As we walk our questions into a troubled future, storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw invites us to subvert today’s voices of certainty and do the hard work of opening to mystery. Essay and narration by Dr. Martin Shaw for Emergence Magazine: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/ Listen on the Emergence Magazine Podacast.
Christian Wonder Tales, Martin Shaw's sell-out Temenos Academy talk, has been made available as a free resource. The Temenos Academy is an educational charity, which offers education in philosophy and the arts in the light of the sacred traditions of East and West, the word 'temenos' meaning 'a sacred precinct'. Listen to the lecture in full: https://www.temenosacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Martin-Shaw-27.4.2022-mp3-file.mp3
Dr. Martin Shaw talks with Ian MacKenzie in an interview for The School of Mythopoetics. In myth, the Underworld is a place of testing and initiation, but hopefully not a final destination. Within many stories the descent is the second element of a three stage process, leading to final grounding that is both redemptive and a gift to others. Martin Shaw is suggesting in the West we have often made the Underworld so comfortable, so subtle, and in some case so chronic, we’ve become a two
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.
Dartington Arts School catch up with storyteller and Poetics of Imagination lecturer Dr Martin Shaw ahead of his retelling of the classic Irish myth The Pursuit of Dermot and Grainne at Dartington. A princess with wolf blood in her veins chooses love over protocol and a kingdom erupts. This electrifying tale is a hinge between the end of the pagan age and the beginning of the Christian. Thrilling, funny, heartrending, and complex, we are flung headlong into the exhilaration of an ancient story, telling us something directly about
Scatterlings lands at No.2 on Charles Foster's top ten books about human consciousness for The Guardian. Read the article.
"Smoke Hole is a powerful, beautiful book, written for these strange times." Indie Shaman magazine review of Smoke Hole.
Poet, activist and men's work pioneer Robert Bly died on 21 November 2021 at the age of 94. In part one in a series of conversations with some of the people who knew him intimately Martin Shaw shares memories and stories of Bly. (Nov 2021). Listen to the interview.
Reclaiming the imagination, Martin Shaw untangles our collective selves from the menace of unconscious living. As mythologist and wilderness rites leader extraordinaire, Martin invites us to leave the smoke hole open… Interview with host Robin Claire. (May 2021).
'The lovely folks at Chelsea Green asked what I was listening to when I was writing Smoke Hole. They've made a mixtape out of it. I do hope you enjoy it and please play as loud as you can get away with. Dance/mosh/quietly sob as appropriate. Get ready for Kate Bush, Aretha, Fleetwood Mac, Small Faces, Rising Appalachia, Django Reinhardt, Toots & the Maytals, Fugazi, Charlie Parker, Thin Lizzy, Talk Talk, Bonnie Prince Billy, Joni Mitchell, Bad Brains, Dubliners, Arvo Part, all sorts. These all helped keep