RE De Leon

University of the Philippines Los Baos (Master's, Undergrad), DMMMSU Agoo Lab HS (High School)

University Of The Philippines - Los Banos, Attended 2001 - 2005, Class of 2005, Master's Degree, Development Communication
University Of The Philippines - Los Banos, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000, Bachelor's Degree, Development Communication

Freelance Writer, Professor

Navigators Ministries Philippines, The Philippine Order of Narnians ( www.filipinonarnians.org )

Storytelling

Eldredge: Wild at Heart, The Journey of Desire, The Sacred Romance, Waking the Dead, Lewis: Till We Have Faces, The Chronicles of Narnia, Tolkien: Lord of the Rings

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Shawshank Redemption, The Count of Monte Cristo, Braveheart

Jars of Clay, U2, Switchfoot, Sixpence None the Richer, Barbie's Cradle, Alanis Morisette, Up Dharma Down, Sinosikat, Drip

Lost, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Band of Brothers

Check out my Wikipedia User page -- I've got a Philippine Barnstar! Yeah!

Until last october, RE de Leon was a professor of Development Communication at the University of the Philippines Los Banos. He has since left that post to be able to focus more on writing.

Development Communcation, the field he taught, is about using the science of communication to promote social development, and in a lot of ways that's what RE de Leon is all about.

He is interested in mythology as the means by which a culture seeks to define itself, as a quide on the collective search for meaning, as a way people ask themselves the questions "who are we?" "what are we doing here?" and "where are we going?"

Three years ago, he founded the Philippine Order of Narnians, the Philippines' first community of CS Lewis enthusiasts. As a writer his strongest influences are CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, and also inspirational writer John Eldridge.

He is currently working on a screenplay and a series of short novels set in 8th century Laguna.

Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.
It is not they that have forgot the Night,
or bid us flee to organized delight,
in lotus-isles of economic bliss
forswearing souls to gain a Circe-kiss
(and counterfeit at that, machine-produced,
bogus seduction of the twice-seduced).
Such isles they saw afar, and ones more fair,
and those that hear them yet may yet beware.
They have seen Death and ultimate defeat,
and yet they would not in despair retreat,
but oft to victory have tuned the lyre
and kindled hearts with legendary fire,
illuminating Now and dark Hath-been
with light of suns as yet by no man seen.
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-----Beren Erchamion
-----"Mythopoeia"