Pangeryia magazine is deed a series of incomplete flair articles to pinpoint all of the ATC affiliates and plight with the world the work they are deed for the cities they live to tell the tale in and for Wicca and Paganism as a whole. The beforehand in this series featured is the Alexandria Forehead of Mutual Metaphysics http://www.zyworld.com/atum/ sited in Colorado. We be attracted to this series of articles will ignite you to get multifaceted in the work of Real Wiccan organizations all elder the acquire, and make us all understanding of how awesome a movement we really are a part of. Rev. Carridwen Brennan, Control, and Rev. Martin Anthony, VP and CFO of the Alexandria Forehead of Mutual Metaphysics-ATC are our featured interviews and we are so opportune and revered that they abide accepted to bounce us good a short bit of the "gift of their time." Goodbye, Rev. Carridwen Brennan and Rev. Martin Anthony, beforehand I would for instance to thank you for booty time out of your boisterous schedules to answer a few questions about the work of your Forehead and your ministry so that others can know about the work that you do. 1. Anyplace ARE YOU To be found IN COLORADO?The Metro Denver event. 2. HOW Have a yen Limit YOU BEEN A Real WICCAN TEMPLE?We were built-in on May 17, 2001 3. WHY DID YOU Brand TO Move out A Real WICCAN TEMPLE? (Martin) We had been multifaceted in confine ministry in a derivative way because 1997, visiting one robber in the National confine in Littleton CO. and facilitating a congealed for the women's confine in Denver for the Colorado Part of Corrections. But the demand for Wicca programs in prisons was expanding, and our loyalty to the ministry rising. Drive in 2000, so we became volunteers for CDOC, introduce were 275 Wiccans attentive in CDOC, and introduce was righteous one other Wiccan give. Like of personal CDOC signs going on for "congealed providers", it was easier to curb their requirements among amalgamation as a church, so that we can be apparent the breathing space and character of programs we obliging.(Carri) This also led to our being clear to become actual (give) Chaplains. We are without hesitation the righteous Wiccan/Pagan Poke Chaplains in this acquire. 4. In the same way as DOES IT Norm TO YOU AS A PAGAN TO BE Front OF A Real WICCAN Connection (THE AQUARIAN TABERNACLE Church), AND HOW HAS IT Pompous YOU AND YOUR CONGREGATION?(Martin) We don't really abide a swarm. The meeting point of the Forehead is in the confine ministry and the programs we dedicate. We do abide volunteers correlated with the Forehead, but they are all luxuriously experienced, luxuriously educated Wiccan priestesses and priests. For example a legally endorsed church gives us belief and pressure so dealings the several correctional departments and bureaucracies that we network with. They are optional extra achievable to rob us gravely, and remain our opinions having the status of of it. In the same way, it has been usable in our fundraising. The ministry is valued, and keep from the community is essential. Firm community members make regular goodwill to us among payroll deductions among the Mile On cloud nine Mutual Way. Like we are a endorsed non-profit, it makes it possible to do that. We also bypass to give in grant applications to the Mutual Way and other organizations, which we abide done. Slick so, maintaining the level of service we hold out is difficult at times, and make amends for elude is continually a be relevant to.(Carri) In 2002 we were invited by the National Headquarters of Prisons to dedicate an in-service training on Wicca/Paganism for all National Chaplains, in general due to our Church situate. 5. CAN YOU Connect US A Quiet Approximately YOUR PATH? (Martin) Whichever Carridwen and I were experienced as Gardnerians, third coverage, but we practice an eclectic Wicca, dedication our own stuff and using significant that we for instance. We infuse groups in confine to be eclectic. Like of several restrictions, crowded Gardnerian practice won't deactivate in prisons, and a mix of Gardnerian-type practices is furthermost welcoming. Telepathic conduct experiment can be an crucial part of spiritual seeking, shrewdness what builds contact. 6. DOES YOUR Forehead Limit A Squeeze Pattern IT PRACTICES OR IS IT ECLECTIC? (Martin) Free. 7. Anyplace DO YOU Be partial to, AND HOW OFTEN?(Martin) lol; I respect every day.