About the Interviewees
T. Thorn Coyle is an internationally respected mentor and teacher of the magical and esoteric arts. The author of Kissing the Limitless and Evolutionary Witchcraft, she hosts the Elemental Castings podcast and Fiat LVX! video series, writes a popular weblog, Know Thyself, and has produced several CDs of sacred music. Thorn’s spiritual direction, soul reading, and body/spirit coaching practices help people worldwide. Pagan, mystic, and activist, she is founder and head of Solar Cross Temple and Morningstar Mystery School and lives by the San Francisco Bay. For further information, please visit thorncoyle.com.
Sarah Davies
Sarah Davies has been a coven leader in the Gardnerian Tradition of British Traditional Wicca for one year. Sarah has experience in ritual design, writing, and music. She is a web developer for a nonprofit in Seattle and holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Washington, where she is currently a graduate student.
Pete “Pathfinder” Davis
Archpriest Pete “Pathfinder” Davis is the originator of the Aquarian Tabernacle Tradition of English Traditional-based Wicca and the Primate of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church, which he founded in November of 1979 in Washington State. Pete has served two terms as president of the Interfaith Council of Washington State and is a longtime member of the Washington State Department of Corrections Religious Services Advisory Committee, which advises the department on religious programs in Washington’s institutions. He is also active in other interfaith organizations and efforts on behalf of the Wiccan communities in the Pacific Northwest, and he has taught Wicca in several area post-secondary educational facilities. He is a regent of the Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary, a college-level institution that prepares Wiccan students for service as fully competent Wiccan clergy.
Holli Emore
Holli Emore, CFRE, is executive director of Cherry Hill Seminary and president of Emore Development Resources, a consulting firm for nonprofits. A native of North Carolina, Holli is twice a past president of the Central Carolina Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in Columbia, South Carolina, where she has lived since 1986. An ambassador for the Parliament of the World’s Religions and an advisor to the Interfaith Partnership of South Carolina, Holli is committed to building interfaith relationships, both locally and globally. She often teaches public groups about the rapidly growing Neopagan religions and has served as a regional resource for law enforcement, victim services, criminal justice classes, and others since 2004, and is a resource person for the Lady Liberty League. She is the founder of Osireion, as well as the Pagan Round Table, both in South Carolina.
Anne Marie Forrester
Anne Marie Forrester is a third-degree Gardnerian high priestess, a legal minister, an elder in the Gardnerian Church of the Ancient Communion, and a member of one of the longest-running eclectic covens in the Upper Midwest. She is author and illustrator of Beyond the Veil: 36 Pages of Enchantment Waiting for You to Add Color and Life and Gods and Goddesses of the Zodiac, and co-author (with Estelle Daniels) of Color-A-Magick-Spell: 13 Mandalas for Personal Empowerment (available through www.magusbooks.com). Some of her artwork can be viewed online at www.web.me.com/annemarieforrester.
Melanie Henry
Melanie Henry has been a student of Witchcraft for more than thirty years, a Witch in the Sylvan Tradition for sixteen years, and the high priestess of a Sylvan Tradition coven for eight years. She has also read tarot professionally and edited Widdershins, the Pagan newspaper that served the Seattle area from 1995 to 2007. She lives outside Seattle, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
Ellen Evert Hopman
Ellen Evert Hopman is a master herbalist, a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild, and lay homeopath with an M.Ed. in mental health counseling. Hopman is a founding member of the Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile) and its former co-chief, and was vice president of the Henge of Keltria, an international Druid fellowship, for nine years. She was a professor in the Grey School of Wizardry for four years. Hopman has been a teacher of herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990 and has presented on Druidism, herbal lore, tree lore, and Paganism at conferences, festivals, and events in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and across the United States. She is the author of a trilogy of Celtic novels that take place in Iron Age Ireland: Priestess of the Forest: A Druid’s Story, The Druid Isle, and Priestess of the Fire Temple: A Druid’s Tale. She has authored a number of nonfiction books on Druidism, Celtic herb lore, and magic, which can be found at www.elleneverthopman.com.
Sylva Markson
Sylva Markson grew up in northern Minnesota, where she developed a deep and abiding love for its lakes and forests. She has a degree in both history and religion, and has always been interested in the roots of spiritual paths and in combining intellectual exploration with mystical or shamanic experiences. She has been practicing the Craft for twenty years and has led a coven (with her husband and magical partner) for about fifteen years, with an emphasis on altered states of consciousness and shamanic techniques. Other interests include nature, animals, equal rights, cultures, and travel. Hobbies include antiquing, camping, and herbalism. She currently lives in northern Minnesota with her husband, three dogs, and three birds.
Patrick McCollum
Reverend Patrick McCollum is an ordained Circle Sanctuary minister, serves as a coordinator for the Lady Liberty League, is a Wiccan chaplain in the California Department of Corrections, and is also development director for Children of the Earth (United Nations, NGO) as well as serving on many other committees. In 2010, Reverend McCollum was honored at the Capitol in Washington, DC, as the 2010 recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi Award for the Advancement of Pluralism. McCollum was also selected as a delegate in 2010 to address leaders of seventy-five counties at Parliament in Astana, Kazakhstan, at the World Forum on Spiritual Culture. In 2011, Reverend McCollum was invited to Thailand by Dhammakaya Buddhists as a World Inner Peace Ambassador. Patrick is dedicated to being a warrior for human rights, social justice, and pluralism. He has recently started the Patrick McCollum Foundation (patrick
mccollum.org) to help him with this plight. Through religion and spirituality he is bringing a new message of planetary consciousness on a global level that will alert the world to the sacredness of our connection with divinity and with each other.
Christopher Penczak
Christopher Penczak is a modern Witch, teacher, and healing practitioner. He is an award-winning author who has published over twenty books and recordings on Witchcraft, magick, and spirituality and is the co-founder of the Temple of Witchcraft, a nonprofit religious organization dedicated to community, education, and service. His work draws on the traditions of wisdom from across the world, particularly the ancient Pagan mysteries, synthesized into a harmonious whole for modern practitioners.
Stephanie Raymond
Stephanie Raymond is a third-degree initiate priestess of the Georgian Wiccan Tradition and has been a practicing Pagan for nineteen years. She founded the University of Washington Pagan Culture and Spirit Web student group in 1991, and she cofounded Our Lady of the Earth and Sky, a nondenominational Pagan church, in 1995, serving there as pastor from 1995–1999 and 2011 to the present. She lives with her family in Seattle.
Brian Rowe
Brian Rowe is a British Traditional Wiccan who has just started teaching pre-initiates. Brian believes life must be experienced, not just understood or contemplated, and that the Craft is enhanced by a small group of individuals sharing rites. Brian believes that the Craft is compatible with modern technology and ethics based on human rights. He holds a J.D. and teaches information privacy, ethics, and copyright. When not voraciously reading mythology, Brian enjoys Rodin’s sculpture, coffee, ancient Egypt, chess, not watching TV, civil disobedience, and Chado.
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart is a renowned Pagan elder. In 1962, he founded the Church of All Worlds. First to apply the term “Pagan” to the new Nature Religions of the ’60s, and through his publication of Green Egg magazine, Oberon was instrumental in fostering the modern Pagan movement. He designs altar statuary and jewelry for the Mythic Images Collection and wrote Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard. He is also founder and headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. Oberon and his lifemate Morning Glory live in NorCalifia, where he serves on the Board of the Sonoma County Pagan Network. His website is www.OberonZell.com.