The Initiatory Path in Fairy Tales

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In the etymological and true sense of the word, initiation means “to put on a path, to introduce someone into a way.” It involves a dynamic projection starting from an initially static position.

How Dreams Can Reveal Your Personal Myths

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Learning how to recognize and work with the dominant stories in your
dreams can have a profound effect on self-growth, future decision
making, and your private investigations into the meaning of the cosmos.

What the Fuck Is This?

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Once upon a time, the universe was sacred and unfathomable by simple
emanation. Humans accepted the operations of nature as the mirror and
counterpart to their own existence. Before quarks and
Big Bangs, they called it Spider Woman and Corn Mother. These are not fables; they are hard-won intuitions of something
before form.

Leaving Home

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All religious traditions employ the theme — Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammad left home. Indigenous seekers go into the wilderness alone to fast and pray. Exile is basic to the great epic literatures. It means
setting aside security and comfort and shoving off for parts unknown with no road map and no guarantee of
finding your way.

Synchronicity, Myth, and the New World Order

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Most critiques of conspiracy theories dispute the author's evidence, logic, and
sources, and impugn his sanity, intelligence, or integrity. While such critiques often have merit, they tend to go after the low-hanging
fruit. Giving the best of the genre a fair
reading, however, the impartial reader realizes that something strange is going
on.

Mythology of Business Part 2: The Dark Side

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Despite the exciting creative possibilities posed by new
media, the danger presented
by the presence of myth in modern media is paramount, and must be considered
outside the mythic framework of industry, which reduces the
material world to a matrix of profit and risk.

Mythology of Business Part 1: The Veil of Ignorance

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Myth is so entrenched in the nature of business
that it is often overlooked within the advertising rhetoric of capitalism, even
if the building of a mythology is the centerpiece of all effective branding.  Myth may be encoded in any medium, but its defining characteristic is its
psychological function.

Collective Mythology

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This July, Weaponized releases "Immanence of Myth," a new anthology of essays, ideas, and interviews on the sacred mysteries of mythology.

Left in the Dark: The Origins of our Species-Wide Insanity

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When our ancient ancestors were ejected from the forest's womb-like protection that had hot housed our evolution, the neural system it nurtured was exposed to the kinds of hostile ecological and biochemical environments it had not encountered for millions of years. Since that time our brain has suffered a progressive and catastrophic failure in its development.

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