{"id":192,"date":"2004-05-26T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2004-05-26T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T03:42:00","slug":"joseph-wilson-a-craft-pioneers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Wilson: A Craft Pioneer’s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Wilson published one of the first American Pagan newsletters, The Waxing Moon<\/em>, in the 1960s and through his correspondence with Robert Cochrane<\/a>, established the “1734”<\/a> tradition or current or call-it-what-you-will in American Craft. (Another version of 1734 history is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His spiritual autobiography is now appearing serially in The Cauldron<\/em><\/a>, but you may read the whole thing online here<\/a> at his Toteg Tribe site. I recommend it. American Paganism suffers from too much how-to in relation to the what-happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Wilson published one of the first American Pagan newsletters, The Waxing Moon, in the 1960s and through his correspondence with Robert Cochrane, established the “1734” tradition or current or call-it-what-you-will in American Craft. (Another version of 1734 history is here. His spiritual autobiography is now appearing serially in The Cauldron, but you may read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,29],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-36","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1128","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":0},"title":"1734 and All That","author":"Chas S. 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But this screenshot is from the documentary Robert: Portrait of a Witch, made by Malcolmn Brenner\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Gerald Gardner\"","block_context":{"text":"Gerald Gardner","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=gerald-gardner"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=809","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":4},"title":"Lady Sintana","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Morning Glory Zell and Tim\/Oberon Zell of the Church of All Words with Lady Sintana (right) at the Church of Wicca Samhain Seminar in 1978. Photo by Chas S. 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