Sam Webster is a writer, Thelemite, a member of the Golden Dawn tradition,[Wicker, Christine. "Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America ", pp. 207-236. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. ISBN 0060726784] and Bishop "Tau Ty" of "Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis", [ [http://www.egnu.org/wiki/College_of_Bishops Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis: College of Bishops] ] as well as an initiate of Wicca. [Berger, Helen A. "A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States", pp. 116-117. University of South Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 1570032467] Webster holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.][Wicker, Christine. "Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America ", pp. 207-236. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. ISBN 0060726784] He is notable as one of the pioneers of open source religion - the use of the open source paradigm in the field of spirituality.][Wicker, Christine. "Not In Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America ", pp. 207-236. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. ISBN 0060726784] [Gasperson, Tina. [http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/2132256&tid=138 New Time Religion] in "Newsforge", May 17, 2006.] ]He has authored a number of articles and essays on occult and Neopagan topics, publishing both online and in periodicals such as "Green Egg", "Mezlim", "Gnosis" and "PanGaea". Many of his essays on Pagan Dharma and Thelema have also been made available online. In 2001, he was one of a number of Neopagans interviewed in "Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Ritual", a feature article in the counter-cultural journal "RE/Search". ["RE/Search #16: Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Ritual", 2001. ISBN 1-889307-10-6]
He has founded (or cofounded) several occult and Neopagan organizations, including the Chthonic-Ouranian OTO (1985), [ [http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys3/mirror6.htm Skeptic Files] ] and the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (2002).[ ]Writings
*"Constellation", 1984.
*"Abyss and Back", 1988.
*"A metaphor is something like a bucket", 1988.
*"What's Crowley got to do with Thelema, Anyway?", 1988.
*"The Rite of the Milk of the Stars", 1990.
*"The Spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit" in "Mezlim", Beltane 1990.
*"The House of Khabs" in "Mezlim", Samhain, 1991.
*"The Star Child", 1991.
*"Process in the Symbolic Re-Creation of the World", 1992.
*"Rite of Passage Structure in the Japanese Accession Ceremonies", 1992.
*"Changing Society through Ritual", 1993.
*"What is Polytheism and how I became Polytheistic", 1993.
*"Working Polytheism" in "Gnosis" #28, Spring 1993. [http://www.lumen.org/issue_contents/contents28.html]
*"The World as Lover Working", 1993.
*"Structural Implications in the Sepherot", 1994. [ appeared in Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero (eds.), "The Golden Dawn Journal, Book 2-- Qabalah: Theory and Magic" St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994. ISBN 1-56718-851-6]
*"Pagan Dharma" in "Gnosis" #39, Spring, 1996. [http://www.lumen.org/issue_contents/contents39.html]
*"The Bones of Sex and Spirit", 1996.
*"Why I call Myself Pagan", 1999 in "Reclaiming Quarterly" [http://www.reclaimingquarterly.org/web/spiraldance/spiral13.html]
*"Pagan Dharma 2" in "PanGaea", 1999.
*"A Thelemic Ganachakra", 2001. ("see" Ganachakra)
*"Entering the Buddhadharma", 2002. [http://www.osogd.org/library/biscuits/enteringBuddhadharma.html]
*"Preliminary notes towards an understanding of the Neophyte Hall in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.", 2002. [http://www.osogd.org/library/Ydocs/Ydoc1.html]
*"Towards a General Theory of Divination", 2002. [http://www.osogd.org/library/biscuits/divination.html]
*"Ritual, Magick & How Pagans will Save the World", 2004.
*"The Pagan Agenda", 2005.
Notes
ources
* [http://fet.egnu.org/wiki/Main_Page Free Encyclopedia of Thelema] (2006). " [http://fet.egnu.org/wiki/Sam_Webster Sam Webster] ". Retrieved June 1, 2006.
Further reading
*Brooks, Andrew. [http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2006/04/21/news/article8.html Beltane Keynote Speaker Urges Pagan Revival] in "The Oberlin Review", April 21, 2006.
*Magliocco, Sabina. "Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America". University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ISBN 0812218795
*Vale, V. and John Sulak (2001). "Modern Pagans". San Francisco: Re/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-10-6
External links
* [http://www.hermetic.com/webster/ Sam Webster: Initiate of the Mysteries]
* [http://www.concrescent.net/academy/index.html Academy Arkadia]
* [http://www.caoto.org/ Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema]
* [http://www.egnu.org/wiki/Ecclesia_Gnostica_Universalis Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis]
* [http://www.osogd.org/ Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn]
