![]() ![]() ![]() Second, the origins of CAW and its elevation of Stranger in a Strange Land to the status of inspired scripture will be traced, revealing that many in the 1960s venerated the novel as a source of spiritual wisdom (including Charles Manson and his infamous Family), but that Zell and Christie took this further, in establishing a real-world CAW. Heinlein’s science fiction output is analysed, and the nature of the fictional Church of All Worlds established through an examination of Heinlein’s views on sex and religion. First, Stranger in a Strange Land and Robert A. CAW core doctrines (‘Thou art God’), rituals (water-sharing), and church organizations (nests) are based on those of Heinlein’s fictional church. Tim Zell, now Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, is an influential contemporary Pagan leader, and his church has developed a revolutionary programme for the transformation of Western society. CAW is named for the fictional church in Heinlein’s novel. 1942) and (Richard) Lance Christie (1944-2010) who met at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, and became fast friends. Heinlein’s bestselling science fiction novel, Stranger in an Stranger Land (1961), became the foundational scripture of the Church of All Worlds (CAW), a Gaia-oriented Pagan religion founded in 1962 by two American college students, Tim Zell (b. From the mid-twentieth century Western culture experienced a sharp increase in new religious movements (NRMs). This was significant in past societies where only the most important, authoritative narratives were written down in an age of mass literacy like the twenty-first century, potentially all writings are scripture. ‘Scripture’ is derives from the Latin scriptura, the past participle stem of scribere, ‘to write’. ![]()
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