Martin Shaw is a teacher of profound cultural knowledge, and is a master artist at transmitting it. Those transmissions are subtle and profound. We desperately need his work.” – Tony Hoagland
Renowned Mythologist Martin Shaw and Sitarist David Whetstone present (socially distanced) together in a pre-recorded session created for LCE.
Dr. Martin Shaw is a mythologist, storyteller, and wilderness rites-of-passage guide based in Devonshire, England. Shaw gave up a lucrative music contract to pursue the study of myth while living for four years in a tent in the wilderness of Wales. An international teacher, he tours the United States and Canada annually and is visiting lecturer on Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Leadership program at Oxford University and leads the Oral Tradition and Mythology program at Stanford University in Northern California. He is the author of many books including Courting the Wild Twin, Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems, and the award winning ‘A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness’.
