THE RETURN OF THE WEREWOLF

"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms. And the autumn moon is bright."

   By Brad Steiger, author The Werewolf Book: An Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings

 

On February 12th, The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot and Anthony Hopkins as Sir John Talbot will be released after a nearly two-year wait on the studio shelves.  Those of us who are werewolf fans are eagerly waiting to view the new interpretation of the 1941 classic and to see if hardy and vicious werewolves can compete with the current sex appeal of buff and attractive vampires.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE WEREWOLF

It has often been said that Americans learn their history through motion pictures. For millions of contemporary men and women, the word "werewolf" conjures up images of the actor Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man (1941), creeping through the nocturnal mists, a good man tortured by the knowledge that the bite of a werewolf has caused him to endure a monthly metamorphosis into a monster during the full moon.  Although a wolf, we still recognize Chaney as a man, fully clothed, walking upright in a peculiar loping movement. 

An American Werewolf in London Trailer

 

The Howling Trailer

 

In later motion pictures, such as The Howling (1981), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), vastly improved visual effects allow us to witness the complete transformation of man into wolf, but The Wolf Man created a number of werewolf traditions that became cinematic werewolf dogma in many horror films to follow:

*People become werewolves after being bitten or scratched by a werewolf.

*Upon the rising of the first full moon after surviving the attack by the werewolf, the victims are themselves transformed into werewolves.  Such shall be their fate forever.

*The process of transformation causes fangs and claws to grow, hair to sprout all over the body, and human compassion to be clouded by blood lust. 

*Werewolves retain an upright, two-legged human body shape and continue to wear the clothing in which they were attired before the transformation began.  Shoes are the only items of wearing apparel discarded before the lycanthropes terrorize the moonlit countryside. The werewolf of ancient tradition runs on all fours and has discarded all vestiges of clothing before the process of transmutation begins.  If the shape-shifter should be killed while in the form of a wolf, he or she would return to human shape and be found to be naked.

*Wolfbane is very effective at  keeping a werewolf at bay.  Garlic is also a good werewolf deterrent, and a pentagram (the five-pointed star) might save your life if it is made of silver.
*An object made of silver is the only thing that can kill a werewolf.  (A silver bullet in heart would be added in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, 1943.)

   With these cinematic rules for lycanthropic behavior, manners, and mores firmly established in The Wolf Man, Universal Pictures rewrote centuries of werewolf lore and legend.  Even the famous folk wisdom “Even the man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers at night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is clear and bright,” was composed by the screenwriter for the film.

WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES

It was not as easy detecting werewolves among the human population as it was to hunt down the vampires lurking in the shadows.  Perhaps the most essential difference between the two creatures of the Darkside is the fact that the werewolf is not a member of the undead.  When werewolves were not in the throes of transformation precipitated by the rays of the full moon or the wearing of the magic wolf belt, they walked about the bustling streets of the city or the pleasant country lanes appearing as any normal human. 

Werewolves have no need to scamper off to a coffin before the rays of the rising sun begin to burn welts into their hide.  Werewolves can freely walk in sunlight.

Mirrors offer no problem for werewolves.  They can straighten their collar or comb their hair without worrying if they are casting a reflection.
Crucifixes are of no concern.  Werewolves might even wear the sign of the cross themselves, attend church services, and perhaps even serve as members of the clergy.

WOLVES AND HUMANS

More than 140,000 years ago wolves and humans formed a common bond and evolved together in one of the most successful partnerships ever fashioned.  The wolf's strength, stamina, keen sense of hearing, and extraordinary sense of smell helped humans to hunt prey and to overcome predators.  Because we humans teamed up with wolves, we became better hunters and thus supplanted our rival species of Homo erectus and Neanderthal.

The human species greatly depended upon wolves for its continued existence and modeled much of their behavior, especially in the area of survival skills, upon the wolf.  As these prehistoric "wolf men" learned over time to hunt in packs and, with the assistance of their wolf allies, to subdue much larger predators, then certain elements of lupine savagery may well have been "inherited" along with the more noble aspects of a sense of community and mutual support. 

From the earliest stages of social evolution when all men and women strove to be like wolves, the human community eventually reached the time when it would be considered improper, antisocial, and criminal to behave like a wolf.  Still, there remained the sorcerers and those on the fringes of society who believed that one could attain great power by maintaining those lupine links to a more savage past.  They believed that they had the ability to shape shift to werewolves--wolf men and women.

