2025-09-16T18:31:36-05:00 2024-12-31 946357165 MOWAT MACKIE & ANDERSON LLP 555 12TH STREET SUITE 1200 OAKLAND CA 94607 990EZ 2024-01-01 471844134 ADOCENTYN RESEARCH LIBRARY ADOC 5107252140 1029 A SOLANO AVENUE ALBANY CA 947061684 ANNA KORN TREASURER 5107252140 2025-09-01 1 1 LORNA PADIA MARKUS P00046130 5108931120 2025-09-01 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X WWW.ADOCENTYNLIBRARY.ORG X X 54039 X 50839 1530 1443 1443 227 54039 1081 48818 23 3999 53921 118 12809 -6804 6123 X 8370 3099 4439 3024 12809 6123 0 0 12809 6123 X THE PURPOSE OF THE ADOCENTYN RESEARCH LIBRARY IS TO COLLECT, ARCHIVE, PRESERVE AND MAKE AVAILABLE INFORMATION RELATED TO PAGANISM - UNDERSTOOD AS INDIGENOUS, TRIBAL, POLYTHEISTIC, NATURE-BASED, AND EARTH-CENTERED RELIGIONS, SPIRITUALITIES, BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD AND THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY. THIS INCLUDES A BROAD RANGE OF INFORMATION ON PAGAN DIVERSITY, HISTORY, BELIEFS, ADHERENTS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND MANY RELATED AREAS OF STUDY FOR USE BY PAGANS, RESEARCHERS, AND SCHOLARS. COLLECT, ARCHIVE, PRESERVE AND MAKE AVAILABLE INFORMATION RELATED TO PAGANISM - UNDERSTOOD AS INDIGENOUS, TRIBAL, POLYTHEISTIC, NATURE-BASED, AND EARTH-CENTERED RELIGIONS, SPIRITUALITIES, BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD AND THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY. 0 53920 53920 GUS DIZEREGA BOARD MEMBER 1.00 0 0 0 DIANA PAXSON BOARD MEMBER 1.00 0 0 0 GLENN TURNER BOARD MEMBER 1.00 0 0 0 ROWAN FAIRGROVE SECRETARY 1.00 0 0 0 DONALD H FREW PRESIDENT 20.00 0 0 0 ANNA KORN TREASURER 25.00 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA ANNA KORN 1029 A SOLANO AVENUE ALBANY CA 94706 5102803911 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 24410 28641 63150 49886 50839 216926 24410 28641 63150 49886 50839 216926 170092 46834 196 188 1670 2054 218980 1530 0.21390 0.16680 X ADOCENTYN RESEARCH LIBRARY MAINTAINS A CONTINUOUS PROGRAM FOR SOLICITING FUNDS FROM THE PUBLIC THROUGH DONATION AND MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS OFFERED ON THE LIBRARY WEBSITE. WE PROVIDE TWO LOCATIONS OF LIBRARY FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR USE BY RESEARCHERS, SCHOLARS, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONSISTS OF PEOPLE HAVING SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD RELATED TO ADOCENTYN'S MISSION. THE CURRENT BOARD MEMBER BIOS ARE LISTED BELOW:ANNA M. KORN ARL CO-FOUNDER, BOARD MEMBER, AND TREASURER OF THE ADOCENTYN RESEARCH LIBRARY. ANNA IS AN ELDER OF THE GARDNERIAN TRADITION OF WITCHCRAFT AND HIGH PRIESTESS OF COVEN TRISMEGISTON IN BERKELEY CA. SHE IS ALSO AN INITIATE OF FERI, ALEXANDRIAN, AND NROOGD TRADITIONS OF WITCHCRAFT. SHE HOLDS AN MA IN PLANT ECOLOGY, AND UNTIL HER RETIREMENT WAS CERTIFIED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY (CLS-ASCP), AND LICENSED BY THE STATE OF CA AS A CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST. KORN WAS EMPLOYED AS BOTH A FIELD ECOLOGIST AND A LABORATORY RESEARCHER IN MICROBIOLOGY, CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, HEMATOLOGY, AND IMMUNOLOGY, AND IS A LONG-TIME RESEARCHER OF CRAFT HISTORY. DONALD H. FREW IS A WICCAN PRIEST WITH A COVEN IN BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA. DURING SIX TERMS AS A PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER