Just rediscovered a quote I’d written down a while back from, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognised, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.
And another decent one from the Myth of Analysis, by James Hillman:
Myths are stories which project us into […]

Recently, a friend sent me a “mass email” urging me and many others to register to vote. This is, of course, not the first sort of email I’ve gotten like this. On one level, I think it’s great that people are sitting up and taking notice. On another level, I think it’s funny that everybody […]

Last night, before falling asleep, I had two hypnagogic visions which I wrote down.
The first one was more just a series of words, a name actually. It was either “Thaddeus Thompson” or possibly “Thaddeus Thomas.” Along with that also came the word “rivals”. I couldn’t find anything that seemed important by looking for the […]

The other day, I had a little mini-revelation about “roofs.” I realized the two main things that I think of as having a “roof,” are (1) a house, and (2) a mouth. You have a roof on your house, and you have the roof of your mouth. By association then, your mouth is a kind […]