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About Oberon Zell
[url=http://www.oberonzell.com/OZAbout.html]On April 7, 1962, inspired by Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, Oberon co-founded the Church of All Worlds. He has served as the Church’s Primate ever since. First to apply the terms “Pagan” and “Neo-Pagan” to the newly emerging Nature religions of the 1960s, and through his publication of the award-winning Pagan magazine, Green Egg (1968-1975; 1988-2000; 2007-), Oberon was instrumental in the coalescence of the Neo-Pagan movement, which for the past third of a century has been reclaiming the religious heritage of pre-Christian Europe. (Identified as the fastest-growing religion in the English-speaking world, US membership in the Pagan community is currently estimated in the millions.)
In 1970, Oberon formulated and published the thealogy of deep ecology which has become known as The Gaia Thesis—that our entire planetary biosphere comprises the body of a single vast living organism universally identified as “Mother Earth.” He met his soulmate, Morning Glory, at the Llewellyn-sponsored Gnostic Aquarian Festival in 1973, where he was a keynote speaker on the Gaia Thesis. They were legally married on April 14, 1974, in a spectacular Pagan handfasting in Minneapolis.[/url
― bb, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)
whoops dropped a bracket...
http://www.caw.org/clergy/images/oberon_small.gif
― bb, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.ravensloft.biz/images/Books/BKCreatingCirclesCeremonies_thmbnl.jpg
should i be concerned that this dude keeps coming up in recent weeks? perhaps its time to stop researching shit in big sur and the like...im in some glittery waters apparently
― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)
are your concerned that it is not coincidence? are you threatened by the idea that the universe wants you to don an antlered head-dress and partake of oatcakes and ale?
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)
i'm concerned i might have missed my calling and will have to start raising unicorns...
my own special deepthroat is trying to make me connect the dots and geton with it...
i actually wrote a few papers around deep ecology back in college. cute freaks do a certain disservice to the ideas at stake. i'll be diving back into those theories in coming days.
seriously, though, the video has some real moments.
― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)
deep ecology, as a general idea at least, seems like a no-brainer
― gbx, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)
then again, seems like there's a wide streak of furryism in a lot of deep ecological theory
― gbx, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)
entirely. but because its soooo simplistic, it fails to capture the spirits of people who do not believe in spirits.
i need to dig back in. i left a lot of that stuff in the dust years ago.
library dust, not fairydust.
now im wondering what it is i forgot, but perhaps i am simply forgetting to remember to forget.
oh god, i can't handle that--xpost
― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)
i did a deep ecology few-hour seminar last spring b/c a friend encouraged me to check it out. it was kind of weird but had some good points. i don't know. but yeah at one point we were supposed to 'be' an animal or tree or 'something natural-world' of our choice and interact with each other as such. and while i'm all for people being imaginative and exploring their personalities and putting themselves in others' shoes or skin or bark etc, and seeing the world from different perspectives, this particular exercise was kind of uh/um/er and kind of intensely weird. i was water under the city.
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)