The Secret Life of Dragons

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed there’s been quite a resurgence of interest in dragons. Friends of mine, who engage shamanically with the energy lines  criss-crossing the globe – often and wrongly called ley lines –  tell me that it’s because the dragons that guard them are waking up. They may be right. But…

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The Dragon Whisperer’s Son

CHAPTER ONE The Innocent I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO tell you when this dragon’s tale was first whispered from mouth to ear. However, its tail was lost long, long ago in a landscape that was submerged under the dunes of the sands of time. We do divine, though, from the embroidery silks threaded…

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Stories in the Summerlands: A pilgrimage into esoteric Avalon

It is said that when Britain is in the direst peril and needs him the most, King Arthur will arise from his grave and return. We know this because we used to hear rhymes about it while still in the cradle – bardic poems that hail from of an age that Time forgot, when our…

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The Derivation of Smaug

In my researches as a story archaeologist, I often find myself plundering the same rich, golden seams of ancient Celtic and Norse myths that inspired the imaginations of much greater writers that went before me, notably J.S. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. And as I stand there, trowel in hand, before these gloriously resonant archetypal images…

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