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Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – book cover

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Books, Reviews colonialism, gothic literature, historical fiction, horror, mexico, novel, speculative fiction

Appealing and fast-paced, this novel set in 1950s Mexico is a classic tale of an attractive young woman marrying into family with sinister secrets, who finds her choices taken away, and her life and sanity under threat. True to the gothic genre, the cr …

Masks of Origin: Regression in the Service of Omnipotence – A Review

By
  • Marjorie Kaye
| 14 Feb 2023 Signal Boost Books, Reviews essays, perception, synchronicity, visionary, youth

Each chapter of Masks of Origin—a book of what perhaps can only be called “visionary” essays, by Brian George—reads like an individual novel. Divided into personal and universal experiences, each informs the other. Descriptions of events in childhood and adulthood provide a wormhole into the cosmos.

"Oceanic Mask" (painting by Brian George)

Masks of Origin—an attempted Review

By
  • Maía
| 22 Nov 2022 Features Books, Reviews Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), book-review, experimental

I opened Brian George’s physically beautiful Masks of Origin—adorned with three-and-a-fraction of his own electric geometric red-green gargoyles, to find myself “reading,” if one might call it that, the whole book nearly straight-through that day, and the next…

Norman Lewis, title unknown (March in Washington), 1965, oil on canvas

The Self, As Ensemble, The Prose, Like Jazz—On Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place

Explicit By
  • Thomas Larson
| 27 May 2022 Features Books, Essays, Explicit, Reviews African-American literature, Albert Murray, Society (Multitudes), blues, civil rights, culture, identity, intellectual history, jazz, memoir, modernism, race, white supremacy

A paean to Albert Murray and his hybrid memoir/literary criticism masterpiece of 1971, South to a Very Old Place.

New Reading Group: Soliciting Interest in the Subject of “Consequential Reality”

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 29 Dec 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), consciousness, culture, hyperstition, ontology, paranormal, theory of mind, weird

Fakes, egregores, and conspiracies are overtaking our perceptions of the world—what’s behind such reality mirrors, and where do the reflections or projections in them come from? Join Brigid and a group of kindred spirits for readings, discussion, and a deep exploration of these intriguing questions at the edges of our knowing.

See You In Our Dreams—A worm’s-eye view from the Readers Underground of a social dreaming experiment in progress

By
  • Douglas Duff
| 19 Nov 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community, Fiction, News blog, dreams, readers underground, reading

Another intimate Readers Underground group has formed around Maia’s See You In Our Dreams, a book described as “a long, complex, slow exploration of the final paroxysms of a dystopic future before something starts to change.”

Sri Aurobindo Reading Circles

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 11 Oct 2021 Signal Boost Books, Community, News, Philosophy, Spirituality Integral Yoga, savitri, synthesis of yoga

Infinite Conversations has been pursuing an extended reading program for Sri Aurobindo’s writings for several years now. Here is an update on our progress, with information on how you can participate…

See You in Our Dreams

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Maía
  • Marco V Morelli
| 19 Jun 2021 – 18 Jun 2022 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Society (Multitudes), cli-fi, culture, readers underground, science fiction

Intimate Reading Performance and Social Dreaming Experiment beginning June 19th The story, set in the 2050s, focuses on an underground community of poets, artists, scientists, and theater geeks (Bard-lovers) who share the weird experience of receiving …

cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 13 Nov 2020 Features Books, Reviews

Medb is a novel that draws the reader incrementally toward the mysteries of the human psyche, on its way touching on gender roles, the power of the occult, and the pathologization of difference. It’s a winding, inward journey that begins, fittingly, at …

Consciously Evolving Language, with Lisa Maroski

Organizer:
  • Lisa Maroski
| 8 Sep 2020 – 17 Dec 2020 Cosmos Café Group Books, Community, Essays, Philosophy Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Society (Multitudes), conlang, culture, language, play, poetics

Starts Sept 8: an exploration of how we can make changes to the structure of our language that reflect and catalyze a planetary paradigm shift towards always-already connectedness…

Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome

The Ecstasy of a Book Club

By
Metapsychosis
| 30 Jul 2020 Features Books, Community, Essays community, mysticism, reading, social

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” —JC There is the possibility of ecstasy in a book club—this I aver. It’s a religious thing—or should be—the intercourse among “people of the book” (or rather, “ …

Synthesis of Yoga Practicum

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Marco Masi
  • Mattéo Needham
| 22 Apr 2020 – 27 Dec 2023 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Meditation, aurobindo, integral, reading, spirituality, yoga

An open-ended reading and discussion of Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga, with a virtual meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday until the book is fully read.

Harold Bloom, Heart-Reader Extraordinaire

By
  • Andrew Field
| 21 Oct 2019 Features Books Daemon, Harold Bloom, Heart Reading, culture, tribute

What was Harold Bloom? I don’t know, but here is my answer for now.

Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 Jul 2019 – 12 Aug 2020 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Poetry

Since Fall 2019, we have been reading works by “visionary poets.” While what constitutes “visionariness” is an open and dynamic question (with intense contemporary relevance) we began our quest to bring visionary voices to life by alternately reading a …

Savitri Reading Group

Organizer:
  • Mattéo Needham
| 17 Jul 2019 – 15 Feb 2023 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Poetry

We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Wednesday until the poem is fully read.

