- Starhawk
Starhawk (born Miriam Simos in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 17, 1951) is an American writer, activist, anarchist and witch. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with Reclaiming, a tradition of Witchcraft that she co-founded in the late 1970s. She is internationally known as a trainer in nonviolence and direct action, … - Raymond Buckland
Raymond Buckland (b. 1934), according to his written works, was the first person in the United States to openly admit to being a practitioner of Wicca. In 1963 Buckland had his first and only meeting with Gerald Gardner and was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca which he introduced to the United States in 1964. Though he began as a supporter of Gardnerian Wicca, he later formed his own tradition dubbed Seax-Wica. - 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. - 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. - Gavin Bone
Gavin Bone is an author and lecturer in the fields of magic, witchcraft, Wicca and Neo-Paganism, and an organizer in the Neo-Pagan community. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire in England, in 1964. He trained as a registered nurse and has studied complimentary healing methods such as reflexology. He was initiated into Seax-Wicca in 1986. He is currently developing the theory that Wicca "may have" some roots in tribal shamanistic healing traditions, … - T. Thorn Coyle
T. Thorn Coyle is a San Francisco-based author and teacher in the Feri Tradition. She also teaches in the Reclaiming tradition. Coyle is author of "Evolutionary Witchcraft", published by Tarcher/Penguin, 2004. The book offers exercises and meditations from the Feri Tradition as tools for personal growth and empowerment. She has also recorded two Pagan rock CDs, "Face of a New Day" and "Give us a Kiss!", as well as an instructional DVD, … - Yvonne Frost
Yvonne Frost is a Wiccan author, lecturer, and practitioner from Los Angeles. Together with her husband Gavin Frost, she founded the Church and School of Wicca in 1968. She has co-written many books with him, and appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, PM Magazine, and Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show. Together, they lead workshops at many events in the Neo-Pagan community such as Stones Rising, Sirius Rising, Pagan Pride Day, and the Starwood Festival. - 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, … - Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson (born 1943) is a writer, primarily of fantasy and historical fiction novels, short stories and non-fiction about pagan and heathen religion and practice. In addition to her multiple novels and collaborations, she has written over seventy short stories. Her best-known works are the Westria novels and books in the Avalon series, which she took over from Marion Zimmer Bradley. - Victor Anderson
Victor Henry Anderson (born May 21, 1917, in Clayton, New Mexico - died September 20, 2001) was an award-winning poet, a Kahuna, a leader of the American Neopagan movement, and the seminal teacher of the Feri Tradition (sometimes spelled "Fairy", "Faery" or "Faerie"). An accident early in life left him nearly blind. He was the renowned author of the "Thorns of the Blood Rose", … - Fiona Horne
Fiona Horne (born 1966) is an Australian singer, rock musician, model, actor, author and witch. She is most famous for her public promotion of witchcraft and as the singer in Australian band Def FX. She has also written several books on witchcraft. Horne is also a regular on the Hamish and Andy weekday drive program on the Austereo radio network. As part of the "Get Us an Autograph Segment", … - Marian Green
Marian Green is an author who has been working in the field of ceremonial and folk magic since the early 1960s. She has also organised a conference in London every March since 1968 to bring together writers and their readers, the Quest Conference. She has written more than a dozen books on ceremonial magic and aspects of witchcraft as well as editing "QUEST" magazine since 1970. She is a council member of the Pagan Federation and has also been editor of Pagan Dawn. - Anodea Judith
Anodea Judith (born Judith Ann Mull, December 1, 1952, Elyria, Ohio) is an American author, therapist, public speaker and expert on the Chakra system, bodymind (body/mind integration), somatic therapy, and Yoga. Judith is best known as the author of "Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System". Judith's academic background includes a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Rosebridge School of Integrative Therapy, … - 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, … - Yasmine Galenorn
