I can so easily relate to this personally (the super dysfunctional childhood), politically (as you are really hitting the current “situation” right on the head and I’m going to restack some of your great lines) and Gnostic-ly as I’ve been attending Gnostic services online and reading up on all the related myths and Jung and Campbell (Joey’s an expert) and I started doing these services because of my concerns about what we as a civilization are going through (and I feel the same way you do that we’re on some precipice). I’m looking forward to going back through your archive (no matter how long it takes for me to find the time in my chaotic life), and commenting on those!
Sometimes I wish Substack had a LOVE button. In my second novel, I’m putting an improbable Gnostic among the pre-Salem witch trials that happened in Hartford. If there ever was a fear of death mythology it was (is) our Puritans. Unfortunately our modern version it still running the show.
I love this exploration of our human death-rebirth mythologies in the light of these political times. TY!
I can so easily relate to this personally (the super dysfunctional childhood), politically (as you are really hitting the current “situation” right on the head and I’m going to restack some of your great lines) and Gnostic-ly as I’ve been attending Gnostic services online and reading up on all the related myths and Jung and Campbell (Joey’s an expert) and I started doing these services because of my concerns about what we as a civilization are going through (and I feel the same way you do that we’re on some precipice). I’m looking forward to going back through your archive (no matter how long it takes for me to find the time in my chaotic life), and commenting on those!
Sometimes I wish Substack had a LOVE button. In my second novel, I’m putting an improbable Gnostic among the pre-Salem witch trials that happened in Hartford. If there ever was a fear of death mythology it was (is) our Puritans. Unfortunately our modern version it still running the show.
Wonderful to find another myth worker here. What powerful parallels you draw between the mythic and the modern moment.
To breathe no thouhts, no prayers!
Thank you Tom. No prayers especially.