HOW TO BECOME A WEREWOLF

According to the ancients, it was believed any skilled sorcerer who so chose could become a werewolf.  Throughout history, self-professed werewolves have mentioned a "magic girdle," which they wear about their middles, or a "magic salve" which they apply liberally to their naked bodies. Others tell of inhaling or imbibing certain potions.

Magical texts advise those who wish to become a werewolf to disrobe, rub a magical ointment freely over their flesh, place a girdle made of human or wolf skin around their waist, then cover their entire body with the pelt of a wolf. To accelerate the process, they should drink beer mixed with blood and chant a particular magical formula.

Some werewolves claimed to have achieved their shape-shifting ability by having drunk water from the paw print of a wolf.  Once this had been accomplished, they ate the brains of a wolf and slept in its lair.

One ancient text prescribes a ritual for the magician who is eager to become a shape-shifter.  He is told to wait until the night of a full moon, then enter the forest at midnight.  Then, according to the instructions:

Draw two concentric circles on the ground, one six feetin diameter, the other fourteen feet in diameter.  Build a fire in the center of the inner circle and place a tripod over the flames.  Suspend from the tripod an iron pot full of water.

Bring the water to a full boil and throw into the pot a handful each of aloe, hemlock, poppy seed, and nightshade.  As the ingredients are being stirred in the iron pot, call aloud to the spirits of the restless dead, the spirits of the foul darkness, the spirits of the hateful, and the spirits of werewolves and satyrs.

Once the summons for the various spirits of darkness have been shouted into the night, the person who aspires to become a werewolf should strip off all of his clothing and smear his body with the fat of a freshly killed animal that has been mixed with anise, camphor, and opium.  The next step is to take the wolfskin that he has brought with him, wrap it around his middle like a loincloth, then  kneel down at the boundaries of the large circle and remain in that position until the fire dies out.  When this happens, the power that the disciple of darkness has summoned should make its presence known to him.

If the magician has done everything correctly, the dark force  will announce its presence by loud shrieks and groans.

Later, if the would-be werewolf has not been terrified and frightened away by the  Dark One's awful screams, it will materialize in any one of a number forms, most likely that of a horrible half human, half beast monster.  Once it has manifested in whatever form it desires, the Dark One force will conduct its transaction with the magician and allow him henceforth to assume the shape of a wolf whenever he wears his wolfskin loincloth.

In the classic accounts, once the transformation into wolf has occurred, it is difficult to detect any differences between the werewolf and a true wolf without careful examination.  The werewolf that has undergone a complete shape-shifting process is somewhat larger than a true wolf, very often has a silvery sheen to its fur, and always has red, glowing eyes.

Those who became werewolves of their own choice and who sought the power of transmutation through incantations, potions, or spells, gloried in their strength and in their ability to strike fear into the hearts of all who hear their piercing howling on the nights of the full moon.

According to ancient tradition, by far the most familiar involuntary manners in which one becomes a werewolf is to be   cursed for your sins by a priest or someone you have wronged or by being the victim of a sorcerer's incantations.

Another involuntary means of becoming a werewolf, according to some old traditions, is to be born on Christmas Eve.  The very process of one's birth on that sacred night, so say certain ecclesiastical scholars, is an act of blasphemy since it detracts from the full attention to be given to the nativity of Jesus.  Thus, those born on that night are condemned to be werewolves unless they prove themselves to be pious beyond reproach in all thoughts, words, and deeds throughout their lifetimes.

When those individuals who became werewolves against their will are  not under the power of the curse that forces them to become ravenous beasts, they experience all the normal human emotions of shame and disgust for the deeds that they must commit under the blood spell.  They may long for death and seek ways to destroy themselves before they take the lives of more innocent victims.  

WEREWOLVES IN HISTORY

Apparently, this technique must have worked very well for some individuals.

In 400 BCE Damarchus, a werewolf from the Greek city state of Arcadia, is said to have won boxing medals at the Olympics.

In about 85 BCE  The great Roman poet Virgil speaks of the powers of the werewolf  Moeris, from whom he claims to have learned many secrets of magic, including the raising of the dead.
In 175 Pausanias, a Greek traveler, geographer, and author visited Arcadia and met the Lycanian werewolves.

