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LIFE In 1966 , while enrolled at UC Berkeley , Bonewits was initiated into the Reformed Druids Of North America RDNA or RDNA. Bonewits was ordained as a Druid Priest in 1969 . During this time period, Bonewits joined the Church Of Satan , but left due to political and philosphical conflicts with Anton LaVey , whom he considered "too right-wing and racist." Bonewits graduated in 1970 with a BA , as the only person to have ever received any kind of Degree in Magic . Gaining a bit of notoriety from this, Bonewits soon earned a book contract for his first book ''Real Magic'' which was published in 1971 . Between 1973 - 1975 Bonewits was employed as editor of ''Gnostica'' magazine in Minnesota. During this time period, Bonewits established an offshoot group of the RDNA called the ''Schismatic Druids of North America'' and helped create a group called the ''Hasidic Druids of North America'', despite his life-long status as a " Gentile ." He also founded the short-lived ''Aquarian Anti-Defamation League (AADL)'' which was an early Pagan civil-rights group. In 1976 , Bonewits moved back to Berkeley and rejoined the RDNA which was now known as the ''New Reformed Druids of North America'' or NRDNA. He was later elected ''ArchDruid'' of this organization. In 1983 , Bonewits founded Ar NDraiocht Fein or ADF, which was incorporated in 1990 in the state of Delaware as a U.S. 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Over the years, Bonewits has had varying degrees of involvement with Santeria , the ''Caliphate Line'' of the Ordo Templi Orientis , Gardnerian Wicca , the New Reformed Orthodox Order Of The Golden Dawn (a Wiccan organization not to be confused with the Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn ) as well as others. Bonewits served as Archdruid of the ADF until 1996 , when he resigned due to the onset of symptoms of Eosinophilia-myalgia Syndrome . Bonewits retains the lifelong title of Archdruid Emeritus of the ADF. He currently lives in Nyack, NY and is a member of the Covenant Of Unitarian Universalist Pagans or CUUPS, and is married to a former vice-president of the organization, Phaedra Heyman Bonewits. Bonewits is currently encouraging charity programs to help Neopagan seniors, and in January 2006 was the key note speaker at the ''Conference On Current Pagan Studies'' at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA . CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEOPAGANISM Bonewits has coined much of the modern terminology used to define and articulate many of the conceptual themes and issues which affect the North American Neopagan community.
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