Timeline of the recent unpleasantness (Why MDE had to resign from REDACTED of REDACTED)
For those who are not up-to-date on my latest "burn him at the stake" worthy sin and heresy, I was recently forced to resign from a Wiccan/Pagan Open Ritual Organization that I have been attending for twenty-plus years (volunteering for over a decade--spent seven years as an official administrative member) because I refused to give up my Wiccan Third Degree (as well as Second and First Degrees) and the use of magical rituals when I became an medical marijuana patient.
To protect the organization's identity (because They must be Real Witches, thanks to their Community Service time and sensible attitude towards Medical Marijuana and Magick)--I am referring to Them as "Cos-Neo," for at one point in the month-long drama, I was told by the New Big Giant Head that "We [the Council] have talked about it, and have decided that membership on the Council is about Community Service, and Not Elevating Ourselves Over Others."
The following timeline proves that the Council of Cos-Neo was my sole source of Wiccan authority, that They were perfectly prompt in addressing their concerns about my medical marijuana status, and were totally correct to claim the right to pre-screen all my future public rituals, as well as making personal, health, and business decisions for me. After all, it is not like I have a twenty-seven-plus year record of community service, vast amounts of training, possibly a better lineage than theirs, and have spent years establishing an author brand. And let's totally ignore the fact that their recently deceased founder and head for over two decades, actually suggested me getting on medical marijuana in the first place and had planned on coming up with some sensible rules for my new life as a pagan who had to smoke That Evil Demon Weed to prevent my head from exploding from three-week-long migraines, bipolar mood swings, and PTSD-inspired panic attacks. No, the only sensible thing to do was to deny my use of medical marijuana--and damn the fact that it increases my future chance of suicide to a absolute certainty.
And whatever you do--don't you dare think that this had nothing to do with my medical marijuana status, and everything to do with the fact that I was working on a book that would position me as an expert (more visible than Them on a international level) on the subjects of Public Wiccan Ritual and Pagan Community Building.
1965: Our villain is born—Cthulhu stirs in his watery bed.
1978: Our villain’s maternal aunt, a British Traditional Wiccan, is murdered.
1984 July: Our villain, fresh from a death in the family, makes first contact with Denver’s occult community.
1985: Our villain cons a witch into giving him the First Degree initiation into Wicca—in later years he would score the additional degrees, all of which happened under dubious circumstances. He also sells his first dubious erotica story.
1988 October: First issue of Hole in the Stone is published.
1991 PRE: Our villain acquires his first student.
1991 Mid: Alia Denny creates Hearthstone Community Church after a public Wiccan ritual is attended by more than a hundred pagans. Adopting a “There is more interest in Wicca locally than anyone can handle by themselves,” Alia created a philosophy of cooperation that allows multiple open ritual organizations, covens, teachers, and discussion groups to mushroom up—effectively ending the First Denver Witch War. Unfortunately, Alia does not filter her events and allows our villain to integrate himself into the ranks of the local Wiccan community. Over the next five years, our villain enchants several witches into helping him amass vast banks of occult power—this five-year period is referred to by our villain as “Denver’s occult community’s Golden Age.”
1992 March: After a year of probation and private instruction, our villain is initiated into the Golden Dawn Neophyte (0=0) Grade by Hathoor Temple (possibly from Case’s operational AO/BOTA lineage).
1994 November: The Inner Order of Hathoor Temple votes to disband rather than honoring their retiring Chief Adept’s choice of replacement.
1996: Our villain writes his first article on Wicca—which is unwisely published in the last issue of Hole in the Stone magazine. With his foot in the door, our villain submits stuff to other pagan magazines, who are all so short of content that they allow his evil influence grow. Our villain meets his future wife, Khari.
1997: To celebrate his victory in conning the unwary and innocent into believing that he is an expert, our villain creates the first version of the EOEW. Rapidly, he is forced (by a wise witch) to resign from his office for an offense that was totally his fault and not someone else’s.
1998: Our villain’s Golden Dawn and Thelemic lineages are “healed,” and if his initiator is to be believed, our villain’s lineage goes through both Regardie and Crowley.
1999: Bast Temple (GD/RR et AC) forms when several ignorant and soft-skulled esoteric students elect our villain to serve as their Hierophant and Chief Adept.
Elsewhere, the Golden Dawn Trademark Wars begin. Our villain starts to blog about the war’s awesomeness, siding with the party that merely wants to control the tradition in order to seduce people into the evils of magic and mysticism, spurring the greatest leader Golden Dawn ever had—the wise and powerful Great Gherkin.
2002: Our villain convinces his future-wife to buy a house with a yard, so that he can seize a part of the drumming community—the evil bastard!
2005: Our villain enters college, becoming more evil with a study of history and literature.
2010: Our villain begins a campaign to rule the entirety of the local occult community by reviving the Cos-Neo’s newsletter.