In his City of God (circa 410) the great Roman Catholic clergyman St. Augustine relates the account of certain sorceresses in the Alps who give their unsuspecting victims a special kind of cheese that transforms them into beasts of burden.

In 435 St. Patrick arrives in Ireland and discovers that among his flock  are many families of werewolves.

THE WEREWOLF AND THE FULL MOON

           
Since the very earliest accounts of werewolves, those who would seek to explain the onset of such frightening behavior have stated with authority that it is the light of the full moon that serves as the catalyst for the transformation of human into wolf.  The ancient Greeks and Romans associated the moon with the underworld and those human and inhuman entities who used the night to work their dark magic. 

Witches, werewolves, and other shape-shifters received great power from the moon--and just as the moon changed its shape throughout the month, so could these servants of the underworld transform their shapes into bats, wolves, dogs, rats or any creature they so chose.  In addition, they could also change their hapless victims into animals.
   
THE CHURCH’S WAR ON WEREWOLVES

By 906, werewolves were becoming too numerous and Abbot Regino of  Prum condemned as heretical any belief in witchcraft and or in the power of  sorcerors to change people into animals.  If anyone believed they had the ability to transform human into a creature of another species, they were being deceived by Satan. In 1233, the Church instituted the Inquistion.

In 1407, dozens of Werewolves were tortured and burned during witchcraft trials at Basel. 

In 1521 Three werewolves of Poligny, accused of having eaten children and consorted with wild she-wolves, confessed to having achieved their transformation from a magic salve.  They were burnt at the stake.

1n 1555, Olaus Magnus recorded his observation that the werewolves of Livonia put on a girdle of wolf skin, drink a cup of beer, and uttered certain magic words to accomplish their transformation from humans to wolves.

The infamous Gilles Garnier was burned as a werewolf in 1573, and the notorious Peter Stubbe was excuted as a werewolf in Cologne in 1589.
Roulet, The Werewolf of Chalons, a tailor accused of eating children in his shop, is executed in Paris in 1598, and in that same year, the Gandillon family is burned as werewolves in Jura.

 

 DETECTING A WEREWOLF

Werewolves most often attack their victims for the sheer joy of the slaughter, the ripping and biting at the flesh, tearing at the  jugular vein with claws or fangs.  Its strength is superhuman.

Since there is no time when a werewolf is really vulnerable in its animal form, over the centuries werewolf hunters learned to wait until the creature has shifted back to its human shape.

The werewolf hunters did have some clues when it came to  detecting the werewolves among them.  As early as the seventh century, Paulos Agina, a physician who lived in Alexandria, described the symptoms of werewolfism for his fellow doctors:

*Pale skin.
*Weak vision.
*An absence of tears or saliva, making the eyes and tongue very dry.
*Excessive thirst.
*Ulcers and abrasions on the arms and legs that do not heal, caused by walking on all fours.
*An obsession with wandering in cemeteries at night.
*Howling until dawn.  

Other traditions insisted that the hands may provide the biggest giveaway.  Check the palms of a suspected werewolf, and if his palms are covered with a coarse, stiff growth of hair, you had better avoid his company on the nights of the full moon.  
Another certain sign of the werewolf, according to a vast number of ancient traditions, lies in the extreme length of the index finger.  If you should notice a man or woman with an index finger considerably longer than  the middle finger, you have quite likely spotted a werewolf.

Then there is the matter of the eyebrows growing together.  If they should meet in the center of the forehead, there is cause for genuine concern that you have encountered a werewolf.  

A good many traditions regard the pentagram, the five-pointed star, as a symbol of witchcraft and werewolves.  Some werewolf hunters of old believed that the sign of the pentagram would be found somewhere on a shape shifter’s body, most often on the chest or the hand.  It was also an aspect of that belief structure that the shadow of the pentagram would manifest on the palm or forehead of the werewolf's next victim and would be visible only to the monster's eyes.

And while the eyes of the werewolf appear normal at all other times, when the curse is upon them, their eyes glow in the dark, most often with a reddish hue.

 SCIENCE STUDIES WEREWOLVES

Contemporary medical professionals have sought to offer rational explanations for the werewolves that have scourged the past and haunted the present.  The term "lycanthropy"(from the Greek, literally, wolf-man) was used by Reginald Scot in his The Discovery of Witchcraft  to denote an extreme form of violent insanity in which the individual may imitate the behavior of a wild beast, especially a wolf.  Scot argued against the Church and the Inquisition and its institutionalized program of torturing and burning of witches, werewolves, and other shapeshifters; and he nearly ended up bound to a stake for his heretical efforts on behalf of reason.   

