Earth energies, sacred sites, myth and England’s ‘serpent church’ I find that the imagination is powered by the anima locus, the spirit of place, or ‘place-soul’, a concept linked to the supernatural spirits of nature, the invisible, but somehow tangible, warp and weft of the essential ancestral character or ‘personality’…

Latest statistics from the UK government confirm an acute increase in excess deaths during 2022, and that the disquieting trend is continuing in 2023. The data, issued by the UK Office for National Statistics and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, show that from May-December 2022, 32,441 more deaths than…

A poem My poem, ‘Swirl’, was included in a special edition of the Dublin-based ‘Eat the Storms’ poetry podcast for Poetry Day Ireland on April 27, 2023. …

‘Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science.’ Prof Mattias Desmet I’ve already made reference, in two previous articles recently, to the Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet and his cogent theory of mass formation, but here I want to discuss his indispensable book The Psychology…

If the Bible had never existed would we know about God from any other prior source? If there was nothing before God created everything, where was God beforehand? Is there really an intelligent supernatural being in or beyond the universe, or is the concept simply a long-lived superstition? Categorically, there’s…

‘Across cultures, perhaps the most common mythic role played by birds was intermediary between the material world on earth and the spirit world of the heavens’. Ben H Gagnon As we go about our daily lives, we always find ourselves accompanied by birds. They’re always there, in the skies, on…

Wotan, the god of frenzy and possession in Germanic paganism, was seen by the eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung as the mythological figure, representing a psychic force, behind the rise of Hitler and the Nazis — and Jung, shortly before he died in 1961, predicted a future worldwide ‘Wotanistic…

‘Totalitarian systems have always been maintained primarily by systematic indoctrination and propaganda, injected into the population on a daily basis via mass media (without mass media, it is not possible to generate such long-lasting mass formation as that which gave rise to Stalinism and Nazism). This way, the population is…

‘Avian language may well be the language of the psyche, of the soul and mind.’ Alan Powers Connecting or reconnecting with nature, pausing and engaging with the sights and sounds around us when we’re outdoors, can help us find meaning and significance in the world and enable us to feel…