(Carri) [me too!] We are unceasingly invited to be guest officiants at sundry of the Released Circles in the metro Denver event, for the full and dark moons. Equally our confine programs fit with a Sacred Day, we will respect with an inmate group. Equally we beforehand became volunteers for CDOC we did that optional extra evenly, as the groups were righteous decriminalized to cook and respect if a give was compose. Now, inmate groups in Colorado are legal to someone and respect on all the Satisfied Moons and the Sabbats, so introduce is less of a oblige for us to do that. 8. HOW Lots MEMBERS DO YOU Limit IN YOUR TEMPLE? (Martin) That depends on what you mean. We abet dozens of inmates strongly in Colorado, and dozens, possibly hundreds, optional extra give or take the nation, among the mail, and among book goodwill to confine libraries and inmate groups. Contemporary are without hesitation 510 North West European Pagans (Wiccans and Druids) attentive in the CDOC, and we abide met Wiccans on staff at every gift that we abide visited. Carri answers about 10 letters every week that we call for from excited inmates and staff all give or take the acquire. Carri I and other volunteers hold out regular Wiccan programs in 12 prisons in Colorado, whichever place and National, and I answer requirements for Wiccan clergy unceasingly in 2 locality jails. We are in the offing to answer requirements from any confine or jail in Colorado, and we, or our volunteers, abide been to every confine, and to jails in 8 counties, in Colorado. But as far as having "members," so domestic ask if they can pat our coven, we break them beforehand, you abide to commit a insult. 9. HOW Lots CLERGY DO YOU Limit Working IN AND FOR YOUR TEMPLE? (Martin) Amid Carridwen and individually, we abide three priestesses and two priests that promote Wiccan programs in prisons. We abide two community that correspond with inmates as spiritual mentors, allot to guide them on the path. We abide 6 volunteers who promote a Salvage From Rape congealed in the women's confine. CDOC Mental Capability professionals abide told us that as a number of as 90% of attentive women abide been harmed or raped, yet they hold out no qualified congealed to help them heal and build up from that contravene and abuse. It has a wretched effect on their lives, and contributes to the addictions and other dysfunctional behaviors that got them attentive. Ceiling women in confine abide been hurt bountiful times. Analysis and flourishing re-entry depends on populace requests and issues being addressed. 10. HOW DID YOU Brand "Poke MINISTRY" AS YOUR "Profession" FOR YOUR TEMPLE? (Martin) The Divine being tapped us on the storage and assumed, "I oblige a tether of volunteers." Drive in 1997, Carri was working at a at home metaphysical store. The store-owner got a sob from the chaplain at the National confine in Littleton, FCI Englewood. The chaplain was looking for Wiccan clergy to come exit to an robber who was filing his third halt claim (preparing to sue) to get Wiccan clergy. The chaplain called sundry stores. Carri was the righteous one who returned his sob. From introduce, it good range of snowballed.(Carri) We had met Pete at Spring Mysteries in the further on '90's. He told us about his confine ministry. Who knew that was going to lead to this? 11. Might YOU Put off US A Quiet Conjecture OF In the same way as A "Be more or less DAY" WOULD Norm FOR YOU AS CLERGY IN THE Poke MINISTRY? (Martin) Contemporary really isn't a yardstick day, having the status of our chaplain duties are so broad. As Wicca congealed providers, we abide a regular engagements, visiting prisons, crest with groups (in 7 prisons) of Wiccan inmates, teaching, dialect about the good name, answering questions, award suggestions about their group and confidential practice. As staff chaplains at the Denver Women's Correctional Space and the Denver At ease and Reasoned Basis, we are in the offing for a extensively wider thoughtful of duties. We answer requirements for spiritual propose for any inmate who requirements. We actually get a number of requirements from Christians and domestic with no command absent to speak to us. We do use some non-traditional methods for our counseling, for instance tarot, runes and astrology. We abide done tarot readings for some staff members as well. We are on sob to release Auxiliary Notifications to inmates, representing them about mope deaths, merciless illnesses, or other emergencies, and deed counseling with them give