of the show will be following hot on its heels! :) More resources over at our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com Running Order: Intro 0:40 News & Views 3:14 Into the Green - Spiral Dance 4:55 The Loughcrew Passage Tomb - Voices from the Dawn 11:06 Call of the Wildwoods - Brocc 25:23 Ostara's Hare by Chris Joliffe 31:59 Brighid's Flame - Kellianna 37:33 The Hero of Avalon - Zachary Hare 41:37 Avalon Is Risen - Leslie Fish 1:10:42 Promo - The Magical Faerie Festival 1:16:39 Thank you for donation - Birgir 1:19:04 We hope you enjoy it! Gary & Ruthie x x x It's always great to hear from you! Email garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com, or call us on Speakpipe   Into The Green by Spiral Dance The Quickening Multi-award winning group Spiral Dance, based in Adelaide, has been playing rousing, high-energy music to enthusiastic audiences throughout Australia and beyond for over a decade. With a combination of haunting vocals, evocative fiddle, intoxicating guitar riffs and groovy accordion lines, underpinned with potent bass and dynamic percussion, the band presents an eclectic blend of traditional folk-rock with powerful self-penned songs and tunes. Enchanting melodies intertwine with mythical tales that are sure to captivate your soul, tease your mind and steal your heart, casting your spirit into the realms of magic and the mists of ancient time. We are privileged to bring you their moving track, Into the Green, which comes from the album, The Quickening. The album, The Quickening, with all of its songs about the Quickening of Life withing the Earth, won the Most Outstanding CD Release for 2006, in the South Australian Folk Awards. You can find out more about Spiral Dance on their website or on their Contributor Page.   The Loughcrew Passage Tomb by "Voices From The Dawn" Cairn H and the Hag of Beare (An Cailleach Bhéara) Sliabh na Caillíghe constitutes a Neolithic necropolis, a passage-tomb cemetery with some evidence of at least thirty tombs, the grandest concentration of such monuments in Ireland. Over the centuries scores of others may have been destroyed with no trace remaining. Cairn T (pictured above) can be seen in a Virtual Reality tour on the Voices from the Dawn website. This is the Cairn that is illuminated by the Sun at the time of the Spring Equinox. Equinox illumination at the end of the Tomb The Hag of Beare The folktales of the ancient Hag of Beare were the stories that greeted Conwell, John O’Donovan, and Jonathan Swift before him.  Other translations of "The Hag of Beare" can be found on Voices from the Dawn. The Hag's Chair The Hag's Chair (pictured above) has a deeply-incised cross carved into its seat was noted by Conwell as a nineteenth-century trigonometric mark, although others have claimed it to be an artifact of the monument’s use as a “Mass rock” during Penal times. Carvings on the front of the Hag's Chair You can visit the Voices of the Dawn website or follow them on Facebook. You can also find out more about the project, and Howard Goldbaum, on our Contributor Page.   Call of the Wildwoods by Brocc 13 Moons Brocc came into being over the summer of 2008 - a product of gales and rain in the woods and a badger who came to stay and has become our symbol. The songs we weave tell tales of myth and legend and the old beliefs of our lands and peoples. Our music is timeless, evocative of earlier, simpler times. The instruments reflect our love of forgotten timbres - we play English & Swedish bagpipes, woodwinds and recorders, the medieval hurdy-gurdy, mandola and laùd, and a host of percussion. Brocc's songs and tunes are mostly original, with some traditional material in our own distinctive arrangements. This beautiful track, Call of the Wild Woods, is a superb example of their style and versatility and comes for their latest album, 13 Moons. You can find out more about Brocc on their Website or on our Contributor Page.   Ostara's Hare by Chris Joliffe Chris Joliffe Chris is an amazing bard whose talents cover both story and poem as he explores mythic realms with his evocative words. He has kindly given us permission to use some of his amazing stories and poems in the show and we're sure that you'll love them just as much as we do. In this show, you can hear his arousing story, Ostara's Hare celebrating the coming of the Dance of the Spring Goddess with the eternal Trickster, the moon gazing hare! Don't forget to check out Chris' Contributor Page to find out a little more about him.   Brighid's Flame by Kellianna Elemental Kellianna is an accomplished musician and performer worldwide. Her CD's, Lady Moon, I Walk with the Goddess, Elemental and The Ancient Ones are being recognized around the globe as a must have for any lover of Goddess inspired folk music. Her live shows are a combination of acoustic guitar songs and chants to the God and Goddess. Brighid's Flame: "I starting writing this at Imbolc 2009 and finished Imbolc 2010. This is one of my favorite harmonies ever!" Learn more about Kellianna on her website or on her Contributor Page.   The Hero of Avalon by Zachary Hare Zachary Hare "I'm different than most guys. Chivalry, honor and romance are very much alive in me. I'm a BIG FAT IRISH ITALIAN and DAMN PROUND OF IT. I'm a comic book geek and a theatre geek. I'm a christopagan. Someday I hope to be a professional actor." Names used in the Story Arthur Lady Boireann Madadh Allaidh Joden   Avalon is Risen by Leslie Fish Avalon is Risen Finally, a recording dedicated to Leslie Fish's most inspired bardic and Pagan songs. These songs serve up myth and magic, and Leslie's unique sense of wonder and humor. Includes a stunning 32-page color lyric booklet, crafted by Celtic illustrator Bradley Schenck. Introduction by noted fantasy author Diana L. Paxson. Producer Kristoph Klover strove to make this Leslie's most finely crafted recording yet, and we hope you'll agree!  The title piece – "Avalon is Risen" – was written by Isaac Bonewits, founder of the Ár nDraíocht Féin. You can find out more about Leslie on her website or here, on her Contributor Page.   Promo - The Magical Faerie Festival The Magical Faerie Festival We bring you a Promo for this year's Magical Faerie Festival which is going to be held in Findon, West Sussex, UK on the 10-12th May and we are going to be there!! We hope to be making a special show introducing you to the artists, the ambience and the faeries! Then we'll be able to tell you what goes on at these fantastic events! The Organisers say: This years festival features our largest line-up of live music and entertainment yet. All of which is included in the price of your festival ticket! 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Phaedra Bonewits discusses the Life & Times of Isaac Bonewits, also the  unreleased title track "She Says" from Isaac Bonewits & Real Magick.  General Assembly plans and a new chapter in Maryland are also mentioned.

