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| - | <div style="border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;"><div style="padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;">'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Ash&action=edit§ion=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:ash@ashami.com email me] | [http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=ash93 my blog] | [http://www.ashami.com my website] | [[User:Ash/My Philosophy|my philosophy on Thelemapedia]]</div><div style="border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;"> | + | <div style="border:3px solid #666;padding:3px;margin-top:10px;"><div style="padding:8px;background-color:#ccc;position:relative;top:0;left:0;margin-bottom:3px;text-align:center;font-size:11px;">'''[http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Ash&action=edit§ion=new Leave me a message]''' | [mailto:ash@ashami.com email me] | [http://www.ashami.com my website] | [[User:Ash/My Philosophy|my philosophy on Thelemapedia]]</div><div style="border:1px solid #666;padding:15px;"> |
| <center>''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''</center> | <center>''Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''</center> | ||
| - | <br/>[[Image:Ash_thefool2.jpg|right|frame|Fr. Ash, OTO zealot & future psychologist]] | + | Greetings! My name is '''Frater Ash''', the founder of Thelemapedia, which started in early 2004 and finally came online on September 18 of that year. I worked as its Managing Director until oct. 26, 2005. |
| - | Greetings! My name is '''Frater Ash''' (A.K.A. John Bowie, but really, everyone except my mother calls me Ash, so I hope you do, too). I am the founder of [http://www.thelemapedia.org/about_thelemapedia/index.html Thelemapedia], which started in early 2004 and finally came online on September 18 of that year. I worked as its Managing Director until oct. 26, 2005. | + | By the time of my "retirement", I had been a proud member of Scarlet Woman Lodge, a chartered local body of [[Ordo Templi Orientis|O.T.O.]], since 1995. By 2005 I had earned a charter to [[initiation|initiate]] members into the degrees 0 through III, and taken Orders of Ordination into the Priesthood of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]]. |
| - | Thelemapedia is a project of [http://www.scarletwoman.org Scarlet Woman Lodge], a chartered local body of [[Ordo Templi Orientis|O.T.O.]], of which I have been a proud member since 1995. During my time in O.T.O., I have earned a charter to [[initiation|initiate]] members into the degrees 0 through III, and I've taken Orders of Ordination into the Priesthood of [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]], the church arm of the Order. | + | In 2007 I officially retired from active membership in OTO. |
| - | ==Other stuff== | + | If you are interested in non-theistic and non-supernatural spirituality, I invite you to visit my new site, [http://www.sacredriver.org Sacred River]. |
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| - | Professionally, I was a graphic designer from 1989 (when I graduated from The Art Institute of Atlanta) until 2002. Within that time, I won several national awards for design excellence, and had some pretty big clients. However, with the combination of extreme burnout and a recession, I decided to give up designing for a living and return to college. So, at the age of 34 I enrolled back into the University of Texas at Austin (I had gone for 2 years in the early 90s), with only a vague notion of what I wanted to do. At first I considered anthropology. But I soon gave that up after taking some psychology courses...I had found my path. | + | |
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| - | However, I still had to earn a bachelors degree. I knew that I wanted to persue a clinical education, and the psychology department at UT was ''waaay'' too research-focused for me. So, I instead decided to enter the UT School of Social Work, which offered far more by the way of clinical knowledge. I am pleased to say that in May of 2005, I graduated with my Bachelors of Social Work. ''Whew!'' | + | |
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| - | Of course, the bachelors was only half the battle. I knew from the get go that I would need graduate work. So, after a grueling process of applications, studying and taking the GRE, writing long heart-felt essays, and flying to go to interviews, I was accepted into my school of first choice! In August of 2005 I started the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) at the [http://www.ciis.edu California Institute of Integral Studies], located in San Francisco. It has been an amazing (and frustrating and tiring and scary) experience moving to this fantastic city. | + | |
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| - | ==Personal tidbits== | + | |
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| - | * I am married to the lovely and talented [http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=alethea93 Sr. Alethea] | + | |
| - | * I was in the Boy Scouts before it became evil, and made it to Life Scout (just one rank before Eagle) | + | |
| - | *I grew up in Houston, TX, and also have lived in New Orleans (Slidell to be precise), Atlanta, Austin, and now San Francisco | + | |
| - | * I grew up [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian]] | + | |
| - | * In high school I was a big time tennis player and was working my way towards going on tour until I broke my wrist during practice, and that was that | + | |
| - | * I love to play AD&D, and wish I had time to indulge in it anymore | + | |
| - | * I am a Macintosh freak | + | |
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| - | ==Contact== | + | |
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| - | If you would like to contact me, feel free to send me an '''[mailto:ash@ashami.com email]'''. | + | |
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| - | You can also check out my sporadic blog on LiveJournal, where I go by the username '''[http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=ash93 Ash93]'''. | + | |
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| <center>''Love is the law, love under will.''</center> | <center>''Love is the law, love under will.''</center> | ||
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Revision as of 01:28, 25 Jul 2009
Leave me a message (http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Ash&action=edit§ion=new) | email me (mailto:ash@ashami.com) | my website (http://www.ashami.com) | my philosophy on Thelemapedia
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Greetings! My name is Frater Ash, the founder of Thelemapedia, which started in early 2004 and finally came online on September 18 of that year. I worked as its Managing Director until oct. 26, 2005.
By the time of my "retirement", I had been a proud member of Scarlet Woman Lodge, a chartered local body of O.T.O., since 1995. By 2005 I had earned a charter to initiate members into the degrees 0 through III, and taken Orders of Ordination into the Priesthood of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.
In 2007 I officially retired from active membership in OTO.
If you are interested in non-theistic and non-supernatural spirituality, I invite you to visit my new site, Sacred River (http://www.sacredriver.org).
Love is the law, love under will.