Iron Mountain was Chas Clifton’s attempt to bring together the “professors and the practitioners” into a single source and provided an avenue for the Wiccans and Pagans being studied to respond to research being done on them. Although only four issues were published the contents are well stocked with articles and rebuttals from contemporary scholars and practitioners recognized as shapers of the Wiccan movement that we know today. It is a publication “devoted to the exploration of religious forms, practices, both ancient and modern, which emphasize the magical, shamanic and metaphysical elements.” Articles are topped off with reviews, poetry, artwork and photographs. It also holds the honor for being the inspiration of the first Pagan peer-reviewed Journal: The Pomegranate.

Permission for the creation of this digital asset was granted by Chas S. Clifton who also graciously loaned his personal copies to be digitized for inclusion in Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections’ New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. On the Slopes of Iron Mountain -- Spinning the Medicine Wheel / Joseph Bruchac -- High School Magic: An Interview with Religious Consultant Jim McCarthy / Chas Clifton and Mary Clifton -- Notes on Ritual Drumming / John Vye -- Remedy for Drought / poem by Donald Levering -- The Man Who Wanted to be an Owl / poem by Joseph Bruchac -- Inventing Witchcraft / Aidan Kelley -- Pagan Renaissance and Wiccan Witchcraft in Industrial Society / George Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Rubi, and Rich Rainey -- ‘Pagan Renaissance:’ Responses. Asking the Wrong Questions / Chas Clifton ; A Good Survey Turned to Trash / Ann Forfreedom ; Quibbles with Kirkpatrick / Isaac Bonewits -- Myth, Ritual and Symbolism / Janet Farrar and Stewart Farrar -- Book Reviews by Chas Clifton: Earth Power by Scott Cunningham ; Practical Color Magick by Ray Buckland ; The Magician by Gini Graham Scott -- Contributors. Photographs: Religious consultant Jim McCarthy with bones of squirrels killed by teenage “Satanist” and kris-style ritual dagger / by Chas S. Clifton ; Typical altar of Neopagan Gardnerian Witchcraft priest and priestess / Tom Shanahan ; Statue of Diana in Sutro Park, San Francisco / Chas S. Clifton.