My name is Joshua van Asakinda.

You may not know it now, but I am going to be crazy famous after I am dead. My work runs the gamut- from fiction to non-fiction, from philosophy to psychology, from the spiritual to the satirical, and everything in between- yet it all revolves around the warrior, and the spirit of the warrior. For like any author, I write about what inspires me, and when I was young, I was inspired by hero stories. There is, after all, something ancient- something archetypal- about what Joseph Campbell called "the Hero's Journey." And this need for heroism is, I believe, deeply rooted within us; it permeates all the works of the ancient world.

The fact that we have collectively abandoned the Hero's Journey has been to our great loss, and it is my hope to rekindle that fire in my work. Without the heroic, we fail to live as we are designed to live: proudly, with our heads held high, and courageous in the face of danger.
[ For more on this paradigm-shifting revolution in psychology, please see Theories. ]
Currently, my body of work includes a number of self-published titles, including:

Slay the Maiden;
Oracle: Ninety Days to a New Life;
Oracle: Nine Rules for a New Spirit;
and Profiling the Left.

However, be on the lookout for more- much more. And not only under the name Joshua van Asakinda, but also under the nom de plume Evan Asak (as in Joshua E van Asakinda, which I find endless clever). Finally, feel free to follow the links provided at the top of this page for my work on Minds.com, YouTube.com, and Patreon.com, where all of my self-published titles are available for free as a thank you for subscribing!
[ For links to these and other works, which are all available through Amazon as well as in digital for Kindle, please see Writings. ]
Joshua van Asakinda
+1-702-716-2906
​Joshua.van.Asakinda@gmail.com
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