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This Substack offers mythology as access to wisdom.

Wisdom not as learning something new, but being reminded of what you’ve always known.

Brought to you by someone who has faced dark times, spent years with old stories (and still doesn’t buy into new-age spirituality).

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I was raised as a rationalist.

Straight-shooter. None of the fluffy shit.

If I couldn’t see it, hear it, touch it, it didn’t exist.

So, when life’s madness unfolded (the way it does for all of us, sooner or later), I was about as lost as its possible to be.

The shorthand is: I was a rationalist facing something irrational.

But I still refused to reach for dogma or doctrine.

I suffered the platitudes and the medical jargon.

And in the mix, something unexpected happened.

I heard an old storyteller sharing a bit of ancient myth…

“A man comes to a crossroads. The sign pointed three ways.

Straight on: you die and your horse dies.

Left: you live, but your horse dies.

Right: you die, but your horse lives.”

I just couldn’t shake the question: what is my horse?!

The story goes on from there (more in the first episode of the podcast).

And it cracked me open.

Gave me access to something thousands of years old, gave me something more than the kind words and cups of tea my family and friends offered, gave me more sense than the doctors could.

And here’s the beautiful thing: I didn’t have to convert to anything, ascribe to anything, become a ‘someone else’.

I was just hearing a story.

For the last 6 years I’ve been bringing myth to others, at live events, programmes for organisations, in support of campaigns for a better future.

And I’m surrounded by stories and allies who guide me.

So that’s what you’re offered here. Access to all of that.

Old stories and a bit of digging to help you cross over some of the maddest terrain.

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If you’re feeling a bit lost.

Whether something serious has happened to you or you’re just starting to feel the weight of the mad world.

And you want to find something more meaningful than the everyday, more nourishing than addiction.

But you’re completely allergic to self-helpy pseudo-spirituality.

You’re in the right place.

You don’t have to believe in anything, or be a certain someone.

But you can ask questions you’ve never dared yourself to ask, supported by some of the oldest stories in the world, told vy someone who still isn’t a ‘believer’, but has found new layers of meaning in life.

You’re not lost.

You were just never given an invitation that let you explore AND be who you are.

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