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Before Olympus: A 6-Week Descent into the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods
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Demeter: Keeper of the Sacred Order
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 6)
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Zeus: The Divine Child Who Renews the World
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 5)
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Poseidon: Vigilant Father
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 4)
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Investigations into spirituality, prehistory, and the mythopoetic imagination. Weekly Sunday essays + audio for paid subscribers, monthly essays for all, and free seasonal rituals.

IMAGINATION & THE IMAGINAL REALM

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Imagination as a Ritual Technology
What ancient sites teach us about imagination as a way of knowing
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Dead Bodies of Angels
(Part 6) The Lost Language of the Imagination: Icons Not Idols
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What is the Otherworld?
The Sacred in the Mundane
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The Fabulous World of Gods and Magicians
(Part 5) | The Lost Language of the Imagination in Shamanism
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The Heart as the Organ of the Imagination
"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you." Rilke
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RITUAL, MYSTICISM & ANCIENT RELIGION

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Singing over the bones of the Red Lady
On the 19,000-year-old female shaman of Northern Spain
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When women were the shamans in Neolithic Europe
A gift lecture for paid subscribers
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Love has coloured me mad: The wild devotion of Mirabai
Poetic Disobedience Part 7
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To burn down heaven and flood hell: Rabia al-Basri's ordinary love
Poetic Disobedience Part 6
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ON THE ORIGINS OF RELIGION & THE MYTHIC IMAGINATION

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Demeter: Keeper of the Sacred Order
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 6)
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Zeus: The Divine Child Who Renews the World
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 5)
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Poseidon: Vigilant Father
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 4)
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Aphrodite: She Who Initiates Through Beauty
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 3)
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Dionysus: The Great Liberator
On the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods (Part 2)
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ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DEEP PAST

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On our essential cooperative nature
(Part 7) Encounters with the Deep Past
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Revisioning the world of our early ancestors in Europe
(Part 6) Encounters with the Deep Past
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What if prehistoric humans were never primitive?
Encounters with the Deep Past (Part 5)
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All the ways of knowing
(Part 4) Encounters with the Deep Past
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THE ELDER'S COUNCIL: CONVERSATIONS WITH WISDOM-KEEPERS

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Guardians of the Sacred Forest
In Conversation with the Chief of the Kajang Tribe (part 1)
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Meeting Bali's Shamans
(Part 2) The ancient palm book, the three types of human character, and all the ways of knowing
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Meeting Bali's Shamans
(Part 1) On the survival of animism, how to become a shaman, the taboo of menstruation and being holy or, simply, human
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Two Thousand Years of Peace: Europe's First Civilisation
In conversation with a Serbian Archaeologist of Prehistory
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Of Love and Books
In conversation with a Spanish Catholic Priest
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MYTH & FAIRY TALES

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Dreaming awake as the kingdom sleeps
Some thoughts on the cost of creativity, lessons in ripening, and how stories can save our lives
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The Myth of Princess Mandalika
A tale from Indonesia
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On Male Initiation
A Commentary on the Legend of Herakles
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Beauty, Nostos, Becoming Nobody and Letting go of the Plank
On the Odyssey
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The Nine Sisters
Story | Listen now (10 min)
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WOMEN'S MYSTERIES & RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

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The Sacred Oak
Dodona and the Origins of the Oracular Tradition
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Monotonous Rhythms to Induce Trance and Men's Initiation into the Feminine Mysteries
(Part 2) The Ancient Mediterranean Sistrum
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An excerpt from my dissertation "The Bee Cult in Greek Myth and Ancient History"
(Part 1) Women's Religious Experience: The Ancient Mediterranean Sistrum
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The Myrrhbearers
Resurrection, the Promise of Renewal and the Women at the Tomb
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The Lineage of Wisdom
From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages
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Under a Fig Tree
Investigations into deep history, spirituality, and the mythopoetic imagination. Weekly Sunday essays + audio for paid subscribers, monthly essays for all, and free seasonal rituals.
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