Priest in the Fellowship of Isis, and an initiate in several different
Traditions of Witchcraft. He holds academic degrees in sociology,
anthropology, clinical psychology, teaching, and theology.
On
April 7, 1962, inspired by Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science-fiction
novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, Oberon co-founded the Church of All
Worlds. He has served as the Church's Primate ever since. First to
apply the terms "Pagan" and "Neo-Pagan" to the newly emerging Nature
religions of the 1960s, and through his publication of the
award-winning Pagan magazine, Green Egg (1968-1975; 1988-2000; 2007-),
Oberon was instrumental in the coalescence of the Neo-Pagan movement,
which for the past third of a century has been reclaiming the religious
heritage of pre-Christian Europe. (Identified as the fastest-growing
religion in the English-speaking world, US membership in the Pagan
community is currently estimated in the millions.)
In 1970,
Oberon formulated and published the thealogy of deep ecology which has
become known as The Gaia Thesis-that our entire planetary biosphere
comprises the body of a single vast living organism universally
identified as "Mother Earth." He met his soulmate, Morning Glory, at
the Llewellyn-sponsored Gnostic Aquarian Festival in 1973, where he was
a keynote speaker on the Gaia Thesis. They were legally married on
April 14, 1974, in a spectacular Pagan handfasting in Minneapolis.
For
eight years (1977-1985) Oberon and Morning Glory lived in a 5,600-acre
intentional community called Greenfield Ranch, in the mountains of
northern California, establishing a rural homestead and a Pagan retreat
center. During this period they created large festivals, vision quests,
ceremonies, and ritual events on the land. This work continues to this
day on Annwfn.
Oberon and Morning Glory co-founded the
Ecosophical Research Association in 1977, and their research into
arcane lore and ancient legends resulted in the Living Unicorn project,
begun in 1980. For the next four years they traveled all over North
America exhibiting their authentic Medieval-style Unicorns at
Renaissance Faires, before arranging a four-year exhibition contract
with Ringling Bros./Barnum and
in 1987 he conducted a research tour of ancient oracles and
archaeological sites throughout Mediterranean Europe. Other magical
journeys have taken Oberon to Peru, Hawaii, Alaska, back to Australia,
and, in 1999, to the British Isles for the century's last total Eclipse
of the Sun.
Oberon is the author of numerous published articles
on history, Gaian thealogy, magic, shamanism, mythology, anomalies,
dinosaurs, archaeology, cosmology, and
Oberon's
artwork has illuminated the pages of various fantasy, science-fiction,
and metaphysical magazines since the late 1960's, as well as
illustrating a number of
of their continuing participation, there has been a Church of All
Worlds presence at Starwood, called the CAWmunity, for over a decade,
and pivotal events in the saga of the C.A.W. have played themselves out
on the stages of Starwood.
In 2002, Oberon gathered together
many of the best-known minds in the Neo-Pagan movement to form the
"Grey Council." In 2004 Oberon and the Council published Grimoire for
the Apprentice Wizard, a book filled with the accumulated wisdom and
insight of dozens of the most experienced magicians, priests, artists,
and authors in Pagandom. Also in 2004, Oberon created his proudest
accomplishment, the online Grey School of Wizardry
(www.GreySchool.com). The Grey School currently offers over 300 classes
in 16 Departments, at seven levels, with more than 750 students aged
11-75. The faculty number 40 highly-qualified teachers. Graduates are
certified "Journeyman Wizards." Oberon is the school's Headmaster, and
has been called "The real Albus Dumbledore."
Oberon and Morning Glory currently reside in Sonoma County, California
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