M. Macha Nightmare Explained

M. Macha NightMare (Aline O'Brien) is an American Neopagan witch.[1] [2] She was born in Milford, Connecticut and was one of the founders of the Reclaiming Collective in the 1970s.[3] [4]

In Witching Culture, Sabina Magliocco noted that Nightmare played a key role for several years in the "Spiral Dance", a ritual and dance commemorating the dead performed by Reclaiming for the San Francisco Bay community's Samhain holiday.[5] Nightmare's comments on significant aspects of the emergent Neopagan culture appear throughout Magliocco's book: trance and deity possession,[6] the importance of dance in ritual,[7] rites of passage,[8] design of an initiation ceremony,[9] and the role of folklore in the development of Neopagan consciousness.[10] Jone Salomonsen also cited Nightmare as an authority on Neopagan culture in San Francisco throughout her 2002 book, Enchanted Feminism.[11]

In 2012 NightMare left the Reclaiming Collective, citing that she and the current form of the Reclaiming Collective were incompatible.[12] [13]

NightMare represented Pagans on the Biodiversity Project Spirituality Working Group. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion, Nature Religions Scholars Network, Marin Interfaith Council, United Religions Initiative, Interfaith Center of the Presidio, as well as serving on the Advisory Councils of the Sacred Dying Foundation, and PEARL (Pagan Elders Assistance and Resource League).[14] In 2019 she founded the Earth-based Spirituality Action Team within Citizens' Climate Lobby.[15] In addition, she serves on the Board of Directors of Cherry Hill Seminary.[16]

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  1. News: Miller. David. FINDING MY RELIGION / Neo-pagan witch on celebrating the dead and casting spells. 13 November 2012. SF Gate. October 31, 2005.
  2. Book: Rabinovitch, Lewis. Encyclopedia Of Modern Witchcraft And Neo-Paganism. 2002. Citadel Press. 0806524065. 190–191.
  3. Book: Adler, Margot. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America. 2006. Penguin. 9781101549766. 131–132. Rev.. 13 November 2012.
  4. Web site: Michael. Jason. Spotlight on: M. Macha NightMare. PrideSource. 13 November 2012.
  5. Book: Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (Contemporary Ethnography). Sabina Magliocco. May 10, 2004. 123. University of Pennsylvania Press. 0-8122-3803-6.
  6. Magliocco, p. 166
  7. Magliocco, p. 170
  8. Magliocco, p. 134
  9. Magliocco, p. 174
  10. Magliocco, p. 40
  11. Book: Enchanted Feminism: Ritual, Gender and Divinity Among the Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco. limited. Jone Salomonsen. December 21, 2002. Routledge. 199. 0-415-22393-8.
  12. Web site: Nightmare. M. Macha. A Co-Founder Leaves Reclaiming Tradition. WitchVox.com. 13 November 2012. 24 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140924064259/http://www.witchvox.com/vn/vn_detail/dt_no.html?a=usca&id=18055. dead.
  13. Web site: Pitzl-Waters . Jason . Pagan Community Notes: Maetreum of Cybele Loses Case, M. Macha NightMare Leaves Reclaiming, New Alexandrian Library Raises Funds, and Spiral Scouts Step Up . the Wild Hunt . 9 May 2021 . 7 August 2012 . M. Macha NightMare (Aline O’Brien), a co-founder of the Reclaiming tradition, and co-author of “The Pagan Book of Living and Dying” with Starhawk, has announced on her blog that she is parting ways from the tradition she helped found, saying she “no longer feel[s] that its principles and practices accord” with her own. . 9 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210509215314/https://wildhunt.org/2012/08/pagan-community-notes-maetreum-of-cybele-loses-case-m-macha-nightmare-leaves-reclaiming-new-alexandrian-library-raises-funds-and-spiral-scouts-step-up.html . dead .
  14. Book: Exploring The Pagan Path: Wisdom From The Elders. 2005. Career Press. 9781564147882. 137. Kristen Madden. About the Author: M. Macha NightMare. 13 November 2012.
  15. News: 2019-09-16. Pagan Community Notes: Coru Cathubodua and Circle of Cerridwen exit PantheaCon, Citizen's Climate Lobby adds Earth-based spirituality team. The Wild Hunt. 2020-08-30.
  16. Web site: Aline O'Brien >> Cherry Hill Seminary. Board of Directors. Cherry Hill Seminary. 13 November 2012.
  17. Book: Davy, Barbara. Introduction to Pagan Studies. 2006. AltaMira Press. 0759108196.

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