{"id":6487,"date":"2014-05-21T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2014-05-21T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:10:52","slug":"the-zells-biographer-on-living-your-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"The Zells&#8217; Biographer on &#8220;Living Your Myth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXHWDizKVz8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>John Sulak, who co-wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Modern-Pagans-Search-John-Sulak\/dp\/1889307106\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400726158&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=John+Sulak\"><em>Modern Pagans<\/em><\/a> for RE\/Search and worked for a decade on <em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wizard-Witch-Decades-Counterculture-Paganism\/dp\/0738714828\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400726183&amp;sr=1-1\">Wizard and the Witch<\/a><\/em>, the new biography of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell, gives interviewer Anne Hill his own take on the Zells, the writing process, the Church of All Worlds, and others in their circle. (Was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofannwfn.org\/music.html\">Gwydion Pendderwen<\/a> really the Kurt Cobain of Paganism?)<\/p>\n<p>Sulak compares himself to Studs Terkel, but if he had &#8220;cut up&#8221; his interviews \u2014 and spoke in more of a monotone \u2014 he might remind me a little of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Call-Me-Burroughs-Barry-Miles\/dp\/1455511951\/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400726207&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=call+me+burroughs\"><em>someone else<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sulak, who co-wrote Modern Pagans for RE\/Search and worked for a decade on The Wizard and the Witch, the new biography of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell, gives interviewer Anne Hill his own take on the Zells, the writing process, the Church of All Worlds, and others in their circle. (Was Gwydion Pendderwen really [&hellip;]<\/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":[10,5,12],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-paganism","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1GD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13518,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13518","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":0},"title":"The Pagans, the Unicorns, and the Serial Killer","author":"Chas S. 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John Sulak's biography of Oberon Zell (b. 1942) and his partner Morning Glory (1948\u20132014), The Wizard and the Witch was one of the exceptions.((Yes, Morning Glory either invented or co-invented the term \"polyamory,\" and she\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"animals\"","block_context":{"text":"animals","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=animals"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/witzard-and-witch-vol-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/witzard-and-witch-vol-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/witzard-and-witch-vol-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6280,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6280","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":1},"title":"Quick Review: The Wizard and the Witch","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my earliest entries on this blog, clear back in 2003, was a complaint about the lack of biographical and autobiographical writing in American Wicca \u2014 and I would extend that to all types of new Paganism generally. That entry did mention Margot Adler's Heretic's Heart (1997), but I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"wizard and witch","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wizard-and-witch.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1039,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1039","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":2},"title":"Casual Labor at the New Age Trade Show","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"So as I was saying, I briefly visited the INATS West show yesterday, in the capacity of day labor to help the Zells take down their booth on its last afternoon.(You sit on the curb in front of the liquor store until a guy wearing a wizard's hat and driving\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1224,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1224","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":3},"title":"Harry Potter Fans not all that into Magic, Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Glancing back at Oberon Zell's sporadic blog, I see mention of the \"Azkatraz\" Harry Potter convention in San Francisco last July. (Scroll down to the \"Escape from Azkatraz\" subhead in Aug. 1, 2009 entry.)The Zells took a vendor space for their Mythic Images business of New Age, Pagan, and Goddess-oriented\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1564149560","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6716,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6716","url_meta":{"origin":6487,"position":4},"title":"New Publishing Opportunity in Euro-Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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