Sometimes a class exercise changes lives and here I credit Hemingway’s creation of the Six Word Story. His World’s Saddest Story (For sale: baby shoes, never worn) reputedly won him a bar bet and has spawned dozens of websites devoted to flash fiction.
Marco V Morelli
Editor/Organizer of
A Few Strands of Jöra’s Yarn
We are culturally adrift absent a unifying and guiding mythos. Archetypal story and art, meanwhile, given their inherent cross-cultural, cross-temporal, and self-authenticating nature, can generate unifying and guiding mythoi.
Book Signing Event for The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi's Daughter – by Andrea van de Loo
Andrea van de Loo will read from her autobiography, The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi’s Daughter, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Interstates of Consciousness, Integral Yoga, and the Grateful Dead
The Collaboration Journal team is delighted to share our 12th special feature, published in the Summer 2024 edition of the Journal, which is a narrative by Lynda Lester called “Interstates of Consciousness, Integral Yoga, and the Grateful Dead.”
Between Impermanence and Permanence (Three Poems)
But I am a minimalist. I would like to compare the Mind of God / to a friend who frequents outdoor cafes and loves to watch / humanity’s comings and goings and the sweet minutia of lives.
Last Guitar
My first, Amarilla—cost me a hundred bucks, / I went hungry at that price, but she and I would pass / whole weeks without speaking to a soul… /
Acousmatic Music as a Bridge to the Mundus Imaginalis
An expansive essay probing Henry Corbin’s concepts of the “imaginal” and “imaginary” in relation to Acousmatic music, using Denis Dufour’s works as examples of imaginative consciousness in sound exploration.
Being in Nature: The Artwork of Robin MacDonald-Foley
Unearthing stories are part of the mysteries and folklore that feed my spirit to recreate what is and what remains—a journey of unknowns that motivate me to further explore my art forms.
Astronaut On Earth (If I’m Brave Enough)
A woman struggles with her ongoing isolation, nearly 5 years since the Covid pandemic started, when it seems much of the rest of the world has moved on.
What’s in a Name (And What’s Out)?: Completing the Peripheral in Multiple Ways
Naming is an amateur verbal art form, poised between the free-flowing inclusivity of an improv class and a tragic neurotic obsession with every unuttered sentiment.
An Invisible Intellectual Speakeasy: An Interview With Roy Christopher
Media theorist Roy Christopher discusses what it takes to make indie art and build authentic community in a digital landscape dominated by corporate interests.
A Closer Look at the AI Hype Machine: Who Really Benefits?
If AI is allowed to begin making decisions that affect our everyday lives in the realms of work, play and business, it’s important to be aware of whom this technology serves…
The Hidden Logic of Touch and the Self-Arising of Discovery: The Paintings of Jo Ann Rothschild
I care about touch. I want evidence of the human. My paintings can be slow to see and slow to make. I look for consonance between what I feel and what I see.
Call for Submissions (Creatures)
Metapsychosis is now accepting submissions of essays, poetry, literature, visual art, and photography about animal consciousness.
Obtaining the Mystical: An Interview with Dr. Erik Davis
Modern day psychonaut, Dr. Erik Davis, is the author of Techgnosis, High Weirdness, Nomad Codes, and Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.
Entheos reading of “Being At Sea” by J.F. Martel
Thanks to Matt Baker of Entheos.com for this amazing reading of an essay we recently published by J.F. Martel, “Being at Sea.” Not only the voice work, but the sound design is top notch. This brings the essay to life in a whole new way. https://soundcl …
Odes To The Secret Canons #45: Specifractiplasty
I give unto you the failure of the oracles I cast in the palm of spilling dust / I give you the failure to abrogate our dropping of possibility / in how even dust climbs into the wind…
Hot, Lame & Shamanic: Developing a Good Conscience about Intelligent Ambivalence
Both/and, neither/nor, all & none of the above—in a mediascape designed to hack our dopamine reward systems, how do we practice the complexity of keeping cool?
Thoughts, Prayers, and Other Useless Things: What Good is the Moral High Ground, Anyway?
“Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” While there’s nothing of Rumi in this essay, this poem may be an apt introduction.
Salon Poems: A Free-Form Confluence of Voices
Each salon was a zone of concentration, an improvised omphalos, and each had a life of its own. Each participant contributed their breath and presence to the spontaneous generation of its body.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri Reading Circle
Reading Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday until the poem is fully read.
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