This is my reply to the statement added to RJ Stewart's website may 2013
R J Stewart, May 2013
"Josephine Dunne (now Josephine McCarthy) joined me in teaching workshops in the late 1990’s, as we were married at that time. She came as a beginner into an existing network with the difficult prospect of working with many established group members who had years of experience of Inner Temple Traditions methods prior to her joining."
I indeed did come into an existing network of Stewart’s teaching (1992 not late 90’s), 90% of which at that time was Faery and Underworld, Merlin etc focussed work. Stewart had just begun, as of 1992, the work he called Priests and Priestesses - first UK workshop was held in Feb 1993 in Bath which I attended as a guest.
We moved in together shortly after this event and for the next two years I took the work he was presenting and began to learn on my own, experiment, pushing boundaries and adding my findings and developments to the base of work that Stewart was teaching. I also joined in the workshops, offered my aspects of the work for him to teach along with his own work and was a co developer of the work in every sense. This was the core development of the Priests and Priestesses work. By 1995 we were teaching it together and as individual teachers.
In 1998 I started to write magical fiction in 1999 my first novel Azal was published. In it there are fictionalised accounts of the convocation, inner temples etc.
The current stream known today as Inner temple traditions was trade marked by RJ Stewart in 2005/6, 5 years after we parted and 4 years after I launched my own version of the work on innerconvocation.com which was at that time my website (which he at the time promoted on his discussion list).
I would suggest that if RJ Stewart feels that I misappropriated his unique published work that he put direct evidence of that either up on his website or take it to a lawyer. It does not matter what people’s friends and sycophants say, the proof is in copyrighted texts.
I have developed the work from those years, and the new work I developed during my years of teaching/working alone from 2000 to present day and taken them into very different territory, as is evident in my body of published work. During that time I did not mention RJ Stewart’s name as an influence as he expressly asked me not to. I only mention it these days because of his constant maligning of my name in public. All work in my books and on my websites is work I developed. Most of it is (95%) work I developed alone since my divorce. The 5% of work that I have used from the time 1993-2000 is work I developed with my then partner.
I will continue to make these archive texts freely available and to use them in my own form in any way I choose. I refuse to be threatened, bullied, maligned or cowed in any way whatsoever.
It is also time that this misogynist attitude towards women’s work in general, particularly in the occult world, was stopped and when work is developed by two people in partnership, then both people have the right to continue that work in which ever way they see fit.
So RJ Stewart, put up the legal evidence that I have ‘stolen’ anything for all to see or shut up.
"Josephine Dunne (now Josephine McCarthy) joined me in teaching workshops in the late 1990’s, as we were married at that time. She came as a beginner into an existing network with the difficult prospect of working with many established group members who had years of experience of Inner Temple Traditions methods prior to her joining."
I indeed did come into an existing network of Stewart’s teaching (1992 not late 90’s), 90% of which at that time was Faery and Underworld, Merlin etc focussed work. Stewart had just begun, as of 1992, the work he called Priests and Priestesses - first UK workshop was held in Feb 1993 in Bath which I attended as a guest.
We moved in together shortly after this event and for the next two years I took the work he was presenting and began to learn on my own, experiment, pushing boundaries and adding my findings and developments to the base of work that Stewart was teaching. I also joined in the workshops, offered my aspects of the work for him to teach along with his own work and was a co developer of the work in every sense. This was the core development of the Priests and Priestesses work. By 1995 we were teaching it together and as individual teachers.
In 1998 I started to write magical fiction in 1999 my first novel Azal was published. In it there are fictionalised accounts of the convocation, inner temples etc.
The current stream known today as Inner temple traditions was trade marked by RJ Stewart in 2005/6, 5 years after we parted and 4 years after I launched my own version of the work on innerconvocation.com which was at that time my website (which he at the time promoted on his discussion list).
I would suggest that if RJ Stewart feels that I misappropriated his unique published work that he put direct evidence of that either up on his website or take it to a lawyer. It does not matter what people’s friends and sycophants say, the proof is in copyrighted texts.
I have developed the work from those years, and the new work I developed during my years of teaching/working alone from 2000 to present day and taken them into very different territory, as is evident in my body of published work. During that time I did not mention RJ Stewart’s name as an influence as he expressly asked me not to. I only mention it these days because of his constant maligning of my name in public. All work in my books and on my websites is work I developed. Most of it is (95%) work I developed alone since my divorce. The 5% of work that I have used from the time 1993-2000 is work I developed with my then partner.
I will continue to make these archive texts freely available and to use them in my own form in any way I choose. I refuse to be threatened, bullied, maligned or cowed in any way whatsoever.
It is also time that this misogynist attitude towards women’s work in general, particularly in the occult world, was stopped and when work is developed by two people in partnership, then both people have the right to continue that work in which ever way they see fit.
So RJ Stewart, put up the legal evidence that I have ‘stolen’ anything for all to see or shut up.