mythology | mythology
Nov.16.2012
This week, I’ve been exploring Guanyin (also spelled Kuan Yin), a Buddhist bodhisattva and the East Asian Goddess of Compassion. It’s little wonder millions worship this archetype of unalloyed empathy and protectress of women, fishermen, animals, sailors, and the imprisoned. She could easily be...
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Nov.13.2012
Radical compassion is such a hopeful idea that, even amid the darkness of violence, poverty, injustice, and the seeming impossibility of accomplishing anything positive in the world, it raises a glowing torch of possibility. Empathy, writes philosopher Khen Lampert, is the ability to put...
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Nov.10.2012
This week has been all about the mythic, the intuitive, the Shadow Self. It’s been a week of abundance. Books, websites, articles, poems—I’ve stumbled across a wealth of interesting material. Here is just a sample of them on this Great Stuff for Writers Saturday:
The Passion of Isis and Osiris...
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Nov.07.2012
I’m exploring myth these days, considering what mythic archetypes can teach us. Most recently, I’ve been looking at Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the Underworld.
Like all writers I am often a traveler in Osiris’s realm, a place located below the horizon, out of reach of the sun. It...
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Nov.05.2012
I discovered mythology as a girl and was enthralled. I read Greek myths mostly, devouring mythology books almost as voraciously as I did ones on astronomy. When I wasn’t inviting friends over to look through my telescope, I was trying desperately to get them excited about Greek gods and goddesses....
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Nov.02.2012
But I think of owls when I think of Merlin and King Arthur, too.
The purple lights and smudged glass windows made some of the shots hard to get, but the top one of a Great Horned Owl was pretty great! Owls are predators, and he's looking at you! His beak is open too,...
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Dec.28.2011
Combining elements of drama, historical fiction and science fiction, The Underlying Hand is an original, fascinating novel that explores controversial subjects such as the origins of mankind, the Sons of God, Eden, and The Flood.
The story begins in the Nibiru Space Station 64,000...
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Nov.09.2011
Istanbul, 1/11/2011 — We are in Sultanahmet in İstanbul now, at 6:30 pm Salı (Tuesday) and the muezzin is calling out from the Blue and other mosques. Despite this medieval throwback (amplified by 21st century loudspeaker technology), this is one of the most sophisticated, diverse and populated...
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Oct.21.2011
I sat beneath a tree
So young and carefree
The sun bathed me in warmth
The fruits fell low for me
It was the joy of the season
The flowers ripe in colour
Those scents so pleasing
My creation; not a favor
Some say I too was one
That came with clear direction
But those tales fail to...
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Oct.01.2011
I'm just amazed by the stuff Pat can do to promote our books. Go to http://www.yabookscentral.com/ and look at the little ad that she created for Juggler in the Wind. Watch the animation for a moment, then click it. While you're on our site, stroll around the pages a bit.
Oh, and for those of you...
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