These investigations are ongoing and evolve through fieldwork, scientific literature, historical sources, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Published essays represent working syntheses rather than final conclusions.

Solar Cycles

Examining relationships between heliophysics, mythology, geomagnetic activity, ritual calendars, and cultural responses to solar phenomena.

Topics

• Solar Maximum

• Geomagnetic storms

• Space weather

• Aurora

• Circadian biology

• Historical observations of the Sun

• Solar Mythology

Questions

• How have humans historically interpreted periods of increased solar activity?

• How does space weather affect Earth's environment?

• Where do scientific observation and symbolic interpretation intersect?

Landscapes + Rituals

Investigating how geological processes produced the landscapes that later became sites of ritual, mythology, and sacred geography.

Topics

• Geological Landscape as Ritual Instrument

• Ritual landscapes

• Field studies

• Desert phenomenology

• Deep time and human perception

• Sacred geography

Fieldwork

• Mojave Desert

• Southern Louisiana

• Driftless Area

Methods

Research combines field observation, geology, astronomy, mythology, history, sacred objects, mixed media art practice, and phenomenology to examine how natural systems influence human experience.

Resources

Al Falster, Maine Mineral Museum
Dr. David Reitzel, Griffith Observatory
Mojave National Preserve Conservancy
Sheefteh Khalili, Cal Earth Institute
Sallie Ann Glassman, Island of Salvation Botanica
Ran, The Runes Reader, The Crooked Path
Abe Daniels, Wind Walkers Medicine Wheel
Nat Clegg, House of Zophiel