- Margot Adler
Margot Adler (born 16 April 1946) is an author, journalist, lecturer, and a radio journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). - Isaac Bonewits
Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (born October 1, 1949) is an influential Neopagan leader and author. Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Bonewits has been heavily involved in occultism with an emphasis on Neo-druidism since the 1960s. - Janet Farrar
Janet Farrar (born Janet Owen on June 24 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on Wicca and Neopaganism. Along with her two husbands, Stewart Farrar and Gavin Bone, Farrar has published "some of the most influential books on modern Witchcraft to date." According to George Knowles, … - Silver Ravenwolf
Silver Ravenwolf (September 11, 1956 -), born Jenine E. Trayer, is an American author and lecturer who focuses on Neopaganism. She has been married for 23 years, and is a mother of four teenagers. She currently resides in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. - Charles Godfrey Leland
Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15 1824 - March 20 1903) was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton University, and in Europe. Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. By the end of his life shortly after the turn of the century, … - Selena Fox
Selena Fox (born October 1949) is a Wiccan priestess, journalist, political activist, counselor, psychotherapist, author, educator and lecturer in the fields of Neo-Paganism, magic, Wicca, multi-culturalism and comparative religion. - Alfred Rosenberg
"'"' (January 12, 1893 Reval (nowadays Tallinn) – October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, "Lebensraum", abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. He is also known for his rejection of Christianity. - Deborah Lipp
Deborah Lipp is a Wiccan High Priestess of the Gardnerian Tradition and an American author. She was initiated into a traditional Gardnerian coven of Witches in 1981, became a Wiccan High Priestess in 1986, and has been teaching Wicca and running Pagan circles ever since. She is an author and lecturer on Wicca, Neo-Paganism, and related subjects, and has been a presenter at numberous festivals, including the Starwood Festival the WinterStar Symposium, Free Spirit Gathering, … - Ellen Evert Hopman
Ellen Evert Hopman, M.Ed., was born in Salzburg, Austria. She is an herbalist, lay homeopath, and counselor who lives and works in Western Massachusetts. She held the position of vice president of the Henge of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years, and is a professional member of the American Herbalist's Guild. She is the author of several books and audio tapes on Paganism and Druidry. She is Professor of Wortcunning at the Grey School of Wizardry, … - Phyllis Curott
Phyllis Curott is an Ivy-League lawyer, author, film-maker and public speaker in the field of world spirituality and religious rights. She received her B.A. in philosophy from Brown University and her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, and continues to practice law. A member of the Lady Liberty League (see Circle Sanctuary), Phyllis Curott is an outspoken advocate for Wiccan/Pagan religious freedom in the media and the courts. - Kerry Thornley
Kerry Wendell Thornley is perhaps best-known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism. In this context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, a name he derived from Omar Khayyám. He and Hill authored the religion's seminal text "Principia Discordia, or, how I found Goddess, and what I did to her when I found her." Less known is a series of "Zenarchy" articles, … - Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement. His reputation within hacker culture was established when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997 publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", Raymond became a high-profile representative of the open source movement, and is today one of its most recognized and controversial characters. - Freya Aswynn
Freya Aswynn the "nom de plume" of Elizabeth Hooijschuur (born in November 1949) is a Dutch neofolk & traditional folk musician, artist and neopagan author. - Leo Martello
Leo Martello (1931-2000) was an author, lecturer, gay civil rights activist, and an early voice in the American Neopagan movement. He drew heavily on his Sicilian heritage, teaching the Strega Tradition which was named after the Italian word for Witch. As a founder of the Witches Anti-Defamation League (later the Alternative Religions Education Network) he was known for his lively and sometimes confrontational style. - Gwydion Pendderwen
