Gay cults

Today, my husband and I run our own grove in the Central Florida area called Alsos Ampelos which is located in a small town in Central Florida Flagler County on semi-rural acreage of private land. During my time as a Gardnerian, I heard conflicting information about Eddie from those in the Gardnerian community.

Eddie faced quite a bit of adversity within what he considered a heterosexist culture prevalent in Wiccan traditions. I reached out to a friend who I knew was Gardnerian and Minoan. If you would like to know more about Eddie Buczynski this book includes lots of information about him and the Craft in its earliest days in the US.

I would not say this is a seekers book but it is a valuable resource despite a few issues. Each group traces their lineage back to Eddie Buczynski Gwydion. The Brotherhood Initiates work cult skyclad together in groves, in couples, or alone.

The group, which is named after the Greek god Priapus, believes that the phallus is the source of life, beauty, joy, and pleasure. For individuals in the LGBTQ community, the thought of religion or religious groups usually elicit some reaction. He blended elements of pre-Doric Aegean mythology primarily Cretan and Mycenaean with what he had previously learned in other witchcraft traditions.

He started to show some interest in other traditions and started to ask about the Minoan Brotherhood, an initiatory tradition of witchcraft for men who love men. He desired a witchcraft tradition that would speak to gay people which is what bore the Minoan Brotherhood and the Minoan Sisterhood.

A year later this friend became our initiator into the Minoan Brotherhood. We have unique experiences, of both joy and suffering, the fullness of which gives us depth of wisdom and beauty.“. Ceos said that gay men, among others, have unique spiritual paths “because we [sexual and gender minorities] naturally walk among many worlds.

The Minoan Brotherhood is a beautiful tradition that has been both powerful and empowering to me. There are many both mainstream and fringe groups that gay strong, anti-LGBTQ viewpoints. The Minoan Brotherhood is a beautiful tradition that has been both powerful and empowering to me.

I knew it was founded by Edmund M. Buczynski aka Eddie in New York City. That tradition offers a spiritual path for gay men. But as we all know, there are several sides haircut gay each cult.

The Temple of Priapus was founded in Montreal, Quebec, by D. F. Cassidy and has found a following mainly among homosexual men in Canada and the United States. Many of these traditions believe that the inherent polarity in nature should be mirrored in their magical operations otherwise they will fail.

Rather than groups being called covens, they are referred to as groves and ran by a high priest called the Minos. Like many queer seekers, he realized that the underlying heteronormative current embedded in the rites did not speak to him the way they spoke to me.

Working in a Gardnerian-influenced framework Eddie formed the Minoan Brotherhood. [3] Cassidy took inspiration for the Montreal temple from a shortly defunct group of the same name he. The Minoan Brotherhood is a mystery tradition with three degrees of initiation and elevation much like other Wiccan traditions.

He was academically inclined towards archaeology which made him the perfect person to construct a Pagan mystery-cult for the people to whom he felt profoundly connected. In a time where gay people are being attacked and pushed into the shadows, I think it’s important that gay people have access to spiritual traditions that are uplifting to them and for me the Minoan Brotherhood has been that.

The Brotherhood is a Religious Revival for Gay Men. It is an involvement in a reconstruction of the Pagan Mystery-cult worship of the Great Mother Goddess of the Bronze-age Aegean (circa B.C.) and Her Divine Son, who is the Patron of Male Homosexuality.

Gay after my initiation my husband joined my pre-initiation training group. This often is hard for someone who was raised. At the time, I knew almost nothing about the tradition. This belief exacerbated homophobia in some groups that refused to let same sex partners work together or refused gays entry at all.

Additional Reading. We celebrate our rites at the 13 Full Moons and 8 Festivals of the Wheel that are rooted in the Aegean cycles and myths. I asked him if he ever did any public talks about the tradition I would like to know since my husband and I were both potentially interested in initiation.