Phyllis Curott
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Phyllis Curott is a Wicca
n priestess, attorney, and author http://www.templeofara.org/phyllis.htm.
-atheist
, socially liberal intellectuals who encouraged her to make her own decisions regarding theology
but taught her to adhere to the Golden Rule
. Her father, who had gone to work at sea aged twelve, worked as a trade union
organizer, whilst her mother, who had come from a wealthy and well-educated background, was a diplomat involved in the civil rights movement
for racial equality in the United States.
Curott went on to gain a Bachelor of Arts
in Philosophy
from Brown University
before going on to study for a Juris Doctor
from New York University School of Law
.
when she came to believe that she was experiencing psychic
phenomenon, primarily through premonitions, later commenting that "My sixth sense
had begun with small things - like knowing that the phone was going to ring before it did. And then knowing who was on the other end of the line." She developed a preoccupation with the Ancient Egyptian goddess Isis
, leading her to visit the Egyptian collections in New York museums and to read E.A. Wallis Budge's translation of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, which contained stories of Isis and her consort, the god Osiris
. Around the same time, she became interested in quantam physics and the idea that there is an underlying reality of interconnected quantum matter throughout the universe after reading books in the library which dealt with the subject.
Following the completion of her course, she subsequently left New York and moved to Washington D.C., where she was employed in a job that involved legally challenging the corrupt criminal elements within the trade unions. As she would later relate, "I was determined to help make a difference for those who lived in the shadow of the American dream
", however within a year the office that she worked for was shut down in a merger of reform organisations, and she was made redundant. Returning to New York City, she took up residence in a small studio apartment, and got another job in a legal firm dealing with unionism. Meanwhile, she had begun to socialize in the city's rock clubs like CBGB's and Max's Kansas City
, and eventually agreed to become a manager for a rock band.
It was through this line of work that she met a woman whom she would later refer to as Sophia, who also managed a band and who was a self-professed white witch
. She explained to Curott all about her faith, which was Wicca
, although noted that she preferred to operate as a solitary practitioner rather than within a coven
.
Curott began her career as the Legal Director of PROD/Teamsters for a Democratic Union
, a rank-and file organization fighting racketeering within the Teamsters Union. She also served as the organization's Health and Safety Director. She was later the Legal Director for the Association for Union Democracy and an associate with the well known entertainment law firm of Weiss, Meibach and Bomser. Curott practices law in the state of New York.
Pluralism Project's Consultation on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation, and a member of the Clergy Advisory Board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives
. She has addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions
in 1993 and 2004 as a keynote speaker, along with the Dalai Lama
. She is an outspoken advocate for the religious liberties of Wicca
and other religious minorities in the media and the courts. She won the right of Wiccan clergy to perform legally binding marriages and rituals in public parks and has consulted on numerous religious liberties cases.
As a member of the United Nations
’ NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Curott participated in the planning of the United Nations
' Beijing
Forum on the Status of Women, addressing the Forum on the topic of religion and the status of women. She is a member of the Interfaith Alliance, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union
(she served on the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Civil Liberties Union while attending Brown University), and the Lady Liberty League
. She is one of the organizers of an international interfaith effort to save the life of Fawza Falih
, a Saudi woman who was sentenced to beheading for "witchcraft".
n congregations in America, a shamanic tradition dedicated to the experience and ethics of immanent divinity. She is a President Emerita of Covenant of the Goddess
. She has also served as a frequent guest minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. She is the author of three books on witchcraft
and goddess worship
. Curott has lectured and taught at the Learning Annex in New York and at Neo-Pagan and interfaith events.
. One of these, New Year's Day, was the only American film selected for the Venice Film Festival
in 1989. She has written and directed several short films that have been screened at the Cannes
and Sundance
Film Festivals. Her work has been featured in the documentary Many Paths, One Source, and the Beliefnet video feature Preachers & Teachers.
magazine, along with Hillary Clinton, as one of the "Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year". She was described by New York Magazine
as one of contemporary culture's hippest and most cutting-edge intellectuals. Her first memoir, Book of Shadows, was an international best-seller, and was described by Deepak Chopra as "A modern-day Persephone myth full of magic and mystery. [It] transcends the bounds of its genre."
