{"id":27,"date":"2021-09-07T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-04-13T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:58:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-600x338.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20191215_142707-1320x743.jpeg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pirate Church at a Melbourne Regatta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>The Pirate Church is a Private Membership Association\u00a0 (Private Religious Association) that has a partnership with the Collins Estate, through their Trust, for the betterment of it&#8217;s members.<\/p>\r\n<p>In part, the hope is that The Pirate Church, PMA shall continue the religious, philosophical and spiritual traditions of it&#8217;s founder, Captain Edward Collins &#8211; may he never thirst &amp; rum be upon hum.<\/p>\r\n<p>The main goals of The Pirate Church is to foster spiritual exploration among it&#8217;s members, while conducting metaphysical research and publishing material on fringe occult topics.\u00a0 Traditional churches, sects and religious orders do not foster an environment of exploration, and for good reason.\u00a0 Spiritual exploration can be dangerous, so some accountability is needed in order to protect the individuals involved.<\/p>\r\n<p>Being accountable to a Crew ensures that the individual doesn&#8217;t (needlessly) go off the rails, damage their psyche or suffer (un-needed) physical harm &#8211; again metaphysical and spiritual research, spirit quests and psychic voyages can be dangerous. Plus, engaging gurus, yoga teachers and evangelical ministers of all stripes (baptist, muslim, etc.) can pose a risk.\u00a0 Again, it&#8217;s always good to have someone watching your back when going out on the High Seas of All Wyrd Strangeness.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Pirate Church qualifies as legal church under US Code, State Law &amp; IRS Code.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;] The Pirate Church is a Private Membership Association\u00a0 (Private Religious Association) that has a partnership with the Collins Estate, through their Trust, for the betterment of it&#8217;s members. In part, the hope is that The Pirate Church, PMA shall continue the religious, philosophical and spiritual traditions of it&#8217;s founder, Captain Edward Collins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepiratechurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}