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"My
life has been dedicated to finding answers to the big questions.
What is life? What is reality? Is there a purpose or a design?
What or who is deity? The path of searching has lead to greater
questions and ultimately to the realization that the path itself
is of utmost importance, and not the revelation of answers
to life's questions. All things function together as a complete
whole. To that end, my search is your search as well. The road,
the wanderings, teaching, learning...its all right here,
contained in this infinite moment."
--Timothy
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Timothy
holds
a master's degree in clinical psychology, is a Homeopathic Practitioner,
a Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist, and a credentialed School Psychologist. He currently works
full-time as a Homeopath
in the Los Angeles area. Timothy has been a
student of Wicca for over twenty years and has served as the spiritual
director and principal teacher for the EarthDance Collective, a Wiccan
community in Los Angeles. For the past eight years, Timothy has additionally
cultivated studies in Zen Buddhism 
and has been associated with the Zen Center
of Los Angeles. Timothy
began his Wiccan studies with Oruborous et Ova, a Los Angeles based
Gardnerian Wiccan group. For five
years Timothy served as High Priest for O.E.O. and he subsequently established
EarthDance, a "hive" group that evolved from the O.E.O.. Timothy later studied global shamanism with Michael Harner
and he began in-depth research into mythology, folklore, psycho/spiritual
symbolism and world religions. He also returned to the academic world by
attending Antioch University,
where he later received his master's degree in clinical psychology. His
studies in Depth Psychology emphasized the Jungian use of myth, dream,
and symbol in a clinical setting. When he began his tenure with
the O.E.O., he also started a friendship and spiritual alliance with Varda Ninna, a High Priestess in his lineage
who was attuned to the world political scene and Wicca as feminist spirituality.
It was this
variety of influences that engendered Timothy's unique understanding of the Wiccan path.
Timothy came to embrace Wicca not only as world-religion and the
contemporary Western fulfillment of global mythic/shamanic archetypes, but as a means of self-transformation, healing and
mystical awakening. From this vision came changes for EarthDance, which subsequently became the EarthDance
Collective, a group that practiced Wicca within a British Traditional
framework, but that also emphasized transformative shamanic and global
mystical techniques. Timothy
is the author of four books, The Once Unknown Familiar,
the Small Press Award Winning Dark Moon Mysteries and the
critically acclaimed Apprentice to Power. His most recent
title, Wicca: A Year and A
Day, has been listed as a bestseller through both Llewellyn Publications and Barnes and
Noble Booksellers. He has been a contributor to such publications as the Witches' Calendar (Llewellyn Publications),
and Finding
New Goddesses (by Barbara Ardinger). He has been featured in The Encyclopedia of Wicca
and Witchcraft (by Raven Grimassi), and A Witch Like Me (by
Sirona Knight).
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