Episode 8: Grok and Roll (Church of All Worlds)

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The Church of All Worlds (CAW) operates its own website which you can visit here. Keeping true to its aquatic motif inherited from Stranger in a Strange Land, the website invites you to "Enter and Drink Deep." As we mention in the podcast, church co-founder Oberon Zell-Ravenheart also founded the Grey School of Wizardry which you can learn more about here. 

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In writing this episode, we consulted the following primary and secondary sources:

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Primary Sources

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Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1961.

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Zell-Ravenheart, Oberon, ed. Green Egg Omelette: An Anthology of Art and Articles from the Legendary Pagan Journal. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2009. 

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Secondary Sources

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Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. 

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Ben-Yehuda, Nachman. Deviance and Moral Boundaries: Witchcraft, the Occult, Science Fiction, Deviant Sciences, and Scientists. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

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Cusack, Carol M. "Science Fiction as Scripture: Robert A. Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land and the Church of All Worlds," Literature and Aesthetics 19, no. 2 (2009). Available online here. 

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Patterson, Jr., William H., and Andrew Thornton. The Martian Named Smith: Critical Perspectives on Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Sacramento, CA: Nitrosyncretic Press, 2001.

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To learn more about these sources, check out this episode's accompanying blog post.