2012: After years of preparation, our villain cons the University of Colorado at Denver out of two Bachelor degrees (literary studies and history, with minors in economics and religious studies).
Later in the year, out villain cons a Cos-Neo Council member into asking him to join the Council. The villain wholeheartedly agrees to join, and plots to take over the group someday as part of his plan to rule all things magical and witchy.
He follows his foul admission by creating his masterpiece, a most dangerous ritual of black magic disguised as a “fun ritual” which he unleashes on the world.
2014 September: Our villain (unfortunately for the world) survives a brush with stress-related depression which almost ended in his suicide, thanks to the misguided intervention by a witch who had not realized how evil our villain really was.
2015: Our villain seeks mental health care, is diagnosed as a bipolar whack-job, and starts to take Big Pharma while still preforming Goetic ritual, despite the guarantee that it will make him crazier and more dangerous. He also starts to smoke that Demon Weed, claiming its medicine, after the then-Head of Cos-Neo foolishly suggests its use without first consulting with her superiors on the Council. Our villain becomes a source of pestilence, thanks to his openness about his medical marijuana status.
2016: Our villain creates the Thelemic Necronomicon Project, which he claims is about testing a data driven sales model, but is secretly just a way to corrupt the souls of readers who don’t know any better. The founder of Cos-Neo dies. So does his mother-in-law. The heroes of our story wisely prevent our villain from seizing power immediately. His witless wife agrees to spend her inheritance on remodeling the yard, so that her villainous husband can start a new secret cult devoted to awakening the dark god Cthulhu. In the aftermath of the deaths, our villain pulls the plug on the Denver Witch Quarterly, citing that it wasn’t making people evil fast enough. The Second Denver Witch War starts the day after Alia Denny dies as insecure leaders try to become the new voice of Denver’s Wiccan community.
2018 June: Our villain performs an open Wiccan ritual while under the influence of the Demon Weed, causing a rain of fish, an invasion of pepper pots and cyborgs, and the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man to destroy Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Mid-year, out villain quits writing articles for the Cos-Neo newsletter. The Council is relieved that he seems to be giving up his quest to rule the world. Our villain’s evil muse insists that She is only going to help with projects involving giant spaceships.
June, the first Occult Garden Party happens—Cthulhu stirs in his sleep.
2018, December: Our villain signs up for the last open ritual that he planned on doing for Cos-Neo, having decided that it would be more effective to grow evil by making his own brain-washed students do any future rituals required to destroy Cos-Neo.
2019 May: Our villain announces that he is a genius and knows more about performing public ritual than anyone else in the world. He starts writing a book on public ritual, heralding the coming of the end of the world. He tries to force the rest of Cos-Neo to do great evil with him by suggesting that the Council might want to do a follow-up book.
Spring: Khari, the villain’s wife, starts to make marijuana themed pottery.
June, July, and August, our villain shows great disrespect to the Council by sticking to his cunning plan to control every local occultist, claiming that the book is about community building, instead of the judgmental book that it really is.
August 15—the first edition of the Public Ritual and Community Building book goes live briefly before our villain unpublishes it for quality control purposes.
Late August, the Council of Cos-Neo finally snaps out of the trance that our villain had put them under. Waking up from fifteen months of oblivion, the Council is horrified by the death toll—over three billion served tasty death—caused by our villain casting circle and telling stories while under the influence of the Demon Weed. The Council, in a last minute attempt to save the rest of the world, wisely insist on prescreening our villain’s last ritual. They also dogpile him with charges of disrespect, conflict-of-interest, and elevating himself over other wiser and more powerful witches. Our villain claims it is a “one-star” reaction to the first (briefly published) edition of his Public Ritual book. The Council claims to be protecting the community from the greatest evil possible—a practical Wiccan ritual medical marijuana using pagan pothead. The Council of Cos-Neo start to make major policy changes without getting our villain’s vote.
September 13, Glorious Day! Our villain performs his last public ritual for Cos-Neo. Sadly, our villain soon resigns, taking his evil ways to a “positive medical marijuana attitude” event—once again endangering the entire world. Worse, our villain declares that he is bound and determined to open a new Hell Mouth, and continues to carry on his evil pot smoking ways. The whole Denver occult community hides behind the heroes of the story, the enlightened and all-powerful Council of Cos-Neo—fearing that our villain may very well release the hounds of hell onto the world at his next demon weed influenced open ritual. In other words, be afraid—be very afraid.
September 24th, Morgan Drake Eckstein resigns from Cos-Neo after he decides that he has been bullied enough by the other Council members. He swears that he will definitely finish the Public Ritual book.
December 15th or thereabouts, after three months of attempting to finish the second edition of the Public Ritual book, in which MDE keeps trying to convince himself that the recent drama was about something other than professional jealousy, he starts to write an extended rant about Zero Tolerance and Wiccan Purity Tests.
