Essay Series
As a paid subscriber, you will receive access to ongoing essay series that weave together mythology, ancient history, poetry, and lived experience. Each series follows a theme—whether exploring the world’s great mystics, tracing the lineage of sacred poetics, or re-imagining ancient tellings of more popular myths—and is written to both illuminate forgotten traditions and spark the imagination. These essays are at the heart of my work on Substack: sustained journeys into ideas and stories that unfold over time, offering depth, beauty, and weekly companionship for your own path.
Before Olympus: A Mythopoetic Descent into the Prehistoric Roots of the Greek Gods
A mythopoetic journey tracing the major Olympian figures back through the Bronze Age, the Minoan world, Neolithic Eurasia, and the deep animistic cosmologies that shaped early humanity. Each week unwinds a familiar figure until only their oldest root systems remain.
Encounters with the Deep Past
An archive and resource for exploring the origins of religious experience, the animistic cosmologies of our earliest ancestors, academic evidence of prehistoric ritual, alternative ways of knowing beyond academia, and what some call the world’s oldest religion: animism.
Poetic Disobedience: On the Great Mystics Who Set the World on Fire
This one is on the world’s great mystics who defied the dogmatisms of their time and preached for a direct, personal experience of divinity: a poetic disobedience.
The Lost Language of Imagination
This essay series tracks imagination through human history, from the cave paintings of the Palaeolithic, into the poetics of Islamic mysticism, the shamanistic nature of the British Romantic era, and the poetry of Spanish Surrealism.