Emerald Rose is Simple Abnormality’s pick for this week’s professionals. More than just a general music band, these guys are also a great group to camp out with as I learned one year during Autumn Meet; being able to listen to Larry play the pennywhistle after breakfast in the misty morning woods was a beautiful experience.

North Georgia denizens Logan Sullivan, Larry Morris, Aurthur Hinds and Cylde Gilbert created Emerald Rose back in 1996 and it’s been a non-stop growth for them ever since. Currently, they have released five CD’s of pagan flavored Celtic American Folk Rock with Con Suite being the latest one.

The boys have played on two soundtracks and headlined The Lord of the Rings Oscar parties back in 2003 and 2004. They also began doing Ireland tours that gather a group once a year to go back “home”. And that is all in addition to still playing local spots in their home state, as well as playing for con’s all across the country.

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Shivian Montar Balaris is the creator of Oh My Gods! The Pagan based comic strip for the polytheistic masses, as well as a professional website and graphic designer.

For more information, please visit his personal site: Shivian.com

To read through past strips and to stay caught up with the new ones, visit this site: Oh My Gods!

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Co-founder of the The British Visionary Artists Group, Neil Geddes-Ward is an extraordinary Pagan artist who has helped to establish what is now known as Pagan and Visionary Art.

His work has been displayed at The Centre For Pagan Studies and he was commissioned by The Rollright Trust to create a work from the Neolithic sites in Oxfordshire. Book illustrations and his own book of art entitled Faeriecraft: Treading the Path of Faerie Magic with his wife Alicen have cemented his work in the landscape of our century’s influential Pagan artists.

Neil and his wife, Alicen have also founded the Orkney Faerie Museum and Gallery in Skelwick, Westray.

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Dr. Rodeny Karr has been therapist and Pagan psychologist for the past 28 years. His practice includes counseling for the GLBT and Pagan communities while running local therapy groups, being an activist, a minister in the Western Mysteries Tradition and running various Jungian Shamanic groups.

In addition to traditional therapies Dr. Karr also works with the Pagan Psychotherapy Processes that focuses on journeys and personal healing for those of us in the Pagan community at large. He currently facilitates over four groves which are: The Monarch Bear Grove , Manannan mac Lir Grove , de Laveaga Grove-The National AIDS Memorial , The Downie River Grove

Dr. Karr is also the founder and director of The Monarch Bear Institute, which fosters education about responsible nature conservancy and land stewardship. The institute is also a consortium of earth based healers and teachers and they are in the process of creating documentary films about eco-spirituality. Click here to learn more about The Monarch Bear Institute

Dr. Karr’s fearless determination to helping people from both the GLBT and Pagan communities since the 1960’s as well as his continued work to protect our natural resources makes him my pick for Simple Abnormality’s Pagan Professional of the week.

Dr. Karr has two offices in California one in San Francisco and the other in Walnut Creek. Location and contact information can be found through his main website below.

For more information on Dr. Rodney G. Karr, his groves or The Monarch Bear Foundation you can visit the following web sites.
Dr. Rodney G. Karr, Pagan Psychologist
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