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T. Thorn Cayle
 | Author and teacher of the mystic, pagan and magic arts.Course:
Align Your Life
October 27 - December 01 | | | T. Thorn Coyle is a Magic Worker, Mystic, and Pagan. An internationally respected teacher and author, her work focuses on the alchemy that occurs when we open ourselves fully to our humanity in our quest for Divine knowledge. In combining art and science, magic and mystery, body and soul, practice and ecstasy, she has created a unique body of work that has touched the lives of many seekers, artists, activists, parents and other change-makers.
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A student of the Craft for more than 25 years, she is an initiate of the Feri Tradition (her religious home), Reclaiming, and the Mevlevi Order of America. Thorn combines her esoteric studies, work with her Gods and Guides, and years of practice, to form a teaching that honors the fertile dark and the limitless light. Citing her primary influences as G. I. Gurdjieff and Victor and Cora Anderson, she continues her spiritual studies in many traditions.
Through individual spiritual direction, weekend workshops, tele-classes, and group study as well as her webblog and podcasts, Thorn provides insights on the multi-facets of our lives, from spiritual practice, mystic revelation, and personal awareness to politics, religious observance, and celebration.
Musician, dancer, activist, poet, and author of Evolutionary Witchcraft, she makes her home near the San Francisco Bay. | 
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Don Webb
 | Author and teacher of the mystic, pagan and magic arts.Course:
Cthulhu as your Writing Partner
March 16 - April 12 | | | Don Webb has been a practicing magician for 25 years. He has been the Herald of the Order of the Trapezoid, and High Priest of the Temple of Set, the most sophisticated Left Hand Path group in the West. In addition to this his fiction has been translated into 11 languages and has appeared in Year's Best Horror, Year's Best Science Fiction, Year's Best Fantasy and a Norton's Anthology. Don's work has appeared in venues ranging from Trucker's USA and Gnosis magazine. Don has taught on-line creative writing courses for UCLA since 2002. |
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Dr. Art Rosengarten
 | author, psychologist, poet, buddhist practitioner, artist, and internationally-respected teacher of the modern tarotCourse:
Tarot and Psychology
February 16 | | | Dr. Art Rosengarten is a Jungian-based psychologist in private practice in California for over 30 years. His book Tarot and Psychology: Spectrums of Possibility (Paragon House, 2000), is the primary text of this course and has been hailed “the third major book on Tarot from a Jungian perspective.” |
A former English major during the late 1960s, Art earned both Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (in San Francisco). His landmark dissertation: Accessing The Unconscious: A Comparative Study of Dreams, TAT, and Tarot is the first accredited doctoral study of tarot divination (1985). Art has presented at all three World Tarot Congresses in Chicago (sponsored by the International Tarot Society), joining with many leading teachers of this era, including Mary K. Greer, Rachel Pollack, Angeles Arrien, Lon Milo DuQuete, Cynthia Giles, James Wanless, Ralph Metzner, Stuart Kaplan, and others, to espouse the wonders and versatility of tarot work.
Art is Owner/Moderator of the Yahoo Group TAROTPSYCH, a discussion and consciousness forum with a talented, growing, international membership of serious “tarotpsych” students and practitioners. Art's blog—FarSeeingArt-- is a playful archives of original Ideas, Musings, and CyberExperiments all with a timeless, spiritual flavor that can be viewed at: artrosengarten.wordpress.com. Art has taught The Los Angeles Tarot Circle since 1994, and has taught as Adjunct Psychology Instructor at several graduate schools in Southern California. As a poet, Art won The Consciousness Poetry Slam at Tucson 2 (1997): An International Science of Consciousness Mega-Conference, Sponsored by The University of Arizona.
TNP—Art’s own controversial, unpublished deck (Tarot Of The Nine Paths) was digitally-crafted from Jungian sandplay miniatures to visually capture and illustrate Art's vision of an expanded Major Arcana based on the magical properties of the number 9, which he calls “The Hermit Effect.” TNP will be on permanent exhibit in New Orleans at the ‘Paraplex’ (A Paranormal Laboratory and Museum) within the ghost expedition extravaganza, The Haunted Mortuary (opening 2009). In late December, Art will also be presenting a special all day seminar in New Delhi, India, sponsored by the Tarot India Network, and commemorating the immanent printing and distribution of Tarot And Psychology, in India. Namaste. | 
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Taylor Ellwood
 | Author and teacher of the magic arts.Course:
The Magical Power of LanguageMarch 2 - April 12 | | | Taylor Ellwood is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy, Multi-Media Magic, and Co-Author of Creating Magical Entities and Kink Magic. He is the editor of the Magick on the Edge, Manifesting Prosperity, and The Pop Culture Grimoire anthologies. He is also the managing non-fiction editor of Megalithica Books, an imprint of Immanion Press. Taylor is currently working on two book projects, one a co-written book with Bill Whitcomb, and the other his next solo work Neuro-Space/Time Magic.
When Taylor isn’t busy experimenting with magic or working on one of his many businesses, he’s busy gaming or hiking in the wilds of Oregon |
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