, Marie Claire
, Cosmopolitan
, Self, Good Day America, The View, The O’Reilly Factor, Anderson Cooper 360°
, CNN
& Company, Lifetime Television
, The Roseanne Show
, Oxygen, Court TV
, NPR
's Talk of the Nation
, The New York Times
, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post
, Chicago Sun-Times
, USA Today
, The Times
, Oggi (Rome), The Toronto Sun, The Sunday Telegraph
(Sydney), and many others.
Wicca
Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...
n priestess, attorney, and author http://www.templeofara.org/phyllis.htm.
Early life
Her parents were agnosticAgnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
-atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, socially liberal intellectuals who encouraged her to make her own decisions regarding theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
but taught her to adhere to the Golden Rule
Golden Rule
Golden Rule may refer to:*The Golden Rule in ethics, morality, history and religion, also known as the ethic of reciprocity*Golden Rule savings rate, in economics, the savings rate which maximizes consumption in the Solow growth model...
. Her father, who had gone to work at sea aged twelve, worked as a trade union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
organizer, whilst her mother, who had come from a wealthy and well-educated background, was a diplomat involved in the civil rights movement
Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was...
for racial equality in the United States.
Curott went on to gain a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
before going on to study for a Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
from New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
.
Introduction to Wicca
In 1978, Curott was studying for her final year at New York University School of LawNew York University School of Law
The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
when she came to believe that she was experiencing psychic
Psychic
A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
phenomenon, primarily through premonitions, later commenting that "My sixth sense
Sixth sense
Sixth sense may refer to:* Extrasensory perception , commonly called the sixth sense* Equilibrioception , the commonly accepted sixth physiological sense* SixthSense, a wearable gestural interface...
had begun with small things - like knowing that the phone was going to ring before it did. And then knowing who was on the other end of the line." She developed a preoccupation with the Ancient Egyptian goddess Isis
Isis
Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
, leading her to visit the Egyptian collections in New York museums and to read E.A. Wallis Budge's translation of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, which contained stories of Isis and her consort, the god Osiris
Osiris
Osiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
. Around the same time, she became interested in quantam physics and the idea that there is an underlying reality of interconnected quantum matter throughout the universe after reading books in the library which dealt with the subject.
Following the completion of her course, she subsequently left New York and moved to Washington D.C., where she was employed in a job that involved legally challenging the corrupt criminal elements within the trade unions. As she would later relate, "I was determined to help make a difference for those who lived in the shadow of the American dream
American Dream
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States in which freedom includes a promise of the possibility of prosperity and success. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each...
", however within a year the office that she worked for was shut down in a merger of reform organisations, and she was made redundant. Returning to New York City, she took up residence in a small studio apartment, and got another job in a legal firm dealing with unionism. Meanwhile, she had begun to socialize in the city's rock clubs like CBGB's and Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City
Max's Kansas City was a nightclub and restaurant at 213 Park Avenue South, in New York City, which was a gathering spot for musicians, poets, artists and politicians in the 1960s and 1970s.-Origin of name:...
, and eventually agreed to become a manager for a rock band.
It was through this line of work that she met a woman whom she would later refer to as Sophia, who also managed a band and who was a self-professed white witch
White witch
White witch and good witch are qualifying terms in English used to distinguish practitioners of folk magic for benevolent purposes from practitioners of malevolent witchcraft...
. She explained to Curott all about her faith, which was Wicca
Wicca
Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...
, although noted that she preferred to operate as a solitary practitioner rather than within a coven
Coven
A coven or covan is a name used to describe a gathering of witches or in some cases vampires. Due to the word's association with witches, a gathering of Wiccans, followers of the witchcraft-based neopagan religion of Wicca, is also described as a coven....
.
Curott began her career as the Legal Director of PROD/Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Teamsters for a Democratic Union is a rank-and-file union democracy movement organizing to reform the International Brotherhood of Teamsters , or Teamsters. TDU was created out of the merger of the Professional Drivers Council and TDU in 1979...