Yasmine Galenorn is a pagan author, mystery and paranormal romance/dark fantasy novelist. She is best known for her "Sisters of the Moon" series. She writes several series for Berkley, and has also written eight books on modern paganism, the most popular of which is "Embracing the Moon"." She's been active in the Craft since 1980, though she is not Wiccan. Yasmine Galenorn also writes under the pen name "India Ink". - 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, … - David Lane
David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 - May 28, 2007) was an American white nationalist leader and author. A founding member of The Order, he died while serving a 190-year prison sentence in the Federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lane was a prominent figure in the White nationalist movement, seen by many as a political prisoner and a P.O.W.. He coined the 14 words, a white nationalist credo. - John Opsopaus
Dr. John Opsopaus has practiced magic and divination since the 1960s. His fiction has included a variety of hymns, poetry, and prose and his non-fiction works have featured rituals, translations, divination systems, and essays. His writings have been published in over thirty various magical and Neo-Pagan magazines including Traditions Magazine. Opsopaus designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive "Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot" (Llewellyn, 2001). - Jeff Rosenbaum
Jeff Rosenbaum (b. 1955) is an American organization director, record producer, writer, and musician from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He holds a B.A. degree in sociology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is best known for leading the Association for Consciousness Exploration LLC (ACE). In 1983 Rosenbaum co-founded the Association for Consciousness Exploration LLC (ACE), an organization based in Cleveland Heights, … - 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. - Lady Rhea
Lady Rhea has been a Wiccan High Priestess in the Gardnerian tradition since 1972. She is known as the "Witch Queen of New York" and has been an occult shop owner since 1982, when she opened Enchantments Inc. with Lady Miw (aka Carol Bulzone). In 1992, Lady Rhea opened Magickal Realms (Enchanted Candle Shoppe Inc.) in Greenwich Village, later relocating to The Bronx, where she co-operates the shop with Lady Zoradia. - Richard Payne Knight
Richard Payne Knight (15 February 1750 - 23 April 1824) was a classical scholar and connoisseur best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery. He was born at Wormesley Grange in Herefordshire, UK, the grandson and heir to Richard Knight, a wealthy Shropshire ironmaster. He was educated at home, but toured Italy and the European continent from 1767 for several years. He was a collector of ancient bronzes and coins, … - Stephan Grundy
Dr. Stephan Downs (born 1967 in New York, USA) is an American author. Being versed in particularly the Germanic mythology and cultural history, Grundy is known best for his modern adaptations of legendary sagas. - Cree Summer
Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969), best known as Cree Summer, is a American-born Canadian actress, musician, and Emmy Award nominated voice actress. She has adopted a neo-pagan lifestyle for most of her adult life. - Jaq D. Hawkins
"Jaq D. Hawkins" (born 27 October 1956), is a noted British occultist, author, and lecturer on chaos magic, who also has used the pseudonym Mark Chao. Hawkins also founded Goblin Films Limited in response to the need to produce her fantasy novel, Dance of the Goblins, into a film. - Ann Forfreedom
Ann Forfreedom is a feminist artist from Dimond District, Oakland, California. She ran a feminist periodical "The Wise Woman" since 1980 and during the 1990s became Executive Director of the Institute for Feminist Studies in San Francisco. Her two key researches were: * Great Goddess!, presenting goddess images from across the globe. * Rediscovering Maryland's 1794 Justice and Liberty State Seal She founded Dianic Feminist Wicce, … - Brooke Medicine Eagle
Brooke Medicine Eagle Edwards is a Native American author and ecologist. A noted figure in neo-pagan circles, Brooke Medicine Eagle is more well-known for her ritual healing work based upon personal interpretations of native America traditions. She is based in Montana, where she lives with her partner Sunny Baba. Although of mixed heritage, she is of the Montana Crow Indian lineage, and attributes that lineage to her spiritual inspiration. - Laurence Galian
