Editing Isaac Bonewits (section)

==Early life and education==
Bonewits was born on October 1, 1949,<ref name=WVObit>{{cite web|url=http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=22549|title=Isaac Bonewits (1949 - 2010) : A Tribute|access-date=January 19, 2012|first=Peg|last=Aloi|work=Witchvox|date=August 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229032753/http://www.witchvox.com/wren/wn_detail.html?id=22549|archive-date=February 29, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[Royal Oak, Michigan]], as the fourth of five children. His father was a Presbyterian while his mother a Catholic.<ref name="Carlson 2010">{{cite web | last=Carlson | first=Jess | title=Isaac Bonewits Enters the Summerland | website=Jess Carlson | date=August 12, 2010 | url=https://jesscarlson.com/isaac-bonewits-enters-the-summerland/ | access-date=November 11, 2022}}</ref><ref name=Guiley>{{cite book |last=Guiley |first=Rosemary Ellen |author-link=Rosemary Ellen Guiley |title=The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft & Wicca |edition=Third |publisher=[[Facts On File]] |isbn=9781438126845|year=2008 |page=34|quote=He also was the last to do so in the United States. College administrators were so embarrassed over the publicity about the degree that magic, witchcraft, and sorcery were banned from the individual group study program.}}</ref> Spending much of his childhood in [[Ferndale, Michigan]], he was moved at age 12 to [[San Clemente, California]], where he spent a short time in a Catholic high school before he went back to public school to graduate from high school a year early. He enrolled at [[UC Berkeley]] in 1966 and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in magic,<ref>{{Cite news| title=Berkeley Student Will Graduate With Bachelor of Arts in Magic |newspaper =[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 1, 1970 |page=24| quote=Among June graduates at the University of California is Isaac Bonewits, who will receive a bachelor of arts in magic.}}</ref> perhaps becoming the first<ref name=WVObit/> and only person known to have ever received any kind of [[academic degree]] in [[magic (paranormal)|magic]] from an accredited university.

In 1966, while enrolled at [[UC Berkeley]], Bonewits joined the [[Reformed Druids of North America]] (RDNA). Bonewits was ordained as a [[Neo-druidism|Neo-druid]] priest in 1969. During this period, the 18-year-old Bonewits was also recruited by the [[Church of Satan]],<ref name=Guiley/> but left due to political and philosophical conflicts with [[Anton LaVey]]. During his stint in the Church of Satan, Bonewits appeared in some scenes of the 1970 documentary ''[[Satanis|Satanis: The Devil's Mass]]''.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063550/|work=Internet Movie Database|title=Satanis|access-date=January 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227101754/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063550/|archive-date=February 27, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Bonewits, in his article "My Satanic Adventure", asserts that the rituals in ''Satanis'' were staged for the movie at the behest of the filmmakers and were not authentic ceremonies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bonewits|first=Isaac|url=http://www.neopagan.net/SatanicAdventure.html|title=My Satanic Adventure|access-date=January 19, 2012|year=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111053132/http://www.neopagan.net/SatanicAdventure.html|archive-date=January 11, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>