American Women — New age/Wicca

  • Joanna Brouk / Conch Shell: the Sea at Sunset (1973)

    Joanna Brouk: Conch Shell: The Sea at Sunset (1973). Joanna Brouk was born in 1949 in St. Louis Missouri. She resides in Berkeley, California, where she composes electronic music and writes poetry. She produces a radio program on KPFA Radio incorporating music of a spiritual nature from many ethnic catagories as well as electric rock…

  • The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller, and Lauren Pillsbury

    The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller and Lauren Pillsbury, interspersed with music by Joanna Brouk. Broadcast on Christmas Day, 1972. Rebirth of Innocence. Produced by Joanna Brouk.

  • Majority report, November 18, 1982: Schlafly v. English, Olivia’s 10th Birthday, Update on Silkwood, Planetary conjunction

    Marci Lockwood and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, November 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Highlights from anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly and Mother Jones editor Deirdre English’s debate on the role of women in San Francisco on November 17, 1982 — 3. Julia Randall reports on the preparations for Olivia Records’ 10th…

  • Pagan press review: Anti-defamation attempts by Pagans (Episode 3 of 4)

    this third episode of Pagan press review will focus on modern day persecution and defamation of Pagans, and the attempts by Pagans to fight back. Includes readings from the following: “The aquarian manifesto” by Isaac Bonowitz available either in The Samhain, The Green Egg (Missouri) or the October Gnostica News; “Witch burning now and then”…

  • Pagan press review: Wiccan feminist journals (Episode 1 of 4)

    A program reviewing the journalism of contemporary earth religions such as Feraferia, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the Eternal Source and of course Wicca. Journals include The New Broom, Nemeton, The Witches Trine, Korythalia, Earth Religion News, and The Green Egg. This program attempts to show that the roots of our current…

  • Pagan press review: Matriarchy (Episode 2 of 4)

    This second program in the series “Pagan press review” will take up the question of matriarchy, and it’s relationship to Pagan beliefs and ideals. In this program you will hear readings from: portions of three articles on Matriarchy, published in the first and second issues of Nemuton Magazine; the anthropological paper by Paula Webster and…

  • Pagan press review: A rational view of magic (Episode 4 of 4)

    This program attempts to come up with a definition of magic acceptable to even the most hardened skeptic. Producer Margot Adler says, “Magic could be defined as the acknowledgement, acceptance, and use of unseen but natural forces.” Sources used in this program include: An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present by Doreen Valiente, St. Martin’s…

  • Marion’s cauldron looks at Salem / hosted by Marion Weinstein (Episode 6 of 15)

    Discussion of witchcraft and witch hunts in colonial Salem. Part VI of the series “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Hosted by Marion Weinstein.

  • Bard at large / Rae Lake Costos.

    Rae Lake Costos is the “Bard at Large” of KPFT, Houston. She defines a bard as a person who travels about carrying the news of heroes from place to place. In our age, the heroes are those who help us define what spiritual freedom is. While visiting from Houston, Ms. Costos recorded these thoughts about…

  • The Witch (Episode 2)

    Sybil Leek, journalist, writer and lecturer, and witch, meets the panel consisting of Geraldine Diepeveen, Michele Greenhill, and Tiger Slavik, housewives and apprentice witches. They discuss the ancient, pre-Christian occult religion of witchcraft, which involves acceptance of a power greater than one’s self, and the idea of reincarnation. They discuss ceremonies, why the religion doesn’t…