Contributors
Anasya Atkins is a journalist, photographer and hypnotherapist. She has also raised champion collies and horses. She currently lives Seattle, Washington where she is a freelance writer.
Baba Raul Canizares was an author, artist, scholar and respected religious leader. He is founding Oba of the Orisha Consciousness Movement based in New York City. His books include Cuban Santeria: Walking With The Night, The Life & Works of Marie LaVeau, Spiritual Cleansings & Psychic Defense (under the name Robert Laremy), Eshu-Eleggua Elegbara: Santeria & the Orisha of the Crossroads, The Book on Palo (reviewed in this issue) among others. For more information see dedication to this issue. http://www.babaraul.com
Sven Davisson received a degree in Critical Theory & Cultural Studies from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. In addition to being Ashé editor, his work has appeared in The New Aeon, Abrasax: Journal of Magick & Decadence, sneerzine and mektoub. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion. He lives on an island off the Maine coast with four dogs, a parrot and lover of 11 years. His personal homepage is: www.geocities.com/svendavisson
Jan Fries is the author of several books including Helrunar: A Manual of Rune Magick which is available in a new revised and improved edition from Mandrake of Oxford (450pp, at £15 postfree). Jan’s homepage is www.noctilucae.com/janfries/janfries.htm and includes an essay on places of power, extracts, etc.
Gail Gutradt is massage therapist, business woman sage, world traveler and spiritual explorer.
Trebor Healey has published poetry in The James White Review, Long Shot and Chiron Review. He served as co-editor for the award-winning Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco. His novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, will be in bookstores Fall, 2003, and his fiction has appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2003, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Blithe House Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Velvet Mafia.com and Ashé! http://www.treborhealey.com
Mary Hedger is the author of History of Fun a sex magick novel published by Mandrake of Oxford. Her website Mauvezone is http://www.mauvezone.screaming.net
Chaitanya Keerti is a long-time disciple of Osho. He is a former editor of the Hindi edition of The Rajneesh Foundation Newsletter and worked in the Osho Ashram press office for over a decade. He currently runs the Osho World Foundation and Osho World Galleria in Delhi. keerti@ oshoworld.com
Yoga Laxmi was the first disciple initiated by Osho (then Acharya Rajneesh). She served as his personal secretary from the early seventies through to 1981. Her autobiography Journey of the Heart is available online at oshoworld.com.
Eric K. Lerner combines outstanding credentials in the areas of writing, spiritual ministry, divination, and art. He has served for the past five years as a priest of the Yoruba arch-divinity Obatala. As such, he has conducted weddings, initiations, spiritual counseling and divination for a multi-cultural group of people, including African-Americans, white, Jewish, Christian, Wiccan and Yoruba religious practitioners. As a diviner, he was named “Best Psychic for 2001” by the City Paper. He has taught workshops on Santeria essentials and Tarot divination. He teaches tarot divination, Yoruba religion, and other spiritual topics. As an author, he has written two books AIDS Crisis in America (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio) 1998 and with Baba Raul Canizares, Babalu Aye Santeria and the Lord of Pestilence (Plainview, NY: Original Publications,) 2000. His article “Santeria’s Healing Path” appeared to wide acclaim in the Winter 1998 Issue of Shaman’s Drum magazine. Currently, he is illustrating a book by Nigerian writer Ibukun Olatunji and writing a book on combining the Thoth Tarot with Astrology and Kaballah with co-author Bozana Antic. Mr. Lerner’s website is http://www.voiceofthoth.com.
Mogg Morgan is a respected occult publisher and owns Mandrake of Oxford http://www.mandrake.uk.net. He is an author whose work includes: The English Mahatma, Sexual Magick (under the name Katon Shual) and Tankhem (reviewed in this issue).
Autumn Pardee is a renaissance man. At 29 he aspires to be: Photographer, Actor, Film Maker, Writer, Philosopher, Activist, Friend to the environment, citizen of the world. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Community Development, writing, and making documentaries in the Pacific Northwest. Contact info: autumn@infoasis.com.
Pranavananda Brahmendra Avadutta Swamigal has spent over 30 years in India He currently runs an ashram in the Kuoli hills.
Prem Arun has been a sannyasin for 16 years.
Rupda is the organizer of Kids In Divine Spirit (K.I.D.S) a alumnus group of children who grew up within the Osho/Rajneesh movement. http://www.rupda.com.
Shri Sahajananda was one of the founders of The Servants of the Star and the Snake. For many years he edited the ground-breaking American magickal journal Abrasax and, later, the trantrik journal The Trident.
Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971, New York) is a full-time author and anthologist, who's published over 50 books, including Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories (Sherman Asher), Kosher Meat (Sherman Asher), His Tongue (North Atlantic), Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica (with Carol Queen; Cleis Press), The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet), and Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet) among others. His PoMosexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality (with Carol Queen) won a Lambda Literary Award in 1998 and other of his titles have been finalists for the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, Small Press Book Award, and Spectrum Award. His work has been widely anthologized in The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Best of the Best Gay Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories, Gay Love Poetry and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, among many others. His writings have been published abroad in Basque, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish translations. His website is http://www.circlet.com/schimel.html. He currently lives in Madrid, Spain and New York City.