Author Archives: Dr Jack Dempsey

About Dr Jack Dempsey

Always good to hear from you! A life-long freelance writer/editor, Brown University Ph.D. (in Native & Early American Studies)---novelist ("Ariadne's Brother," "People of the Sea"), historian and biographer ("New English Canaan," "Thomas Morton," "Mystic Fiasco" and more), producer ("Nani: A Native New England Story"), Book Editor/Public Speaking Coach: Bentley University Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Media Studies & Communications (Best Part Time Prof 2010). Latest works? Scientific nonfiction on the lunar/solar calendar of ancient Minoan Crete---"The Knossos Calendar: Minoan Cycles of the Sun, the Moon, the Soul & Political Power" (Iraklion, Mystis 2016), based on lectures drawn from "Calendar House: Clues to Minoan Time from Knossos Labyrinth" (2011). Come and enjoy multimedia resources including filmed Native American interviews at ANCIENTLIGHTS.ORG

PANDEMIC & MAY DAY: REMAKING THE WORLD

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Dr Jack Dempsey

 So Revel-up your May Day in any way you can. Observe, meditate, listen, talk, envision—and get ready to act. It’s not so far ahead that our best energies will roar to live more than ever. This time, we cannot let a violent, greedy, lying and overstuffed minority stand any longer in the way of our next leap. Joining hands again, it’s time to “rise” like a renaissance to our own greatest human endowment, power and potential—compassionate creative (r)evolution. Continue reading →

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LOCKDOWN & LIBERATION (?)

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Dr Jack Dempsey

Mortality is the mother of transcendent vision. When life puts us truly face-to-face with death, the scales of our workaday illusions fall from our eyes, and we realize (too often too late) what was and is truly important. This is … Continue reading →

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‘Epiphany’ of Earth Mother: Sanctity, Well-Being & The Garden

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Dr Jack Dempsey

         In desperate and disrespectful days, acts of memory, healing and affirmation can evoke the revolutionary. Where people are demoralized—numbed beyond caring for the present, or the future—a sudden epiphany lands like lightning, showing forth the life yet alive … Continue reading →

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58 Seconds of a Giant’s Good-Humored Humility

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Dr Jack Dempsey

Always wondered how NC would put his answer to The Question— WHAT HAVE I LEARNED? —but felt sure it would go to say this! What we don’t know about anything can be overwhelming. But his humor seems to say the … Continue reading →

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Frontier Fool—America’s Priceless ‘Master Bubble’

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Dr Jack Dempsey

Happy May Day—and in Massachusetts, Happy Thomas Morton Day too! Here’s a hope that you’ll raise a rowdy Maypole, join hands with neighbors, kick up your dancing feet and hoist some “excellent beer” to your singing lips, to celebrate 392 … Continue reading →

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THOMAS MORTON & the MAYPOLE OF MERRYMOUNT —Now available at YouTube

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Dr Jack Dempsey

“Drink and Be Merry”! Hope you enjoy my 1992 film Thomas Morton & The Maypole of Merrymount: Disorder in the American Wilderness 1622-1647, which by actual request is now complete (1hr47mins.) at YouTube. A low-tech production on a shoestring budget … Continue reading →

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What The Freak Was That! 3 UFO Observations

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Dr Jack Dempsey

  Sooner or later, almost everybody sees something in the sky, night or day, that they cannot explain. I have seen three Somethings—and I offer these tellings always to invite explanations or points of view that might show where I’m … Continue reading →

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Happy Thomas Morton Day (NOT)!

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Dr Jack Dempsey

Alles In Ordnung! This May Day is the 390th birthday of America’s first English poetry (posted on the Maypole of 1627 on Massachusetts Bay). And as usual there were no remembrances or celebrations in honor of the poet, Thomas Morton … Continue reading →

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FREE COPY GIVE-AWAY of “People of the Sea”

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Dr Jack Dempsey

Take A Chance on an Adventure in Fresh Facts and Win A Free Copy from Amazon of  People of the Sea: A Novel of The Promised Land! LINK: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/e2ac4ee24b268f34?ref_=pe_1771210_134854370#ln-ln

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VIDEO, ‘New History, New Hope’—Why Minoans and Sea Peoples Matter To Us

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Dr Jack Dempsey

Hope you’ve enjoyed the 9 pages here of a Photo-Journey through this story’s ancient Mediterranean world! Here’s a link to a short new talk on YouTube, “New History, New Hope”—on why it’s important that the story we tell ourselves about … Continue reading →

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