Alan Moore by Fabio Abbreccia

Alan Moore spills the beans on the Book Shambles podcast

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 11 Apr 2019 Microdoses Books Alan Moore, Block Universe Theory, Book Shambles, Eternalism, Fabio Abreccia, Georg Cantor, Jerusalem, London, Robin Ince, Royal Albert Hall, Sarah Kendall, Simulation Theory, Superhero Movies, The nature of time, UK, philosophy, time

Arguably the most respected comic book writer, Alan Moore, gives you more information that you can chew in one sitting.

Gregory Bateson

Bateson Reading Group

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 10 Jan 2019 – 30 May 2019 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy

We will be reading one of the 20th Century’s seminal works, the collection of essays by Gregory Bateson assembled in the book called Steps to an Ecology of Mind, and, as a counterpoint, essays and poems by his daughter Nora Bateson under the title Small Arcs of Larger Circles.

Parable of the Sower, artwork by John Jude Palencar

Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 8 Aug 2018 – 7 Oct 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell, in the author’s words, a “cautionary tale”—which some have called prophetic, and some attribute to extraordinary powers of extrapolation—about a speculative version of America betwe …

Black Hole, Public Domain image

Journey to Supermind

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 7 Jun 2018 – 7 Nov 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Sri Aurodindo, The Life Divine

The Life Divine is one of the great spiritual works of the 20th century, if not all time. It presents Indian/Integral philosopher, poet, and yogi Sri Aurobindo’s conception of the origin, structure, and destiny of creation, from the primordia …

Erin Manning, Saffron (COLLECTIVE FABULATIONS - PROPOSITIONS FOR SOCIAL DREAMING)

The Minor Gesture

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 25 Apr 2018 – 4 Jul 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Erin Manning, The Minor Gesture

Erin Manning is a friend and colleague who lives in Montreal and heads up the SenseLab at Concordia University. Her book Relationscapes—Movement, Art, Philosophy profoundly influenced my own work at the intersection between the sciences and t …

Soul Mountain

Organizer:
  • Douglas Duff
| 6 Apr 2018 – 1 Jun 2018 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain

We are reading Nobel Prize winner Gao Xinjiang’s novel Soul Mountain. Learn more »

Shantaram

Organizer:
  • Marco V Morelli
| 4 May 2017 – 29 Jun 2017 Readers Underground Group Books, Fiction

https://player.vimeo.com/video/212201960?h=32754e9c6d&dnt=1&app_id=122963 There is a dedicated channel for Shantaram on InfiniteConversations.com. Readers are welcome and encouraged to expand the conversation with your own topics and …

fdecomite, Stardust

Spheres Reading Group

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 15 Apr 2017 – Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy Bubbles, Foam, Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres

We are reading all three volumes of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy: Bubbles, Globes, and Foam. The live-recorded conversations for Bubbles took place between April and August, 2017, and the conversations for Globes took place between October 2017 and May 2018. However, the conversation continues in our forum. A reading schedule for Foam is yet to be determined.

Geek Love

Organizers:
  • Carmen Leilani De Jesus
  • Oliver Rabinovitch
| 25 Jul 2016 – 1 Sep 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Geek Love, Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn, the original Freakmother, makes muses of monstrosity in her 1989 masterpiece, about a bizarrely geek-inspired, traveling circus family, born of the stale kernels of boxing reports and advice columns—a celebration of human adap …

The Saddlebag

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 9 Apr 2016 – 7 May 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, The Saddlebag

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s poetic prose is a continuation of the Persian tradition of using lush, mystical imagery to awaken the soul. We hope you will join us as we take a journey inward with The Saddlebag.This was the third reading of Readers Underground …

trees in fog, with black bird in foreground

Winter of Origins

Organizers:
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
  • Marco V Morelli
| 11 Jan 2016 – 19 Mar 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Philosophy #litgeeks, Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin, The International Jean Gebser Society

This was the second reading of Readers Underground (then #litgeeks). The conversation continues in our forum. In a world racked by vast inequality, climate change, and political upheaval, Gebser’s work so aptly points out that these problems are a …

December of the Dispossessed

December of The Dispossed

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 1 Dec 2015 – 2 Jan 2016 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Fiction #litgeeks, The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

This reading took place Dec 1, 2015–Jan 2, 2016, and was the very first Readers Underground (then #litgeeks book club) read together. It served as a beta test of our format, forum software, and other systems. The conversation continues in our forum.

fdecomite, Eclipses

Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 5

By
  • Cosmos
| 13 Apr 2018 Books

#5 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Ch. 7

Gao Xingjian, Inner World, 2007

Soul MountainThe Case for Literature, by Gao Xingjian

By
  • Cosmos
| 7 Apr 2018 Books, Video Society (Multitudes), culture

Our reading group on Gao Xingjian’s novel Soul Mountain begins a with a preliminary talk about his Nobel Prize acceptance essay, “The Case for Literature.”

fdecomite, Eclipses

Spheres Reading GroupGlobes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 4

By
  • Cosmos
| 9 Feb 2018 Books Society (Multitudes)

#4 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 5-6 — Readers Underground

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