{"id":13338,"date":"2023-04-14T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:24:16","slug":"13338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13338","title":{"rendered":"An Online Presentation on the Wilderness Vision of Feraferia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Maiden Savioress Spirit Guiding the Age of Aquarius,” artwork by Fred Adams, 1977.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Pagan group Feraferia<\/a> had a fairly large (by Pagan standards of the time) following, chiefly\u00a0 in Southern California, starting in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

It was largely the creation of one man, the visonary artist Fred Adams, and was a unique creation, with some inspiration from the ancient Minoan civilization but no real connection to Wicca, ceremonial magic, other Pagan groups, although he did take up John Michell’s vision of ley lines and sought to delineate them in Southern California.((Many Feraferia members, however, also participated in Wiccan and other magickal groups. That’s how it often goes.))<\/p>\n

Adams described Feraferia (meaing “wild festival”) as “a love culture for wilderness, a liturgy of holy wildness, and a religion celebrating the Magic Maiden.”<\/p>\n

Adams died in 2008, followed by his wife and co-leader, Svetlana, in 2010.<\/p>\n

Their literary executor was the artist and filmmaker Jo Carson.\u00a0 On Saturday, May 20, Cherry Hill Seminar will present a free online event with Carson, Fer<\/em>aferia, A Love Culture for Wilderness<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

You can see the trailer for her documentary film, Dancing with Gaia<\/em>, at its website.<\/a><\/p>\n

So while the Adamses are gone and the group around them largely dispersed, Jo and others have tried to keep the vision alive, and here is a way to share in it.<\/p>\n

They put out a zine, which I got in the 1970s, but to participate back then, you really had to be there, and “there” was Pasadena, California.<\/p>\n

But you can still get feeling for “celebrating wildness” this way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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