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Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, October 4 - 25 October, 2026
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Step into Ray Bradbury’s world — Mars and Midwestern summers, haunted carnivals and burning libraries — to understand not just a writer, but a way of seeing our own 21st century.
This class will trace Bradbury’s journey from “poet of the pulps” to global literary icon, exploring how a kid who couldn’t afford college became one of the most assigned, adapted, and beloved authors in modern literature. We’ll approach his signature works — The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes — not as distant classics, but as living documents that speak directly to climate anxiety, digital overload, censorship, nostalgia culture, and the search for meaning in a distracted age. We’ll learn to recognize the “Bradburian” sensibility: lush, image‑rich language; childhood as moral crucible; technology as both miracle and trap; a fierce defense of books, memory, and attention; and a blend of wonder and warning that refuses both cynicism and naïveté.
Along the way, you’ll see how Bradbury’s questions map onto our own:
— What happens to a society that stops reading deeply?
— How do we resist numbing distraction without rejecting technology outright?
— How can nostalgia heal rather than distort?
— What small acts of courage still matter in the face of enormous systems?
This class is designed for the curious who want more than fandom: It offers and invitation to use Bradbury as a lens for thinking about attention, imagination, and responsibility in a time of crisis. Students will leave with a sharper sense of why Bradbury’s work endures — and how a Bradburian mindset can help us tell better stories and live in a more awaked state in the world we actually inhabit.
Carl Abrahamsson is the author of 20+ books, many of which deal with his many decades of working with occulture and magic. He is also the editor and publisher of the occultural journal ”The Fenris Wolf” (1989-present day). He lives with his wife, American psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair, in Vimmerby, Sweden.
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, October 4 - 25 October, 2026
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Step into Ray Bradbury’s world — Mars and Midwestern summers, haunted carnivals and burning libraries — to understand not just a writer, but a way of seeing our own 21st century.
This class will trace Bradbury’s journey from “poet of the pulps” to global literary icon, exploring how a kid who couldn’t afford college became one of the most assigned, adapted, and beloved authors in modern literature. We’ll approach his signature works — The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes — not as distant classics, but as living documents that speak directly to climate anxiety, digital overload, censorship, nostalgia culture, and the search for meaning in a distracted age. We’ll learn to recognize the “Bradburian” sensibility: lush, image‑rich language; childhood as moral crucible; technology as both miracle and trap; a fierce defense of books, memory, and attention; and a blend of wonder and warning that refuses both cynicism and naïveté.
Along the way, you’ll see how Bradbury’s questions map onto our own:
— What happens to a society that stops reading deeply?
— How do we resist numbing distraction without rejecting technology outright?
— How can nostalgia heal rather than distort?
— What small acts of courage still matter in the face of enormous systems?
This class is designed for the curious who want more than fandom: It offers and invitation to use Bradbury as a lens for thinking about attention, imagination, and responsibility in a time of crisis. Students will leave with a sharper sense of why Bradbury’s work endures — and how a Bradburian mindset can help us tell better stories and live in a more awaked state in the world we actually inhabit.
Carl Abrahamsson is the author of 20+ books, many of which deal with his many decades of working with occulture and magic. He is also the editor and publisher of the occultural journal ”The Fenris Wolf” (1989-present day). He lives with his wife, American psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair, in Vimmerby, Sweden.