WES Family Profile

Willy in the Yoni Tree at Chalice Well

Willy Dupree

WES connection: Coordinator in Massachusetts, Co-con-spirit-tor, and Webmaster

Website: CedarSwampStudios.org

Willy first encountered WES at Beltane 2003. The angelic singing of several WES members at that Beltane Ritual in Massachusetts mesmerized him. When WES was in Central Massachusetts and in their Goddess Temple he visited often and then helped in various minor ways, and eventually led a WES chant group for a few months. WES projects such as a barn conversion and Yurt projects saw a greater participation on Willy's part. After the re-birth of WES, as a Global Pagan Community, Willy has been the WES webmaster and host of the outdoor WES events at his place in Westborough, Massachusetts. He is now also helping coordinate WES activities in Massachusetts as well as develop and maintain Global WES connections.

The Great Cedar Swamp of Westborough, Massachusetts, with it's woods, meadows, swamps, and the creatures who sojourn there, provides the underpinnings of Willy's journey. This place is a source of inspiration, a source of strength, and a special responsibility.

Willy is a wild untrained pagan. His training is the experience of the divine in all that surrounds him. His primary connection with diety cannot help but be with the earth's unceasing love, with the sun's unceasing warmth, with the moon's unceasing pulsing company. He is in awe of the endless wonders that unfold around him, of divinity in all of it's complexity and weirdness as manifest in each being and each process. To him the most compelling manifestations of divinity are the tricks of emotion and the connections that they lead to.

Willy and Rachel's earth sheltered home

The earth sheltered home he shares with his long time partner and their two teenaged sons was designed and built by him and his partner. They heat with wood from the land, energy from the Sun, and the inherent warmth of our mother earth.

Willy's sculpture is inspired by the art and the spirit of the ancient and the tribal. In his work, he tries to embody the numinous qualities possessed by each of us. See his sculpture website for examples. Picture of Willy and Heidi at the Trance Prophasy Workshop. Picture of Willy in Horns

Sculpting, writing, singing, loving, raising a family, wandering in the woods, and, the newest, weaving websites fill his days. For more about Willy see his tribe profile.

Currently reading etc.: (Click on the flags to see more info at amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.)

  • "Gwyn - Ancient god of Glastonbury and the key to the Glastonbury Zodiac" by Yuri Leitch
  • "What Should I Do with My Life" by Po Bronson
  • "Fire in the Belly - On Being a Man" by Sam Keen
  • "Jewel in the Lotus" by Sunyata Saraswati and Bodhi Avinasha
  • "The Essence of Tantric Sexuality" by Mark Michaels & Patricia Johnson
  • "The Humanure Handbook" by Joseph C. Jenkins or online
  • "Goodbye to the Flush Toilet" by Carol Hupping Stoner
  • He is always in the middle of a Terry Pratchett book.
  • Previously:
  • "The Fifth Sacred Thing" by Starhawk
  • "The Ethical Slut" by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt (Janet Hardy)
  • "How to live well without owning a car : save money, breathe easier, and get more mileage out of life" by Chris Balis
  • "Harvest Home" by Thomas Tryon
  • "Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice" by Gabrielle Roth
  • "The Wild Man Within; an image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism" edited by Edward Dudley and Maximillian E. Novak
  • "Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: from the Camisards to the Shakers" by Clarke Garrett
  • "Animals and the origins of dance" by Steven Lonsdale
  • "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy" by Barbara Ehrenreich - An exploration of ecstactic celebration, ritual, and trance.
  • "Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness" by Sharon Salzberg
  • "Primitive Erotic Art" by Philip Rawson
  • "The Birth of Tragedy" by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "The God of Ecstasy: Sex-roles and the Madness of Dionysos" by Arthur Evans
  • "The Serpent and the Wave : a Guide to Movement Meditation" by Jalaja Bonheim. 
  • "Darksome Thirst" by Morven Westfield
  • "Sexual Personae : Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson" by Camille Paglia. 
  • "The Spanish Anarchists" by Murray Bookchin
  • "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
  • "Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras" by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer

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