About the Author

Terence P. Ward is a journalist and practicing Pagan for more than thirty years. He has been bound to a Wiccan coven, communed with the earth as a backpacking Pagan (aka Gaiaped), and been tapped by the Olympian gods. He manages his depression through his work as a priest to Poseidon in Temenos Oikidios, a Rhode Island-based Hellenic temple. Ward is also a member of the order of the occult hand, and is a minister ordained through the Church of the Sacred Earth: a Union of Pagan Congregations in Vermont.