Wicca, Witchcraft, holidays, sabbats, covens, polyamory, mythology, comparative religion, parapsychology, playing guitar, the PreRaphaelites, the Symbolists, Glamour art, ghosts, hot air balloons, kites, lanterns, Gothic architecture
Music
Sixties, Ragtime, Soundtracks, Celtic, Gregorian chant
Movies
12 Angry Men, 1776, American Pop, Animal Crackers, Annie Hall, Arsenic and Old Lace, Barbarella, Bedazzled (both), Bell Book and Candle, Brother Sun Sister Moon, Bugsy Malone, Camelot, Christmas Vacation, Cocoanuts, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, The Dish, Duck Soup, Dune, Eddie and the Cruisers, Emerald Forest, Excalibur, Fantasia (both), Ghostbusters, Gormenghast, Grace of My Heart, Groundhog Day, Harvey, Head, High Fidelity, Horse Feathers, Inherit the Wind, Jumanji, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, Last Wave, Legend, Lord of the Rings (Jackson), Mississippi Burning, Moulin Rouge, The Mummy, Muppet Movie, Music Man, Ninth Gate, Nosferatu, Phantom of the Paradise, Return to Oz, Scrooged, Seven Faces of Dr Lao, Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The Shadow, Sleeping Beauty (Disney), Sleepy Hollow, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, Story of O, That Thing You Do, Thunderheart, To Die For, Twister, Watcher in the Woods, Watership Down, Wicker Man (1973), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Xanadu, Young Frankenstein
Television
Avengers, Bewitched, Buffy, Man from UNCLE, Meeting of Minds, Muppett Show, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Star Trek
Books
The Once and Future King, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Dune, Dracula, Deryni series, The Dark Is Rising, The Last Unicorn, The King of Elfland's Daughter, Red Moon Black Mountain, Isaac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, The Tao of Pooh
Heroes
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, Mohandas K Gandhi, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Jefferson, T H White, J R R Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, Christopher Marlowe, Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats, Robert Herrick, Alfons Mucha, Arthur Rackham, Alberto Vargas, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the Marx Brothers, Kermit the Frog, Eddie Izzard, Johann Strauss, Scott Joplin, Jerry Goldsmith, John Stewart, Paul Williams, Carole King, Tony Hillerman, James Lee Burke, Erik Larson
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Mike Nichols is sending healing thoughts to John Bruno Hare, the man behind the Internet Sacred Text Archive. See my bulletin for details. Posted at 2:03 AM Sep 3 view more
About me: Author's Profile: Mike Nichols is the celebrated author of The Witches' Sabbats, book and web site (which is blocked from here, so you have to enter it: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7280/) --the ultimate resources on Pagan holidays and related writings. He does extensive online teaching and writing, occasionally guest lectures at Pagan festivals, and performs in a Pagan band called Spellbound. Mike has been a featured speaker on National Public Radio, Spiral Dance Radio, and Eclectic Pagan Podcast (Episodes 16 and 22) on iTunes.
A pioneer in the American neo-Pagan movement, Nichols taught classes in Witchcraft for twenty years continuously, from 1970 to 1989, in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri, through the Communiversity and at his bookstore, The Magick Lantern. He was also the editor of The Lantern's Light, the store's in-house publication. A founding member of the Coven of New Gwynedd, Nichols was the first Wiccan representative on the Kansas City Interfaith Council.
Nichols is a lifelong student of the Craft and, after years of research, writing, and teaching, he still considers himself a student. He received his BA from the University of Missouri, with a double major in communications and psychology (specializing in parapsychology). He has done graduate work in the field of library and information science.
Who I'd like to meet: People to share all the things I love: Holidays, walks through the woods, autumn leaves, mead, playing guitar and singing, the moon, good conversation, pizza, dragonflies, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, sixties music, classic cel animation (Disney!), ragtime (Joplin!) , Art Nouveau (Mucha!) , Celtic art & music, hayrides, antiques, poetry (Yeats, Herrick!) , fantasy (Tolkien, Dunsany!) , reading, movies, ghost hunting, hot-air balloons, PT Cruisers, children's lit illus (Rackham!) , the seasons, soundtracks (Goldsmith!) , lightning bugs, plays (Marlowe!) , thunderstorms, Gothic architecture (Chartres!) , frogs, old cemeteries, lanterns, Welsh bards, winter sunsets, Gregorian chant, German chocolate cake, badminton, candles, outdoor concerts, swimming, kite-flying, Glamour art (Olivia!) , pick-up sticks, otters, watching any skilled craftsman, blowing soap bubbles, all reference books, planetariums, underground comix (Crumb!) , personal heros (Elizabeth Cady Stanton!) , the Marx Brothers, mysteries by Tony Hillerman and James Lee Burke, the First Amendment, English muffins, comets, the scent of vanilla, and fireworks!
When they ask to see your gods your book of prayers show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird's wing tell them you believe in giant sycamores mottled and stark against a winter sky and in nights so frozen stars crack open spilling streams of molten ice to earth and tell them how you drank the holy wine of honeysuckle on a warm spring day and of the softness of your mother who never taught you death was life's reward but who believed in the earth and the sun and a million, million light years of being -- J.L. Stanley
Happy Birthday! long time no talk .. hope all is well with you : D
As the Wheel of the Year continues to turn, The harvest has ended, and the grain has been threshed. The animals sleep for the winter. We thank them for their gifts.
.. and hoping your birthday will bring the warmth of memories dear, followed by a wonderful year ahead; treat yourself to something good today!
Now, here's a photo taken by me last month, for your enjoyment ..
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