How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Well, I'm back.  I've had a long break from the grind, and I didn't just go to seed.  But I come back to the same old situation I spoke of in my going-away-for-a-while shtook-- the Shaggy Mythos is basically complete, and any new avenue of research can yield no more than adjustments to its fundamental pattern.  And unexplored avenues can no longer be found-- at best, I might benefit from going into greater depth in certain areas, but although I may find supportive background material there, and new vantages from which to view the Mythos, it remains in a stable state.  Which is a good thing, really-- it has held up under the test of time.  And this was always my aim, to develop a workable ecological mythos.  I've done it, and it's done, basically.  So what's to do now?  Hmm.

I haven't goofed-off all summer.  I've gone more deeply into aspects of Hinduism, about which more to come.  And I've also gone over the anthropology of early religions in greater depth.  Which all has changed the big picture a bit, in mostly inscrutable ways, but I do have a few things to show for it-- I'll try to give you the gist of what I've got in the next few shtooks, and you can see if it helps.  --Shtrahler