Don Frew has been studying witchcraft, magic, and the paranormal since the early 1970s. He has been an initiated Witch for over 40 years. He is an Elder in the Gardnerian and NROOGD Traditions of Neopagan Witchcraft, and High Priest of Coven Trismegiston in Berkeley CA. He and his wife and HPs Anna Korn assembled the 2007 edition of the Gardnerian Book of Shadows, cross-referenced with and expanded by the many BoSs of Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente, and other BoSs around Europe and the US. He has served several terms as First Officer or Public Information Officer for the Covenant of the Goddess (CoG) the largest religious organization for Witches.
He is currently a National Interfaith Representative for CoG and has represented CoG and the Craft in interfaith work for nearly four decades, serving on the Boards of the Berkeley Area Interfaith Council and The Interfaith Observer, on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative (the worlds largest grassroots interfaith organization), and in the Assembly of the Worlds Religious & Spiritual Leaders as part of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions. After coordinating a global interfaith architectural competition – incorporating 160 designs from 17 countries – he edited the resulting book, Sacred Spaces (2004).
He is the founder and Director of the Lost & Endangered Religions Project, serving marginalized religions. He is a founder and President of the Adocentyn Research Library, a Pagan library in the SF East Bay currently including over 19,000 volumes plus journals, Tarot decks, and ephemera.
In the 1970s and early 80s he worked with the Bay Area Group for Bigfoot Research - founded by George Haas - during which time he was present at nine sightings of the creature, seeing the creature himself on seven of those occasion. The primary investigator at this time was author Alan Berry. This resulted in his ending up as the closing segment of the TV program "In Search of... the Monster Hunters".
He is well-known for his presentation “Things that Go Bump in the Night - and What to Do about Them", based in his many encounters with various forms of hauntings.
He has been a consultant on ritual magic and the occult for law-enforcement since the 80s. He is a co-author of “Satanism in America; How the Devil Got Much More than His Due" (Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, 1989), a critical examination of claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse or SRA.
His interest in ancient cultures has led to studying Latin for five years and Middle Egyptian (hieroglyphs & hieratic) for two and a half - at UC Berkeley - as well as to three trips to Turkey and seven to Egypt, while his interfaith work has taken him to 26 countries around the world.
And through it all, he has been an avid gamer. He wrote sections for the RPGs Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, Nephilim, and Mage, and an expansion for the board-game Valley of the Mammoths with friend Greg Stafford. In February 2022, he was named member of the Month by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society and ended up contributing to their 2024 Miskatonic University monograph "The Discovery of Fragments of Kitab al-Azif at Harran" and to the supplementary material for their 2024 radioplay "The Temple of Jupiter Ammon".
He is currently a National Interfaith Representative for CoG and has represented CoG and the Craft in interfaith work for nearly four decades, serving on the Boards of the Berkeley Area Interfaith Council and The Interfaith Observer, on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative (the worlds largest grassroots interfaith organization), and in the Assembly of the Worlds Religious & Spiritual Leaders as part of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions. After coordinating a global interfaith architectural competition – incorporating 160 designs from 17 countries – he edited the resulting book, Sacred Spaces (2004).
He is the founder and Director of the Lost & Endangered Religions Project, serving marginalized religions. He is a founder and President of the Adocentyn Research Library, a Pagan library in the SF East Bay currently including over 19,000 volumes plus journals, Tarot decks, and ephemera.
In the 1970s and early 80s he worked with the Bay Area Group for Bigfoot Research - founded by George Haas - during which time he was present at nine sightings of the creature, seeing the creature himself on seven of those occasion. The primary investigator at this time was author Alan Berry. This resulted in his ending up as the closing segment of the TV program "In Search of... the Monster Hunters".
He is well-known for his presentation “Things that Go Bump in the Night - and What to Do about Them", based in his many encounters with various forms of hauntings.
He has been a consultant on ritual magic and the occult for law-enforcement since the 80s. He is a co-author of “Satanism in America; How the Devil Got Much More than His Due" (Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, 1989), a critical examination of claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse or SRA.
His interest in ancient cultures has led to studying Latin for five years and Middle Egyptian (hieroglyphs & hieratic) for two and a half - at UC Berkeley - as well as to three trips to Turkey and seven to Egypt, while his interfaith work has taken him to 26 countries around the world.
And through it all, he has been an avid gamer. He wrote sections for the RPGs Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, Nephilim, and Mage, and an expansion for the board-game Valley of the Mammoths with friend Greg Stafford. In February 2022, he was named member of the Month by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society and ended up contributing to their 2024 Miskatonic University monograph "The Discovery of Fragments of Kitab al-Azif at Harran" and to the supplementary material for their 2024 radioplay "The Temple of Jupiter Ammon".
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