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On the 15th July 1979, under the protective lap of the Cancerian sky, Paul Chris Kiritsis was born in the jewel called Melbourne, Terra Australis. At the age of 29, he can say that only now does he feel that he has started to come into his own. With a background in the behavioural sciences and arts, the cosmos within the human mind and the ways by which it defines itself are what interest him the most. There is nothing in this universe more interesting than us humans; period. Through the ever-changing ebbs and flows of his life, many things have come and gone though one thing has remained constant - his writing. This love affair between pen, paper and soul comes as naturally to him as what swimming might to our intellectual counterparts in the ocean, dolphins. The introverted nature of most poets, songwriters and authors is balanced by the written form, a vehicle of external expression through which psychic equilibrium is maintained. Writing is an outlet by which they silently express themselves to an audience which at that particular creative moment does not exist. Despite that it is an ongoing process of personal and spiritual development, in itself it is evolutionary and marks important events in the life of the individual. 

On the top left-hand corner of the website’s home page you will see his logo, Isidus Entertainment. It is quite simply a symbolic representation of his own nature; in other words, it is he. In the centre of the logo is a scarab or dung beetle representing two concepts. The first of these is the astronomical constellation of Cancer, as in the ancient world it was envisioned as a beetle and not a crab. The second is rebirth, stemming from the Ancient Egyptian conception of the sun's daily renewal as the morning child-god and depicted as a scarab with outstretched wings. Dung beetles were seen to emerge during the Nile inundation, a time when ‘life’ came back to Egypt after the drought and that is why they came to be so closely associated with rebirth. Protecting the spirit of Cancer is the circle or round of life symbolic of eternity. On each side of the circle there are two lions. They are both metaphors of the solar force and the double horizon. On the left stands the lion of the past and on the right the future. Underneath their torsos the moon is depicted in its two extreme phases. Why the moon? It is his planetary ruler and the heavenly body which most represents his life. He have written many pieces on the moon. Why these two phases in particular? Humanity, at the individual and collective level, is in constant evolution. The full moon shines with the visual expression of cosmogenesis and the dark moon with the unseen forces at work that have brought it into being.Underneath are the Greek letters, ‘ISIDUS’, referring directly to the cult of the Egyptian Goddess Isis – why Isis? His soul is Egyptian. Isis is not only a feminine representation of providence; she is the creative principle in the universe personified. Why in Greek letters? His blood is Hellenistic. The whole logo is guarded by the serpents of eternity. A serpent sheds its skin and re-emerges anew. This is exactly the way ideas change through time, altering in form but never in essence. The whole logo looks exactly like a set of scales that could tip in either direction, yesterday or tomorrow – history does indeed repeat itself.

Within academic study, his favourite areas are mythology, occult philosophy, Western alchemy, history, psychology and English literature. He has completed degrees in the behavioural sciences and professional writing. He is currently doing a PHD in Philosophy.Paul is a keen esotericist, a proud member of AMORC (The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis), the Executive Director of AMAC (Australian Macedonian Advisory Council) and a member of the Greek Australian Cultural League (GACL).     

Many of his poems have appeared in periodic anthologies. Origin: Poems from the crack of dawn (2006) was his first collection of poetry. The multi award-winner Hermetica: Myths, Legends, Poems (2007) marked his first literary collection. Origin (Revised Edition) and Fifty Confessions (2009) are two poetry collections. Shades of Aphrodite (due out early 2010) is part fiction and part non-fiction, falling under the category of fiction/metaphysical.  His interests outside of the academic arena are plentiful and include fitness instruction, body sculpting, music, thrill seeking, travelling and meeting seductive people from all walks of life.

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