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Fred Charles-McLaren Adams
Returning to college, he had a life-changing vision of the Goddess one day in 1956 as he walked across the college campus. From this profound experience (he calls it his “thunderbolt experience”), he was inspired to found a Goddess and nature worship group which he eventually incorporated in 1967 in California under the name of “Feraferia”, a joining of two Greek words meaning celebration and wildness. The group flourished for about another 15 years, then slowly became less visible as its’ principles were incorporated into the lives of its’ members and they each went on with their own life journey. Fred and his life partner Svetlana Butyrin have now retired from public life, but continue to create art and ritual on a small scale. The original Feraferia has inspired two new Feraferia groups, one in Arizona and one in Amsterdam. Web SiteNotesMuch can be found on the internet about the early work of Fred and his group, and 10 years of copies of his beautifully illustrated newsletter, Korythalia, are archived in the University of California Santa Barbara’s American Religion Collection, contact: gartrell@library.ucsb.edu |
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Born in 1928, Fred Adams is one of the first people in recent times to
celebrate the Goddess in art, poetry and ritual. He grew up in the
posh suburb of Altadena, Southern California, and was strongly influenced
by his strong-willed but oddly child-like mother (his terms). Fred showed
an early talent for drawing, and as a youth chose to make innumerable sketches
of the Madonna and child. Educated at Stanford in pre-med studies,
he was drafted to the army and made an officer; at which point he made a
successful vow to newer issue a direct command.