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Samuel Wagar

About Samuel Wagar

I'm a Wiccan Priest (since 1985), chaplain at University of Alberta (since 2014), doctoral candidate in Ministry/theology at St. Stephen's College. Author of "I Know Know Where the Bodies are Buried: A Memoir, 1956-2011" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace, 2014) "Growing Wiccan Temples and Leaders: Temple Organization and Leadership Development in a Mission-Centred Wiccan Movement" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace 2012) "The Uses of Ecstasy: Ritual and Practical Mysticism in Wicca" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace 2012) "Creating Lore, Writing Ritual" (Obscure Pagan Press / Createspace 2012) Edited and provided an introduction and recommended reading appendix to "Adelphon Kruptos - the Secret Work of the Knights of Labor 1886 " (Washington DC: Westphalia Press, 2016) Compiled and wrote seven editions of a "Directory to Canadian Pagan Resources" , and edited "A Pagan Teen Survival Guide" (Obscure Pagan Press 1998). I have sixteen academic publications in theology, sociology of religion and Wicca. I'm the father of two adult sons and a mead-maker. I have a drum but rarely play it, love dancing naked around the fire at Pagan events. I've been reading Tarot for forty years.

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Temple Clergy Training Outline

There is a difference between being a Priestess or Priest and... read more

Ritual for Others and Community, Ritual Tools

During the course of working through this series of posts, and through... read more

On the Egregore, Group Minds, and the Conscious...

Groups that consciously choose to create on the spiritual level together and that... read more

Ritual Problem-solving, Art, Magic, Creating Community

Ritual takes memory out of our heads and our individual subjectivity and... read more

Changing Complementarity Theology in Wicca

Complementarian theology which argues that women and men have “separate but equal”... read more

Ritual As Power

Power relationships in ritual are explicit during their performance - some have... read more

Festival Season Reconciliation

I usually only head out to my temple’s members-only religious retreat... read more

Ritual of Life-Passages

Rituals of life stages, often called rites of transition or rites of... read more

"What's done in the dark will be brought...

How can we build lasting religious community, except by beginning with a... read more

Ritual and Transformation

In ritual we take an ordinary time and place, and place it... read more

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