{"id":2456,"date":"2011-03-19T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2011-03-19T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T20:43:54","slug":"beatnik-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Beatnik Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aidan Kelly’s Hippie Commie Beatnik Witches<\/em>, which has circulated in digital form for some years, can now be purchased as a book from Amazon<\/a>, with new material added.<\/p>\n

As the San Francisco counter-culture teeters on the edge of the Psychedelic Era, a group of twenty-somethings, open to spiritual experiment (and other sorts of experiments), find themselves morphing into something that they do not quite a have a word for\u00a0 . . . Druids? Witches??<\/p>\n

Built from recollections and interviews, it is a picture of people creating a new religion based on a heady mix of reading, ritual, and inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Aidan Kelly’s Hippie Commie Beatnik Witches, which has circulated in digital form for some years, can now be purchased as a book from Amazon, with new material added. As the San Francisco counter-culture teeters on the edge of the Psychedelic Era, a group of twenty-somethings, open to spiritual experiment (and other sorts of experiments), find […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[10,75,5,7],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-california","tag-paganism","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-DC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6402,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6402","url_meta":{"origin":2456,"position":0},"title":"A New History of the Craft in America","author":"Chas S. 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