I wrote:

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

Ooops, sorry about that. Including a comma fouled up the url.
Click on this, and this should work.

http://www.witchschool.com/fns/donlewis.asp

They're now claiming over 130,000 students, who've received
"degrees" in Correlian Wicca online, from elders they've
presumably never met, for the most part.

Ed made some real money at this, I guess. Not bad for
somebody without real job skills who was about three steps
away from homelessness when Don and Traci took him in.
A nice little nest egg, and all he had to sell to get it
was his soul.

The real mystery, from my point of view, is how they get
people to fall for this. If the point of religion is the
relationship between Man and the Divine, how can one instruct
or otherwise minister to somebody that one has never met,
and doesn't know? It would be like trying to lay a bridge
without looking at the other side of the chasm it's spanning.
From the point of view of somebody who does teach, albeit
in non-religious areas, correspondence courses are a shaky
idea to begin with, because of that loss of individual
attention, and if what one is teaching is something that
provides one with something that will function as a guide
to life, to a large extent? The potential consequences are
horrendous. That's positively unethical.

Knowing how he raised the money to do so doesn't raise
this project to a higher plane, in my estimation.


Antistoicus