The term lycanthropy was also applied to those individuals afflicted with a form of dark melancholy, a deep depression that gave rise to a violent form of insanity. In his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621),  Robert Burton writes that those men and women who are suffering from an advanced form of melancholy that graduates into werewolfism lie hidden throughout the daylight hours, then "go abroad in the night, barking, howling, at graves... they have unusually hollow eyes, scabbed legs and thighs, very dry and pale."

Dr. Mary Matossian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, viewed such statistics as those from France which proclaimed that  30,000 individuals were condemned as werewolves between the years of 1520 to 1630 and derived a theory that the peasants were eating a rye bread that was contaminated by a fungus that acted as a powerful hallucinogenic.  In essence, Dr. Matossian suggested that thousands of men and women were suffering from "bad trips" from a potent fungus that caused them to have delusions that they were magical beings capable of transforming themselves into werewolves.

 In the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal in 1975, psychiatrists Frida Surawicz and Richard Banta of Lexington, Kentucky, published their paper, "Lycanthropy Revisited" in which they presented two case studies of contemporary werewolves.

Their first case, that of Mr. H., obliquely supported Dr. Mary Matossian's hallucinogenic hypothesis in that he had ingested LSD before he saw himself changing into a werewolf.  He saw fur growing over his hands and face, and he craved flesh and blood.  Even after the effects of the drug had supposedly worn off, Mr. H. still believed himself to be a werewolf.  He was treated as a paranoid schizophrenic, treated with antipsychotic medication, and after about five weeks, released from a psychiatric unit.

Surawicz and Banta's second case study was that of  a  thirty-seven-year-old farmer, who, after his discharge from the Navy, began allowing his hair to grow long and began sleeping in cemeteries and howling at the moon. Although there was no indication of drug abuse or misuse in Mr. W.'s case, he was freed from his delusion after treatment with antipsychotic medication.

Psychiatrist Harvey Rosenstock and psychologist Kenneth Vincent discussed their case history of  a forty-nine-year-old woman who underwent the metamorphosis into a werewolf in their paper, "A Case of Lycanthropy," published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1977.  Although she finally was admitted to a locked psychiatric unit and received daily psychotherapy and antipsychotic drugs, she still beheld herself as a wolf woman with claws, teeth, and fangs and believed that her werewolf spirit would roam the earth long after her physical death.  Medical personnel would manage to get the woman under control until the next full moon.  At that time, she would snarl, howl, and resume her wolflike behavior.  She was eventually discharged and provided with antipsychotic medication, but she promised to haunt the graveyards until she found the tall, dark, hairy creature of her dreams.

 

In his Bizarre Diseases of the Mind, Dr. Richard Noll lists the traditional traits of the lycanthrope:

*The belief that they are wolves or wild dogs.
* The belief that they have been physically transformed into animals with fur and claws.
*Animal-like behavior, including growling, howling, clawing, pawing, crawling on all fours.
*The desire to assault or kill others.
* Hypersexuality, including the desire to have sex with animals.
*Use of a hallucinogenic substance to achieve the metamorphosis of human into a wolf.
*A desire for isolation from human society (stalking the woods, haunting cemeteries).
*The belief that "the devil" has possessed them and provided the power that causes the transformation from human to wolf.
 
THE SHARED SEED OF THE WEREWOLF

While most of us have become "domesticated" and listen to the inner voice of conscience that has been strengthened by moral and spiritual values and cultivated over centuries of civilized behavior, those individuals who have succumbed to the more vicious seed of the wolf within them walk among us today as those sadistic sex criminals who slash, tear, rip, rape, mutilate, and cannibalize their victims.  When one compares the details of the offenses charged to alleged werewolves during the witchcraft mania of the Middle Ages with the offenses attributed to such sex criminals as the Chicago Rippers, Harry Gordon, Richard Ramirez, Henry Lee Lucas, and Jeffrey Dahmer, it becomes clear that there exists a true werewolf psychosis that can cause people to believe that they are transformed into wolves or can cause them to commit cruel and vicious crimes as if they were wolves scratching, biting, and killing their prey.
  While the werewolf as sex criminal constitutes a very grim reality and a serious physical threat to unsuspecting members of society who are its potential victims, the werewolf as a creature of superstition poses a psychic threat to those who may trespass beyond the boundaries of logic and reason into the dangerous and uncharted regions of the supernatural.  The werewolf of tradition is the deliberate creation of a human who, motivated by a desire for power or revenge, has sought to release the beast within and accomplish the transformation of human into wolf.   

