Scott Neumeister, PhD

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Join date: Mar 12, 2024

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Scott Neumeister is a literary scholar, author, TEDx speaker, and mythic pathfinder from Tampa, Florida, where he earned his PhD in English from the University of South Florida in 2018. His specialization in multiethnic American literature and mythology comes after careers as an information technology systems engineer and a teacher of English and mythology at the middle school and college levels. Scott coauthored Let Love Lead: On a Course to Freedom with Gary L. Lemons and Susie Hoeller, and he has served as a facilitator for the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Myth and Meaning book club at Literati.

Posts (10)

Oct 19, 2025 ∙ 6 min

Fooled into Education: School of Rock and the Trickster-Teacher

This is one of my proudest moments as a trickster-teacher, an archetype blend that comes to me quite naturally. Many of my lessons contained what I label a “spinach-in-the-ice-cream” approach: some element of sweetness on the surface that belied the nutritional goodness of the information being imparted. In 2003, when I decided to switch from a career in information technology to middle school teaching, I watched (and loved) School of Rock.

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Jul 6, 2025 ∙ 5 min

“Captain of My Soul”: The Inner and Outer Sovereign in Invictus

As we enter into the month of July in this year’s MythBlast series, we turn to filmic expressions of the archetype of the Sovereign (occasionally called the Ruler or sometimes split into the binary of the King and Queen). While certainly this archetype appears in many societal structures—families, businesses, religious institutions—its presence in politics often garners the most attention.

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Apr 6, 2025 ∙ 6 min

“Tango with the Rango”: Dancing with Identity on the Seeker’s Path

Each of us may have varying degrees of the Fool, the Lover, the Trickster, or the Seeker active within.

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