I recently came across the text of a talk by Elizabeth Wilson, an academic historian. Her academic website says: "I work on the religi...

No doubt there are innumerable definitions of religion from many different points of view. In 2015 I wrote an essay, The Complex Phenomen...

image credit: intrepidtravel.com A few weeks ago I reviewed Michael Witzel's book Origins of the World's Mythologies . In that ...

Michael Witzel is one of the most prolific scholars in Indology of any period. His publications have set the standard in the field of the...

In this essay I want to highlight the importance of myth. Carl Jung realised that many myths around the world have similar content and chara...