Welcome to My World
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My name is Joshua van Asakinda.
Although you may not know me now, I am going to be crazy famous after I am dead. Currently, my work includes Slay the Maiden; Tyger, Tyger; Brothers in Blood, and Other Tales; Oracle: Ninety Days to a New Life; Oracle: Nine Rules for a New Spirit; and Profiling the Left. But I have many more still to be written, including the upcoming Living Simply in the Modern World, and the long-awaited Witchbane. From time to time, I publish under the nom de plume Evan Asak (as in Joshua E. van Asakinda). These titles are a bit more risqué, including the upcoming Killing the Dead, an impossibly politically incorrect zombie story. So be on the lookout for that. Finally, I am the genius/madman behind Heroic Theory, a new philosophical-psychological paradigm founded upon the classical tradition. |
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Like most writers, I write about what inspires me; when I was young, I was inspired by hero stories. There is something ancient, something archetypal, about what Joseph Campbell called "the Hero's Journey." This need for heroism is deeply rooted within us, and permeates all the works of the ancient world. There is something in us, after all, that longs for the heroic: We are driven by danger; we are driven by the need to stand, fight, and bleed, in the name of something greater than ourselves, side by side with those we call our own.
This is the foundation for Heroic Theory: It is founded upon the fact that every story ends in death, that both happiness and suffering are necessary in order for the human being to flourish, that it is only through self-mastery that we discover the path that leads to realization, and that the story of each man is therefore essentially a hero's story. For more on Heroic Theory, please feel free to click on Blog or Theories. |
[ For links to these and other works, which are all available through Amazon as well as in digital for Kindle, please see Writings. ]
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So there it is.
My work runs the gamut- from fantasy to non-fiction, from philosophy to psychology, from the spiritual to the satirical- but it all revolves around the Hero's Journey. My work has been inspired by my love for the martial arts; by Stoicism and by the Samurai; by the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell; and by the works of writers including Fyodor Dostoevsky (especially Demons), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Lloyd Alexander (The Prydain Chronicles), Jeff Smith (Bone), Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun), Susan Cooper (The Dark Is Rising), Steven Pressfield (Gates of Fire), Frank Herbert (Dune, et al.), and others. If you enjoy of these, you have excellent taste- and I hope will look into my work.
With that being said, thank you so much for visiting. I cannot say how much it means to have people read my work, so please feel free to send me feedback via email; I try my best to respond to every letter I get.
My work runs the gamut- from fantasy to non-fiction, from philosophy to psychology, from the spiritual to the satirical- but it all revolves around the Hero's Journey. My work has been inspired by my love for the martial arts; by Stoicism and by the Samurai; by the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell; and by the works of writers including Fyodor Dostoevsky (especially Demons), Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Lloyd Alexander (The Prydain Chronicles), Jeff Smith (Bone), Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun), Susan Cooper (The Dark Is Rising), Steven Pressfield (Gates of Fire), Frank Herbert (Dune, et al.), and others. If you enjoy of these, you have excellent taste- and I hope will look into my work.
With that being said, thank you so much for visiting. I cannot say how much it means to have people read my work, so please feel free to send me feedback via email; I try my best to respond to every letter I get.
Joshua van Asakinda
+1-702-716-2906
Joshua.van.Asakinda@gmail.com
+1-702-716-2906
Joshua.van.Asakinda@gmail.com