Hosted by Larry 'Zaracon' Sodders and M.Rev. Donald Lewis-Highcorrell, to honor one of our Elders, and honor his life as he asked. We shall Celebrate his life. Join us and let us talk about Isaac with his wonderful widow, Phaedra along with calls from Selena Fox, Ian Corrigan, Oberon and Morning Glory Zell Ravenheart. Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, founder and Archdruid Emeritus of of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, one of North America's leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement, died today after a short struggle with cancer.

Ian Corrigan - has been teaching, learning, singing and playing in the American Neopagan movement since 1976. Beginning by teaching ‘Witchcraft, Magic & the Occult' for the Kent State University Free School, he has decades of experience in a variety of occult, pagan and magical topics. Having received his 3rd degree initiation in Celtic Traditional Wicca in the early 80s, Ian has led eclectic study groups, a traditional Wiccan coven and a Druid Grove. Ian has been well-known for decades at Pagan festivals as a bard, ritualist and teacher. For the past 30 years Ian's primary path has been Celtic polytheism and especially Neopagan Druidism. Ian has been a primary author and teacher in Ar nDraiocht Fein, having been recruited by Isaac Bonewits in the mid 80s. He is a founder of Stone Creed Grove, ADF's oldest working congregation, and served as ADF's first Chief Liturgist and first elected Vice Archdruid. Ian worked with Isaac to develop the ritual forms used in ADF Druidry today, and was the developer and primary author of ADF's Dedicant basic Pagan training Program. While Druidry is Ian's primary path, his magical and religious studies interests include Western Tradition magic and Hermetics, world polytheisms and tribal magical systems, Tarot, Runes and the history and development of our modern Pagan ways. Ian continues to teach Celtic Paganism, trancework and magic at festivals and seminars. Ian is the author of ‘Sacred Fire, Holy Well – A Druid's Grimoire', ‘Draiocht; A Book of Celtic Sorcery', ‘The Portal Book - Teachings & Works of Celtic Witchcraft', and ‘The Book of the Dragon - Pagan Ceremonial Magic'. Along with his partner Liafal he is part of ‘Awen', a folk duet. His CD ‘Once Around the Wheel' has been in print for many years.

Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 41 Raising Energy - Dave the Flute - www.davetheflute.co.uk The Long Grass Whispers - The Amazing Clouds - www.diana-sanders.co.uk Link to Isaac Bonewits memorial podcast - www.blogtalkradio.com/witchschool Interview by Paul Newman (www.sunshinepaul.blogspot.com) with Jim Faupel and Marianne van de Ess - www.jimfaupel.co.uk New Day Rising - The Bateleurs - www.myspace.com/bateleurs One in a Million - Chris Wood - www.chriswoodmusic.co.uk DruidCast intro music - Hills they are Hollow - Damh the Bard - www.paganmusic.co.uk For further information about the modern Druid tradition - www.druidry.org

Hosted by Larry 'Zaracon' Sodders and M.Rev. Donald Lewis-Highcorrell, to honor one of our Elders, and honor his life as he asked. We shall Celebrate his life. Join us and let us talk about Isaac with his wonderful widow, Phaedra along with calls from Selena Fox, Ian Corrigan, Oberon and Morning Glory Zell Ravenheart. Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, founder and Archdruid Emeritus of of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, one of North America's leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement, died today after a short struggle with cancer. PLEASE CALL IN WITH MEMORIAL COMMENTS AT 347-308-8222

Where Isaac Bonewits is concerned, those who do not know who he is will come to know who he was. Simply put, we have not seen or heard the last of that man. Even if he crossed over on August 12, 2010, he inspired and encouraged so many people in so many ways that his presence will be here for a very long time. Given the number of his early predictions which were initially scoffed but later earned credence, it is my estimate that his living legacy is guaranteed at least a century of active presence. He forged paths when the rest of us didn't even know that there might be new paths to forge. And his encouragement of others is a matter of record, including how he encouraged me. And so we celebrate the life of Isaac Bonewits. Bard, Archdruid, Priest, Teacher, Author, and so much more. Blessed Be!

Isaac will discuss his 40 years as a priest of the Earth Mother, the Goddess music he's written, his status as a heretic about matriarchies and triple Goddesses and whatever else tickles his fancy.

Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 21Bringing the Outside In - The Dolmen (with Damh the Bard) - http://indiestore.7digital.com/thedolmenGod Rest ye Merry Pagan Folk - Willo’s Song - http://www.myspace.com/willossong2nd part of the talk given by Isaac Bonewits at the Atlantis Bookshop - www.neopagan.netOn Midwinter’s Day - Damh the Bard - www.paganmusic.co.ukWinter Solstice Night - The Dolmen - http://indiestore.7digital.com/thedolmenDruidCast theme - Hills they are Hollow - Damh the Bard - www.paganmusic.co.ukTo find out more about the modern Druid tradition - www.druidry.org

Tarot reader Isaac Bonewits was at the Totally Normal Event and he talked to Kimberly about his experience of tarot readings and he gave Kim her reading as well.

Tarot reader Isaac Bonewits was at the Totally Normal Event and he talked to Kimberly about his experience of tarot readings and he gave Kim her reading as well.

Tarot reader Isaac Bonewits was at the Totally Normal Event and he talked to Kimberly about his experience of tarot readings and he gave Kim her reading as well.