February, 2010 (San Diego, CA) – You are invited to spend a fascinating evening with internationally known Author de Traci Regula as she appears on 850 KOA-AM out of Denver, Colorado. She is the feature guest on AFTER MIDNIGHT with Rick Barber on Sunday, February 28th 2010 at 12 midnight Pacific Time. AFTER MIDNIGHT is nationally syndicated series that reaches an audiences of 1 million +. The program can also be accessed on-line at http://www.koaradio.com. Call in at 303-713-8585, live stream at www.850koa.com.
For Immediate Release-
Justin Howard, Publicist
Desert-Grove PR
CreativeWise@Mac.Com
c- 619-379-7317
de Traci Regula – Priestess/Publisher
de Traci Regula will be discussing the rerelease of her New Age bestseller “The Mysteries of Isis” and delving into the various aspects of Isis the Goddess of Ten Thousand Names and how the faith of Isis fits into every day life. As the Co-Founder of Isis-House
Publishing she has dedicated herself to sharing the wise of the Goddess with the World.
As a well-known Priestess of Isis, Regula has been a student of the sacred sciences since childhood. She explores the mystical through writing, travel, and art. As an Author, de Traci has written several books which have gone into various printings in the US, and 12 different language editions internationally. She has produced and directed the video programs Herb Magic with Scott Cunningham and Witchcraft: Yesterday and Today with Raymond Buckland.
For further information, please contact:
Justin Howard, Publicist with Desert-Grove PR
Jthoward84@gmail.com Cell – (619)379-7317 www.desert-grove.com
Biography -
As a well-known Priestess of Isis, de Traci Regula has been a student of the sacred sciences since childhood. She explores the mystical through writing, travel, and art.
She is best known as the Author of “The Mysteries of Isis” an international best selling occult classic that did 5 printings in the US alone. It has since gone into five different foreign languages in both hardcover and paperback editions, and has even been pirated for sales in China. International distribution included the UK and Ireland, India, New Zealand, Australia,. Italy, Russia, Brazil, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, and others. Recently it was printed in a Russian Language edition that is selling extremely well currently.
As the creator of the Egyptian Sacred Scarab Oracle, she is thrilled to see it has sold extremely well, especially in its current Russian Language edition.
Become a Priestess of Isis in 1983 in the internationally known Fellowship of Isis, with over 300,000 members in 120 countries, de Traci has become a force behind the public spread of faith of Isis Isisian both through her books and public appearances. Recently she saw herself in Brazil to attending the annual Meeting of the New Conscience spiritual conference as a guest speaker, this is the largest of its kind in South America.
Professor Onuma of Tokyo University invited de Traci Regula to Japan to take part in presentations and the play The Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone as a Priestess of Isis in the Fellowship of Isis along with its founder Lady Olivia Robertson.
As a Priestess of many talents de Traci produced and directed the video programs Herb Magic with Scott Cunningham and Witchcraft: Yesterday and Today with Raymond Buckland.
Frequently Asked Questions-
How do you manage an active spiritual life and a career? I’m very fortunate that so much of my life is integrated together. My spiritual life underlies everything I do, but this isn’t always obvious. My travel writing and other freelance work is often very “secular”, but the inner experiences I have while traveling always impact my spiritual understanding. Sometimes I think that there is absolutely no spiritual dimension to a particular trip I’m taking, and then Isis sweeps back the veils and I find myself in the midst of an intensely moving experience that deepens my spiritual understanding.
Have you always written New Age? I’ve been a writer since I could hold a pencil. Somehow, I just thought that the reason that they taught kids to write was so they could write books. I started my first novel at eight – and wrote a hundred and fifty pages in longhand. It was an action-adventure-romance with travel, aliens, and a religious theme. I like to think it was a book that truly had something for everyone! Certainly the aliens and religious revelations in Aramaic could be seen as “New Age”, I guess! But I didn’t expect to be a New Age writer. My first published work was poetry in a small magazine called “The Hungry Years” published by Les Brown. I was sixteen and it was the biggest thrill of my life. As for the New Age, it was Scott Cunningham encouraging me to finalize Mysteries of Isis which made me a “New Age Writer”. And most of my freelance writing work is still not “New Age”, though it’s wonderful when I can combine it all together.
What inspired you to write the Mysteries of Isis? When I first connected with Isis spiritually through the writings of Dion Fortune, there was very little about Isis that was readily available. I pored over books and was happy if I found a sentence or two pertaining to Isis. Even in Egyptology books, especially the earlier ones, she was often skipped over or references to her were left out of the indexes while every possible mention of the Egyptian gods or pharaohs were carefully documented. I got very good at a combination of bibliomancy and speed-reading; I had a knack for opening a book to a reference to Isis. or finding them by quickly flipping through. Obviously, I kept notes and began organizing them for my own use, and that became the framework for “The Mysteries of Isis.”
Then, when I should have been concentrating on pre-med biology, I found an amazing bookshelf at the library of the University of California at Irvine. Book after book on Isis, including R.E. Witt’s “Isis in the Graeco-Roman World” (recently reprinted as “Isis in the Ancient World That truly opened my eyes to the richness of the ancient worship of Isis. It also opened my wallet to the good people of UCI when I finally had to pay my overdue book fees in order to get a transcript. They knew who I was when I called the front desk to find out what I had to pay. I suspect there was a poster.
Do you do a lot of research? Absolutely. It’s play for me, and I use all kinds of sources – books, journals, the Internet, my own experiences traveling, interviews, discussions, what I learn in the workshops I give, all of it. One of my projects on Minoan magic is a challenge since relatively little can be discovered by reading – it has to be experiential, by visiting the sites, seeing the way the land is, calculating how it has changed over the millennia, sifting out what has survived into modern folklore practices in Greece and elsewhere, finding what works in helping to forge a bond with the divine of that very ancient time. It’s different , much more physical approach. I’ve scrambled up cliffs to get to caves, nearly driven backwards off of the road to an ancient Minoan peak sanctuary, and have been rescued by Greek fishermen when gale force winds flipped my kayak. Library research is usually calmer, but if I finally find a crucial reference in a book, that gets my adrenalin flowing too.
I write like a sculptor in clay – first I gather up a great ball of information, plunk it down in front of me – metaphorically – and then begin shaping and smoothing it, taking away from this area, adding to that – until it feels and looks right to me. The research is my clay.
