Will Linn

I hold a BA in philosophy from The University of the South in Sewanee, TN and an MA in mythological studies with an emphasis in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. My dissertation focuses on Classical, Abrahamic, and scientific origin stories of knowledge, and is entitled, "Particles of Stone and Waves of Elixir: Western Origin Stories of Knowledge and Their Climactic Turns"; it will be completed in 2015.

I also co-host a radio show I created for the Santa Barbara News Press called "Mythosophia," in which I interview leading story artists and scholars from such territories as myth and religion, sci-fi and fantasy, visions and dreams, rituals, novels, films, comics and other storytelling formats and mediums. I am in my fourth year as founder and host of the Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable of Ojai, CA, which meets beneath the historic Teaching Tree at The Ojai Foundation.

In the last five years, I have been a leader and participant on research tours through England, Prague, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and the Vatican. These tours were oriented around my mythological interests in Arthurian legend and the Holy Grail, the Golem and alchemy, Abrahamic religion and Classical mythology.

I am the oldest of five closely knit-brothers, and has had the good fortune of having lived in Birmingham, AL; Findlay, OH; Detroit, MI; Sewanee, TN; Myrtle Beach, SC; Orlando, FL; and Ojai, CA.