Thomas deLong (born Berkeley, California, 21 May 1946 - died 1982), better known as Gwydion Pendderwen, was an American musician, writer, poet and witch. Pendderwen became a student and "craft-son" to Victor Anderson and learned the Feri tradition of witchcraft from him. In addition to being credited with naming the tradition (originally spelled "Faery"), he wrote many poems and liturgical materials for the tradition, … - Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (b. Patricia Kennely March 4, 1946, Brooklyn) is an American author of rock criticism, nonfiction books and science fiction/fantasy novels. Most of her books are part of her series, "The Keltiad". She has also published in anthologies and periodicals. As first a writer and then the editor-in-chief of "Jazz and Pop" magazine in the late sixties, she was one of the first woman rock critics. - Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (born Diana Moore, formerly Morning Glory Zell) is a Neopagan poet, author, lecturer, and priestess. She is of Irish and Choctaw Indian ancestry. Her article "A Bouquet of Lovers", first published in "Green Egg" magazine in May 1990, contained one of the first modern English uses of the term "polyamory". She is an early and prominent member of the Neopagan Church of All Worlds, … - Paul Beyerl
Rev. Paul Beyerl, (pronounced "bye'-rul") born 1945 in Owen, Wisconsin, is known as an author and educator, and particularly as a Wiccan priest, in Wiccan and neopagan circles. - Barbara G. Walker
Barbara G. Walker (born July 2, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a U.S. author and feminist. She writes about religion, cultural anthropology, spirituality, and mythology from a Neopagan standpoint, believing in the existence of Pre-Indo-European neolithic matriarchies. She often uses the imagery of the Mother Goddess to discuss the belief of these Neolithic Matriarchies. Her most important book is "The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" (1983). - Sigrid Hunke
Sigrid Hunke (26 April 1913 - 15 June 1999) was a German author. She is known for her work in the field of religious studies. She was also an advocate of Nazi mysticism and neopaganism. Hunke joined the Germanistischer Wissenschafteinsatz, the German Sciences Service of the SS, the organization conceived of by Heinrich Himmler to oversee the Germanization of Northern Europe. - Danny Jorgensen
Danny Jorgensen, PhD. is a professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Florida. His research interests, as described in his personal page at that institution website, include Sociology of Culture, Knowledge, and Religion, Science and Religion, Cults and Sects, American Religion, Native American Religions, New Religions, Mormonism, Shakerism, Occultism, Neopaganism, Witchcraft, Scientology, and other. - Varg Vikernes
Varg Vikernes, born Kristian Vikernes on February 11, 1973, outside of Bergen, Norway, is a black metal musician currently imprisoned for the 1993 murder of Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth of Mayhem. Formerly known by the pen name "Count Grishnackh" (a reference to an Orc chieftain in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"), during the early days of black metal in Norway, Vikernes had a one-man music project Burzum, … - Else Christensen
Else Christensen (1913-2005), affectionately referred to as the "Folk Mother", was a pioneering Danish figure in the emergence of Asatru and Odinism in the Post-World War II Era. Else Ochsner was born in Esbjerg, Denmark in 1913, and met her husband Alex in 1937. She and her husband became syndicalist activists before the war and thus were under heavy scrutiny by Nazi occupation troops. - Guido von List
Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List, was a highly respected Austrian/German (Viennese) poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and "völkisch" author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic revivalism, Germanic mysticism, … - Alexander Rud Mills
Alexander Rud Mills (1885-1964) was a prominent Australian Odinist, and one of the earliest proponents of the rebirth of Germanic Neopaganism in the 20th Century. He was a published author, lecturer and Barrister. He founded the "First Anglecyn Church of Odin" in Melbourne in 1936. He was also known by the pen-name Tasman Forth. - Stephen McNallen
Stephen A. McNallen is an influential Germanic Neopagan leader and writer. Born in Breckenridge, Texas, McNallen has been heavily involved in Ásatrú since the 1970's. - Andrea M.
