Sam Webster (writer)
Sam Webster is an American writer, Thelemite, a member of the Golden Dawn tradition, and Bishop "Tau Ty" of "Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis", as well as an initiate of Wicca. Webster holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Starr King School for the Ministry at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He advocates open source religion—the use of the open source paradigm in the field of spirituality. He has written a number of articles and essays on occult and pagan topics, publishing both online and in periodicals including "Green Egg", "Mezlim", "Gnosis" and "PanGaea". Many  of his essays on Pagan Dharma and Thelema have been made available online. In 2001, he was one of a number of Neopagans interviewed in "Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Ritual", a feature article in the counter-cultural journal "RE/Search". He has founded or cofounded several occult and Pagan organizations, including the Chthonic-Ouranian OTO (1985) and the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn (2002). Webster's book "Tantric Thelema" was published in January 2010.