{"id":1402,"date":"2015-07-28T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2015-07-28T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T02:23:00","slug":"as-chair-of-the-sacred-experience-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/28\/as-chair-of-the-sacred-experience-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"As Chair of the Sacred Experience Committee…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Last month I was elected Chair of the HSA Sacred Experience Committee. \u00a0This was my campaign statement, sans a few small redactions.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Hello, my name is {Satyr Magos}\u00a0and I\u2019m running for the Chairpersonship of the Sacred Experience Committee.\u00a0 Although I may not be well known to many of you, I have attended the Heartland Pagan Festival fifteen times since 1998.\u00a0 I have done my community service with Parking for the majority of those years, and I came as Work Exchange in 2012, working mostly with Traffic and Security, before membering up and working with the SEC for this past year\u2019s festival.<\/p>\n

As Chair of the SEC I will bring to bear ten years of experience leading and facilitating small group rituals as a member of the Lawrence and Kansas City Pagan communities.\u00a0 More broadly, I have been practicing eclectic witchcraft since 1996 and shamanic trance techniques since 2006.\u00a0 I have dedicated the last four years of my life to mastering Ceremonial and Chaos Magick techniques, and as a Classicist I have a strong foundational understanding of how large-scale ritual functioned both logistically and psychologically in pre-Christian society.\u00a0 Together, these areas of expertise and experience will make it possible to oversee rituals which are uniquely effective and impressive, drawing on the Western Mystery Tradition as a whole but grounded firmly in the traditions of modern NeoPagan Witchcraft.<\/p>\n

My vision for the SEC also involves a stronger community presence.\u00a0 After last year\u2019s rituals, I had the opportunity to meet and interact with numerous attendees, and found those experiences to be very valuable.\u00a0 Going forward, I would like for the relationship between the SEC, the HSA as a whole, and the community of festival-goers at large, to be one of greater visibility, greater transparency, and greater accessibility.<\/p>\n

In addition to the three main rituals, the Vision Quest, Tea With Crones, and the other existing duties of the Sacred Experience Committee, I will make the Committee available to the community for facilitating rites of passage, initiations, and guerilla rituals throughout the festival.<\/p>\n

I will strive to make the Sacred Experience Committee a place where outside input is always welcome.\u00a0 I will use the committee to actively recruit new members to the HSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Last month I was elected Chair of the HSA Sacred Experience Committee. \u00a0This was my campaign statement, sans a few small redactions.] Hello, my name is {Satyr Magos}\u00a0and I\u2019m running for the Chairpersonship of the Sacred Experience Committee.\u00a0 Although I may not be well known to many of you, I have attended the Heartland Pagan … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-mC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}