A Green Church for a Green Earth



The Church of all Worlds was founded on April 7, 1962 by Tim (now Oberon) and Martha Zell, and Lance and Penny Christie. The CAW was the first of the Neo-Pagan Earth Religions to obtain full Federal recognition in the USA.

The Church of All Worlds is an organisation of individuals who regard the Earth and life on it as sacred. We consider living in harmony and understanding with life's myriad forms as a religious act. Our commonality lies in our reverence and connection with Nature and Mother Earth, seeing Her as a conscious, living entity. We embrace philosophical concepts of imminent divinity and emergent evolution. We are essentially 'Neo-Pagan', implying an eclectic reconstruction of ancient Nature religions, and combining archetypes of many cultures with other mystic, environmental and spiritual disciplines.

With roots deep in the Earth and branches reaching towards the stars, we evoke and create myths not of a golden age long past, but of one yet to come. More than this philosophical attitude, we have created a new tribalism, where we relate to each other as members of a tribe, with interconnecting clans and families. In turn, our tribe is one of the Nations of Earth Religions, bound together by our common love and reverence for our Mother, the Living Earth.

The sacred mission of the Church of All Worlds is 'to evolve a network of information, mythology and experience to awaken the divine within and to provide a context and stimulus for reawakening Gaia and reuniting Her children through tribal community dedicated to responsible stewardship and the evolution of consciousness."

We offer philosophical alternatives to present 'life-negating' paradigms which produce war, profiteering, racism, sexism, exploitation and desecration of our natural resources. Instead, we concentrate on healing the separations between mind and body, men and women, civilisation and Nature, Heaven and Earth. Some of our individual paths include Shamanism, Witchcraft, Vodoun, Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism, as well as science fiction, transpersonal psychology, bodywork, artistic expression and paths of service.


from The Church of All Worlds Membership Handbook