Mike Nichols (born October 16, 1952) is an American

neo-Pagan Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Despite some common simila ...

leader and author of ''The Witches' Sabbats'' (Acorn Guild Press, 2005). Nichols taught

Wicca Wicca (), also known as "The Craft", is a Modern paganism, modern pagan, syncretic, Earth religion, Earth-centred religion. Considered a new religious movement by Religious studies, scholars of religion, the path evolved from Western esote ...

for almost twenty years, from 1970 to 1989, in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri, through the UMKC Communiversity and at his bookstore, "The Magick Lantern". He was the first Wiccan representative on the ''Kansas City Interfaith Council''. Mike Nichols has been a featured speaker on several radio programs, including

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. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

, with a double major in Communication and Psychology (specializing in

Parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry (paranormal), psychometry) and other paranormal cla ...

). He has done graduate work in the field of

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and

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sciences.

External links

The Witches' Sabbats website

Acorn Guild Press
- Bio page
UMKC Communiversity

Kansas City Interfaith Council
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