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Gathered here are the very best stories about the unlikely
twists and turns of human history
that I know how to tell. My motive is a subversive one and
involves nothing less than the overthrow of the old,
deterministic 20th century paradigm, in which history was cast as the
mechanical unfolding of an inevitable sequence of developmental
"stages" and human beings were at most the passive agents of this
process. In its place, I offer for your pleasure a fifty thousand
year long saga of wild improvisation and creative problem-solving, in
which humans have time after time entered into a fruitful
partnership with the cosmic forces around them to become the
active masters of their own destiny.
The Paleolithic Indo-Europeans
Once upon a time, the world was emptier than it is now and our ancestors
wandered through it freely, driven by the expectation of finding marvels
just beyond the next hill. Those days are long gone, but their spirit
remains in our dreams, in our stories, and in the very languages we speak.
Magical Earth Short
sketches on the wonder-workers of the Paleolithic and Neolithic.
How shamans, alchemists, and cultural revolutionaries created the world
we know.
Speculations on
the Tarot Origins, meaning,
and cross-cultural references. (Under construction.)
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