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August 2018

August 05, 2018

An Overview of My Life and the Craft

I did appreciate Jason Mankey listing me yesterday as one of the most influential living...

August 05, 2017

Our Experiment in Religious Engineering

That’s what Geoff Baldwin called it, as our Neighborhood annual picnic evolved into A Pagan...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Announcing: Songs for the Gods and Witches

As I have said before, I am primarily a poet, not a preacher or prophet....

April 2016

April 23, 2016

The Art of Creating Religion. Part I

I am willing to entertain the nondisprovable hypothesis that our religions are inspired by the...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

About Fragments as Materials for Art

Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage, which I have now released through the...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Lenin, State and Revolution, the One Percent, and Me

In June of 1963, I wrote my first Goddess ritual, for the wedding of my...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

My Gnostic, Heretical Books Are Available on Amazon

Being far more focused on completing the five (at least) current books I am working...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Trekking Toward Nineveh, Mile One

I have finally, step by step, been forced to realize what I must do. Since...

November 2014

November 16, 2014

Reconnecting, Perhaps, with the Radical Left

Somehow Melinda got sent an invite to the Tacoma Free Skool's first organizing meeting. Since...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

A Note on the Creating of Religion

I know Philip Heselton hoped to find (but did not assume that he would) evidence...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

A Report on Life and Writing

I’m 73, and have been writing since about age ten. I live in Tacoma with...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America, Volume I is now available on Amazon

It was not easy figuring out how to write this book. The chronological structure (the...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Autobiography by Email: More from Demian Allan Moonbloode

I have been a wytch since I was 14 years old. I was searching for...

April 2013

April 12, 2013

Aporrheton5: The Laws of Magic (Revised), Part III

[Yes, this is the third and last part, for now.] 9. You must not betray...

April 11, 2013

Aporrheton 5: The Laws of Magic (Revised), Part II

Information on magic, psychic talents, and necessary precursors for a successful magical working group.

April 10, 2013

Aporrheton 5: The Laws of Magic (Revised), Part I

In the early 1970s I wrote a series of “Flying Scrolls” for internal use in...

April 04, 2013

Some New Pages for the Book of Shadows

A Daily Litany for the Lady. To be said at sunrise, or on rising in...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

On the Necessity of Awakening

I have settled on the term Awakening as the best label so far for this...

March 15, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, VII: A Church for Witches

After the second Pagan Ecumenical Council meeting in June 1974, Gwydion and I continued to...

March 07, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part V, 1974-1975

As I mentioned, many important changes took place in 1973 within at least half a...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

“History” — Part I

In December 1963 I had a spontaneous series of altered states that lasted for about...

February 17, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Council of Earth Religions and the Green Egg Yellow Pages

[I apologize to my dedicated readers. It has been rough. I plan to resume posting...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Post-Doctoral Witchcraft (or something like that)

I am thinking about how to teach what I actually know, which is far more...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Preview of “The Letter to Theophilus”

The "Gnostics" were radically dualistic and radically ascetic, but they were not the only variety...

December 21, 2012

A Brief History of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, Part II

By February 1973 only five people had survived the year of training in the Spiral...

December 17, 2012

A Brief History of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, Part I

Aidan Kelly gives a general overview of NROOGD to set the stage for explaining the...

December 16, 2012

Goddess Murder

My novel Goddess Murder is essentially a love story, about the romance between a college...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part VI: Religion as Ecstasy

The woman whom I named Lilith has been my friend for more than forty years...

June 29, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part V: Toward the Divine Sexuality

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the...

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