Questions for Werewolves: A creative nonfiction of madness, witch and daimon

by Forrest Wolfe

Overview

QUESTIONS FOR WEREWOLVES is an odyssey of bipolar depression, inspired by Greek underworld myths and world religion. In 1998, while I am working on a film in Los Angeles, mysterious omens and voices begin to invade my everyday life. When I hear about the murder of a stranger in my hometown. I'm gripped by the premonition of the death of a woman I once knew. My sanity collapses. But the wild voices and the depression never go away. I put my faith in these voices and follow the gods. A wolf appears as a dream guide. I travel as a stranger across cultures and continents, to seek out the Black Virgin, the enigmatic madonna of many names. Here, my voices ferment in our common shadows, doubts, and visionary religious mystery. Blending with world religion, the Greek myths may become song-lines into dream time. Through the white fire of their divine names — Persephone, Artemis, Dionysos and others — to seek and find the daimon. This is an intimate testimony to the soul's mystery that meets us in depression and bipolar depression. It explores openings in personal and ancestral memory to our visions and voices that speak to the most lunar, spiritual yearnings of the heart — for divine love

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781963869408
Publisher:	RIZE
Publication date:	05/05/2026
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	293
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Forrest Wolfe has been living successfully with bipolar disorder for over twenty-five years. He is Taiwanese-American, has a philosophy degree from Princeton University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Film from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema. After a brief, interrupted career in film, he has been working as a technology and management consultant. Forrest Wolfe is the pen name for Luke Blanchford.

Table of Contents

Contents PART I BLACK LIGHT 11 The Emperor 13 Black Veils 23 The Loups Garous 39 The Minotaur 47 Unspeakable 57 Nameless Continent 69 Persephone 79 PART II THE BLACK AND THE WHITE 91 A Comedy of Saints 93 The Names 107 Grand Cemetery 121 War of Light 133 How Dark Thoughts Came Into The Human Heart 147 Hell’s Gate 161 The Baron 175 The Year that Ends in One Dark Day 189 PART III THE BLACK VIRGIN 199 The Palmistry of Wood 201 White Fire 229 Lost City 243 The Star 265 The Daimon 275 Depression and Shamanic Themes 281 Acknowledgments 289 About RIZE Press 291