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Myths, Mysticism, Irish Folklore, Yeshua – Dr. Martin Shaw

We seek to bring some of the world’s most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life’s central and abiding questions. In this seventy ninth episode in a series of discussions, I’m joined by Dr Martin Shaw.’ In discussion with the Benburb Priory More Christ podcast.

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The Age of Bear and Raven – Orion Magazine

The Age of Bear and Raven – It’s time to rework our relationship with nature.

Essay by Dr. Martin Shaw for Orion Magazine: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-age-of-bear-and-raven/

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The Mossy Face of Christ – Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon

In this wide-ranging conversation, Martin Shaw discusses, for the first time, his recent encounter with the figure of Jesus and steps towards a form of Christianity very different from his evangelical upbringing. Power and freedom, history and myths, the Inklings and the imagination are explored en route. And we ask what kind of Christianity might be evolving in our times.

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How Can Myths Help Us Make Meaning? – The Idler

Celebrated mythologist, wilderness guide, and writer, Martin Shaw chats to The Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson about his new book, Smoke Hole, and the role of oral story-telling in the modern world.

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The Hawk & the Holly: new audio + commentary

Gawain & the Green Knight
Brand new audio and commentary

An extra special audio telling and commentary of Gawain & the Green Knight has begun on Martin’s online newsletter The House of Beasts & Vines, for paid subscribers only.

The first of four episodes, which will run fortnightly up to Christmas, is now available, an ideal gift for the festive season at £6 ($7) per month. As well as full access to the latest writings, audio and d...

Stag Cult: latest book out now

Stag Cult:
Dr Martin Shaw’s latest book out now Dr Martin Shaw’s latest book Stag Cult, just released on Saturday, is already number one on the London Review Bookshop’s best sellers list.

Published by Hazel Press, this latest work is described as a ‘shamanistic bricolage’ that lifts a lantern to a kind of haunting we can’t quite exorcize. Read more from the publisher here.

Martin says: “All writers love to see London Review...

Book news, audio & upcoming events

Dr Martin Shaw:
book news, audio and events Cista Mystica has just taken delivery of a new batch of Martin’s books Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass and Courting the Wild Twin, published by Chelsea Green.

All orders for the next three weeks from Cista Mystica (until Monday June 6) will be signed by Martin, who will be talking about Smoke Hole on May 26 when he is interviewed as part of the magazine Th...

Martin Shaw in Conversation with Poet Malcolm Guite + New Gilgamesh & Inanna Audio

The latest addition to Martin Shaw’s subscription newsletter The House of Beasts & Vines is a freely-available conversation with the poet Malcolm Guite, who recently turned up at Martin’s door at the scrag end of a storm with a bottle of Jura in hand.

Their 25-minute conversation covers C.S. Lewis, the Gods and the Nuance of Animism, and joins the fortnightly treasury of offerings which includes the audio ‘Sunday Stories’, recorded direct ...

Martin Shaw Reads His Underworld Essay

As both a mythologist and wilderness rites-of-passage guide I am frequently asked to comment on climate change, collapsing stories, and what on earth to say to our kids about the future. I am no kind of pundit, so choose my words sparingly and carefully. What follows is a few thoughts.

Climate change isn’t a case to be made, it’s a sound to be heard.

From a mythic perspective, seeing is often a form of identifying, but hearing is the locating of a much more personal message. Hearing creates grow...

Malcolm Guite – CS Lewis speaks into our crisis

Following a visit to Dartmoor, where he and Martin Shaw walked the River Dart, poet, singer-songwriter, priest and academic Malcolm Guite reflects on how some words of CS Lewis in the dark days of 1939 might guide us through the darkness of 2022.

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