Michael DiPietro and Marcey Donnelly on the gap between the mountaintop and the village — what actually happens when you try to bring a peak experience back down into ordinary life, and why desire might be the soul’s compass.
Australian comic book artist Nicola Scott talks Wonder Woman mythology, the female gaze in comics, and her breathtaking work on Wonder Woman: Historia.
Artist Phil Jimenez talks about designing Dionysus, Wonder Woman as resistance against toxic masculinity, and why comics are repositories of spiritual and mythological memory.
A solo episode exploring four generations of Greek mother-goddesses — Gaia, Rhea, Hera, and Maia — and what their stories reveal about the real, complicated, sometimes heartbreaking experience of motherhood.
Boston Blake traces the Greek creation myth from the void of Chaos to Aphrodite’s birth from sea foam — and discovers how Wonder Woman, Joseph Campbell, and modern cosmology are all encoded in the oldest story the Greeks ever told.
Recorded live at Pachalegria, immediately after my first men’s tantra retreat — a conversation with the guide who led me through it. Martin Bilodeau on Buddhism, spiritual emergency, Kundalini, shame, and the dream of a tangible utopia.
A conversation with John Selig of Stolen Fires — on Mount Etna as a diagram of the psyche, the Odyssey as a map of the unconscious, and why myth is the original medicine for a meaning-starved culture.
The creative process is rarely a straight line. Sometimes it’s a wave or a zigzag or a Jeremy Bearimy-shaped purgatory. (I see you, Good Place fans!) It may have fits and starts, or…
I’ve been struggling long and hard with procrastination. After a period of prolific productivity, I found myself unable to finish anything, especially creative work. I filed for a tax extension…
When I first arrived in San Francisco in 1996, the city welcomed me with open arms, immediately providing me with a job, a place to live, and most importantly, a…
Over the past few months, I’ve been studying two subjects simultaneously. The first is Greek and Roman Mythology with Professor Peter Struck. The second is Co-Active Coaching at CTI. Co-Active…
Danae was the beautiful daughter and only child of King Acrisius of Argos. One day, King Acrisius set off for Delphi, seeking a prophecy from the Oracle. Danae loved her…