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| <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> |
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| <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. |
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| 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]]. |
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| 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. |
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| ==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]
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| * I was in the Boy Scouts before it became evil, and made it to Life Scout (just one rank before Eagle)
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| *I grew up in Houston, TX, and also have lived in New Orleans (Slidell to be precise), Atlanta, Austin, and now San Francisco
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| * I grew up [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian]]
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| * 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
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| * I love to play AD&D, and wish I had time to indulge in it anymore
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| * 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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