Since prehistoric times the bloodline of the wolf has blended with that of our own species, and each one of us bears the personal responsibility of honoring the noble aspects of our lupine heritage and, at the same time, keeping the savage bloodlust under control.  

 

 

The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings
By Brad Steiger

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With 250 entries, this filmography and resource is the encyclopedic guide to all things lycanthropic and a fascinating compendium of comparative mythology and folklore. Delving into the 15th century to uncover the origins of the werewolf legend, it is an eye-opening, blood-pounding tour through the ages, landing on the doorstep of creatures like hirsute mass-murderer Charles Manson and canine-directed Son of Sam. A helpful chronology of lycanthropic activities dates back 140,000 years, to the first mixing of human and lupine blood.

From the Back Cover
From movies like An American Werewolf in London to the best-selling game, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, to folklore and case histories, The Werewolf Book is the encyclopedic guide to all things lycanthropic. In this spectacular first edition, Brad Steiger takes you back to the 15th century to uncover the origins of the werewolf legend. From there he leads you on an eye-opening world tour through the ages to the modern-day monstrous duality of creatures like cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Does the wolf live within each of us? Learn how the legends of the werewolf can mirror the animal that exists in each and every one of us. Some have given in to these primal animal urges. Find out why. The answers lie within....

The Werewolf Book, the perfect companion to Visible Ink's best-selling Vampire Book, is the eagerly anticipated work resulting from Mr. Steiger's lifelong studies. It contains nearly 250 entries, a filmography, and a resource guide with web sites. More than 125 photographs (including 16 pages in color), ranging from folk art to movie stills, will have you hair standing on end. Shape-changing topics include:

* Classic werewolf movies
* Slaying the werewolf
* Children raised by wolves
* Serial killers
* Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
* Incubus
* Lon Chaney, Jr.
* The Moon and Mars
* Eddie Munster and Wolfie
* Marquis de Sade
* Loup-garou and other creatures from around the world
* Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman

The Werewolf Book, Brad Steiger's homage to the beast within, provides a full moon of fact and fiction for the lycanthrophile in all of us.

About the Author
A regular on Art Bell's syndicated radio program and a veteran author of the paranormal and phenomena, Brad Steiger has more than 150 books to his credit, including his classic, Monsters Among Us. Growing up in a small farming town, Steiger saw movies whenever he could. His interst in werewolves was piqued as a boy when he saw Lon Chaney's very human portrayal of The Wolf Man, a good guy seized by evil forces beyond his control. He views werewolves as a metaphor for the vicious side that lurks within all of us--a force we must always guard against.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Basic Ways to Become a Werewolf

There are two basic ways by which one might become a werewolf: voluntary and involuntary.

According to the ancient Greeks, any skilled sorcerer who so chose could become a werewolf. Throughout history, self-professed werewolves have mentioned a "magic girdle" or "magic belt," which they wear about their middles, or a "magic salve" which they apply liberally to their naked bodies. Others tell of inhaling or imbibing certain potions.

Magical texts advise those who wish to become a werewolf to disrobe, rub a magical ointment freely over their flesh, place a girdle made of human or wolf skin around their waist, then cover their entire body with the pelt of a wolf. To accelerate the process, they should drink beer mixed with blood and chant a particular magical formula.

Some werewolves claim to have achieved their shape shifting ability by having drunk water from the paw print of a wolf. Once this had been accomplished, they ate the brains of a wolf and slept in its lair.

One ancient text prescribes a ritual for the magician who is eager to become a shape shifter. He is told to wait until the night of a full moon, then enter the forest at midnight. Then, according to the instructions:

Draw two concentric circles on the ground, one six feet in diameter, the other 14 feet in diameter. Build a fire in the center of the inner circle and place a tripod over the flames. Suspend from the tripod an iron pot full of water. Bring the water to a full boil and throw into the pot a handful each of aloe, hemlock, poppy seed, and nightshade. As the ingredients are being stirred in the iron pot, call aloud to the spirits of the restless dead, the spirits of the foul darkness, the spirits of the hateful, and the spirits of werewolves and satyrs.

