Editing Isaac Bonewits (section)

==Career==

===1970s: writer and editor===
[[File:IsaacBonewits.jpg|Bonewits (right) at Camp Ramblewood.|thumb|alt=Isaac Bonewits]]

Bonewits' first book, ''Real Magic'', was published in 1971. Between 1973 and 1975 Bonewits was employed as the editor of ''Gnostica'' magazine in Minnesota (published by [[Llewellyn Publications]]). He established an offshoot group of the [[Reformed Druids of North America]] (RDNA) called the Schismatic Druids of North America, and helped create a group called the Hasidic Druids of North America (despite, in his words, his "lifelong status as a [[gentile]]"). He also founded the short-lived Aquarian Anti-Defamation League (AADL), an early Pagan civil rights group.<ref name="Guiley" />

In 1976, Bonewits moved back to Berkeley and rejoined his original grove there, now part of the New Reformed Druids of North America (NRDNA). He was later elected Archdruid of the Berkeley Grove.<ref name="Guiley" />

===1980s: founding of Ár nDraíocht Féin===
Throughout his life Bonewits had varying degrees of involvement with occult groups including [[Gardnerian Wicca]] and the [[New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn]] (a [[Wicca]]n organization not to be confused with the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]).<ref name="A Brief Biography of Isaac Bonewits">{{cite web|url=http://www.neopagan.net/IB_Bio.html|title=Isaac Bonewits' Biography|first=Isaac|last=Bonewits|website=www.neopagan.net|access-date=January 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131214106/http://www.neopagan.net/IB_Bio.html|archive-date=January 31, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- This ref needs to be carefully vetted. It is hosted on Bonewits' own website and while the original Guiley text is WP:V, it is interspersed with Bonewits' own personal additions in brackets and doesn't support all of this info.--> Bonewits was a regular presenter at Neopagan conferences and festivals all over the US, as well as attending gaming conventions in the Bay Area. He promoted his book ''[[Authentic Thaumaturgy]]'' to gamers as a way of organizing ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' games.

In 1983, Bonewits founded [[Ár nDraíocht Féin]] (also known as "A Druid Fellowship" or ADF), which was incorporated in 1990 in the state of [[Delaware]] as a U.S. 501(c)3 non-profit organization.<ref name="Guiley" />  Although illness curtailed many of his activities and travels for a time, he remained Archdruid of ADF until 1996. In that year, he resigned from the position of Archdruid but retained the lifelong title of ADF Archdruid Emeritus.

===Musician and activist===
A songwriter, singer, and recording artist, he produced two CDs of pagan music and numerous recorded lectures and panel discussions, produced and distributed by the [[Association for Consciousness Exploration]]. He lived in [[Rockland County, New York]], and was a member of the [[Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans]] (CUUPS).

Bonewits encouraged charity programs to help Neopagan seniors,<ref name="fn_1">{{cite web|last=Bonewits|first=Isaac|url=http://www.neopagan.net/Adopt-an-Elder.html|title=Adopt an Elder|access-date=January 19, 2012|year=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205061956/http://www.neopagan.net/Adopt-an-Elder.html|archive-date=February 5, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> and in January 2006 was the keynote speaker at the Conference On Current Pagan Studies at the [[Claremont Graduate University]] in [[Claremont, California|Claremont, CA]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://paganconference.com/past-keynote-speakers/|title=Conference on Current Pagan Studies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203012536/http://paganconference.com/past-keynote-speakers/|archive-date=December 3, 2016|url-status=usurped}}</ref>