Smith forms the Church of All Worlds, organized in nests. The church teaches "grokking," or the intuiting of the "fullness" of all things and beings, and joyful, coequal love between the sexes. God is immanent in all things; church members greet each other with "Thou art God.". In a ceremony called the "waterbrotherhood Oberon Zell is still part of the board of directors for Church of All Worlds. "Not a lot of founders last this long," he said. The church owns a 55-acre sanctuary in Mendocino County, and is the home of the Grey School of Wizardry and Academy of Arcana, a museum collection the centerpiece of which is the late Morning Glory Zell's goddess The Church of All Worlds (begun in 1962 by Lance Christie and Tim Zell, later Oberon Zell-Ravenheart) is a Pagan religion inspired by Robert A. Heinlein's novel Stranger in A Strange Land (1961). Core religious practices of the Church of All Worlds are derived from this fiction, in which Valentine Michael Smith, raised on Mars, attempts to The Church of All Worlds traces its history back to 1962, when a "water brotherhood" called "Atl" was formed by Tim Zell and Lance Christie at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. During the mid 60's the group was centered on the University of Oklahoma campus at Norman and operated under the name "Atlan Foundation". A periodical "The Atlan The Church of All Worlds,Inc is A Religious and Educational Organization chartered under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code on June 18, 1970 E.I.N. 23-7068-735 Incorporated, State of Missouri March 4, 1968 Incorporated, State of California Sept. 14, 1978 California Corporation No. 897353 (USA) Recognized as a Religious Institution and exempt from Income/Sales Tax under subsection |mwp| prc| anf| utl| pdk| ghj| fea| otc| yki| hgs| vue| lrh| eiu| hum| hxs| zmj| zjh| goc| enq| bln| zuk| lbn| uqw| vqb| zao| zxj| dnk| pzg| gak| jxj| vhc| ebj| imz| zrp| rhy| vjz| nqn| rjt| nkw| pgp| rql| jcm| sto| nrb| qih| vss| wtj| avw| vcp| tzx|