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Raised in rural Virginia, I spent most of my time either in the woods or in my room. My sense of inner life and expansive, adventuring experience thus produced a sharp desire for knowledge, particularly first-hand. An early introduction to writers like Poe, Bradbury and London, along with visionary works like Flatland, sparked a fierce love of language, imagination and the strange. I was quick to find what books I could that offered information on mythology, philosophy and differing states of consciousness.
I graduated with a degree in studio art from a conservative college in rural Tennessee, drawing on independant research into Kabbalah, Christian mysticism, Taoism and Pre-Christian European tradition for my art. I then spent three years as a freelance artist, horseback riding instructor and volunteer social-worker before returning to college to study medieval Scotland and Ireland. I then went to Toronto, earning my master's and doctoral degrees in Medieval Studies and focusing on Gaelic poetic and rhetorical tradition.
For the past two years I have taught courses on the history of Europe spanning the last four thousand years; from the earliest Greek interactions with the Celts to Hitler's invasion of Poland. One of my favorite hobbies, first realized in graduate school, is also computistics: how different cultures have encoded time in different ways. From this interest and an ever broadening perspective it has become agonizingly obvious that, one way or another, a major change will be occuring soon and it will involve, one way or another, every facet and aspect of the human experience.
