Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (October 1, 1949 – August 12, 2010) was one of North America’s leading experts on ancient and modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult.

Claiming to have been introduced to magick at the age of 13 by a young Creole woman from New Orleans who practiced Voodoo, he pursued a life-long study of magick as a practicing Neopagan priest, scholar, teacher, bard, and polytheologian and the author of several books to include Real Magic, Authentic Thaumaturgy, The Pagan Man, Bonewits's Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca (formerly Witchcraft: A Concise Guide), and Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism, Neopagan Rites (formerly Rites of Worship), and (with his wife Phaedra) Real Energy (New Page March 2007) as well as numerous articles, reviews and essays.

As a singer-songwriter, he has two-and-a-half albums to his credit and as a “spellbinding” speaker, he has educated, enlightened and entertained two generations of modern Goddess worshippers, nature mystics, and followers of other minority belief systems.  He has been a leader in educating these movements to journalists, law enforcement officers, college students, and academic researchers.

He is the founder and an Archdruid Emeritus of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship, (the best known Neopagan Druid organization based in North America), a 3° Druid within the United Ancient Order of Druids (the best known Mesopagan Druid order), a retired High Priest in both the Gardnerian (“British Orthodox”) and the N.R.O.O.G.D. (“California Heterodox”) traditions of Wicca (Neopagan Witchcraft), an initiate of Santeria (Afro-Cuban Mesopaganism) and the “Caliphate Line” of the Ordo Templi Orientis (Aleister Crowley’s Mesopagan magical tradition), as well as a member of other Neopagan and Mesopagan Druid orders. He also has been a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (“CUUPS”) for several years.

He had four pervious spouses (and vice versa) before handfasting former CUUPS Vice President, tarot expert, writer, and Wiccan Priestess, Phaedra Bonewits on July 23, 2004.

Isaac often objected to his title as “A Pagan Spiritual Leader” but preferred to be known merely one of the Neopagan movement’s better-known Unindicted Co-Conspirators.

His passing will be recognized in a special dedication ceremony during the Heartland Pagan Festival.