2012 Special Guests Speakers

M. R. Sellars


ONLY SERVICE ANIMALS ARE ALLOWED ON SITE!

FIRES ARE ONLY ALLOWED IN THE DESIGNATED FIRE PIT AREAS

VIOLATORS WILL BE FINED $200 BY MONTGOMERY BELL STATE PARK!

15th Annual
Pagan Unity Festival
May 17th ~ 20th 2012
Montgomery Bell State Park
Burns, TN.

  Dorothy Morrison
An author, and teacher in the fields of magic, Wicca,  Neo-Paganism and life.  She is a Third Degree Wiccan High Priestess of the Georgian Tradition, is the founding member of the Coven of the Crystal Garden, a member of the Coven of the Raven and studies the RavenMyst Circle Tradition.  She is a member of the Pagan Poets Society and a charter member of M.A.G.I.C., a magical writers and artists organization. Her work has been published in many journals and magazines, including Circle Network News, Circle Sanctuary and Crone Chronicles.  Her books include; Everyday Magic, Yule A celebration of Light and Warmth, The Craft A Witches Book of Shadows, Enchantments of the Heart and Utterly Wicked just to name a few.  She is also the creator of the Whimsical Tarot. Dorothy has a new store where she offers some utterly wicked goods for you;
 http://www.wickedwitchstudios.com/
Visit her at
http://www.dorothymorrison.com/
 

A relatively unassuming homebody who considers himself just a "guy with a lot of nightmares and a word processing program." His first full-length novel, Harm None, hit bookstore shelves in 2000 and he hasn't stopped writing since. An active member of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), winner of the Saint Louis RFT Readers Choice Best Novel and COVR Finalist, 2009 - Visionary Fiction, All of the current novels in Sellars' continuing Rowan Gant Investigations saga have spent several consecutive weeks on numerous bookstore bestseller lists as well as a consistent showing on the Amazon.com Horror/Occult top 100.  The Rowan Gant series includes; Harm None, Never Burn a Witch, Perfect Trust and All Acts of Pleasure, a series about Miranda and female serial killer and there are more.
 Visit him at
http://www.mrsellars.com



Mark Mandrake
A Tarot reader, chakra healer, channeler, shaman, medium, urban shaman, chaos magician, wizard and   alchemist who believes in marrying the metaphysical, magical, and the mundane for mind, body, and spiritual health. He teaches classes using magic as a tool for personal growth. He is passionate about  how we each can, through the alchemical process, turn our spiritual lead into gold as individuals. He works to build community and has led community initiatives in the service of spiritual seekers.
Mark creates events supporting the Ringing Anvil initiative, in founding the structure of the community leadership, ritual arts, and spiritual growth
programs.

  He can be contacted at wizard.mandrake@gmail.com.

Contact us
615-414-1325
paganunityfest@bellsouth.net
Oberon Zell
Raven and Stephanie Grimassi
Christopher Penczak
Oberon Zell is a modern Renaissance man.

He is a transpersonal psychologist, metaphysician, naturalist, theologian, shaman, author, artist, sculptor, lecturer, teacher, and ordained Priest of the Earth-Mother, Gaia.

Among the many projects he has undertaken in his lifetime, Oberon is one of the founders of the Church of All Worlds, is the publishers of Green Egg Magazine and is the Headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry.

Christopher Penczak is a Witch, teacher, writer and healing practitioner. His practice draws upon the foundation of both modern and traditional Witchcraft blended with the wisdom of mystical traditions from across the globe as a practitioner and teacher of shamanism, tarot, Reiki healing, herbalism, astrology and Qabalah. He is the founder of the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and system of magickal training based upon the material of his books and classes. He is an ordained minister primarily serving the New Hampshire and Massachusetts pagan and metaphysical communities through public rituals, private counsel and teaching, though he travels extensively teaching throughout the United States.
Raven is a published author of many titles on witchcraft and Wicca.  He is also a recognized expert on Italian witchcraft and the foremost authority on the works of Charles Godfrey Leland in this particular field.  Grimassi is the Directing Elder of the Arician Tradition, a system of Italian witchcraft. He is also a member of the American Folklore Society.

Stephanie Taylor has been a Witch at heart for all of her life, and a tarot reader and spiritual counselor for over fifteen years. A Third Degree initiate of both the Italian Witchcraft Tradition and in the Irish Celtic Wiccan Tradition, she is also a minister of the First Celtic Wiccan Church. A sought out professional in her craft and an expert in her field, she has appeared in several discussion panels related to Witchcraft and on regional news media. Currently a teacher and co-director of the College of the Crossroads, a Mystery School dedicated to preserving and passing on the Old Ways.

Byron Ballard is a writer, urban farmer, teacher and Buncombe county native who writes about traditional Appalachian witching and modern Earth religions. She is an Appalachian Witch and a Dianic priestess who co-founded the Coalition of Earth Religions for Education and Support/CERES.  holds a BA from UNCA, a Master of Fine Arts from Trinity University and lives in historic West End of Asheville, NC with her husband, daughter, four cats and a demanding garden. Her blog is the place to come to find out what's happening in the local Earth religions community, to learn about mountain cures and charms and to ask questions about which witch is which.
Visit her on the web at
www.myvillagewitch.com http://www.myvillagewitch.com

H. Byron Ballard