Katabatic Wind (Indie Book Award Finalist)

  Katabatic Wind’s Good Craic:

•  A long essay comparing western and eastern sacred tradition through the characters of Hamlet and Arjuna, and the relation of human crisis to the loss of the divine feminine;
  
• An exegesis of a Rg Vedic hymn about death and eternity, and how it relates currently to AI and genetic engineering;
  
• How and why the there was a shift from the original myth of Orpheus in which he actually rescues Eurydice from Hades, to the current one where he loses her;
  
• A different look at Plato’s cave allegory in terms of older Greek traditions of finding wisdom in underground precincts, leading to the false premise of finding the real through rational thought which underpins every aspect of contemporary life;
  
•  Two detailed exegeses of ‘rock’ songs, David Sylvian’s “Orpheus” and the Grateful Dead’s “St. Stephen”;
  
• Two looks at sacred geometry: one exploring the underpinning of the rules and structure of baseball; and another plumbing the depths of the number 108.