(Also posted on "Slimebag")

Out of curiosity, I went over to telepathicmedia.com to see
what was going on. Not much, really. Ever since Witchschool
began, Ed's old scams ... er, spiritual endeavors ... seem
to have fallen by the wayside. Most of the links weren't even
working any more, except for one which took me over to Witch
School and the faculty bios, where some mildly amusing
reading was waiting for me.

Quoting from Don Lewis' bio at
http://www.witchschool.com/fns/donlewis.asp, we have :

" Don is also Chief Priest and founding Temple Head of
Chicago's Holy City Temple, founded in 1591 Pisces (1991 AD).

Don is the son of the blv. Lady LaVeda, former Regent of
the Correllian Tradition. Don is the head of the Mabelline
branch of the High-Correll family. He has been an initiated
Priest of the Correllian Tradition since 1576 Pisces (1976
AD), and a Third Degree High Priest since 1579 Pisces
(1979 AD). "


Now, here's reality.

I first met Mr.Lewis in the late 1990s. 1997, I believe. He was
running the so-called "Holy City Temple" out of a small room in
Albany Park, right down the street to the east of the last
stop on the Ravenswood. There was no large group meeting there.
There couldn't have been. Even with only three of us present
at that meeting, the room was getting a little crowded. You
could probably find the location of the old room in an
old copy of "the Pipes of Pan"

That was six years after the alleged start of the temple.
If there was a multitude of other members, we never saw them
appear at Pagan's Night out at Konak's, or at the Pagan
Coffeehouse at Yo Mama's (yes, that's its real name). Not
for years. This leads me to a question.

More than a few of us have had the experience of being stabbed
in the back by Don and his friends, of being subjected to
mudslinging and whispering campaigns carried out at our
expense. This has disrupted a community that Don and Ed
claimed to care greatly about, scattering much of its
membership. Some of us, at first, wondered why.

Maybe this is why. When Ed and Don go out to sell magic
lessons, being able to talk about their years and years
serving as high priest in this family tradition helps their
business. How inconvenient for their sales pitch if those
of us who were there in the community with them, as they
began their rise really not so very long ago, are there to
say "Ed. Don. Get real. We knew you when you barely had a
storefront, and no members of this famtrad you're talking
about were ever to be seen".

Deliberately destroying a community for the sake of getting
rid of the witnesses when they go out to do a little myth
making? Not too cool, but such would seem to be the case.


Antistoicus