The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state. We all need to return to that natural state from time to time – if not,...
Read more →There is a shiny red apple filled with poison and a crone with eyes like steel. There is a virginal girl as pure as snow, a sleep like death, and a kiss that wakes her into a new life of Happy Ever After. This tale has survived from ancient times because it was always...
Read more →Arthurian lore is stitched deeply into my new book, Pendragon, published in just a few short days. This is a story-telling tradition that may well go back one thousand five hundred years. Perhaps even longer, if – as some think – Arthur was not a real, historical figure but based on a mythic hero...
Read more →Winter is a time for imagination. For reflection. For stories. We bolt the door and huddle around the fire, listening to the voices whispering in the chimney. Ghosts, of the past year, of the family members we’ve lost, of ancient ancestors. Ghosts as metaphor, ghosts as memory, ghosts as the very essence of all...
Read more →Anyone who thinks mythology doesn’t matter hasn’t been paying attention for…oh…five thousand years. Mythology is both the secret language of the unconscious mind and the code that rewrites the physical world around us. Mythology shapes the psyche, and through it the lives of people who engage with it. It defines politics – wave at...
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