Reclaiming Benefit: 20 Years of Craft in the Bay Area

Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/IusrWPSa8O4

---

This panel for religious leaders discusses Craft topics after viewing two films, A Dance for the Goddess and Between the Worlds, and viewing slides of rituals taken in the 1970s.

1) The first question from the audience was directed towards Jo Carson specifically regarding the origins of the rituals, their translations, and interpretations in the first film.

2) This is followed by a complex question from the moderator, Do we see Witchcraft in California differently from witchcraft as it is practiced elsewhere, and Why if so? If it's regionally distinct from one or the other, and have we experienced change as it has been practiced over the 1st 20 years, or perceived by the public over the last 20 years. Has your personal spiritual practice been affected by these changes and if it was a positive or negative change. Do you feel the various Craft Traditions that have emerged have influenced each other? Audience questions followed:

3) What are the differences in transformational psychological practices that go on in covens in other parts of the country, for example group rituals or initiations. 4). What is the leadership of the Craft doing to challenge sexism, discrimination of people of color, LGBT practitioners, and, from the panel, heterosexism. 5). The last question asks if there has been too much emphasis on the Goddess at the expense of the God.

Panelists: Greg Harder, Prudence Priest, John P. McClimans, Alison Harlow, Jo Carson, Kalyn "Aunty Gravity" Tranquil'son, Diana L. Paxson, Pandora Minora O'Mallory, Andraste

This digital asset has been authorized by M. Macha NightMare to the Valdosta State University, Archives and Special Collections to be part of the M. Macha NightMare Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library.

Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/IusrWPSa8O4

---