I’ve recently experienced a rising curve in my “life chart” when it comes to teaching. I’ve been used to being offered lectures at art schools, universities and other environments but these have usually been one-off occurrences: a talk about something or someone specific, etc. Recently I’ve been brought in to teach more properly, and that’s an entirely different matter. At both the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and Prosjektskolen in Oslo, for instance, I’ve been invited to spend more time with both faculty and students, and it has been very rewarding for me and, I hope, for them as well. Under the banner of “Occulture” I have looked at not only how previously “occult” phenomena and protagonists have become integrated in mainstream culture but also at how many of the thoughts, techniques or ideas presented have a potentially great value for creative people in general. The only thing that is usually needed is an exchange between one set of terms and another. It has mainly...