Andrea M. (Nebel) Haugen is an Germanic neopagan musician, writer and poet from Germany. She was married to Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen (aka Samoth) and has one daughter with him. She has also been known as Andrea Meyer, Andrea Hagen, and Andrea Meyer Hagen. - Aja
Aja (born Barbara Holder on July 14 1963 in Tampa, Florida, USA) is an American exotic dancer and porn star. She is sometimes credited as Lucia Luciano. Aja also works as a director of pornographic films and a fitness trainer. - Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson
Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, a native of Iceland, was a "goði", or Heathen priest. He was instrumental in helping to gain recognition by the Icelandic government for the pre-Christian Norse religion. The Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið ("Icelandic fellowship of Æsir faith"), which he founded, was officially recognised as a religious body in 1972. Sveinbjörn lived his entire life in West Iceland. - Haukur Halldórsson
Haukur Halldórsson a.k.a. "The Hawk" (born 1939) is an Icelandic painter and member of the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið. His first exhibition was in Reykjavík in 1978, and since then in Europe, in China and in the USA. His first exhibition was in Reykjavík 1978 and since then they have been nearly non-stop in all over the world. Haukur has for the past years traveled widely to examine art in China, various countries in Europe, … - Eberhard von Brockhusen
Eberhard von Brockhusen, died 1939, was a List society patron who lived at Langen in Brandenburg, Germany. It was to his manor house that Guido von List was travelling to when he died in the spring of 1919. He was the Grand Master of the Germanenorden and continued as President of the List Society until his death in 1939. - Peryt Shou
Peryt Shou (April 22, 1873 - October 24, 1953) was a German mysticist and Germanic revivalist. He was born the son of an innkeeper in Kroslin near Wolgast in Pommerania. Schultz studied in Berlin and devoted himself to poetry, painting and eventually the secret sciences. During the course of his career he authored some forty books, most of which have been forgotten and lost in obscurity. However, he remains one of the most important esotericists of the 20th century Germany. - Karl Maria Wiligut
Karl Maria Wiligut (alias Weisthor, Jarl Widar, Lobesam and Karl Maria Weisthor) (December 10, 1866 - January 3, 1946) was a major influence on Nazi mysticism and Germanic Neopaganism. He has been called "Himmler's Rasputin". - Karl Spiesberger
Karl Spiesberger, also formerly known as Frater Eratus or Fra Eratus (his mystico-magical name whilst a member of and involvement with the Fraternitas Saturni ('Brotherhood of Saturn')), is a German mysticist, occultist and Germanic revivalist. He is most well known for his revivalism and usage of the Sidereal Pendulum for divination and dowsing and Armanen Runes. - Ludwig Straniak
'Ludwig Straniak (born 1879-1951), was a German mystisist, Germanic revivalist and most notably a Pendulum dowser. He was an Architect and Astrologer and was used by the German military in the Third Reich, not nessesarily willingly. Two of the more well known mystisists, other than Straniak, used in the Third Reich by Walter Schellenberg through Heinrich Himmler, whom had a great deal of interest in Germanic mystisism and revivalism, were Dr. Wilhelm Gutberlet, … - Anonymous Spocker
Varg Skruvhorn - Christine
Graduate student in Religious & Theological Studies at Boston University. Neopagan seeking a traditon with a continuing (academic?) interest in liberal Christianity. Spiritual, intellectual, group-oriented, intense, with a sense of humor. I make good coffee conversation and I welcome invitations! http://www.inhumandecency.org/christine;. - Gerald Vance
I love surfing and Vegas parties $$$. Friendship and spirituality are paramount. People like to think of themselves as open minded but I am open to almost all forms of music,art and ideas. I am currently drawing and writing a futuristic graphic novel about Mercenaries, Bounty Hunters and Assassins in space. I am also working on a story about vampires. - Greycat
If I was a Tarot card I'd be the Fool --meaning that I'm perpetually clueless in an innocent sort of way and yet I sometimes manage to be wise beyond my years... I'm a penta- Scorpio (daisy chain conjunction of Sun, Moon, Uranus, Venus and Pallas in 7th & 8th house Scorpio). These days am mostly hanging out on LJ since it has much better content and social interactivity. I have an RSS feed set up which will take you to my LJ account, if it interests you. - Amanda
UNREQUITED LOVE CAN KILL...so yea ive been doin a lot of thinkin,and ive realized my whole life ive been waitin for someone to come, someone that would love me and then everything would be alright, i believed that my dreams would come true and i would be truely happy, but my eyes have finally opened and ive realized ive been dreaming for to long...
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