A source-by-source catalogue of every passage where Joseph Campbell attributes mythic parallels to real-world cultural diffusion rather than Jungian psychic unity.
Joseph Cambpell, Champion of Cultural Diffusion
Men From the Sea: Myths, Skepticism, and the Return of Trans-Pacific Contact
Why colonial tales of giants, 20th-c. positivism, and new genome data all matter for the debate over pre-Columbian Polynesian–American contact.
Hallucinogenic Atlas: A Continental Census of Ancient Entheogens
Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.
Christ as the Serpent: Gnostic & Dualist Traditions
An expanded survey of every known Christian-Gnostic current that equated Jesus with the Edenic serpent, complete with extended primary-source excerpts.
Light-Poison, Eucharistic Toxikon & Cosmic Venom: three ophidian tropes unpacked
Close reading of Manichaean, Ophite and Naassene passages that speak of Christ-as-Serpent in pharmacological terms.
The ‘Venom’ Motif in Serpent-Christ Traditions
Do Gnostic writers ever speak of Christ’s serpent as literally poisonous—or as an antidote? A source-by-source audit.
The Serpent’s Gift: Mythic Echoes of an Ancient Consciousness Cult
How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.
12 Mysteries Solved by the Eve Theory of Consciousness
Systematic audit of 12 evolutionary, archaeological and mythic puzzles and how the Eve Theory of Consciousness purports to solve them.
Awakening Eve: How Self-Knowledge Rewired the Human Mind
How a late Upper-Pleistocene spark of self awareness spread memetically, rewired our genome, and solved the Sapient Paradox.
Deep Roots Of Pan-American Culture
How pronouns, rituals, myths, and fluted spear points reveal a single Ice-Age culture behind all pre-Columbian peoples.