, a rank-and file organization fighting racketeering within the Teamsters Union. She also served as the organization's Health and Safety Director. She was later the Legal Director for the Association for Union Democracy and an associate with the well known entertainment law firm of Weiss, Meibach and Bomser. Curott practices law in the state of New York.
Religious activism
A global interfaith activist, Curott is a Trustee of the Council for the Parliament of the World's Religions and serves on its Executive Committee, has served as a member of the Assembly of World Religious Leaders, was a participant in the Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
Pluralism Project's Consultation on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation, and a member of the Clergy Advisory Board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives
Network of Spiritual Progressives
The Network of Spiritual Progressives is an international political and social justice movement based in the United States that seeks to influence American politics towards more humane, progressive values. The organization also challenges what it perceives as the misuse of religion by political...
. She has addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions
Parliament of the World's Religions
There have been several meetings referred to as a Parliament of the World’s Religions, most notably the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, the first attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths. The event was celebrated by another conference on its centenary in 1993...
in 1993 and 2004 as a keynote speaker, along with the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
. She is an outspoken advocate for the religious liberties of Wicca
Wicca
Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...
and other religious minorities in the media and the courts. She won the right of Wiccan clergy to perform legally binding marriages and rituals in public parks and has consulted on numerous religious liberties cases.
As a member of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
’ NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Curott participated in the planning of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
' Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
Forum on the Status of Women, addressing the Forum on the topic of religion and the status of women. She is a member of the Interfaith Alliance, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and...
(she served on the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Civil Liberties Union while attending Brown University), and the Lady Liberty League
Circle Sanctuary
Circle Sanctuary is a non-profit organization and legally recognized Wiccan Church based in southwestern Wisconsin, USA. Circle is the publisher of Circle Magazine, which has approximately 15,000 subscribers...
. She is one of the organizers of an international interfaith effort to save the life of Fawza Falih
Fawza Falih
Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali was a Saudi woman who made international headlines after she was condemned to death for practicing witchcraft in 2006. In April 2011, Saudi authorities reported that she had died in 2010....
, a Saudi woman who was sentenced to beheading for "witchcraft".
Spirituality
Curott is a High Priestess and the founder and President of the Temple of Ara, one of the oldest WiccaWicca
Wicca , is a modern Pagan religious movement. Developing in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by a Wiccan High Priest named Gerald Gardner, who at the time called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft," and its adherents "the Wica."...
n congregations in America, a shamanic tradition dedicated to the experience and ethics of immanent divinity. She is a President Emerita of Covenant of the Goddess
Covenant of the Goddess
The Covenant of the Goddess is a cross-traditional Wiccan group of solitary Wiccan practitioners and over one hundred affiliated covens . It was founded in 1975 in order to increase co-operation among Witches and to secure for Witches and covens the legal protection enjoyed by members of other...
. She has also served as a frequent guest minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. She is the author of three books on witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
and goddess worship
Goddess worship
Goddess worship may be*the cult of any goddess in polytheistic religions*worship of a Great Goddess on a henotheistic or monotheistic or duotheistic basis**Hindu Shaktism**the neopagan Goddess movement**Wicca**Dianic Wicca...
. Curott has lectured and taught at the Learning Annex in New York and at Neo-Pagan and interfaith events.
Film
Curott studied filmmaking at NYU, and produced several independent films with noted director Henry JaglomHenry Jaglom
- Life and career :Born January 26, 1941 in London, England to Simon and Marie Jaglom, Henry Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s...
. One of these, New Year's Day, was the only American film selected for the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
in 1989. She has written and directed several short films that have been screened at the Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
and Sundance
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
Film Festivals. Her work has been featured in the documentary Many Paths, One Source, and the Beliefnet video feature Preachers & Teachers.
Tributes
She was honored by JaneJane (magazine)
Jane was an American magazine created to appeal to the women who grew up reading Sassy Magazine, both of which had Jane Pratt as founding editor. Its original target audience was aged 18–34, and was designed to appeal to women who are irreverent...
magazine, along with Hillary Clinton, as one of the "Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year". She was described by New York Magazine
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
as one of contemporary culture's hippest and most cutting-edge intellectuals. Her first memoir, Book of Shadows, was an international best-seller, and was described by Deepak Chopra as "A modern-day Persephone myth full of magic and mystery. [It] transcends the bounds of its genre."