Laurence Galian (Abdullah Muzaffer) is a Sheikh of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order and was initiated a dervish of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order from Istanbul, Turkey by the Grand Sheikh Muzafferuddin "Ashki" Ozak. He is also is an Initiated Wiccan Priest of the Welsh Tradition and holds the title of Seanachie from the Temple of Danaan. Laurence is the author of 2 books on spiritual subjects. He has been a frequent presenter at the Starwood Festival, … - Gleb Botkin
Gleb Evgenievich Botkin, (1900 - December 1969), was the son of Dr. Eugene Botkin, the court physician who was murdered at Ekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks with Tsar Nicholas II and his family on July 17, 1918. In later years, Botkin became a lifelong advocate of Anna Anderson, whom he believed to be the surviving Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. In 1938 he founded his own neopagan church, The Church of Aphrodite, … - Otto Gross
Dr Otto Gross (1877-1920) was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community. His father Hans Gross was a judge turned pioneering criminologist. Otto initially collaborated with him, and then turned against his determinist ideas on character. A champion of an early form of anti-psychiatry and sexual liberation, … - Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins (born 1938) is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper "It Ain't Me, Babe", with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled "It Ain't Me Babe". - Victoria Ganger
Victoria Ganger (b. 1955) is an American singer, guitarist, recording artist and songwriter. She attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where she was a part of a comedy troupe called FoxPaw, and appeared on the album FoxPaw: a Social Blunder. She is a ground-breaker in the Neo-Pagan community, and one of the first widely-recognized Bards in the Society for Creative Anachronism. - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson also known as HÖH, is an accomplished musician, an art director, and "allsherjargoði" ("chief goði") of the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið (Icelandic Ásatrú Association). Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson was a pioneer in the use of computers when composing music and cleared the path for new ideas in recording and arrangements. He has worked on ambitious, experimental and original projects with various musicians, … - Miriam Chamani
Priestess Miriam Chamani is the Mombo (Mother/Priestess) of the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple and, with her husband Voodoo Priest Oswan Chamani, a founder of the temple. "Mother" or "Mombo" Miriam, as she is also known, was ordained a bishop in the "Angel Angel All Nations Spiritual Church" prior to her marriage. Upon his death on March 6, 1995, Miriam Chamani continued her husband's Belizan Vodou and herbalism traditions in addition to her own spiritualist practices, … - Gustav Frenssen
Gustav Frenssen was a German novelist born in the village of Barlt, in Schleswig-Holstein. He wrote patriotically about his native country and promoted Heimatkunst (regionalism) in literature. In two different villages he worked as a pastor from 1890 to 1902. In his later years he abandoned Christianity because Christian morales were in conflict with his blatant racism. - Z'Ev
Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser, at 7:58 a.m. on February 8, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American text-sound artist who is perhaps best known for his work as a catacoustic (reflected sound-based) percussionist. z'ev requests that people note that either Z'EV or z'ev are acceptable typographies for his "brand name" (context depending), but that Z'ev most emphatically is not. - Oberon Zell Ravenheart
Venerend Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (formerly known as Otter G'Zell, born Timothy Zell) (on November 30, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a co-founder with R. Lance Christie of the Church of All Worlds (CAW) on April 7, 1962, serving as both High Priest and also Primate of the church for many years, and a leading figure in the Neo-Pagan religious community. He holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Westminster College in Fulton, … - Jack Davis
Jack Davis is a member of the Radical Faeries, a Pagan group who often does Wicca rituals with anarchist overtones. - Marinus Of Neapolis
Marinus was neo-Platonist philosopher born in Neapolis (modern Nablus), Palestine in the mid 5th century CE. He was probably a Samaritan, or possibly a Jew. He came to Athens at a time when, with the exception of Proclus, there was a great dearth of eminent men in the neo-Platonic school. It was for this reason rather than for any striking ability of his own that he succeeded to the headship of the school on the death of Proclus in 485. - Paulo
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