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Dionysos & the Sadness of Our Times – matriarchal and Orphic connections

April 4, 2026 forrestwolfe

I am honored to speak at Morbid Anatomy Online in June, on “Dionysos & the Sadness of Our Times –…

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Posted in: daimon, other, speaker series

A Black At Once Revelatory and Mundane: Depression, Night & Mystery

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I am honored to pressent this talk at the Psychiatrie and Filosofie conference, “Too Mad to be True: MAdness and…

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Posted in: creative responses to depression, madness, psychiatry and faith, other, speaker series

stranger voices than we know

March 13, 2025 forrestwolfe

Schizophrenia, those who hear voices, and listening with justice, diversity, equity and respect stranger voices than we know (on Substack)

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Posted in: madness, psychiatry and faith

Be!

January 10, 2025 forrestwolfe

Be! One night, this word sparks up in thunder.   Be as I made you to be. But what did you…

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the pen that writes in black

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On the blank page, the pen begins to write itself, calling to God as an unbeliever.  It is not me…

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nosferatu and the rose

December 31, 2024 forrestwolfe

Why does Hollywood release horror films around Christmas time?  What is the connection between horror and Christmas  —  which is…

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Posted in: daimon, madness and film genre

werewolves and wolf-guides

December 28, 2024 forrestwolfe

In alchemical symbolism, the wolf appears as a ravenous animal instinctuousness that devours the King. To my mind, this conveys…

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Posted in: daimon

prudence and inner voices

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Inner voices can be very hard to interpret. Some voices advise us about the world and our relationships. Others mean…

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the black madonna rises – a devotional mystery in plain sight

December 24, 2024 forrestwolfe

Wherever the Black Madonna appears in Christian traditions, she expresses a mystery that hides in plain sight, as the unseen…

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black sun, black light

November 20, 2024 forrestwolfe

Black sun, depression, a blazing despair within of unfathomable, melancholy power. But also, potentially, the beginning of creation anew, each…

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