ABSTRACT
This chapter speaks about mythological language that is the opposite of truth to the analytical mind, but mythologies provide a foundation for the development and expansion of magical thinking. The chapter examines author's own particular ethnography of mind and discusses that his opening experience with the goddess Freyja occurred many years after an academic conference on Nature Religion Today, held at the University of Lancaster campus in the Lake District in 1996. It was here that he met psychologist Brian Bates, and that meeting would change the course of his research. Brian was the author of The Way of Wyrd, a best-selling novel recounting the training and initiation of a Christian scribe by a shaman in Anglo-Saxon Britain. The chapter enacted a mythodrama based on a poem first written down in the Eddic Voluspa in which the Norse god Odin tries to burn Gullvieg, a seeress equated with the goddess Freyja.