Once the summons for the various spirits of darkness have been shouted into the night, the person who aspires to become a werewolf should strip off all of his clothing and smear his body with the fat of a freshly killed animal that has been mixed with anise, camphor, and opium. The next step is to take the wolf skin that he has brought with him, wrap it around his middle like a loincloth, then kneel down at the boundaries of the large circle and remain in that position until the fire dies out. When this happens, the power that the disciple of darkness has summoned should make its presence known to him.

If the magician has done everything correctly, the dark force will announce its presence by loud shrieks and groans. Later, if the would-be werewolf has not been terrified and frightened away by the dark one's awful screams and groans, it will materialize in any one of a number forms, most likely that of a horrible half-human, half-beast monster. Once it has manifested in whatever form it desires, the dark one force will conduct its transaction with the magician and allow him henceforth to assume the shape of a wolf whenever he wears his wolf skin loincloth.

By far the most familiar involuntary manner in which one becomes a werewolf is to be bitten or scratched by such a creature. In the same category would be those men and women who are transformed into werewolves by being cursed for their sins or by being the victim of a sorcerer's incantations.

Another involuntary means of becoming a werewolf, according to some old traditions, is to be born on Christmas Eve. The very process of one's birth on that sacred night, according to certain ecclesiastical scholars, is an act of blasphemy since it detracts from the full attention that should be given to the nativity of Jesus. Thus, those born on that night are condemned to be werewolves unless they prove themselves to be pious beyond reproach in all thoughts, words, and deeds throughout their lifetime.

Sources: Eisler, Robert. Man into Wolf. London: Spring Books, n.d. Spence, Lewis. An Encyclopedia of Occultism. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1960.

Copyright (c) 1999 Visible Ink Press

About Brad Steiger

Steiger was born on 19 February 1936 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to a mother and father who were farmers. He claims to have lived "in a haunted house with thumps, bumps, doors opening and closing, and men and women walking around all night in period costume. 

 

Steiger claims to have written his first book when he was seven years old, and has published 162 books with over 17 million copies in print, including the biography of Rudolf Valentino, later made into a feature film by British director Ken Russell. From 1970-1973 Steiger wrote a weekly newspaper column, The Strange World Of Brad Steiger. He has authored over 2000 newspaper columns.

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Personal life and beliefs
Steiger is married to Sherry Hansen Steiger, a former model. He is a former high school teacher, and college instructor. He began writing when he was a school teacher in his native Iowa when he had writings published in Fate Magazine and other publications. Throughout the 1960s Steiger co-wrote 22 books with other writers. Steiger claims to be politically independent, and cynical of politics. He lists his political heroes, however, as Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. When asked about individuals he admired, Steiger listed Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, William James, Fredric W.H. Myers, Rudolf Steiner, Sir William Crookes, and Mario Lanza as those he would have liked to have met.

In an online interview with Dan Schneider, Steiger claimed to be an 'Emersonian transcendentalist,' and summed up his philosophy this way:

I believe humankind is part of a larger community of intelligences, a complex hierarchy of powers and principalities, a potentially rich kingdom of interrelated species, both physical and nonphysical. I believe that humankind’s one truly essential factor is its spirituality. The artificial concepts to which we have given the designation of sciences are no truer than dreams, visions, and inspirations. The quest for absolute proof or objective truth may always be meaningless and unattainable when it seeks to define and limit our Soul, which I believe is eternal, evolving higher, seeking to return to the Source from whence it came. I believe that technology plays a far smaller role in the lives of nations than the spirit, for the essence of humankind is its intellect and its Soul. Machines, associations, political parties, and trade balances are but transitory realities that must ultimately wither, decay, and come to nothing. The only lasting truths are Soul, imagination, and inspiration.

Steiger and his wife are also animal lovers and believers in animal rights. Steiger claims, "We are appalled by any mistreatment of animals—chemical testing, dogfights, rooster fights, bull fights. We must learn to respect all living things if we are to survive with dignity as a species. I doubt if I could live for any length of time without a dog. Fortunately, my wife and children feel the same. We are all dog owners. Dogs are our connection with nature and the Earth Mother.

Brad and Sherry Steiger

 

 

 

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