After you’ve been hunted by a pack of wild dogs, you’re never look at the world in quite the same way. I had this experience during the late 1980s. The pack consisted of a half-dozen feral dogs; I was saved from the attack — not by any tactic of my own, but from the pack’s […]

When you hear the word “mob,” you immediately think violence. I’ve mentioned that I once was submerged into a mob mind. This probably isn’t true — though I hesitate to call the other two examples true “mob” experiences. Indeed, crowd psychologists also identify some collective consciousness experiences in religious practice. Three religions influencing my life […]

Earlier, I briefly talked about the phenomenon of a “mob mind.”  The formation of a collective mind or consciousness is central to The Church of Wolves. Mob or crowd psychology is a branch of psychology first documented in the early 19th century, and it’s inspired many different schools of thought. Broadly, a mob or collective […]

Friends have asked about my motivation in writing The Church of Wolves. My original motivation was simply the fascination of the true aspects of the story and the questions they evoked. I’ve written as long as I can remember and it seems I’ve always used my writing as one way to explore the world … […]