Fiction
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Medb (a novella) / by Brigid Burke
Synopsis: Singer Dan Sampson and his wife Theodora suddenly divorce after twenty years of happy marriage for no apparent reason, leaving Theodora devastated and his friends mystified. Three months later Dan has married another woman, Morgan, who is the opposite of Theodora in almost every way. In their new home in England, they have employed a housekeeper called Medb. Medb appears to have a strange relationship with Dan and Morgan, and is the subject of terrible nightmares for Theodora and some of Dan’s friends. Together they try to find out who-or what-Medb is, suspecting she is connected to Morgan, an admitted magician. However, they don’t realize that Dan has a secret past of his own.
The Morrigan Timelines / by Brigid Burke
Synopsis: The year is 2022, and historian Mila Fell is documenting a strange battle that took place a year earlier–one that obviously happened and never happened. The strange events center around a woman called Layla Black, who seems to have lived two entirely different lives, and who also appears to be an embodiment of the ancient war goddess, the Morrigan. In one lifetime, the Morrigan is fixated on Steve Abbott, a singer whose ancestor was cursed by the Morrigan hundreds of years earlier, a curse that needs to be ended by Steve. In the second timeline Layla works as a scientist and is something of recluse, at odds with her father Malcolm for reasons that are a mystery to everyone including herself. As the mysteries of both timelines are revealed, and strange creatures called White Walkers appear from underground, the Morrigan’s goal is finally revealed.
Archetype Possession: 11 Dark Tales
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These stories use archetypes as a jumping-off point for examining the dark side of humanity. Most stories are about families and relationships; some even have a supernatural element, and many are erotic. However, the darkest monster in these stories is usually the repressed human soul, leaving the victims unsure about what is real and what is madness.
Non-Fiction
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Belief in an immortal soul and in salvation has a paradoxically negative impact on perceptions of the archetypal feminine in myth, religious scripture, and philosophy; this can be demonstrated using the lens of depth psychology. This book explores the idea from Ancient Egyptian times through the early Christian era.
This study considers how psychological ideas about “masculine” and “feminine” are related to mythical and religious ideas about death and the afterlife, including notions of the soul, immortality, and salvation.
The change in focus from the collective nature of death described in Homer to the fate of the individual soul in Greek philosophy and later early Christianity is concurrent with the devaluing of the feminine and its associations, particularly the earth and what lies under the earth.