A biography of Victor H. Anderson, a leading figure in American witchcraft, paganism and the Feri tradition.

A companion volume to Anderson's award-winning first book of poetry, Thorns of the Blood Rose, these poems were selected by the author before his death to be contained in the present collection. Picking up where the first book left off, the poems explore themes of love, death, the beauty of the natural world, and devotions to the Goddess and God in their many guises. Some of the poems which were deemed too scandalous for inclusion in the previous work are published here for the first time.

Winner of the 1975 Clover International Poetry Competition Award, this collection of ritual and love poetry of witchcraft has been hailed as a classic of neo-Pagan literature.

Written as a gift to the author's husband, the blind poet and shaman Victor H. Anderson, for their 50th wedding anniversary, this book explains the Andersons' work and teachings in the Fairy Faith of the Old Religion--its theology, physics, and social structure. Profound and insightful, this slim volume is packed with information not available anywhere else and is the definitive text on the Anderson Feri Tradition, also known as Vicia.

For the first time, this book explains the Three Selves theory for Witches, Wiccans, and Pagans. Its author, Victor H. Anderson, the renowned poet and founder of the Feri (Faery) Tradition, was one of the last Kahuna. Etheric Anatomy collects rare writings by Victor and his wife, Cora, which demystify etheric sight, astral sex, and Feri prayers and chants (including the Ha Prayer and the Flower Prayer) for aligning the three souls and contacting the God Self. Etheric Anatomy contains information not found in any other book. The Three Selves theory is the foundation of the Feri Tradition of Witchcraft, but informs all seekers who wish to understand the nature of the Self and expand their psychic skills.

Penned by the subject's wife after his passing, this biography chronicles Feri tradition teacher Victor H. Anderson's early life in New Mexico and Oregon. Sharing personal stories about his family, upbringing, and spiritual development, this volume also includes questions and answers that Feri students posed to the author about her husband along with her surprisingly candid replies. The record explores Victor's roots in pre-Gardnerian American Witchcraft, folk magic, and mysticism--what ultimately became the Feri tradition. "Feri Proverbs" are also included, collected by the author and her students from Victor himself during their many years together as well as rare letters that the subject wrote addressing his beliefs and values.

In this study, Victor Anderson traces instances of "ontological blackness" in African American theological, religious and cultural thought, arguing that African American critical thought has been trapped in a racial rhetoric that it did not create and which cannot serve it well. Drawing together 18th- and 19th-century accomodationism and its assimilationist heirs with the movements of Black Power and Afrocentrism, Anderson shows that all exhibit a similar structure of racial identity. He suggests that it is time to move beyond the confines of "the cult of black heroic genius" to what Bell Hooks has termed "postmodern blackness": a racial discourse that leaves room to negotiate African American identities along lines of class, gender, sexuality, and age as well as race.