Church of all worlds

The First Church of the Neopagan Movement- The Church of All Worlds

By abuchala
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    "The Atlan Torch"

    The Atlan Torch was published during this time period.
  • "Stranger in a Strange Land"

    "Stranger in a Strange Land"

    Founder Oberon Zell, formerly known as Tim Zell, shared his first water-bond with Lance Christie called an "Atl" at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

  • Atlan Foundation

    Tim Zell and Lance Christie formed a group based on the book, "Stranger in a Strange Land," called The Atlan Foundation during the mid 1960s centered at the University of Oklahoma.

  • Church of All Worlds Legalized

    The Church of All Worlds was legally incorporated
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    Gaia Thesis

    The most important thealogical statement came in revelatory
    writings by Zell in 1970-73. This was the Gaia Thesis, which stated that the planet is a single living organism, Mother Earth.

  • Nestings Founded

    In 1974, the Church of All Worlds found nests in Missouri, California, Illinois,
    Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
    New Jersey, New York, and Ohio.

  • Tim Zell Changes Name to Otter

    He changed his name because of a vision that he had

  • Only Suriving Nest

    By the mid-1980s CAW survived only in California,

  • 30th Anniversary

    1992 was the 30th anniversary of the Church. A Grand
    Convocation was held in August, with an attendance of nearly 300.

  • Membership reaches 600 in attendance

  • Chartered Nest and First Pagan Church in Country

    As of 1993, the Church has ten
    chartered nests in California, with others in Florida, Illinois,
    Arizona, Maryland, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Australia (where CAW has
    become the first legally-incorporated Pagan church in the country