Paul Beyerl

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Rev. Paul Beyerl, (pronounced "bye'-rul") born 1945 in Owen, Wisconsin, is known as an author and educator, and particularly as a Wiccan priest, in Wiccan and neopagan circles.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Past Achievements
2 Publications
3 Bibliography
4 Discography
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Biography

With his partner, Beyerl maintains a 45,000 square foot botanical garden on Rose Hill in Kirkland, Washington, which serves as a classroom and a place where students and visitors are able to see medicinal herbs and ornamental plants as they grow.

Beyerl is known as an herbal educator, with a number of popular publications (see 'Publications') in the field. Today Beyerl teaches courses in herbal medicine at Cascadia Community College, Seattle Central Community College and, through The Hermit’s Grove, which he founded, offers an extensive Master Herbalist certification program.

His magickal teachings about herbs could reasonably be described as new age in that they focus on spiritual and 'magical' topics relating to plants rather than being strictly scientific in their content. This fits with his position as a priest of the Wiccan tradition. The Master Herbalist Program, however, works with current scientific and medical research about the nature of herbal medicine.

[edit] Past Achievements

In addition to founding The Hermit's Grove, Beyerl is the founder of The Rowan Tree Church, a Wiccan church that emerged in the mid-1970s in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was granted legal recognition in 1980. He also founded The Mystery School of The Tradition of Lothloriën, which provides extensive studies leading to ordination, in 1981. Beyerl taught in Dallas for two years and in 1991 moved to Los Angeles, California to teach for three years. In 1994 he relocated to Kirkland, Washington, a move which included moving the home office of The Rowan Tree Church.

[edit] Publications

Beyerl began publishing a Wiccan newsletter - The Unicorn - in 1977. It is now among the longest-published Wiccan newsletters in North America, in continuous publication since 1997.

[edit] Bibliography

The Master Book of Herbalism 1984 Phoenix Publishing (ISBN 0-919345-53-0)
A Wiccan Bardo: Initiation and Self-Transformation originally published by Prism Press in England and the U.S. (ISBN 1-85327-036-9) and by Unity Press in Australia in 1989.
Painless Astrology 1997 Hermit's Grove (ISBN 0-9655687-0-9)
The Holy Books of the Devas 1998 The Hermit's Grove (ISBN 0-9655687-1-7)
A Compendium of Herbal Magick 1998 Phoenix Publishing (ISBN 0-919345-45-X)
A Wiccan Bardo, Revisited 1999 The Hermit’s Grove (ISBN 0-9655687-2-5)
The Symbols and Magick of Tarot 2005 The Hermit's Grove (ISBN 0-9655687-4-1)
Gem and Mineral Lore 2005 The Hermit's Grove (ISBN 0-9655687-3-3)

[edit] Discography

The Arts of Healing - Lecture on cassette

[edit] References

Bond, Lawrence & Ellen Evert Hopman (1996) People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out (reissued as Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans & Witches Today in 2002 Destiny Books ISBN 0-89281-904-9) Interview.