To protect the organization's identity (because They must be Real Witches, thanks to their Community Service time and sensible attitude towards Medical Marijuana and Magick)--I am referring to Them as "Cos-Neo," for at one point in the month-long drama, I was told by the New Big Giant Head that "We [the Council] have talked about it, and have decided that membership on the Council is about Community Service, and Not Elevating Ourselves Over Others."
The following timeline proves that the Council of Cos-Neo was my sole source of Wiccan authority, that They were perfectly prompt in addressing their concerns about my medical marijuana status, and were totally correct to claim the right to pre-screen all my future public rituals, as well as making personal, health, and business decisions for me. After all, it is not like I have a twenty-seven-plus year record of community service, vast amounts of training, possibly a better lineage than theirs, and have spent years establishing an author brand. And let's totally ignore the fact that their recently deceased founder and head for over two decades, actually suggested me getting on medical marijuana in the first place and had planned on coming up with some sensible rules for my new life as a pagan who had to smoke That Evil Demon Weed to prevent my head from exploding from three-week-long migraines, bipolar mood swings, and PTSD-inspired panic attacks. No, the only sensible thing to do was to deny my use of medical marijuana--and damn the fact that it increases my future chance of suicide to a absolute certainty.
And whatever you do--don't you dare think that this had nothing to do with my medical marijuana status, and everything to do with the fact that I was working on a book that would position me as an expert (more visible than Them on a international level) on the subjects of Public Wiccan Ritual and Pagan Community Building.
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| How about telling us how you really feel. |
1965: Our villain is born—Cthulhu stirs in his watery bed.
1978: Our villain’s maternal aunt, a British Traditional Wiccan, is murdered.
1984 July: Our villain, fresh from a death in the family, makes first contact with Denver’s occult community.
1985: Our villain cons a witch into giving him the First Degree initiation into Wicca—in later years he would score the additional degrees, all of which happened under dubious circumstances. He also sells his first dubious erotica story.
1988 October: First issue of Hole in the Stone is published.
1991 PRE: Our villain acquires his first student.
1991 Mid: Alia Denny creates Hearthstone Community Church after a public Wiccan ritual is attended by more than a hundred pagans. Adopting a “There is more interest in Wicca locally than anyone can handle by themselves,” Alia created a philosophy of cooperation that allows multiple open ritual organizations, covens, teachers, and discussion groups to mushroom up—effectively ending the First Denver Witch War. Unfortunately, Alia does not filter her events and allows our villain to integrate himself into the ranks of the local Wiccan community. Over the next five years, our villain enchants several witches into helping him amass vast banks of occult power—this five-year period is referred to by our villain as “Denver’s occult community’s Golden Age.”
1992 March: After a year of probation and private instruction, our villain is initiated into the Golden Dawn Neophyte (0=0) Grade by Hathoor Temple (possibly from Case’s operational AO/BOTA lineage).
1994 November: The Inner Order of Hathoor Temple votes to disband rather than honoring their retiring Chief Adept’s choice of replacement.
1996: Our villain writes his first article on Wicca—which is unwisely published in the last issue of Hole in the Stone magazine. With his foot in the door, our villain submits stuff to other pagan magazines, who are all so short of content that they allow his evil influence grow. Our villain meets his future wife, Khari.
1997: To celebrate his victory in conning the unwary and innocent into believing that he is an expert, our villain creates the first version of the EOEW. Rapidly, he is forced (by a wise witch) to resign from his office for an offense that was totally his fault and not someone else’s.
1998: Our villain’s Golden Dawn and Thelemic lineages are “healed,” and if his initiator is to be believed, our villain’s lineage goes through both Regardie and Crowley.
1999: Bast Temple (GD/RR et AC) forms when several ignorant and soft-skulled esoteric students elect our villain to serve as their Hierophant and Chief Adept.
Elsewhere, the Golden Dawn Trademark Wars begin. Our villain starts to blog about the war’s awesomeness, siding with the party that merely wants to control the tradition in order to seduce people into the evils of magic and mysticism, spurring the greatest leader Golden Dawn ever had—the wise and powerful Great Gherkin.
2002: Our villain convinces his future-wife to buy a house with a yard, so that he can seize a part of the drumming community—the evil bastard!
2005: Our villain enters college, becoming more evil with a study of history and literature.
2010: Our villain begins a campaign to rule the entirety of the local occult community by reviving the Cos-Neo’s newsletter.
2012: After years of preparation, our villain cons the University of Colorado at Denver out of two Bachelor degrees (literary studies and history, with minors in economics and religious studies).
Later in the year, out villain cons a Cos-Neo Council member into asking him to join the Council. The villain wholeheartedly agrees to join, and plots to take over the group someday as part of his plan to rule all things magical and witchy.
