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Metapsychosis

Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art

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Brigid Burke

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Weekend Getaway

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| November 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us.—Emanuel Lasker ∞ “Tea or coffee, Sir?” “Coffee. Black. No sugar.” I’m on the phone with a market researcher. I try to picture a pretty girl at the other end of the line, but it isn’t working. All I …

Studium Spiritus Sancti

By
  • Annie Blake
| November 2, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

but i often underestimate my husband / for he pointed out that i actually said schizophrigid / i had a kitchen dresser which contained crockery i never used / over- solicitude is display mothering /

Repeaters of the String

By
  • James Geddis
| October 28, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

Now is when you are alone, when you have nowhere to be, when promises to the world no longer apply. Nobody knows what happens now except you. This is your own personal history.

Gasp

By
  • Gale Acuff
| October 19, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

What happened, Miss Hooker asked–she meant my shock–so I said, Well, please turn around and take a look at Jesus there and tell me what you see.

Four Poems

By
  • Patrick DeCarlos
| October 12, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

The shrunken fighters, cheeks sunken and eyes Gibbous as praying mantis, like a god kept captive By some sick forest cult That provides sacrifice seasonally…

Introduction to the Editors: Brigid Burke

By
  • Brigid Burke
| August 8, 2020 Filed Under:
Blog

I have been an Assistant Editor here at Metapsychosis for a few years now, and on this site I have published a couple of essays, offered one class on underworld mythology, and also currently produce the bi-weekly Chthonia podcast, which focuses on dark …

Soul Retrieval: Poems

By
  • Paige Frisone
| May 4, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

they call it soul retrieval | when your essence | core | beingness | the skeletal|hole|body|brain that lives in your gut|liver|kidney|body| self|shatters | breaks its own skull|heart|body in its crumpled raisin|brain as the result of small t | BIG T | sOmE TyPe of tRaUmA

A Demon’s Escape (Based on a True Story)

By
  • Stephanie Williams
| April 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Whether I chose to feel my emotions fully, or experience the depth of them — that wasn’t up to me. That was up to God, or Satan, or whatever it was that controlled me.

Daniel’s Dream

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| December 4, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

That room is gone. Or rather, the room is still there, but what’s in it now is so different from what was in it before that the room itself seems transformed. It holds a vast model of the world we live in, built to scale and rendered in exquisite detail…

Out of the Furnace: A Film Review and Analysis

By
  • Annie Blake
| November 11, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Film/Music, Reviews, Society (Multitudes)

The movie proves to be, rather than glitchy and fragmentary, a deliberate and careful unfolding of the more perplexing and realistic struggle ensnaring us in the contemporary world.

Body/Cut: In Conversation with Stephanie Cortazzo

By
  • Monica Zandi
| March 21, 2019 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Interviews, Reviews, Society (Multitudes)

It is about the trials and tribulations of lovers who are set in a dismal, bleak universe—much like our current reality in NYC one could even argue. They are challenged to come to terms with each other and deal with various issues such as ego, conflicting decisions, and insecurities.

Poems of Annie Blake (Part 2)

By
  • Annie Blake
| February 19, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“Mothers should explain this to their daughters when they are too young…instead of folding church bulletins to make fans…”

Poems of Annie Blake (Part 1)

By
  • Annie Blake
| December 18, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

blackbirds rise like a word from a hot hovel / satis house and her letter / and her first wedding gown / fires blank and face clocks / my hands / their spell / swelling the mouth of a match / the stone thrown into the sea and circulatio /

Candy Countdown

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| September 12, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Did I dream it all? I guess I did. But then I see the card on the table. I pick it up. It feels real. TAKE THE ELEVATOR, it says. Did I?

Come Again

By
  • Joanna Hoyt
| September 5, 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

These people in the church with him today have heard all those words over and over, they can’t really hear them any more. He remembers other words: If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.

Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”The Mythology of Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”

By
  • Brigid Burke
| July 23, 2018 Filed Under:
Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Film/Music, Mythos, Society (Multitudes)

Packed with archetypal, mythological, and religious symbolism, Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’ baffled audiences with its disturbing tale of home invasion…and world destruction. This essay unpacks some of the deeper layers of the film from the perspectives of religion and psychology, western esotericism, and comparative mythology.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts I & II)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| October 5, 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers)

The entire purpose of this work will not so much argue but re-imagine and challenge Plato, such that it breathes the warmest breath of reconsideration, rereading, and re-admiration into the Platonic dialogues.

Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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  • Podcasts
    • Chthonia – Worlds of the Dark Feminine
    • Writing Off the Deep End
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    • Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
  • Meta
    • About
    • Authors
    • Submissions
    • Contact
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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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