I believe truth not to be a thing but an attitude born out of an emotional reaction. One of the most painful experiences in life is being lied to, more specifically, being duped.

Culture, if you will pardon my oversimplification, is a series of values, beliefs, and ideas held in common by a specific group of people. Everything else, from the way people dress to their particular use of language, is nothing more than an identity marker.

The concept of the Witch in Western culture has gone through a rather interesting evolution, morphing from ‘wise one’ to ‘bride of Satan,’ and then to a watered down neo-pagan cult figure.

Emerging from the primordial swamp of unconsciousness, the human mind finds itself surrounded by forces it cannot understand. Having no other recourse but to see itself as a point of reference, it projects itself into every aspect of nature.

Goblins were at one time real, and people saw all around them evidence of their existence. This was so because of the way the human mind works. Given that we interpret reality through mental paradigms, and that before the advent of science the dominant paradigm was animism