OF THE COVENANT OF THE GODDESS, HE WORKED WITH THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN EXPOSING THE MYTHS & FRAUDS OF THE SATANIC HYSTERIA, RESULTING IN THE BOOK SATANISM IN AMERICA: HOW THE DEVIL GOT MUCH MORE THAN HIS DUE (1989). AS AN INTERFAITH REPRESENTATIVE FOR COG SINCE 1985, FREW HAS SERVED ON THE BOARDS OF THE INTERFAITH CENTER AT THE PRESIDIO AND THE INTERFAITH OBSERVER, ON THE GLOBAL COUNCIL OF THE UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE (THE WORLD'S LARGEST INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION) AND IN THE ASSEMBLY OF RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS. FREW IS ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS RESEARCH INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WITCHCRAFT MOVEMENT, RESULTING IN THE EXPANDED & ANNOTATED 2007 EDITION OF THE GARDNERIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS (OVER 650 PAGES). HE FOUNDED THE LOST & ENDANGERED RELIGIONS PROJECT, WHICH CONNECTS MARGINALIZED RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES WITH ACADEMIC RESOURCES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. FREW WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS OF THE ADOCENTYN RESEARCH LIBRARY IN 2011. GUS DIZEREGA IS A THIRD DEGREE ELDER IN GARDNERIAN WICCA WITH MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH AFRO-BRAZILIAN HEALING SHAMANISM. HE HAS GIVEN WORKSHOPS ON THE LATTER AS WELL AS ENERGY HEALING IN MANY PLACES, AS WELL AS HAVING TAUGHT AND INITIATED WICCANS. GUS DIZEREGA IS ALSO A (RETIRED) POLITICAL SCIENTIST (PH.D. BERKELEY) WHOSE ACADEMIC FOCUS WAS DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY AND POLICY, ON WHICH HE CONTINUES TO PUBLISH. DIZEREGA HAS WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTALISM, CULTURE WARS IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS, AND PAGAN-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE. HE HAS PUBLISHED IN A WIDE VARIETY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNALS, AND EXTENSIVELY WITHIN THE PAGAN PRESS. THE SECOND, EXPANDED, EDITION OF HIS GOD IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE GODS: POLYTHEISM FOR TODAY WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE. GLENN TURNER- TURNER, A PAGAN SINCE THE 1960S, WAS PART OF A GROUP WHO FOUNDED A WITCHCRAFT TRADITION CALLED THE NEW REFORMED ORTHODOX ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN (NROOGD). FOR MANY YEARS, OPEN SABBATS WERE HELD TO MEET OTHERS. FROM THAT BEGINNING, TURNER WAS AMONG THOSE WHO FOUNDED THE COVENANT OF THE GODDESS (COG), A NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WITCHCRAFT COVENS AND INDIVIDUALS IN 1975. SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN COG, SERVING AS NATIONAL FIRST OFFICER FOR SEVERAL TERMS, AND AS VARIOUS OFFICERS OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCAL COUNCIL. TURNER BECAME A FESTIVAL COORDINATOR, ORGANIZING CONTINUING FESTIVALS (PANTHEACON, ANCIENT WAYS, THEURGICON) FOR MANY YEARS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. IN 1988 TURNER STARTED A PAGAN / METAPHYSICAL STORE, ALSO CALLED ANCIENT WAYS. IN 1994 TURNER STARTED PANTHEACON, A LARGE (2500 ATTENDEES) FIVE-DAY CONFERENCE FOR MANY TRADITIONS OF EARTH RELIGIONS, PAGANISM, SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND CELEBRATIONS. PANTHEACON MET ANNUALLY