In my Youtube lectures on Mythopoeia I cover the secret meaning of Christmas and Western holidays. In that lecture I make the case that Christmas celebrations (and the Birth of Christ) is not just an ancient relic of European and Celtic celebration surrounding the Winter Solstice and the changing seasons, but also a period of […]
I was Darkly Dreaming
The Trickster in Modern Culture
The Joker, the Fool, the King’s Court Jester, Bugs Bunny, Loki in Viking Myth, the Native American Coyote, the Greek’s Prometheus, Forest Gump, and Sherlock Holmes are all Tricksters. But what is the Trickster, and why do Modern authors and filmmakers continue to blindly fill our entertainment with versions of the Trickster, while not knowing […]
Ana Meets the Nothingness
Often as writers we start with very primitive stories that evolve. But for me, the Phantammeron seemed to write itself, as if it had come fully formed and perfected in some believable universe who’s history I had simply tuned into. For I felt at times like an antenna tuned into some tale of woe repeating […]
