Comments on: Mourning a Dream http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/03/mourning-dream.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:15:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cat Chapin-Bishop http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/03/mourning-dream.html/comment-page-1#comment-823 Cat Chapin-Bishop Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:28:00 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2007/03/mourning-a-dream.html#comment-823 Ah, yes... The Goddess Religion shelf. Even though it did feel just a tiny bit like the "Group W Bench"--I never had the sense that Pagans were quite as welcome as other New Agers--I do remember the day. That's where I first encountered <a HREF="http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/aradia/index.htm" REL="nofollow">Aradia</a>, some of <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Grimoire-Shadows-Witchcraft-Paganism-Magick/dp/1567186599" REL="nofollow">Ed Fitch's old Pagan Way materials</a> <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Book-Pagan-Rituals-Herman-Slater/dp/0877283486" REL="nofollow">(as recycled, without proper credit, by Herman Slater)</a> and Starhawk's <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Dark-Magic-Sex-Politics/dp/0807010375" REL="nofollow">Dreaming the Dark</a>.<br/><br/>That was back in the era when I remember slavishly copying word-for-word the ritual invocations from a borrowed copy of Stuart Farrar's <a HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Omega-Novel-Eco-magick-Stewart-Farrar/dp/1578633893" REL="nofollow">Omega</a>. To say I was hungry for materials on Paganism would be understating the case considerably! Happily, even where the Pagan equivalent of the "Group W Bench" doesn't exist anymore, the Internet has made so much accessible anywhere there's a modem.<br/><br/>Thank Gods. But you're right... there's a debt of graditude to be paid to the small New Age stores I have known. Ah, yes… The Goddess Religion shelf. Even though it did feel just a tiny bit like the “Group W Bench”–I never had the sense that Pagans were quite as welcome as other New Agers–I do remember the day. That’s where I first encountered Aradia, some of Ed Fitch’s old Pagan Way materials (as recycled, without proper credit, by Herman Slater) and Starhawk’s Dreaming the Dark.

That was back in the era when I remember slavishly copying word-for-word the ritual invocations from a borrowed copy of Stuart Farrar’s Omega. To say I was hungry for materials on Paganism would be understating the case considerably! Happily, even where the Pagan equivalent of the “Group W Bench” doesn’t exist anymore, the Internet has made so much accessible anywhere there’s a modem.

Thank Gods. But you’re right… there’s a debt of graditude to be paid to the small New Age stores I have known.

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