FREE SHIPPING on Orders of $40 or More!
The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism
This is the stranger-than-fiction story of two soul mates who rejected the status quo and embraced higher ideals...and had a whole lot of fun while they were at it. Reclaiming Pagan as a spiritual identity—and living in an open marriage for over four decades—Oberon and Morning Glory Zell truly embody the freedom to think, to love, and to live.

Telling the stories of their singular lives in this unique oral history, Oberon and Morning Glory—together with a colorful tribe of friends, lovers, musicians, homesteaders, researchers, and ritualists—reveal how they established the Church of All Worlds, revitalized Goddess worship, discovered the Gaea Thesis, raised real Unicorns, connected a worldwide community through Green Egg magazine, searched for mermaids in the South Pacific, and founded the influential Grey School of Wizardry.

Join Morning Glory and Oberon as they share the highs and lows of their extraordinary lives, and explore the role they played in shaping the community of Witches and Pagans that thrives in the world today.

Includes a 16-page color photo insert.

1300694800
The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism
This is the stranger-than-fiction story of two soul mates who rejected the status quo and embraced higher ideals...and had a whole lot of fun while they were at it. Reclaiming Pagan as a spiritual identity—and living in an open marriage for over four decades—Oberon and Morning Glory Zell truly embody the freedom to think, to love, and to live.

Telling the stories of their singular lives in this unique oral history, Oberon and Morning Glory—together with a colorful tribe of friends, lovers, musicians, homesteaders, researchers, and ritualists—reveal how they established the Church of All Worlds, revitalized Goddess worship, discovered the Gaea Thesis, raised real Unicorns, connected a worldwide community through Green Egg magazine, searched for mermaids in the South Pacific, and founded the influential Grey School of Wizardry.

Join Morning Glory and Oberon as they share the highs and lows of their extraordinary lives, and explore the role they played in shaping the community of Witches and Pagans that thrives in the world today.

Includes a 16-page color photo insert.

24.99 Out Of Stock
The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism

The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism

The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism
Add to Wishlist
The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism

The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism

Overview

This is the stranger-than-fiction story of two soul mates who rejected the status quo and embraced higher ideals...and had a whole lot of fun while they were at it. Reclaiming Pagan as a spiritual identity—and living in an open marriage for over four decades—Oberon and Morning Glory Zell truly embody the freedom to think, to love, and to live.

Telling the stories of their singular lives in this unique oral history, Oberon and Morning Glory—together with a colorful tribe of friends, lovers, musicians, homesteaders, researchers, and ritualists—reveal how they established the Church of All Worlds, revitalized Goddess worship, discovered the Gaea Thesis, raised real Unicorns, connected a worldwide community through Green Egg magazine, searched for mermaids in the South Pacific, and founded the influential Grey School of Wizardry.

Join Morning Glory and Oberon as they share the highs and lows of their extraordinary lives, and explore the role they played in shaping the community of Witches and Pagans that thrives in the world today.

Includes a 16-page color photo insert.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738714820
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date: 02/08/2014
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John C. Sulak (San Francisco, CA) is co-author of Modern Pagans. Inspired by journalists like Studs Terkel, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Legs McNeil, it was his idea and calling to tell The Wizard and the Witch in the oral history format.


Carl Llewellyn Weschcke (Minnesota) was the owner and chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide, the world's oldest and largest metaphysical publisher. He played a seminal role in the rise of Wicca and Neo-Paganism in the 1960s and 1970s and has been called "the father of New Age" for his public sponsorship of occult subjects. Weschcke also served as the 7th Past Grand Master Ordo Aurum Solis.


Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (Cotati, CA) is a co-founder of the Church of All Worlds (1967), founded Green Egg magazine (1968), is the founder and headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry, and has written or co-written six books on Neopaganism. A regular at Starwood Festival and INATS, Oberon has appeared in The Daily Mail, Witches & Pagans, PanGaia, and on the radio and television programs Coast to Coast AM and Hidden America.


Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (Cotati, CA) is a Witch, Priestess, and Goddess historian. A published poet, songwriter, and author, she was an acknowledged consultant for Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon.

Table of Contents

Foreword Carl Llewellyn Weschcke xi

Introduction John C. Sulak 1

"Talking My Walk" Oberon 5

"Living Out Loud" Morning Glory 7

Part 1 The Early Life of Tim Zell

Chapter 1 A Changeling Child (1942-1961) 11

Chapter 2 Sharing Water (1961-1965) 27

Chapter 3 The Church of All Worlds (1965-1969) 43

Chapter 4 "TheaGenesis" (1968-1970) 59

Chapter 5 Cross-Pollinating (1970-1971) 73

Chapter 6 West Coast Connections (1972-1973) 85

Part 2 Enter Morning Glory

Chapter 7 Good Morning Glory (1948-1973) 103

Chapter 8 Cosmic Convergence (1973-1976) 121

Chapter 9 The Magick Land (1976-1979) 139

Chapter 10 The Return of the Unicorn (1975-1991) 159

Chapter 11 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1977-1985) 183

Chapter 12 The Hunting of the Ri (1983-1985) 201

Part 3 Back in the Real World

Chapter 13 The Old Same Place (1985-1986) 217

Chapter 14 Between the Worlds (1986-1987) 233

Chapter 15 Circles and Ceremonies (1986 and beyond) 245

Chapter 16 Green Egg: The Next Generation and Mythic Images (1988-1993) 257

Chapter 17 A Bouquet of Lovers (1991-1994) 271

Chapter 18 The Ravenhearts (the 1990s) 289

Part 4 The Demise of the CAW

Chapter 19 Tribulations and Transformations, Part 1-The Shadow Side of a Sex-Positive Religion 311

Chapter 20 Tribulations and Transformations, Part 2-The Night the Magick Died 329

Chapter 21 The Valentine Michael Ranch (1997-1999) and Shady Grove (1999-2005) 341

Chapter 22 The Phoenix Arises (2005-2009) 363

Afterword: The Making of This Epic Story by Elysia Gallo 381

Appendix I Brief Timeline 383

Appendix II Cast of Characters 389

Acknowledgments 399

Morning Glory and Oberon Bibliography 403

From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Related Subjects

Self-Help & Relationships
New Age & Alternative Beliefs
History
New Age & Alternative Beliefs - General & Miscellaneous
World History
Witchcraft & Magic
Americas - General & Miscellaneous History
Alternate Beliefs & Spirituality - Reference
New Age
North America - History - General & Miscellaneous
Witchcraft, Wicca & Paganism - Historical
Self-Help & Relationships
New Age & Alternative Beliefs
History
New Age & Alternative Beliefs - General & Miscellaneous
World History
Witchcraft & Magic
Americas - General & Miscellaneous History
Alternate Beliefs & Spirituality - Reference
New Age
North America - History - General & Miscellaneous
Witchcraft, Wicca & Paganism - Historical

Customer Reviews