
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Gus diZerega, author of the new God Is Dead, Long Live the Gods.
My first experience with the Wiccan goddess came during a 1984 Midsummer Sabbat in Berkeley.
That encounter was both the greatest blessing of my life, and its greatest challenge. I had just completed my PhD in Political Science, a field based entirely on secular science, and now I had encountered a being I experienced as more powerful than anything I had ever imagined, more loving than I could have imagined, and more real than I was. And in scientific terms, She could not exist.
That afternoon in Berkeley's Tilden Park led to decades of living two lives while trying to