Jeff Rosenbaum
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Jeff Rosenbaum is the executive director and a founder of the Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE). (Joseph Rothenberg is co-director.) He is the conceiver the Starwood Festival, the WinterStar Symposium, and the SpiritDrum Festival[1], and is both the primary event organizer and product manufacturer for ACE. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Case Western Reserve University, and has spent over 25 years as a student and lecturer in an eclectic array of spiritual paths, philosophies, and illuminating pursuits. He has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of books and publications on spiritual subjects, and appeared on radio and television.
He has also run a steel metallurgical lab (Mid-West Materials), and been a mental health worker (Woodruff Hospital), the president/CEO of Cleveland Metal Cleaning (a steel pickling plant), a truck dispatcher & freight broker (Vice-President of Associated Dispatch, Crown Cartage and Perry Steel Transport), a precious metals reclaimer (co-owner of AG Reclamations), and a real estate manager (M&M Management).
A talented musician, he's played electric and acoustic guitar, recorder & percussion with Ian Corrigan and Victoria Ganger in the band Chameleon, performed on the ACE albums Bonfire Dreams and A Bardic Circle, shared a stage as percussionist & played recorder with such notables as Muruga Booker & GVCB, Badal Roy, Sikiru Adepoju, Halim El-Dabh, Jim Donovan of Rusted Root, Perry Robinson, Louis Martinie', and Drew Miller of Felonious Bosch, and played guitar with Gilli Smyth of Gong, Steve Taylor of Sun Machine, Brahm Stuart and Todd Alan.
[edit] Interviews & quotes in books & articles
- Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Ritual (Re/Search) by V. Vale & John Sulak (Interview with Jeff Rosenbaum) (Re/Search Publications 2001) ISBN 1-889307-10-6
- Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves by Sarah Pike (University of California Press 2001) ISBN 0-520-22086-2
- Jewish Paganism article by Jeff Rosenbaum among various contributers' articles on subject - Green Egg Magazine
- Slack Is Back: Quit Your job! Make Waste! The Church of the SubGenius Has Come to Town! - Jeff Niesel (April 6, 2000)
- Circle of Ash - Michael Gill (Cleveland Free Times July 7th, 2005)
- Life Among the Neo-Pagans - Paul Krassner (The Nation August 24, 2005)
- Various letters by Jeff Rosenbaum printed in The Free Press: Independent News Media - Forum
[edit] Discography
- Bonfire Dreams: Starwood Jam Sessions - Cassette
- A Bardic Circle - Cassette
- Magick Changing the World, the World Changing Magick - Panel Discussion on Cassette (with AmyLee, Isaac Bonewits, Selena Fox & Robert Anton Wilson)
- The Once and Future Legend - Panel Discussion on Cassette (with Ariana Lightningstorm, Patricia Monaghan, Rev. Ivan Stang, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
- What IS the Conspiracy, Anyway? - Panel Discussion on Cassette (with Anodea Judith, Rev. Ivan Stang, Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
- Sympathetic Magic - Victoria Ganger & the Starwood Sizzlers - Music Cassette & CD
[edit] Radio & television venues
- Live on Five - WEWS Channel 5 Cleveland, OH ABC-TV Talk Show
- Morning Exchange - WEWS Channel 5 Cleveland, OH ABC-TV Talk Show
- Jeff & Christie Live - WCLL Channel 19 Columbus, OH Cable TV Show (with Joseph Rothenberg)
- Livewire with Steve Church - WWWE-AM Cleveland, OH Radio Show
- The Chris Columbi Show - WCLV-FM Cleveland, OH Radio Show (with Robert Anton Wilson)