Media
Curott has been widely profiled in national and international media including New York Magazine, Harper's BazaarHarper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...
, Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...
, Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
, Self, Good Day America, The View, The O’Reilly Factor, Anderson Cooper 360°
Anderson Cooper 360°
Anderson Cooper 360° is a one-hour television news show on CNN, hosted by the American journalist Anderson Cooper. It is also broadcast around the world on CNN International....
, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
& Company, Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...
, The Roseanne Show
The Roseanne Show
The Roseanne Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by American actress Roseanne Barr following the end of her long-running sitcom. The show featured Roseanne interviewing a mixture of quirky guests along with Roseanne's signature style of brassy, in-your-face, domestic goddess comedy.The Roseanne...
, Oxygen, Court TV
Court TV
truTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...
, NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
's Talk of the Nation
Talk of the Nation
Talk of the Nation is a talk radio program based in the United States, produced by National Public Radio, and is broadcast nationally from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Its focus is current events and controversial issues....
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, Oggi (Rome), The Toronto Sun, The Sunday Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
The Daily Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation.The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to...
(Sydney), and many others.
Wrote
- 1998 - Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the GoddessBook of Shadows (biography)- Promotional summary :When high-powered Manhattan lawyer Phyllis Curott began exploring witchcraft in a women's group in the 1970s, she discovered a spiritual movement that defied all stereotypes...
(Broadway Books) ISBN 0-7679-0054-5 - 2001 - WitchCrafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic (Broadway Books) ISBN 0-7679-0825-2
- 2004 - The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening (Gotham Books/Penguin) ISBN 1-59240-097-3
Contributed
- 1995 - Sourcebook of the World's Religions: an Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality edited by Joel Diederik Beversluis (Sourcebook Project) ISBN 0963789716, ISBN 978-0963789716
- 1995 - People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out (reissued as: Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans, and Witches Today) by Ellen Evert HopmanEllen Evert HopmanEllen Evert Hopman, M.Ed., was born in Salzburg, Austria. She is an herbalist, lay homeopath, and counselor who lives and works in western Massachusetts....
& Lawrence Bond (Inner Traditions) ISBN 0892815590, ISBN 978-0892815593 - 2004 - Pop! Goes the Witch: The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft by Fiona HorneFiona HorneFiona Horne is an Australian singer, rock musician, radio and television personality, actress and author. She is famous for her public promotion of Witchcraft and as the singer in Australian band Def FX...
(contributor) (The Disinformation Company) ISBN 0972952950, ISBN 978-0972952958 - 2005 - Cakes and Ale for the Pagan Soul: Spells, Recipes, and Reflections from Neopagan Elders and Techers by Patricia TelescoPatricia TelescoPatricia "Trish" Telesco is an American author, herbalist, poet, lecturer, Wiccan priestess, and folk magician who has written more than 60 books on a variety of subjects ranging from self-help and cookbooks to magic, folklore and global religion...
(Crossing Press) ISBN 1580911641, ISBN 978-1580911641
Articles
Interviews
- Interview with Phyllis Curott - Wild Hunt Website
- A Conversation with Phyllis Curott by Guy Spiro - Monthly Aspectarian interview
- The Love Spell: TWPT Talks to Phyllis Curott - The Wiccan/Pagan Times Website
- Making Love in Public: An Interview with Author Phyllis Curott by Allyson E. Peltier - Absolute Write Website
- Trancribed Workshop - Bodhi Tree Website
- Lessons From Nature - BeliefNet Website
See also
- Harvard University Pluralism Project http://pluralism.org
- Network of Spiritual Progressives http://www.spiritualprogressives.org
- Parliament of the World's ReligionsParliament of the World's ReligionsThere have been several meetings referred to as a Parliament of the World’s Religions, most notably the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, the first attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths. The event was celebrated by another conference on its centenary in 1993...
External links
- http://www.templeofara.org/