Academics:

She holds Honours Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology and Religious Studies. Her two honours theses focuses on religious transformation among stressed cultures, and gender and superstition among the Mbuti Pygmies of the Congo. She also holds a Bachelor of Education and works in languages. She spent two years living and working Korea, learning also about the traditional ways of the Korean people.

Music:

Music has always been a part of her life and Craft. She uses a variety of styles of music to express ideas and feelings common to pagans all over. Her two pagan CDs are called Revisiting Sacred Space, and Hidden. News, information and CD ordering can be found at www.vedmi.com/castalia.html

Metaphysics:

Castalia has been part of the Pagan Community in Ontario for over twenty years. She is an Odyssean Priestess with the Wiccan Church of Canada, and is a practicing Alexandrian Witch. She is also an initiate of the Temple of Thelema, which has been fondly called “The Thelemite Golden Dawn.” Through her magical studies she has come to profoundly respect Carl Jung and his contributions to the understanding of the psychology of magic.