He follows his foul admission by creating his masterpiece, a most dangerous ritual of black magic disguised as a “fun ritual” which he unleashes on the world.
2014 September: Our villain (unfortunately for the world) survives a brush with stress-related depression which almost ended in his suicide, thanks to the misguided intervention by a witch who had not realized how evil our villain really was.
2015: Our villain seeks mental health care, is diagnosed as a bipolar whack-job, and starts to take Big Pharma while still preforming Goetic ritual, despite the guarantee that it will make him crazier and more dangerous. He also starts to smoke that Demon Weed, claiming its medicine, after the then-Head of Cos-Neo foolishly suggests its use without first consulting with her superiors on the Council. Our villain becomes a source of pestilence, thanks to his openness about his medical marijuana status.
2016: Our villain creates the Thelemic Necronomicon Project, which he claims is about testing a data driven sales model, but is secretly just a way to corrupt the souls of readers who don’t know any better. The founder of Cos-Neo dies. So does his mother-in-law. The heroes of our story wisely prevent our villain from seizing power immediately. His witless wife agrees to spend her inheritance on remodeling the yard, so that her villainous husband can start a new secret cult devoted to awakening the dark god Cthulhu. In the aftermath of the deaths, our villain pulls the plug on the Denver Witch Quarterly, citing that it wasn’t making people evil fast enough. The Second Denver Witch War starts the day after Alia Denny dies as insecure leaders try to become the new voice of Denver’s Wiccan community.
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| Given the overwhelming concern, this must be what happened, right? |
2018 June: Our villain performs an open Wiccan ritual while under the influence of the Demon Weed, causing a rain of fish, an invasion of pepper pots and cyborgs, and the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man to destroy Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Mid-year, out villain quits writing articles for the Cos-Neo newsletter. The Council is relieved that he seems to be giving up his quest to rule the world. Our villain’s evil muse insists that She is only going to help with projects involving giant spaceships.
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| Occult Garden Parties: "Partying with successful artists, writers, and witches" |
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| Warning: The OGP organizers are both on medical marijuana--demonic possession sure to happen. |
June, the first Occult Garden Party happens—Cthulhu stirs in his sleep.
2018, December: Our villain signs up for the last open ritual that he planned on doing for Cos-Neo, having decided that it would be more effective to grow evil by making his own brain-washed students do any future rituals required to destroy Cos-Neo.
2019 May: Our villain announces that he is a genius and knows more about performing public ritual than anyone else in the world. He starts writing a book on public ritual, heralding the coming of the end of the world. He tries to force the rest of Cos-Neo to do great evil with him by suggesting that the Council might want to do a follow-up book.
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| Because not a single pagan would ever dream of buying this type of stuff, right? |
Spring: Khari, the villain’s wife, starts to make marijuana themed pottery.
June, July, and August, our villain shows great disrespect to the Council by sticking to his cunning plan to control every local occultist, claiming that the book is about community building, instead of the judgmental book that it really is.
August 15—the first edition of the Public Ritual and Community Building book goes live briefly before our villain unpublishes it for quality control purposes.
Late August, the Council of Cos-Neo finally snaps out of the trance that our villain had put them under. Waking up from fifteen months of oblivion, the Council is horrified by the death toll—over three billion served tasty death—caused by our villain casting circle and telling stories while under the influence of the Demon Weed. The Council, in a last minute attempt to save the rest of the world, wisely insist on prescreening our villain’s last ritual. They also dogpile him with charges of disrespect, conflict-of-interest, and elevating himself over other wiser and more powerful witches. Our villain claims it is a “one-star” reaction to the first (briefly published) edition of his Public Ritual book. The Council claims to be protecting the community from the greatest evil possible—a practical Wiccan ritual medical marijuana using pagan pothead. The Council of Cos-Neo start to make major policy changes without getting our villain’s vote.
September 13, Glorious Day! Our villain performs his last public ritual for Cos-Neo. Sadly, our villain soon resigns, taking his evil ways to a “positive medical marijuana attitude” event—once again endangering the entire world. Worse, our villain declares that he is bound and determined to open a new Hell Mouth, and continues to carry on his evil pot smoking ways. The whole Denver occult community hides behind the heroes of the story, the enlightened and all-powerful Council of Cos-Neo—fearing that our villain may very well release the hounds of hell onto the world at his next demon weed influenced open ritual. In other words, be afraid—be very afraid.
September 24th, Morgan Drake Eckstein resigns from Cos-Neo after he decides that he has been bullied enough by the other Council members. He swears that he will definitely finish the Public Ritual book.
December 15th or thereabouts, after three months of attempting to finish the second edition of the Public Ritual book, in which MDE keeps trying to convince himself that the recent drama was about something other than professional jealousy, he starts to write an extended rant about Zero Tolerance and Wiccan Purity Tests.
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| Coming June 2020 |
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