Field notes from the wilderness.
A collection of personal essays and inspiring writing from my favourite renegade thinkers, artists and poets.
Toward a Western Shamanism
A 1999 interview with Daniel C. Noel, author of The Soul of Shamanism.
Story Tending: A Post-Colonial Approach to Folk Tales, Myths & Fairy Stories
An Post-Colonial Approach to Folk Tales, Myths & Fairy Stories
The Roots of Traumadelic Culture (or, How To Put the Soul Back Into Psychedelics)
We can trace the roots of Traumadelic Culture right back to the very beginning of the Western psychedelic revival.
Discovering Your Personal Myth
“I suspected that myth had a meaning which I was sure to miss if I lived outside it in the haze of my own speculations. I was driven to ask myself in all seriousness: “What is the myth you are living?” — CG Jung
Archetypal Lens: Succession
Viewed through an archetypal lens, Logan Roy, the patriarch of Succession, embodies the aging King — specifically in its shadow aspect of the Tyrant.
Archetypal View: Alex Garland’s Men
The central theme of the recent film Men is the masculine desire for union with the feminine (first Mother, then Lover) or hieros gamos, described by Jung as “spiritual marriage, union of archetypal figures in the rebirth mysteries of antiquity and alchemy.”