FOR 27 YEARS UNTIL 2020, WHEN THE CONFERENCE ENDED JUST BEFORE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. IN 2020 TURNER RETIRED AND SOLD THE STORE TO EMPLOYEES. DIANA L. PAXSON - A LEADER IN THE NEOPAGAN AND HEATHEN REVIVALS, DIANA DEVELOPED THE MODERN PRACTICE OF SEIDH, BASED ON STUDY OF MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIAN RECORDS. SHE IS FOUNDER AND CURRENT SECRETARY OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRAL PATH, AN INCLUSIVE PAGAN ORGANIZATION BASED IN BERKELEY CA. PAXSON WAS ORDAINED IN 1982 AS AN ELDER IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRAL PATH, THE COVENANT OF THE GODDESS, AND THE AMERICAN MAGIC UMBANDA HOUSE. FOR MANY YEARS SHE WAS EDITOR OF THE HEATHEN JOURNAL, IDUNNA, PRODUCING 100 ISSUES DURING HER TENURE. DIANA HOLDS A SECONDARY TEACHING CREDENTIAL AND MA IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, AND IS A WELL-KNOWN WRITER. THE AUTHOR OF OVER A HUNDRED SHORT STORIES, THIRTY NOVELS WITH HISTORICAL OR LEGENDARY THEMES, AND FIVE NON-FICTION BOOKS ON PAGAN PRACTICE: TAKING UP THE RUNES, TRANCE-PORTATION, THE WAY OF THE ORACLE, ODIN, AND ESSENTIAL ASATRU. DIANA HAS SERVED AS FIRST OFFICER OF THE COVENANT OF THE GODDESS. REV. ROWAN FAIRGROVE, EPS, AN ORDAINED PRIESTESS OF HOLY BRIGHID AND A DAUGHTER OF THE FLAME. SHE IS A WICCAN ELDER IN THE NROOGD AND GARDNERIAN TRADITION, AND A STUDENT OF HISTORICAL AND RECONSTRUCTIONIST PAGANISM IN MANY FORMS. SHE HAS SERVED AS CO-FIRST OFFICER OF THE COVENANT OF THE GODDESS (COG), AND IS A NATIONAL INTERFAITH REPRESENTATIVE FOR COG, BOTH NATIONALLY AND FOR THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCAL COUNCIL OF COG. REV. ROWAN IS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE SILICON VALLEY INTERRELIGIOUS COUNCIL. SHE IS ALSO PART OF THE LOCAL FAITH IN ACTION FEDERATION PACT (PART OF PICO CA) CLERGY CAUCUS. SHE HAS ORGANIZED WITH THE CALIFORNIA POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN AND SITS ON THE NATIONAL PPC PROPHETIC COUNCIL.REV. ROWAN IS RETIRED AND LIVES IN SAN JOSE, CA. SHE HOLDS A MASTERS OF LIBRARY SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. SHE HAS BEEN ON THE BOARD OF THE ADOCENTYN RESEARCH LIBRARY SINCE ITS INCEPTION. SHE SERVED AS THE LIBRARY'S FIRST LIBRARIAN AND HELPED SET UP THE CATALOGING SYSTEM. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED FORM 990-EZ, PART I, LINE 8 - OTHER REVENUE DESCRIPTION: BOOK SALES. AMOUNT: 227. TOTAL TO FORM 990-EZ, LINE 14: 48,818. FORM 990-EZ, PART I, LINE 14 DESCRIPTION: DEPRECIATION. AMOUNT: 1,460. DESCRIPTION: OTHER EXPENSES. AMOUNT: 47,358. FORM 990-EZ, PART I, LINE 16 - OTHER EXPENSES DESCRIPTION: FEES. AMOUNT: 102. DESCRIPTION: INSURANCE. AMOUNT: 3,108. DESCRIPTION: SUPPLIES. AMOUNT: 242. DESCRIPTION: BOOK PURCHASES. AMOUNT: 461. DESCRIPTION: BAD CHECKS-BANK FINES. AMOUNT: 86. TOTAL TO FORM 990-EZ, LINE 16: 3,999. FORM 990-EZ, PART I, LINE 20 - OTHER CHANGES IN NET ASSETS DESCRIPTION: PRIOR PERIOD ADJUSTMENT. AMOUNT: -6,804. FORM 990-EZ, PART II, LINE 24 - OTHER ASSETS DESCRIPTION: OTHER DEPRECIABLE ASSETS. BEG. OF YEAR AMOUNT: 4,439. END OF YEAR AMOUNT: 3,024. THE ORGANIZATION DID NOT, DURING THE YEAR, RECEIVE ANY FUNDS, DIRECTLY,OR INDIRECTLY, TO PAY PREMIUMS ON A PERSONAL BENEFIT CONTRACT.THE ORGANIZATION, DID NOT, DURING THE YEAR, PAY ANY PREMIUMS, DIRECTLY,OR INDIRECTLY, ON A PERSONAL BENEFIT CONTRACT.