MINOAN TIME: New Theories, New Assets
With not a few global friends, I share the aim of bringing Minoan ways and values into our living. With a 2000-year record of successful civilization (not to mention their longer positive...
View ArticleVOICES OF THE SACRED FEMININE Radio—Tune in!
TUNE IN WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9TH, 3-5PM EST, 6-8 PM PACIFIC! for a rich radio forum about the late great BARBARA MOR—ground-breaking poet, historian, and radical agent of Earth’s and human healing—with...
View ArticleGET TO KNOW OUR WISEST ANCESTORS
WE GOT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME? TUNE IN THURSDAY DECEMBER 8TH, 3-5 PM EST, 6-8 PM PACIFIC! Why was the first and longest period of early Western civilization so successful? How did Minoans of ancient...
View ArticleIN HONOR of CHARLES F. HERBERGER, JR.
CHARLES F. ‘CHUCK’ HERBERGER, JR.: IN MEMORY & HONOR of a GREAT AMERICAN SCHOLAR In the early hours of Saturday January 14, 2017, my friend and fellow-scholar Dr. Charles F. “Chuck”...
View ArticleADVENTURES THAT CHANGE THE BIBLE
* HOW DID PALESTINE BECOME PALESTINE? *WHY WERE THE PHILISTINES NOT PHILISTINE? *AND WHAT DROVE THEIR FIGHTS WITH THE FIRST ISRAELITES? TUNE IN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18th, 3-5 PM EST, 6-8 PM PACIFIC!...
View ArticlePEOPLE of the SEA: Life Beyond The Catastrophe Cycle
Welcome to the once-“savage,” long-silenced Sea Peoples heritage: long, luminous, & liberating— STORY: A wild-hearted prehistoric (Minoan) man “Sweet Wine” fights to go forward by the light of his...
View ArticlePEOPLE of the SEA: Six Excerpts
You’ve found the once-“savage” Sea Peoples heritage: long, luminous & liberating! STORY: A wild-hearted prehistoric (Minoan) man “Sweet Wine” fights to go forward by the light of his visionary...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 2: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
WELCOME BACK! If you’ve read the brief back-cover summary just above—or even the shattering full story of Deucalion’s young years in Ariadne’s Brother: A Novel on the Fall of Bronze Age Crete...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 3: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
Welcome Back Again! As People of the Sea: A Novel of The Promised Land debuts this month of April, these daily pages offer you visual backgrounds to the story; and, I hope, a daily challenge to take...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 4: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
Beginning (Day 1), where? Karfi: a colossal gray crag-faced spike of granite rising straight up from the shoulders of a mountain, hammered like a nail in the heart of our island Mother Kriti. Whoever...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 5: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
“All we had done, to watch Mother Kriti slip away; and here was the sea.” Deucalion “Sweet Wine”—once, Ariadne’s brother—and the survivors of the fall of Minoan Crete have languished too long on their...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 6: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
The Eastern Mediterranean, Bronze-to-Iron Ages circa 1400-1000 BCE One aim behind People of the Sea is to amplify the voices and spirit of the families who lived these historical journeys, but have...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 7: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
The Eastern Mediterranean, Bronze-to-Iron Ages circa 1400-1100 BCE. Below, a prime trading currency and gift, a “talent” or ingot of smelted bronze—meaning copper mined mostly in Cyprus mixed with...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 8: JOURNEY THE ANCIENT WORLD WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze-to-Iron Ages circa 1400-1100 BCE. “Coasting” vessels of trade and diplomacy most often kept the shore in sight and traveled these regions in a “clockwise”...
View ArticlePEOPLE PLACES 9 of 9: JOURNEY WITH PEOPLE OF THE SEA—WIN A FREE BOOK!
FREE BOOK for the FIRST ANSWER to a RIDDLE! The Eastern Mediterranean Bronze-to-Iron Age circa 1400-1100 BCE. Deucalion’s and Pyrrha’s diplomatic gifting-tour takes almost two years: from the Paphos...
View ArticleVIDEO, ‘New History, New Hope’—Why Minoans and Sea Peoples Matter To Us
Hope you’ve enjoyed the 9 pages here of a Photo-Journey through this story’s ancient Mediterranean world! Here’s a link to a short new talk on YouTube, “New History, New Hope”—on why it’s important...
View ArticleFREE COPY GIVE-AWAY of “People of the Sea”
Take A Chance on an Adventure in Fresh Facts and Win A Free Copy from Amazon of People of the Sea: A Novel of The Promised Land! LINK:...
View ArticleHappy Thomas Morton Day (NOT)!
Alles In Ordnung! As usual there were no 390th-year remembrances or celebrations in honor of America’s first English poet, Thomas Morton of Merrymount—whose brave, good-humored, multi-creative life...
View ArticleWhat The Freak Was That! 3 UFO Observations
Sooner or later, almost everybody sees something in the sky, night or day, that they cannot explain. I have seen three Somethings—and I offer these tellings always to invite explanations or points of...
View ArticleTHOMAS MORTON & the MAYPOLE OF MERRYMOUNT —Now available at YouTube
“Drink and Be Merry”! Hope you enjoy my 1992 film Thomas Morton & The Maypole of Merrymount: Disorder in the American Wilderness 1622-1647, which by actual request is now complete (1hr47mins.) at...
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