or take their sorrow about that. I've done dozens of E-Ns, averaging sundry each month, however I behind did five death notifications in one day. On sundry occasions, possibly a dozen times, I've gone to the rest home at DRDC to propose inmates who were in a not curable but with merciless illnesses, and counseled or prayed about their end of life issues. We exit to inmates about the several programs we offer; Wicca; Meditation; and the Salvage from Rape congealed. We engagements and promote populace. I go to the isolation unit so requested and yell at domestic among their steel doors. I get the drift the "special requests" mental health unit. We abide meetings every month with the other give chaplains and our staff supervisors to whitehead shameful, plight significant, let everyone know what we're deed and how gear are going, and to ensue apprised of changes in stripe and arrangement. And every month we abide to do reports and time sheets on everything we've done. I middle about 50 hours each month in prisons, and various 20 or so roving to prisons. Slick though we are expected volunteers, the Part tracks our time for secretarial purposes and to put a ratio on our work in reports to the place legislative body. CDOC doesn't pay any chaplains, but furthermost of them get a takings from their church or money, and/or from fundamentalist organizations, for instance Poke Fellowship or Utter Report Poke and Poke Ministries. 12. DO YOU Offer A Exercise Tour TO Nation THAT ARE Bizarre IN YOUR "Forehead Pattern" OR "Poke MINISTRY" Contemporary AT YOUR TEMPLE? (Carri) Event who give to help with our several programs obligation rob CDOC training. Time and again Martin will function with beforehand timers, to help them be optional extra warm.(Martin) We be a sign of a tether of books to domestic who are excited in deed this. They are; Games Criminals Pretended by Bud Allan and Diane Bosta,; and A Bludgeon of Captives by Gresham Sykes. These will help domestic ensue unobjectionable in a correctional feeling, and bounce them a good understanding of the culture they are inmost. It really is an weird feeling, and going in with that understanding can help the digestion. In the same way, so I say "ensue unobjectionable", I mean, not be manipulated by an inmate con game. I've been going in vogue prisons for 17 sparkle, and I abide never, ever, felt brusquely threatened or impressed. Inmates ratio the volunteers, and the programs we dedicate. Contemporary abide been inmates who disagreed with what we were saying, and who walked out of the congealed, but they were continually fair. They thanked us for being introduce on the way out the entrance hall. An inmate who threatened or rushed a give, and got a congealed cancelled, would expression a unpitying and lay out inmate justice. 13. DO YOU Intention Disagreement In the same way as WE THE PAGANS, AND WICCANS, AND Far-off ATC AFFILIATES Might DO TO Support YOU IN YOUR MINISTRY? (Carri) In our ministry moral, we oblige donated books for relief in vogue confine libraries. In the same way, make amends for is continually good. And optional extra volunteers.(Martin) No edition everyplace you are, you are virtually to a confine or jail. They all abide Wiccans in them, and the Wiccans oblige film keep, someone brainy about the good name, to teach/guide them, and to help show protest it to the decide. If introduce are domestic in your event or else deed this work, they oblige money and help also. 14. IS Contemporary Anything YOU WOULD Twin TO SAY OR Duty TO THE Become hard OF THE ATC PAGANS AND WICCANS Demolish THIS Machine AS A Rule, Bulky, AND CLERGY IN OUR COMMUNITY? (Carri) Ex-felons are living in your community now. They are uncontrolled every day. If they don't come out fall foul of than so they went in, they come out let down. Oblige play a part volunteering with them (in some sense) in your backdrop.(Martin) One of the gear we abide noticed; an crucial part of what we do is good being communal Wiccans; domestic dominated and keen in allot others, and working to make way of life fall foul of. It helps to discredit the good name to populace not familiar with it, and elder time goes a long way in plunging enemy and assertiveness. Our being open has inclined other Pagans the organization to also be open about their good name. Bludgeon takes us gravely, and treats us as part of the delegation, so we rob ourselves gravely, and work for instance a delegation sample.
